Guides for your condition

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Guides support your care team’s individual plan; they are not a diagnosis or prescription.

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Digestion and food

IBS: food and treatment

Understanding symptoms, food choices and medicines your clinician may recommend.

  1. Irritable bowel syndrome
  2. Eating with irritable bowel syndrome
  3. Medicines for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
  4. Probiotics: when can they help?
  5. Exercise for IBS and fatty liver: a practical plan
  6. My treatment and follow-up plan

Reflux and heartburn

Understanding reflux, everyday eating and habits, and acid-reducing medicines if prescribed.

  1. Gastroesophageal reflux disease
  2. Everyday eating with reflux
  3. Acid medicines: proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)
  4. My treatment and follow-up plan

Constipation and difficult evacuation

Understanding symptoms and daily habits, with a macrogol guide if it is part of your treatment plan.

  1. Constipation, difficult evacuation and bowel leakage
  2. PEG / macrogol for constipation
  3. My treatment and follow-up plan

Celiac disease and gluten-free eating

Understanding diagnosis, gluten-free eating and follow-up.

  1. Celiac disease
  2. A gluten-free table
  3. My treatment and follow-up plan

H. pylori and checking for cure

Understanding treatment, planning the cure check and collecting a sample if requested.

  1. Helicobacter pylori infection
  2. Collecting a stool sample
  3. My treatment and follow-up plan

Functional dyspepsia

Understanding the condition, acid-reducing medicines if prescribed, and your follow-up plan.

  1. Functional dyspepsia
  2. Acid medicines: proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)
  3. My treatment and follow-up plan

Preparing for a chronic diarrhea visit

Understanding assessment, collecting a requested sample and recording your questions and plan.

  1. Chronic diarrhea
  2. Collecting a stool sample
  3. My treatment and follow-up plan

Swallowing difficulties and assessment

Understanding symptoms and when to seek help, and preparing for gastroscopy if requested.

  1. Difficulty swallowing and food getting stuck
  2. Gastroscopy
  3. Gastroscopy preparation checklist
  4. My treatment and follow-up plan

Bowel inflammation

Getting started with Crohn’s disease

Understanding the condition, treatment safety, food and planning for flares.

  1. Crohn’s disease
  2. IBD medicine safety
  3. Nutrition with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
  4. My IBD flare plan
  5. Understanding faecal calprotectin results
  6. My treatment and follow-up plan

Getting started with ulcerative colitis

Guides to follow-up, food, treatment safety and a plan for flares.

  1. Ulcerative colitis
  2. IBD medicine safety
  3. Nutrition with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
  4. My IBD flare plan
  5. Understanding faecal calprotectin results
  6. My treatment and follow-up plan

Microscopic colitis

Understanding the condition and chronic diarrhea, collecting a stool sample if requested, and follow-up.

  1. Microscopic colitis
  2. Chronic diarrhea
  3. Collecting a stool sample
  4. My treatment and follow-up plan

After bowel surgery: stoma and pouch care

Guides for patients with a stoma or internal pouch after surgery.

  1. Stoma care and when to seek help
  2. Pouchitis after ulcerative colitis surgery

Liver and transplantation

Fatty liver and food

Understanding assessment, everyday food choices and your follow-up plan.

  1. Fatty liver and steatohepatitis
  2. Food guide for fatty liver
  3. Liver biopsy and FibroScan
  4. Exercise for IBS and fatty liver: a practical plan
  5. Digestive symptoms with weight-loss medicines
  6. My treatment and follow-up plan

Hepatitis B and understanding blood tests

Understanding the condition and blood tests, checking herbs and supplements, and organizing follow-up.

  1. Hepatitis B
  2. Understanding hepatitis B blood tests
  3. Herbs, mixtures and supplements: benefits and risks
  4. My treatment and follow-up plan

Hepatitis C: treatment and follow-up

Understanding the condition and treatment, liver assessment when needed, and reviewing herbs and supplements with your team.

  1. Hepatitis C
  2. Liver biopsy and FibroScan
  3. Herbs, mixtures and supplements: benefits and risks
  4. My treatment and follow-up plan

Autoimmune hepatitis and treatment

Understanding the condition and follow-up, with corticosteroid and azathioprine guides if prescribed.

  1. Autoimmune hepatitis
  2. Corticosteroid medicine card
  3. Azathioprine / Imuran
  4. My treatment and follow-up plan

Cirrhosis follow-up with your family

Understanding the condition, nutrition, watching for changes and organizing follow-up.

  1. Liver cirrhosis (F4)
  2. Eating well with cirrhosis
  3. A family guide to cirrhosis
  4. My cirrhosis monitoring plan
  5. My treatment and follow-up plan

Before liver transplantation: assessment and donation

Understanding assessment and living donation if your transplant team is discussing this option.

  1. Liver transplantation: when is evaluation needed?
  2. Living liver donation: a guide for donors and families
  3. My treatment and follow-up plan

Life after liver transplantation

Follow-up, anti-rejection treatment, interactions and travel alongside your transplant team’s plan.

  1. Care after liver transplantation
  2. Anti-rejection medicines after liver transplantation: a practical guide
  3. Herbs, mixtures and supplements: benefits and risks
  4. Fasting, travel and medicine planning
  5. My treatment and follow-up plan

Endoscopy and preparation

Before gastroscopy

The examination, preparation and medicine review. Follow your own endoscopy unit’s instructions.

  1. Gastroscopy
  2. Gastroscopy preparation checklist
  3. My medicines before endoscopy
  4. Gastric polyps: understanding the result
  5. My treatment and follow-up plan

Before colonoscopy

The examination, preparation and medicine plan. Your own endoscopy unit’s instructions take priority.

  1. Colonoscopy
  2. Colonoscopy preparation instructions
  3. My medicines before endoscopy
  4. Colon polyps
  5. My treatment and follow-up plan

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