Digestive and liver disease guides
Browse all patient topics by group: conditions, medicines, food, procedures and follow-up. These guides support your consultation and do not replace an individual medical assessment.
Liver
- Fatty liver and steatohepatitis
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Liver cirrhosis (F4)
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Primary biliary cholangitis
- Wilson disease
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)
- Care after liver transplantation
- Herbs, mixtures and supplements: benefits and risks
- Gilbert’s syndrome
- Liver biopsy and FibroScan
- Understanding hepatitis B blood tests
- A family guide to cirrhosis
- Hepatitis A and protecting close contacts
- Hepatitis E
- Raised liver enzymes: what do they mean?
- Benign liver lesions and cysts
- Hereditary iron overload (hemochromatosis)
- Hepatitis D (delta)
- Liver transplantation: when is evaluation needed?
- Living liver donation: a guide for donors and families
- Ascites: abdominal fluid and drainage
- Hepatic encephalopathy: confusion and altered awareness
- Portal hypertension and esophageal or gastric varices
- Drug-induced liver injury
- Alcohol-related liver disease
- Portal vein thrombosis
- Budd-Chiari syndrome: blocked liver outflow
- Anti-rejection medicines after liver transplantation: a practical guide
Esophagus and stomach
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Eosinophilic esophagitis
- Helicobacter pylori infection
- Functional dyspepsia
- Gastroparesis: delayed stomach emptying
- Difficulty swallowing and food getting stuck
- Stomach and duodenal ulcers
- Barrett’s esophagus
- Achalasia: a swallowing movement disorder
- Gastric polyps: understanding the result
- Digestive symptoms with weight-loss medicines
Inflammatory bowel disease
Nutrition and bowel health
- Celiac disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Medicines for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Constipation, difficult evacuation and bowel leakage
- Chronic diarrhea
- Iron deficiency, anemia and the digestive system
- C. difficile infection
- Gastroenteritis and food poisoning
- Lactose intolerance
- Bile-acid diarrhea
- Defecatory disorders and pelvic floor coordination
- Fecal incontinence and bowel leakage
- Probiotics: when can they help?
- Follow-up after bariatric and stomach surgery
- Stoma care and when to seek help
- Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth: SIBO
Colon and endoscopy
Preparing for endoscopy
Gallbladder and bile ducts
Pancreas
Screening and surveillance
Food and diet
- Food guide for fatty liver
- Everyday eating with reflux
- A gluten-free table
- Eating with irritable bowel syndrome
- Nutrition with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
- Eating well with cirrhosis
- Food elimination for eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE)
- Lactose intolerance: practical food choices
- Fibre and food for constipation
- Eating with gastroparesis
- A temporary low-fibre diet
- Nutrition with pancreatic enzyme insufficiency
- Eating after stomach surgery: dumping syndrome
Practical worksheets
Glossary and follow-up plans
Important symptoms and signs
Medicine cards
- Infliximab medicine card
- Adalimumab medicine card
- Vedolizumab medicine card
- Ustekinumab medicine card
- Risankizumab medicine card
- Mesalazine / mesalamine medicine card
- Corticosteroid medicine card
- Budesonide MMX 9 mg / Cortiment
- Azathioprine / Imuran
- Entecavir for hepatitis B
- Tenofovir disoproxil (TDF) for hepatitis B
- Tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) for hepatitis B
- Peginterferon alfa-2a for selected hepatitis B cases
- Sofosbuvir/velpatasvir for hepatitis C
- Glecaprevir/pibrentasvir for hepatitis C
- Ledipasvir/sofosbuvir for hepatitis C
- Sofosbuvir/velpatasvir/voxilaprevir (Vosevi) for hepatitis C
- Ribavirin for hepatitis C
- Acid medicines: proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)
- Vonoprazan
- PEG / macrogol for constipation
- Lactulose
- Rifaximin
- Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA)
- Cholestyramine
- Sofosbuvir + daclatasvir for hepatitis C
- Linaclotide
- Low-dose amitriptyline for IBS
- Pancreatic enzymes: pancreatin / Creon
- Spironolactone for ascites
- Furosemide for ascites
- Carvedilol for portal hypertension
- Tacrolimus: preventing transplant rejection
- Mycophenolate: CellCept and Myfortic
- Safe use of blood thinners (anticoagulants)
- Upadacitinib (Rinvoq)
- Tofacitinib (Xeljanz)
- Digestive symptoms with weight-loss medicines
- Budesonide 3 mg modified-release capsules (Entocort)
- Methotrexate — once weekly, never daily