Ileus

Meconium ileus is a bowel obstruction that occurs when the meconium in your child's intestine is even thicker and stickier than normal meconium, creating a blockage in a part of the small intestine called the ileum. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The bowel can be reconnected once your child's ileus is gone. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, these patients are prone to ileus formation secondary to the anticholinergic effects of glutethimide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most infants with meconium ileus have a disease called cystic fibrosis. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The earliest signs of meconium ileus are abdominal distention (a swollen belly), bilious (green) vomit and no passage of meconium. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If a doctor suspects that your child has a meconium ileus, he won't be given anything to eat or drink and will be fed through an intravenous (IV) line, a small tube that's inserted into a vein. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If your baby needs surgery for meconium ileus, she'll have a bowel resectionand ileostomyplacement. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thus, CFTR -/- homozygotes displayed defective chloride transport in epithelia of airways and intestines, failure to thrive, meconium ileus, and pathological alterations of gastrointestinal glands. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When ileus comes on in a case of strangury, they prove fatal in seven days, unless, fever supervening, there be a copious discharge of urine. ❋ Unknown (2007)

However, the firm reiterated an "outperform" rating on Adolor, saying it expects the companies to gain approval of the drug for a different indication, postoperative ileus, by the FDA action date of Nov. 9. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Despite what we expect to be a considerable appreciation in Adolor shares this morning, we believe the company has significant catalysts throughout the remainder of the year that should keep momentum in the stock, such as POI postoperative ileus approval and positive Phase III Entereg data in chronic opioid-induced bowel dysfunction that is expected by year-end 2006," the firm said. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"We do not see any meaningful catalysts for the stock until the first half of 2007, when we expect an update on the POI post-operative ileus and OBD programs and better visibility on any plans for the combination pill," the firm said. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A series of experiments carried out by researchers in France investigated the use of homeopathy for postoperative ileus, or bowel inactivity following surgery. ❋ Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier (2000)

Single nighttime dosing can minimize some of these problems (blurring of vision, dry mouth), as can the use of sugarless gum and candy (dry mouth), and bulk laxatives (ileus). ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

They include postural and orthostatic hypotension at rest, blurred vision, dry mouth, constipation, paralytic ileus, and urinary retention. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

May delay peak blood levels; increased risk for paralytic ileus with drugs that have anticholinergic properties ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

He had been admitted as an acute peritonitis and had developed a paralytic ileus two or three days after his operation, and had been on a continuous stomach drainage and intravenous drip ever since -- there could have been a further operation, but he was young and strong and wasn't in the least depressed by the monotonous regular treatment he had needed. ❋ Neels, Betty (1971)

Other larger works dealt with ileus and with diseases of the male sexual organs, injuries of the vertebral column and fractures. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Empyema is treated very thoroughly, liver abscess, ascites, which he warns must be emptied slowly, ileus especially when it reaches stercoraceous vomiting, and the various difficulties of urination, he divides them into dysuria, ischuria, and stranguria, are all discussed in quite modern fashion. ❋ James Joseph Walsh (1903)

Cris- hey, my [intestines] hurt, maybe i have para... *[SHIT MOUTH] CANNON* Zach-holy shit (literally!) you [pooped] outa yo mouth sun! Cris- yeah i must ha... WABABATHROWUPPOOPWABABA... have paralytic ileus ❋ Mista God (2011)