When pouches called diverticula form on the wall of the colon become inflamed it becomes diverticulitis a very pain disease no one is sure what causes diverticulitis for sure, but doctors believe a low fiber diet may be a leading cause behind it. The treatments depend on if you have an infection and how bad your symptoms are which will typically be treated with antibiotics. Diverticulitis is a disease that affects the colon, doctors do not have a specific cause for the pea sized pouches. Diverticulitis was not very known 100 years ago due to the low percent of people contracting the disease. There are many more cases of diverticulitis then there was at any other point of history. The reason more and more people and starting to get diverticulitis is that; people now eat too much processed foods. The bowels work at a high volume and a low pressure. Processed foods have a very low volume and therefore require a high pressure to excrete the feces. The higher pressure from pushing can damage your colon, and anus. Eliminating waste should be easy for the body, not a high pressure challenge. When the feces is moving through the intestinal wall and there is a high amount of pressure the walls begin to get pressed upon by the feces. When the feces begins to press on the folds of the intestinal wall they become stuck inside the folds,and push out and hemorrhage the walls causing small papules, in which become inflamed and infected with a lot of bacteria becoming diverticulitis. Diverticulitis is found in 50-70% of people aged 80 years and older and 80% of the people with diverticulitis are age 50. Diverticulitis is not usually found in people younger than 40, Africans, and Asians. The most common regions diverticulitis affects is U.S.A., Europe, and Australia. Ages 50, obesity, and people with fiber diets are higher risk than other people to develop diverticulitis. In elder adults the muscular wall of the…
