Talk:Diverticulitis

message: just so you guys know, i made those previous changes. i used some surgical textbooks as a source.
:: Please sign your comments and learn better surgery.TuppenceABag (talk) 16:14, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: rude (69.66.30.170 (talk) 19:35, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: just

message: I think it would give this subject just the kind of pizazz it's currently lacking. Does anyone know any? I think RnB sensation Usher may have it.
:Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was recently treated for it. But isn't it a bit inappropriate to list famous patients? Cholerashot 21:16, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Isn't this the condition that the World's longest serving leader Fidel Castro is currently being treated for?
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I question why we need any referance to "famous" people, this dosn't provide any information about the condition, it's just tabloid fodder.
DCwom (talk) 12:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Quite. Why does an encyclopaedia article abou a medical condition require "pizazz"? I came looking for it for the information, not to be entertained. 77.102.101.220 (talk) 22:50, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

text: Very right. Note that the list of celebrities was removed back in September 2008, and I think that it should stay removed. --Enric Naval (talk) 11:03, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famous Sufferers? 

message: I find the external link http://www.medstudents.com.br/gastro/gastro2.htm to be of negligible value and most of the information is already incorporated in the article. Anyone object if I delete it? Webquest 18:24, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link 

message: I don't know where this nonsense came from--I hope they don't teach this in medical schools. Laws of Laplace apply to fast flowing fluids, and they would lead to the lowering of the pressure in narrower passages. I removed this pseudo-scientific explanation. — Bartosz 07:19, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Laws of Laplace 

message: I am not sure how accurate this statement is "Left-sided diverticular disease (involving the sigmoid colon) is most common in the West, while right-sided diverticular disease is more prevalent in Asia and Africa".  The sigmoid colon is the weakest part of the colon with the most pressure that may cose diverticula.  Why would Asia and Africa develop right-sided diverticular disease? Thanks for an explanation. Worldedixor 18:30, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely. I suffered from it in the middle, however medically it probably just appeared as one or the other side most of the time, so the assumption was made.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.170.179 (talk) 07:32, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Right-sided diverticular disease 

message: Clinical practice article. JFW | T@lk 02:00, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And one from Am J Gastro:  JFW | T@lk 10:31, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NEJM 

message: Why are people now listing Celebrities for medical articles??? is this how trivial wikipedia is becoming, this is an encyclopedia not Heat or Closer.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.101.224.15 (talk) 19:55, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Haha, you are totally right, man. My bad for not thinking of this and deleting it myself months ago. --Enric Naval (talk) 01:56, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Celebrities

message: Hi, can anyone tell me if this is hereditry  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.220.17.116 (talk) 09:11, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Hereditary factors may play a small role in the development of diverticulosis.". Disclaimer: wikipedia doesn't give medical advice, so take this with a grain of salt. --Enric Naval (talk) 14:10, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: is it hereditary

message: took out the claim that nuts, corn and popcorn cause the disease since that has been disproven. Also, why are we allowing references from NBC??? (69.66.30.170 (talk) 19:35, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's probably just that the editor didn't find a better reference. There is a new guideline called WP:MEDRS that tries to solve this sort of situations by explaining which are the best sources for articles on medicine subjects. --Enric Naval (talk) 19:59, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

text: Despite your personal experience, the evidence simply doesn't support this claim. There's simply no good evidence that consumption of nuts, popcorn, or seeds increases the risk of having a diverticulitis attack. The idea behind why nuts and seeds would make it worse hasn't really been borne out and the pathophysiology of the disease is being refined.  TylerDurden8823 (talk) 01:39, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: nuts, corn, popcorn

message: Being obese increases the risk of diverticulitis and diverticular bleeding:  JFW | T@lk 13:41, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fat 

message: Referenced or not this statement near the end of the page is mathematically contradictory.  You can't have at least half against something and a majority in favor of it...
I'd rather not delete referenced statements, but this is clearly false.
"Further, in a survey of fellows of The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons at least half of the surgeons responding to the survey saw no value in avoiding such foods, however adherence to a low residue diet was still favored by the majority."   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.126.150.35 (talk) 01:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I reworded it. It is clearer now? --Enric Naval (talk) 02:46, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: how to fix

message: three words after note 11, there is the word reaction. Should it be resection?   Rebele  | Talk  The only way to win the game is to not play the game.  04:10, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like an error, I changed it. --Enric Naval (talk) 08:50, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  error? 

message: The article talks about a "low residue diet" being a treatment method, but the official advice in the UK is the opposite of that, with a high fibre diet being advocated.
See...
http://www.patient.co.uk/health/diverticula-including-diverticulosis-diverticular-disease-and-diverticulitis
and
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/diverticular-disease-and-diverticulitis/Pages/Introduction.aspx
... Shouldn't this alternative view be acknowledged in the article, and if possible, the disparity explained? Moreover which view is correct?!
--WikiStuart (talk) 19:25, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment disparity 

message: I'd always had the anecdotal notion that diverticulitis was more prevalent in women than in men. I'm no expert on WP:MEDRS but a little bit of digging shows this, which is not quite what I'd understood. Is there any merit to including a comment about gender-related prevalence and, if so, are there any MEDRS-compliant sources that would do the job? - Sitush (talk) 15:25, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: One could summarize that in the epidemiology section. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 11:12, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gender-related prevalence 

message: I have been unable to find any clear information about the effects of dairy products, in relation to the management of this disorder.  Clear fluids are universally recommended in response to an acute episode, but I don't understand why milk would be contraindicated.  I would appreciate an explanation or clarification of the effects of milk and dairy products.  Janice Vian, Ph.D. (talk) 07:06, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Were do we mention dairy products? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:40, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship to Milk, Cheese, Dairy Products  

message: In the description that appears directly below the article title on the mobile app, it reads "Digestive disease caused by an imflammation of a herniating pouch..." I am not sure how to edit this or I would fix it.
::On Wikidata. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:11, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description misspelling 

message: Diverticulosis has typically has no symptoms. Diverticulitis typically has symptoms. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:08, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Asymptomatic

message: Per MEDMOS pathology is part of pathophysiology. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:10, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:MEDMOS]]

message: The article uses :File:Diverticula, sigmoid colon.jpg. The problem is that the average reader of this article has no idea what a normal large bowel (sigmoid colon) is supposed to look like. Are the descending yellow colored bulges nodules of normal fat or are they diverticula? Are all of the ascending bulges diverticula or are those part of the normal/expected structure of a sigmoid colon?  A prominent bulge is visible on the far upper-right of the photo. I assume that's a roughly 1cm outside diameter diverticulum.
The photo caption mentions the taenium.  I assume that's not visible in the photo but the visible lines running longitudinally are evidence of the taenium which is deeper in the structure.
An idea would be to create an annotated version of the photo for this article with arrows pointing at each of the diverticula.
The sigmoid colon article does not have any similar pictures. The Diverticulosis article uses a drawing, rather than a photo, which is better as the drawing seems to be of the entire sigmoid colon which matches up with drawings on the sigmoid colon. That drawing helped a bit with understanding the photo.
Unfortunately, a Google image search for "sigmoid colon" finds that people tend to only publish pictures when there's a problem. --Marc Kupper|talk 18:55, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for a better or annotated photo