Talk:Ileus

message: Could someone please stop gallstone ileus from redirecting here, it is a misnomer and is actually a small bowel obstruction. I would change the redirection if I knew how to.. 
86.1.199.96 (talk) 23:57, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallstone Ileus 

message: This page currently seems to be about obstruction rather than ileus.  Perhaps this page should be merged with bowel obstruction and deleted. Osmodiar 14:59, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obstruction 

message: Okay I understand what happens when you have an ileus.  My big question is one that seems to have no answer.  I would like to know how long it can take for things to return to normal or somewhat normal.  If the ileus was casued from lack of movement.  No scar tissue, due to no prior surguries.  Symptoms appeared after a bad case of C-Dif and then dehydration.   help
:I'm not a doctor, but it took my wife weeks, even months to return to normal.  I'd give yourself at least six weeks. --KSnortum 02:42, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ileus 

message: I have seen the alternate spelling of ileus (e.g. an purported online Encyclopædia Britannica).  Should/could this other spelling be mentioned to aid a person in finding this information?  Not a doctor obviously, so I don't know whether this is something conventional.  JamesEG (talk) 15:40, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ilius 

message: Those dictionary definitions of ileus are outdated.  For the past ~80 years, ileus has primarily meant intestinal paralysis, and not mechanical obstruction.  Previously, it referred to both mechanical obstruction and intestinal paralysis.  There are still some relics of the older, broader definition of ileus, such as gallstone ileus, which is a mechanical obstruction.  See "The meaning of ileus: Its changing definition over three millenia" in the American Journal of Surgery.
76.126.55.145 (talk) 17:38, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ileus versus obstruction 

message: What's the relevance of the (fairly graphic) picture, exactly? How does it depict ileus, rather than just intestinal surgery(?) to rectify ileus? 130.195.200.87 (talk) 13:08, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears to me that the photo shows how the intestine becomes expanded by the accumulation of waste.  I suppose it offers insight as to what happens to the intestine when affected by ileus.  When I read the article, I found the image helpful in understanding the condition.
Based on the disambiguation information, I think the picture of the intestine during surgery belongs with the article "Ileum", not this one, "Ileus", and the caption should read, "A gangrenous ileum" rather than, "A gangrenous ileus." LetMeJustSay (talk) 05:24, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: Since this topic was last mentioned, I'm starting it up again.
I'm not familiar with the field and don't have access to modern med texts, but I went ahead and did a copy edit of the intro.  My bad: I didn't read further; if I had, I would have seen that there's a lot of info re. "ileus as obstruction". I suspect that improving copy may sometimes do harm by legitimizing the info.
This distinction (as well as legacy terms like gallbladder ileus, etc.) is something that a person within that field should answer.  In other words ... 
Please help us out, Doc!"  A simple "does or doesn't" would be much appreciated. 
Thanks.        Jimmy Hers (talk) 01:09, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re. Ileus vs. obstruction