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Ulcerative Colitis - References
Keeping an eye on your diet is essential to caring for colon inflammation. According to research or other evidence, the following self-care steps may be helpful.
- Don’t forget the fish oil
Help reduce inflammation and prevent relapses by taking a daily supplement delivering 5.4 grams of omega-3 fatty acids
- Drink aloe juice
Improve your symptoms, and your chances for remission, by drinking 100 ml of an Aloe vera herbal extract twice a day
- Try herbal boswellia
Reduce severity and encourage remission by taking 550 mg of boswellia gum resin three times a day
- Check up on nutrition
Visit a qualified health professional regularly to detect and treat nutritional deficiencies caused by colitis
Also indexed as:
- ulcerative colitis
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