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That Adam suffers chronic constipation and Benjamin has diarrhea-inducing colitis is no medical coincidence but one of several predictable signs that, well, something’s gonna hit the fan.
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Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Sometimes infectious colitis even resolves on its own with rest and hydration.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 June 2025
There are far more possible—and precise—medications for the more than two million American adults and more than 100,000 children and adolescents with colitis or the other major form of IBD, Crohn’s disease.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
But medical experts said colitis usually doesn’t cause death in young patients and was probably exacerbated by severe malnutrition.
—Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Sometimes infectious colitis even resolves on its own with rest and hydration.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 June 2025
There are far more possible—and precise—medications for the more than two million American adults and more than 100,000 children and adolescents with colitis or the other major form of IBD, Crohn’s disease.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
But medical experts said colitis usually doesn’t cause death in young patients and was probably exacerbated by severe malnutrition.
—Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Colitis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colitis. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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colitis
noun
co·li·tis
kō-ˈlīt-əs, kə- 
: inflammation of the colon see ulcerative colitis
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