Talk:Ileus

Gallstone Ileus
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) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Duncanmacrosson (talk • contribs) 18:40, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Ileus
Ileus, also called Paralytic Ileus, Adynamic Ileus is an Intestinal Paresis. It can be caused by an intra-abdominal infection, an obstruction, accumulation of blood, a tumor or by some systemic diseases. A temporary ileus can happen after abdominal surgery and can last up to 72 hours.

Obstruction
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)

Yes, ileus is different from obstruction. I think this page needs to be deleted and rewriten.--Rossd 19:24, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Ileus
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)

————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— To the answer of the man above whose wife had C-dificile. C-dificile can cause toxic megacolon; common signs/symptoms include a dilated colon, distention of the abdomen, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea (or non bloody) fever, dehydration, tachycardia, shock, sepsis. Your wife's C. dificile infection caused inflammation of the colon, which can cause scarring, ulcerations, raised nodules, and yellow-white plaques. Necrosis can even occur. This should explain why your wife had an colon acting as ileus, because the colon was too "sick" to have proper movements and therefore shut itself off for a while until it could heal134.48.233.114 20:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)K. Hertig, Physician Assistant Student

I have been diagnosed with ileus. I had abdominal surgery 2 weeks ago (followed by opiates for pain management). I STILL have huge, walrus-like burps erupting without notice and lots of gastric distention. Can it be ileus if there is plenty of diarrhea and flatulence?

Thank you to anyone who can help...

Flatulence
Does the bullet item "lack of bowel movement and/or flatulence" mean (1) lack of BM and lack of flatulence or (2) lack of BM and presence of flatulence? In either case, why not put "bowel movement" and "flatulence" in separate bullet items? (And the "and/or" is meaningless.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.101.150.37 (talk) 12:22, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

Ilius
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)

Ileus versus obstruction
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)

Photo
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)


 * 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)

Re. Ileus vs. obstruction
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)