What is the proper name for holes within the intestines?

Question

holes in the walls of the intestine

Answer 1

Ulcers. Probably duedenal if in the intestine. Try this website for more info...
http://kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/digestive/ulcers.html

Answer 2

Over many years of eating gluten, the intestinal cell structure deteriorates. Digested protein no longer passes through the cells walls but passes between cells and into the blood. These holes in the intestinal walls is what is know as "leaky gut syndrome."

Eating an excess of gluten causes celiac disease.

Answer 3

huh? fistula? lumen? gas bubbles? need to clarify what you're asking!

addendum: searched goggle for and got this about Crohn's; is that what you're talking about? G213

CROHN'S DISEASE - INFECTION?

Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

Many recent studies show that most gastroenterologists may be wrong when they do not prescribe antibiotics to treat Crohn's disease (1-30). When a person has bloody diarrhea and doctors find ulcers in the intestines, they look for cancer, infection or parasites. When they can't find a cause, they should say that they don't have the foggiest idea why the person has intestinal ulcers. Instead, they deceive their patients by saying that the person has Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, and explaining that the person's immunity is so stupid that it punches holes in the intestines, rather than doing its job of killing germs. They prescribe medications that suppress immunity or cut out parts of intestine. The immunities of these patients may not be so stupid that they attack and kill their own intestinal cells. Normal intestines are so loaded with bacteria that doctors can't possibly tell which belong there and which may be causing disease. This treatment offers no cure and is associated with many complications that shorten life (4).


Exciting research from France show that a variant of E. Coli, a bacteria that lives in normal intestines, sticks to the intestinal lining and produces an alpha hemolysis that punches holes in the intestines to cause at least some cases of Crohn's disease (1). Further studies show that heat shock protein can be removed from the common intestinal bacteria, E. Coli, and when given to mice, causes terrible bloody ulcers to form in the intestines (1a). The intestines looked under the microscope exactly the same as those of people who suffer from ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease (1a). Extensive data show that people with this condition have leaky intestines that allow germs to pass into the bloodstream (2) and their immunities are trying to kill these germs (3). Antibiotics can reduce swelling and ulcers in Crohn's disease. Crohn's disease is contagious as people married to partners with ulcerative colitis are more likely to develop that disease (5).

Dr. Joel Taurog of the University of Texas in Dallas has shown that a bacteria called bacteroides causes ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in mice who are genetically programmed to have a HLA-B27, a special gene that causes arthritis (6,7). Special tissue staining techniques show that tissue taken from patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis contain parts of two common bacteria called E. Coli and streptococci (8). Many studies show that infections may cause Crohn's disease and that antibiotics, particularly, Cipro with or without metronidazole control ulcerative colitis and Crohns (9,10,11,12,13,14,15, 16,17,18,20). Although many doctors disagree, I treat Crohn's disease with Cipro 500 mg twice a day continuously and metronidazole 250 mg four times a day on alternate weeks and check liver tests monthly (21). I tell patients to stop metronidazole if they feel any strange nerve sensations. This treatment is highly controversial and not accepted by most doctors; discuss it with your doctor.

Recent studies show that Crohn's disease can be controlled by probiotics and prebiotics, introduced into the colon by eating a diet rich in vegetables and whole grains and taking specific good bacteria such as lactobacillus GG. (25)

Cipro and metronidazole cannot be given to children because they can cause cartilaginous and liver damage. In Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, researchers showed that clarithromycin may control Crohn's disease in children (26).

Answer 4

Ulcers. I am no doctor but ulcers in the guts must mean death within days. I mean just imagine your gut wall breaking and the inside of your body getting full of crap. That would be an instant major infection throughout the body. Scary!

Hey, come to think of it, maybe it's not so dangerous after all because there are people that are full of crap and just don't die.

Answer 5

I hope you realize that there should not be any holes in the intestines, if there are it would be perforated intestine or perforated bowel.

Answer 6

diverticulitis?

Answer 7

'Mouth', and 'anus'.