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Saturday, July 24, 2010

How severe is your Ulcerative Colitis?


The Truelove Criteria (awesome name BTW...) grades the severity of Ulcerative Colitis based on 5 parameters:

UC Severity - She Hasn't Even Finished Pooping!

Stool frequency per day (has to be bloody stool)
Haemoglobin
ESR
Fever
Pulse rate
MILD
MODERATE
SEVERE
Stool frequency /day (bloody stools)
<4



Moderate severity are values that are in between MILD & SEVERE
>6
Haemoglobin
>11.0
<10.5
ESR
<30
>30
Fever
Afebrile
>37.8
Pulse rate
<70
>90

 
at 2:47 AM

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