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Burping after every meal may be caused by swallowed air or acid reflux. Dr. Vipulroy Rathod explains causes, warning signs...

Hunger gets the blame for a growling stomach, but the noise has little to do with an empty plate. It...

Most gas after a meal comes from two places: the air we swallow while eating, and food that reaches the...

Here’s the thing about pancreatitis: it rarely comes back for no reason. If you’ve had a second attack, something is...

It can come back, yes. The treatments available today open the valve at the bottom of the food pipe, and...

The removal itself is usually the shorter part of the story. Once the tumour is out, the specimen goes to...

Food coming back up after swallowing undigested, no nausea, no retching isn’t vomiting. It’s regurgitation. GERD causes most of it....

Raised ALT or AST on a blood report with no alcohol history confuses a lot of people. The liver is...

Most of us have had a stomach ache and simply waited for it to pass, and usually that works. Pain...

Not normal. Not rare either. When the bowel can’t hold a pattern constipated for days, then suddenly loose, then stuck...

Most constipation is a passing problem. It turns serious when it comes with rectal bleeding, constant belly pain, vomiting, fever...

Yes, it can. Early cirrhosis is quiet. The liver is already scarred but still copes, so you feel normal, and...

Short answer: yes, it can. A bile duct that has been opened up with a balloon or a stent doesn’t...

Not every GI tumour can be removed through the endoscope, and the deciding factor is almost always depth. The digestive...

Yes, but only in the right cases. If an early gastrointestinal (GI) cancer is still sitting in the top layers...

Yes, in most cases. Large gastrointestinal (GI) polyps, meaning 20 mm or bigger, can frequently be taken out without major...

Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that develops in the colon and rectal lining. Many patients ask,...

Jaundice is caused by the accumulation of bilirubin, a yellow pigment formed by the breakdown of red blood cells, in...

Liver cirrhosis symptoms in women could appear gradually, often only becoming obvious when there has been some damage done to...

Blood in your stool is often caused by minor issues like hemorrhoids or anal fissures. However, it can also signal...

Feeling bloated occasionally after a heavy meal is completely normal, but bloating after every single meal is not, and it’s...

Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a condition where the intestines fail to move food, fluid, and gas properly, mimicking a physical blockage....

A carcinoid tumor is a slow-growing neuroendocrine tumor that arises from the hormone-producing cells lining the digestive tract, most commonly...

Stress has long been blamed for stomach ulcers, but the science tells a more nuanced story. The two genuine causes...

Dumping syndrome happens when food, sugar especially, empties too quickly from the stomach into the small intestine, and it’s a...

A little preparation before an endoscopy makes the whole experience smoother, and the right questions asked at the pre-procedure consultation...

GERD and oesophageal cancer can look worryingly similar at first, since both start with reflux and chest discomfort that a...

Polypectomy is the removal of a polyp during colonoscopy, done through the scope with a snare or forceps and no...

Inflammatory bowel disease usually starts between 15 and 35, landing on people mid-way through building careers, studies, and relationships. The...

Endoscopy is the definitive test for oesophageal cancer because it does what no scan can: it looks directly at the...

Recovery after an endoscopy depends almost entirely on whether it was purely diagnostic or involved treatment. A routine diagnostic scope...

Microscopic colitis is one of the most commonly missed causes of chronic watery diarrhoea, largely because the colon looks completely...

Barrett’s oesophagus is what years of unchecked acid reflux does to the lower oesophageal lining. The normal cell type is...

Stomach ulcers and stomach cancer produce almost identical symptoms, and neither a patient nor a clinician can reliably separate them...

When a foreign object gets swallowed or stuck in the GI tract, the endoscope is almost always the first and...

Colonoscopy reaches the colon and terminal ileum well, but a large stretch of small bowel between those two points stays...

Jaundice, the yellowing of the skin and eyes, signals a build-up of bilirubin that the body isn’t clearing properly. The...

Difficulty swallowing, known medically as dysphagia, ranges from a harmless occasional sensation to an early warning of something serious. It...

Diet is one of the few colorectal cancer risk factors a person can actually change, and over the years it...

Balloon dilation widens a narrowed segment of the GI tract by inflating a balloon across the stricture through an endoscope,...

TIPS, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, creates a channel inside the liver between the portal and hepatic veins to lower the...

Gallbladder cancer is hard to catch early because it gives no reliable symptoms until it’s advanced, and standard ultrasound often...

Colorectal cancer is appearing earlier than it used to, and in India it’s too often caught at an advanced stage...

Argon plasma coagulation is a non-contact endoscopic technique that stops bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract without the probe ever touching...

Gallstones don’t always cause pain or digestive trouble. Many people carry gallstones for years without ever knowing it, a condition...

Stomach Ulcer in Teenagers: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment Options A stomach ulcer, also known as a gastric ulcer, is an...

Appendix cancer is a rare type of gastrointestinal cancer that develops in the appendix, a small pouch connected to the...

Crohn’s disease frequently narrows the bowel over time, and when a stricture starts causing obstruction, two main options exist to...

Whether gallbladder cancer can be cured depends almost entirely on the stage at which it’s caught, which is why staging...

Colon cancer and rectal cancer are often grouped together as colorectal cancer, but they aren’t the same disease, and the...

When a lesion is too large for a clean EMR but doesn’t justify the time and risk of a full...

Liver fibrosis is the scarring that develops when the liver is repeatedly inflamed or injured, gradually replacing healthy tissue with...

Gallbladder cancer is diagnosed through a sequence of imaging that starts with ultrasound and escalates to CT, MRI, and EUS...

Open surgery is no longer the default for colorectal cancer the way it was two decades ago. Early-stage tumours and...

EMR and ESD are both endoscopic techniques for removing early GI tumours without open surgery, but they aren’t interchangeable. EMR...

Many IBD complications that once meant surgery are now treated through the endoscope. Strictures, dysplastic lesions, perianal abscesses, and acute...

Alcoholic liver disease and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease both deposit fat in the liver and can both progress to cirrhosis,...

Gallbladder cancer is one of the more deceptive GI malignancies because it produces no reliable symptoms in its early stages,...

Colorectal cancer is consistently diagnosed at a later stage in India than necessary, not because the disease hides well but...

Endoscopic Mucosal Resection is a procedure that removes abnormal tissue or early-stage tumours from the lining of the digestive tract...

Oesophageal cancer grows in the lining of the food pipe and is most commonly linked to chronic acid reflux, tobacco...

Stomach cancer often produces vague early symptoms that mimic ordinary indigestion, which is why most cases are diagnosed at an...

GI tumours can be treated without surgery in selected cases using endoscopic resection, ablation, stenting, and targeted systemic therapy. The...

Double balloon endoscopy (DBE) is a specialised endoscopic technique that uses two balloons to advance a long scope deep into...

Narrow band imaging (NBI) is an advanced endoscopic technique that uses filtered blue and green light to highlight mucosal vessel...

Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is an advanced endoscopic technique that removes early-stage GI cancers, large polyps, and submucosal lesions in...

Third space endoscopy is a category of advanced endoscopic procedures that work in the submucosal layer of the GI tract,...

ERCP and surgery are two different approaches to bile duct disease. ERCP is a minimally invasive endoscopic procedure that accesses...

Recurrent gallstone attacks happen when stones in the gallbladder repeatedly block the cystic duct or migrate into the common bile...

Gallbladder polyps are growths on the inner wall of the gallbladder, mostly benign and usually found incidentally on ultrasound. The...

Biliary strictures are narrowings of the bile duct that obstruct bile flow. They are treated endoscopically through ERCP using balloon...

Bile duct cancer, also called cholangiocarcinoma, is a rare and aggressive malignancy of the cells lining the bile ducts. It...

Ulcerative Colitis While Pregnant: What You Need to Know A pregnancy diagnosis, planned or unplanned, changes the questions a person...

Acid reflux is among the most common digestive complaints, typically experienced as a burning discomfort after meals. While occasional reflux...

A stage 4 diagnosis can feel like a final verdict, but the numbers behind it are far more layered than...

Yes, stress can meaningfully worsen GERD, and the connection runs through several physiological pathways rather than being purely psychological. Stress...

Oesophageal stricture is narrowing of the oesophagus that obstructs the passage of food, caused most commonly by chronic acid reflux...

GI cancer screening is the use of tests to find gastrointestinal cancers before symptoms develop. The cancers it targets are...

Alcohol affects every part of the digestive system, from the oesophagus to the colon, with the liver and pancreas taking...

Gastrointestinal bleeding is any bleeding from the digestive tract, anywhere from oesophagus to rectum. It becomes serious when the bleed...

Chronic diarrhoea, defined as loose stools lasting more than four weeks, is caused most commonly by irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory...

A flare is the return of active IBD symptoms after a period of remission. Patients usually know what their flare...

  Surgery in inflammatory bowel disease isn’t a failure of medical treatment. It’s a tool used when medical therapy can’t...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)—including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis—is deeply linked to mental health through the gut-brain axis. Chronic intestinal...

Biologics are large protein molecules, usually antibodies, designed to block specific inflammatory pathways that drive Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis....

Turning 50 is the age at which several digestive system cancers and chronic conditions start becoming meaningfully more common, and...

A hiatal hernia is when part of the stomach pushes up through the diaphragm into the chest, and GERD is...

Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) is a chronic, allergy-driven inflammation of the oesophagus where eosinophils, a type of white blood cell, build...

Pancreatic cancer pain is among the most severe pain encountered in oncology, caused by tumour invasion of the celiac plexus,...

EUS-guided celiac plexus block is an endoscopic procedure that delivers a steroid and local anaesthetic injection, or sometimes a neurolytic...

A pancreatic stent is needed when the pancreatic duct is blocked, narrowed, or leaking, and that obstruction is causing pain,...

Pancreatic stenting is an endoscopic procedure used to keep the pancreatic duct open when something is blocking or narrowing it....

EUS Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) and EUS Fine Needle Biopsy (FNB) are both endoscopic ultrasound-guided sampling procedures used to obtain...

EUS Fine Needle Aspiration (EUS-FNA) is a minimally invasive biopsy procedure that combines endoscopic ultrasound with a thin needle to...

Whipple surgery and endoscopic treatment are two different categories of intervention in pancreatic and biliary disease. Whipple is a major...

Borderline resectable pancreatic cancer (BRPC) is a stage where the tumour involves nearby blood vessels, making complete surgical removal (R0...

Resectable pancreatic cancer is the kind that can be surgically removed with a reasonable shot at cure. Unresectable means the...

Most pancreatic cysts are harmless, the trouble is that a small but real proportion aren’t, and telling them apart on...

Walled-off pancreatic necrosis, or WON, is what dead pancreatic tissue becomes once the body has had four to six weeks...

Pancreatic necrosis means part of the pancreas has died, usually after a severe attack of acute pancreatitis cuts off its...