Ulcerative Colitis

Ulcerative Colitis is a chronic, recurring disease of the large bowel, or colon. The disorder typically begins gradually with crampy abdominal pain and diarrhea that is sometimes bloody. When the disease is localized to the rectum, the symptoms are rectal urgency, bleeding and passage of small amounts of bloody stool. Usually the symptoms tend to come and go, and there may be long periods without any at all.