Question

Ms. K, a 32-year-old woman, is admitted to the acute care facility. You have been assigned to care for her. Her diagnosis is irritable bowel disease (IBD).

1. Test results from Ms. K’s chart indicate inflammation of the mucosa and submucosa of her rectum and colon. Which form of IBD does Ms. K most likely have?

2. K asks you, “How does the drug you’re giving me work?” How should you respond?

Answer 1

Symptoms of Ms.K inflammation of mucosa and submucous of her rectum and Colon. With these symptoms Ms.K Diagnosed as Ulcerative colitis .

Chronic,inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation in the digestive tract.Ulcerative colitis is usually only in the inner most lining of the large intestine and rectum .Ulcerative colitis put's patient at increase risk of developing colon cancer.

Treatment for ulcerative colitis are Aminosalicylates that team inflammation in the gut.That include Balsalazide,Mesalamine,,Olsalazine,and Sulfasalazine.

Balsalazide is an oral antiinflammatory drug that is used for treatment of ulcerative colitis. It is delivered by intact to the Colon where it is cleaved by bacterial azoreduction to release equimolar quantities of mesalamine,which is therapeutically active portion of the molecules and the 4 aminobezoyl s alanine Carrier moiety.

Explain what type of medication giving to her and action of drug ,in this way we have to respond to her question.