Dr. Nav Grandhi M.D.

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  The treatment plan for gallstones depends on each patient’s symptoms. The “active monitoring” system is recommended to people who show no symptoms. No treatment is required in such cases. However, if symptoms appear, it best to consult your doctor immediately. Most of the time, if you go...

• What To Do If You Think You Have Gallstones

  If you are 60 and above or have heart disease, abdominal pain can be a serious problem to your health. You need to seek immediate medical attention if you experience sudden or intense pain with unknown cause. If you lose consciousness or have a hard time breathing, you should be concerned and...

• Know the Symptoms of Colon Cancer

  In order to recognize if you have colon cancer, it is vital to know the signs and symptoms of colon cancer. However, most of the symptoms caused by a carcinoma of the colon can also be seen with other diseases that isn’t a cancer, such as hemorrhoids, irritable bowel syndrome, and infections of...

• Celiac Disease: Looking Beyond the Gluten-Free Diet

  Once diagnosed with celiac, switching to a gluten-free diet is the best option. A gluten-free diet is supposed to reverse the damages caused by gluten exposure, but perhaps, not all of them. For some, specific symptoms continue to persist long after they have given up their favorite breakfast cereal...

• Recovering From Anal Fissure Surgery

  An anal fissure is normally the result of the overstretching of the anal mucosa or moist tissue. It can overstretch due to a number of reasons such as passing extra-large and/or hard stools, constipation, low blood flow to the area, excessive diarrhea, dietary choices, and childbirth among others....

• Why is Irritable Bowel Syndrome More Prevalent in Women?

  Medical research shows that more women than men suffer from IBS. In addition these studies demonstrate that certain gynecologic disorders accompany IBS in women. These are disorders such as dysmenorrhea. This has given birth to the question whether there exists a difference in IBS symptom severity...