bowel treatment obstruction

Early palliative approaches stressed symptomatic relief. Bowel obstruction is a very dynamic process, frequently reverting from total to partial obstruction and back in as many as 50% of cases. Only one controlled study of the use of steroids in bowel obstruction has been done. The most important drug in the therapy of bowel treatment obstruction is octreotide. An analogue of the hormone somatostatin, it significantly reduces secretion into the gut. In one study by Mangili, 13 patients with ovarian cancer-related obstruction had NG aspirate volumes measured A small-bowel obstruction may cause: * Cramping abdominal pain, which may be severe if the blood supply is cut off (strangulated). * Vomiting.