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You are listening to itchy and bitchy a podcast that provides answers to your many health questions.

I'm Karen Nichol family nurse practitioner and every day in my practice I address signs and symptoms of inflammation that my patients are experiencing.

They always want to know what they can do to stop the problems their inflammation is causing the good news is it is within your control to stop or slow the inflammatory process.

Inflammation is the bodies process of fighting against things that harm it like infections or injuries as a way to heal itself after injury the body releases antibodies and proteins and increases blood flow to the damaged area that is why for instance when you get a cut on your skin it becomes red and swollen around the cut.

This is an example of acute inflammation that lasts for hours or days what I want to talk to you about today is chronic inflammation when this bodily process lingers causing your body to be in a constant state of alert.

When this response is present it negatively impacts your tissues and organs it becomes a systemic versus a localized problem.

Chronic inflammation can present itself in many different ways symptoms which can range from mild to severe can include fatigue, body pain, depression or anxiety or other mood disturbances,

gastrointestinal complications like diarrhea, constipation, colitis, irritable bowel, weight gain or weight loss lots of times weight gain but weight loss is also a possibility with chronic inflammation.

Persistent infections can ensue you can have migraines or frequent headaches and changes in your menstrual cycle.

There are certain factors that put us at increased risk for developing this problem.

Number one is untreated infection or injury so for instance if you have an abscess tooth or a parasite or yeast overgrowth in the bowel or other infection in the body that you may not know exists so it's in there brewing and causing an inflammatory response in your body.

Lots of times people just have no idea that it's even happening for instance we can even have an infection of our gallbladder and we may have GI symptoms like you know upset stomach after eating or pain after eating and we don't even really know that our gallbladder is infected so those kinds of things really can cause problems if they're not figured out through diagnostic testing

and addressed. Having an autoimmune disease also puts you at more risk for chronic inflammation.

Long-term exposure to irritants like industrial chemicals or pollution, air pollution and we do get exposed to a lot of things that we don't think about our air pollution or air quality and it's not good in many many metropolitan areas especially.

Obesity can increase our risk for inflammation and I'm going to talk a little bit more about that later in the podcast.

Chronic stress, it is a huge driver for inflammation in our body. Smoking, excess alcohol, eating a diet that's high in fast carbohydrates and processed foods and I know that that happens a lot.

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