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• TITLE: Rectal-Colitis Caustic Stenosing by Enema to Traditional Products: About a Case

  AUTHORS: Sawadogo Yamba Elie, Ouangre Edgar, Zida Maurice, Sama Gui, Bande Youssouf, Kafando Roch, Bonkoungou Gilbert, Sam Aristide, Traore Si Simon

  KEYWORDS: Recto-Colitis, Caustic, Traditional, Burkina Faso

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Gastroenterology, Vol.8 No.4, April 30, 2018

  ABSTRACT: The practice of traditional medicine and the use of medicinal plants are increasingly developed in Africa. Its poorly controlled administration often leads to severe complications that can sometimes be life-threatening. Intrarectal injection of caustic material with such purpose as suicide, murder, accident, or as a tribal therapeutic is responsible, within several hours, for burns of the colonic coating, the severity of which ranges from a simple light congestion of the rectal mucosa to a complete necrosis of the colon of variable length from the rectum to the cecum. We report the case of a stenosing rectocolitis complicating enemas with traditional products. Colonoscopy and contrast enema found their interest in determining the limits of surgical resection.