Intestines are a structure like tube in abdominal. Any food which goes to stomach to digest, intestines keep partly active until it goes to anus. Intestines absorb nutrition from blood vessels. When intestines don’t work properly due to any disorder in body, then malnutrition and dehydration appears in body.
Intestinal transplant is a kind of operation where doctor transplant patient’s perverse or gone short intestines with donor’s healthy intestines. Before carry out this process, it should keep two things in mind.
1. Saving patient’s life so that their intestinal transplant could be done. It can’t be transplanted until body doesn’t get well totally.
2. Before transplant it should give patient ‘total parental nutrition’ means giving nutrition to veins through drip.
Pay attention on these things
Those kids and elders are keeping in the category of transplant whose intestine has stopped working properly. This condition calls ‘intestinal failure’. Besides it patients who use to take nutrition in body through drip, are also considerable for intestinal transplant. If intestines gets short 30 to 40 cm (which should be 6 meter) then ‘intestine failure’ happens. Intestinal transplant is necessary in this situation. If it doesn’t properly absorption of nutrition, liquids and electrolyte in body, even after not giving nutrition to body through veins by setting drip then this kind of people can be keep in transplant category.
Reason
There’re many reasons of improper work of intestine (Intestinal failure) in children and elders. Like this disease can be happen due to superior presenter artery thrombosis and vein thrombosis (stop in intestinal veins). Besides it intestines can be impaired due to Stomach, especially intestines getting injured by any accident and due to crohn's disease (weak intestines). In kids, intestine failure is possible due to some diseases like intestinal atresia (congenital deformity of intestines), gastroschisis, crohns’s diseases and microvillus failure.
Complications
After intestines transplant through surgery, some new problems can appear cause of infection and rejection of new organ by body. Rejection means enabling of body to accept outer organ. In fact rejection is an ordinary process of body to accepting outer organ. When a new organ is transplanted into any person’s body, then the immune system starts making antibodies against that considering that new organ a danger for body. That’s why this new organ couldn’t work properly.
Solution
To solve above complications, here’re many antibiotics available. Similarly, after treatment, patients use to keep in a special type of intensive treatment room. Other than this, some medicines are use to give which decrease patient’s immunity. These kind of medicines are use to give during and after treatment so that body couldn’t deny new intestine.
Health Benefit
After transplant process, patient use to bring in intensive treatment room immediately. After that transplant team inquires it that is patient’s body accepting new intestine or not. To inspect this thing they use to x-ray and biopsy of bowel (intestine). If they find with this process that body is not accepting new organ still then they use to give medicine to overcome this rejection. Doctor’s team tries it that patient start eating like before. They use to give patient nutrients through drip until this position doesn’t come. Like this patients is use to give nutrients in liquid form through feeding tube.
After Hospital
After surgery, transplanted patient use to discharge within 4 to 6 week from hospital commonly. In some cases this period can be increases. Patient and his relatives is use to advised that they keep near the transplant center for 1 month after discharge. After second month of transplant surgery, related person has to go to transplant center every week for 4 weeks. Besides it related person has to blood test for lifetime every six week period and every third month has to go transplant center for test.