The Cesar Chavez Mini Film Festival, a two-day event in downtown Riverside, kicks off tonight (4/1) with a free 7 p.m. screening of âThe Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Struggleâ at the Culver Center, 3834 Main Street.
Ileus is a blockage of the intestines caused by a lack of peristalsis. Peristalsis is the pumping action of the intestines that helps move food through the digestive system. Ileus is used to describe both full and partial blockages. Solids (food), liquids, and gases are not able to move properly through the body when ileus occurs. Bowel movement can stop due to a mechanical blockage as well. Mechanical means there is something physically lodged in the intestine that is causing the blockage.
The condition ileitis refers to a swollen or inflamed part of the intestines. In this case the ileum or lower part of the small intestine is involved, and this can be painful and uncomfortable to endure. In literature on ileitis, the most common cause of this condition is the presence of Crohnâs disease, but there are other causes, and a diagnosis of this condition is not necessarily a diagnosis of Crohnâs. As stated there are variable causes of this condition. If Crohnâs disease is present, it may result in inflammation of