Bowel Injury Claim

The job of the bowel is to digest the food we eat. Forming part of the digestive system; the bowel absorbs goodness and nutrients into the bloodstream from the digested food. It then expels the waste products that the body has no use for.

Personal injury to the bowel can result from either blunt or penetrating trauma to the abdomen. Blunt trauma can occur from road traffic accidents, slip, trips or falls as well as assaults. Blunt trauma is the most common mechanism of injury to the bowel. Of all the patients with blunt trauma 5% will have intestinal and mesenteric injury.

The most severe of personal injury to the bowel could result in total loss of the natural function of the bowel and dependence on colostomy. Injury as a result of an accident that wasn’t your fault could result in personal injury compensation.

The evaluation of a person with possible bowel trauma is as follows:

• Assessment of the airway, breathing, and circulation.
• Examination of the abdomen to identify swelling, bruising, scratches, and areas of skin penetration.
• Assessment of bowel sounds.
• Careful palpation the abdomen, first in the area of least tenderness, and then extend the palpation to the perceived area of tenderness or injury.

Common symptoms of injury to the bowel are swelling, bruising, skin penetration, lack of bowel sounds and tenderness. People who have suffered bowel injury have often described the pain as though someone was pouring acid into their stomach.

Bowel injury causes high discomfort and is highly stressful; in severe cases even leading to depression.

If you have sustained an injury to your bowel as a direct result of an accident that wasn’t your fault then you could be entitled to compensation.

Accident Consult are a professional team who specialise in no win no fee claims. Our expert lawyers could be the key to securing your compensation claim.

We have already helped thousands of people who have suffered like you; bringing them up to 87,000 for total loss of bowel function. If you are worried about claiming or unsure of what to do next then get in touch with Accident Consult today; our expert advisers will answer all of your questions in your free, no obligation consultation.

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