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Facts about Enteritis and Filing for DisabilityHow to prove you are disabled and win disability benefits 1) Enteritis is what happens when the small intestine becomes inflamed due to various reasons, including ingesting bacteria and viruses. 2) Symptoms of enteritis include diarrhea, cramping, vomiting, abdominal pain, dehydrating, fever, and loss of appetite. These symptoms may appear within a few hours of being infected, or they may take days to show up. 3) Although enteritis is usually caused by drinking or eating something that is tainted with virus or bacteria microorganisms, it can also be caused by certain drugs, including over the counter ibuprofen or the illegal substance cocaine, or it may be caused by radiation therapy damage or autoimmune diseases such as Diabetes mellitus type 1 or Crohn’s disease. 4) There are many different types of enteritis, including E. coli enteritis, shigella enteritis, food poisoning, bacterial gastroenteritis, radiation enteritis, staph aureus food poisoning, and campylobacter enteritis. 5) The treatment for enteritis depends upon the severity of the case. Mild cases may just need to pass through the small intestines. More serious cases may need intravenous fluids to rehydrate and medical care. Most cases go away without treatment once the bacteria or virus has moved through the body. 6) Enteritis may also include colitis (inflammation of the stomach) and colitis (inflammation of the large intestine). 7) Enteritis can be very dangerous for infants because diarrhea can cause rapid dehydration. If an infant is thought to have enteritis, it should be taken to the doctor right away. 8) While most cases of enteritis will go away on their own, you should go to a doctor if you see blood in your stools, your fever is 102 degrees or over, your diarrhea is lasting for days, or you feel extremely dehydrated. 9) Enteritis can usually be prevented by storing food correctly, always using clean utensils, washing hands often, drinking clean water, and cooking food thoroughly. Can you qualify for disability benefits with this condition? Whether or not you qualify for disability and, as a result, are approved for disability benefits will depend entirely on the information obtained from your medical records. This includes whatever statements may have been obtained from your treating physician (a doctor who has a history of treating your condition and is, therefore, qualified to comment as to your condition and prognosis). It will also depend on the information obtained from your vocational, or work, history if you are an adult, or academic records if you are a minor-age child. The important thing to keep in mind is that the social security administration does not award benefits based on simply having a condition, but, instead, will base an approval or denial on the extent to which a condition causes functional limitations. Functional limitations can be great enough to make work activity not possible (or, for a child, make it impossible to engage in age-appropriate activities). Why are so many disability cases lost at the disability application and reconsideration appeal levels? Speaking as a former Disability Claims Examiner, I can state that there are several reasons: 1) Social Security makes no attempt to obtain a statement from a claimant's treating physician. By contrast, at the hearing level, a claimant and his or her disability attorney will generally obtain and present this type of statement to a judge; 2) Prior to the hearing level, a claimant will not have the opportunity to explain how their condition limits them, nor will their attorney or representative have the opportunity to make a presentation based on the evidence of the case. At the hearing level, of course, this is exactly what happens. And a number of disability representatives will also take such steps even earlier, at the reconsideration appeal level; 3) Disability judges, unlike disability examiners who decides cases at the first two levels of the system, can make independent decisions without being overturned by immediate supervisors--which happens frequently. 
Return to: SSDRC, or the Questions, Answers, Tips, and Advice page Topics and Questions Other Links SSD and SSI are Federal Programs The title II Social Security Disability and title 16 SSI Disability programs operate under federal guidelines and, therefore, the program requirements--medical and non-medical--apply to all states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming Recent approval and denial statistics for various states can be viewed here: Social Security Disability, SSI Approval and Denial Statistics by state Special Section: Disability Lawyers and unnecessary claim denials |