Hello. My husband is a liver transplant patient and last week we went in because he had shortness of breathe - they treated it with pain meds - then basically told us his colon was inflamed, now he has a slight abdominal pain, lower right side and chills - NO fever...
Hi. Thanks for your query. Read the history about your husband and understood the problems. Liver transplant patients need a careful treatment. Shortness of the breath could have been investigated for possible Pneumonia, asthma, allergy or so, which you have not mentioned anything about. I wonder how the pain medicines could have helped. If the colon is inflamed, he needs more careful investigations and treatment as all the things absorbed by the large bowel - the colon will be filtered by the liver and may cause damage to the transplanted liver. I would advise you the following