Bowel Injuries

Correct bowel function is vital for overall health; the bowel digests our food, allowing us to absorb the nutrients we need and expel the waste products we do not. The most common bowel injuries involve personal injury caused by blunt or penetrating trauma, often suffered in road traffic accidents, slips trips and falls or physical assaults.

If you have been involved in an accident as a driver, passenger or pedestrian in any type of vehicle or simply as a bystander, through no fault of your own, that resulted in a bowel injury then you could claim accident compensation. If the injury to your bowel was from a slip, trip or fall that was caused by someone else's negligence, or an assault, then you could also be able to claim personal injury compensation.

Bowel injuries can also occur from surgery complications, particularly with laparoscopic surgery. Although such injuries arising from a laparoscopy are rare, this type of 'keyhole' surgery does run the risk of damaging the bowel in the process of inserting the camera and surgical tools into the abdominal area. Should this happen to you and you believe it was a case of clinical negligence, then you may be able to claim for this. It is also possible to claim for misdiagnosis of bowel cancer as a case of clinical negligence; as this is a complex issue, speak to one of our trained and experienced solicitors for advice.

Severe injuries to the bowel can lead to the complete loss of its normal function which requires the patient to be fitted with a colostomy bag. Symptoms of less severe bowel injuries include swelling, tenderness and in some cases very strong pain; the stresses involved with this type of injury can also lead to depression. If you have suffered psychological problems, physical pain or loss of function of your bowel in an accident, assault or operation and you were not to blame, then speak to Claim-Easy about your suitability for a compensation claim.