Dr. David Ziring
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Los Angeles, CA
24 years experience male
Locations
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
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Bio
I am a specialist in pediatric IBD, Director of the UCLA Pediatric IBD Center.
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Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Licenses
United States: California
Languages spoken
English
Doctor Q&A
483 Answers
39 Agrees
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A 32-year-old male asked:
Dr. David Ziringanswered
Pediatric Gastroenterology 24 years experience
A dry cough: is not typical of functional dyspepsia. Functional dyspepsia is defined by the ROME III guidelines as upper abdominal pain, burning, fullness, gettin... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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The same enzymes : Break down both, so technically neither is harder than the other.
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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Control: It sounds like your ulcerative colitis could use better control. Your doctor may want to rethink your medication regimen. The goal should be to have n... Read More
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A 34-year-old male asked:
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Diet changes: include cutting back on white foods (milk, cheese, pasta, potatoes, rice, bananas), and adding two servings per day of stone fruits or their juices/ne... Read More
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A 40-year-old male asked:
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Yes: With a surgery to remove the colon (colectomy). But it may trade one problem for another, as after colectomy you can explain 4-5 stools per day, wakin... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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The odds: Of intestinal adaptation, not being reliant on IV nutrition, increase if one has more than 15 cm of small intestine with a remaining ileocecal valve.
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A 21-year-old male asked:
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It depends: Sometimes it goes away, sometimes it evolves into migraine headaches, and sometimes it evolves into IBS. There are many medicines that can help.
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A 27-year-old male asked:
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No: It can't. H pylori infects the stomach. The colon is not near the stomach. But many other infections can trigger ulcerative colitis in a genetically s... Read More
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A 37-year-old male asked:
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Ignore: Consider taking lactase pills prior to consuming dairy. They are relatively harmless and may help.
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Ignoring: Ignoring colitis is not a good idea. It may progress, become refractory to medication, and require surgical removal of the colon (colectomy). Uncontro... Read More
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Putting: Used glycerin suppositories in your diy soap seems counterproductive to me.
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A member asked:
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Normal body: temperature is 98.6 degrees. The body can have lower temperatures during periods of infection, such as certain viral infections. Other causes could ... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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It wasn't food: That caused your symptoms. The stool behind a hard impaction is liquidy. Colonic bacteria produce methane, a foul smelling gas. Having an impaction al... Read More
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A 19-year-old male asked:
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Gilbert's: Isn't really a disease per se. It can cause jaundice during periods of stress, but doesn't have any significant implications on your health. It's perf... Read More
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A 17-year-old female asked:
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No: Sperm doesn't cause you to ovulate. It causes fertilization. Your hormones cause you to ovulate.
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A 29-year-old male asked:
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Is that possible?: To eat only protein for 3 months? You'd develop all sorts of nutritional deficiencies of various vitamins and minerals, you'd become ketotic, and you... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
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Yes: Proper cardiovascular health is important no matter what your weight is.
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A 48-year-old female asked:
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With Crohn's: A very distended hard abdomen is more concerning for a developing intestinal obstruction. These signs are not side effects of lansoprazole.
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Difficult to say: It's difficult to tell you without any context. Mild inflammation may be from taking too much ibuprofen. But if the inflammation is chronic, with si... Read More
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A 54-year-old female asked:
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OK: what questions do you have? What caused the liver fibrosis? Oftentimes, it's irreversible. Continued injury to the liver can result in cirrhosis.
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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One of many: Things. It could be a benign adenoma seen in patients taking oral contraceptives, or fatty infiltration, or a nodule, or cyst. And lastly it could be ... Read More
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A 16-year-old female asked:
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When stored below: 40 degrees F, unopened in the pantry, powdered milk can last anywhere from 2-10 years. That's why survivalists love keeping it in their bunkers.
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A 37-year-old female asked:
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Because: You bent over. If you had stayed upright, water would likely not have exited your nose. After drinking water, you may not want to bend over.
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A 32-year-old male asked:
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Less likely: More likely to be either infectious or immune. Bloody stools for longer than 2 weeks usually indicates infection is less likely. Other than C diff, th... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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No it's not: Normal. That's a dangerous degree of high blood pressure. Vomiting may be related to the high blood pressure. CVS has a typical pattern, and if you do... Read More
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A female asked:
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Celiac disease: Celiac disease can cause a whole host of problems, and is one of the great mimics. It can cause headaches, weight loss, anemia, infertility, abdomina... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Depends: On your local lab's range of normal values. Usually a woman should have an ALT less than 35, but with the incidence of obesity and fatty liver on the ... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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IBS?: Your symptoms could certainly fit those of someone with IBS. But people with IBS also have a change in bowel habits. Bloating is not an infrequent p... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
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Yes: You were completely cleaned out for your colonoscopy, so it may take 9 hours to have your first bowel movement.
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A 43-year-old male asked:
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You may have: unknown allergies. Your symptoms seem consistent with environmental allergies resulting in allergic rhinitis or sinusitis. Try taking an OTC non-sed... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Nutrition exam: It sounds like you have a nutrition exam or assignment you're working on. There are many important differences between kwashiorkor and marasmus includ... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Leakage: If you are not taking mineral oil to aid your constipation, one possible explanation may be that of "overflow diarrhea" or the leakage of liquid stool... Read More
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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Antihistamine : You might consider taking a non-sedating antihistamine like loratidine over the counter.
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A 33-year-old female asked:
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Fatty liver disease: Non alcoholic fatty liver disease is a diagnosis of exclusion. It's signaled not by abnormal lipids, but by abnormal liver enzymes. An ultrasound may ... Read More
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A 47-year-old female asked:
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Magnesium: Softens stools, but not calcium. Magnesium has specific transporters in the colon that bring it into the cells. If that capacity is overwhelmed, it re... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Needs evaluation: This could be as simple as a viral infection, or as serious as malrotation with volvulus. You should be evaluated at the very least for dehydration, a... Read More
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A 43-year-old male asked:
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Your symptoms: sound consistent with constipation. However, having black stools that may be tarry is more concerning. While upper GI bleeding typically causes loos... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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GERD: Female hormones can cause a relaxation of the valve between your stomach and esophagus. This is why GERD symptoms may worsen during your period. You m... Read More
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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Tums (calcium carbonate) : Yes. People take Tums (calcium carbonate) for heartburn, but also for other reasons, such as for its content of calcium. 2 Tums (calcium carbonate) pe... Read More
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A 50-year-old male asked:
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H pylori: h pylori infection can cause a gastritis that may improve with antacids but won't completely go away unless you also use a combination of antibiotics.... Read More
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A 59-year-old male asked:
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Stomach flu: is caused by a virus, like norovirus. But in an RCFE I'd also be worried about the bacteria C. difficile. It can be prevented with careful and frequ... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Overdose: If you really took 4 mg of oral clonidine, you took about 5-10x the usual dose. Overdose can be very dangerous, Go to your local ER now.
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Two possibilities: One is that you provided so much abdominal pressure that you exacerbated underlying reflux, and vomited. The second is that you had a vaso-vagal respo... Read More
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A 30-year-old female asked:
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Gonorrhea: Neiserria gonorrhoeia is the likely organism. Needs treatment and partners need to be assessed as well.
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Yes. : You either didn't catch the virus, or it has an incubation period longer than those few days.
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A 31-year-old male asked:
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Possibly: but taking NSAIDs the week or two prior to your colonoscopy can increase your risk of bleeding. You should definitely let your doctor know.
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A 32-year-old female asked:
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Iron deficiency: Anemia can make you tired. But iron deficiency anemia is a 32 year old man is concerning. Your doctor should know the reason why you're anemic. Celiac... Read More
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A 19-year-old male asked:
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Lumps: If those lumps are purple and soft and compressible, they may be hemorrhoids. Or they could be skin tags that grew as your body's way of healing from ... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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The lower left: of your abdomen is where your rectum sits. The most common reason for pain there is constipation and fecal impaction. However, many other conditions... Read More
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A female asked:
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Stop chewing: Sugarless gum and stop drinking diet soda. Do not eat beans, broccoli, or cauliflower. Avoid peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, and cherries. Bloat... Read More
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thank you very much. I'm worried about my sister in-law. She has 2 nodes. One by the aorta and then on the neck. She gets more testing next week.
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This made me feel good. Thanks! Thank you. Yes I took Suprep. Horrible experience! Kicked in to late, had to cancel Colonoscopy, only to do it all over again. Oh the joys
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thank you so much for responding. I REALLY appreciate you clarifying the difference in symptoms btwn ulcer and pancreas issues.
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Rosalind Franklin University - Chicago Medical School, IL
Graduated 1999MD
Residency
Children's Hospital Orange County
Awards
Top Doctor, Third Place, Los Angeles Region - Spring
2015
Top Pediatric Gastroenterologist, First Place, National - Spring
2015
Top Pediatric Gastroenterologist, First Place, the Nation - Spring
2017
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