Causes And Symptoms Of Crohn's Disease

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Crohn’s Disease Rosa Capela Kaplan University: SC131 January 21, 2015 What is Crohn’s Disease? Crohn’s Disease is an inflammatory bowel disease, causing the lining of your digestive tract to flame up. When the disease is active many symptoms can be caused, including abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue (extreme tiredness), weight loss, and malnutrition (lack of proper nutrition). Inflammation of the skin eyes and joints, inflammation of the liver of bile ducts and delayed growth or sexual development, in children are also signs and symptoms of Crohn’s Disease. Scientists believe Crohn’s Disease is caused by a combination of these 3 factors: Immune system problems, genetics, and environmental factors. Cells usually defend the body…show more content…
Having Crohn’s disease can also lead to other disease complications. Small bowel obstruction, fistulae, perianal fistulae, osteopenia/osteoporosis, colon cancer, small bowel cancer, anal cancer, small intestinal bacteria overgrowth, nutritional deficiencies, kidney stones, gallstones, and lastly extra intestinal manifestations. Patients with Crohn’s disease go through a course. 75% of patients will require surgery at some point. According to Marque Stewart (personal reference) every patient diagnosed with Crohn’ disease seeks different medical attention. On his behalf, if you are not treated with the proper care or not properly taking care of yourself, things could get worse. Patients with a severe case of Crohn’s disease can leave you with a bowel bag. Depending on how bad your diagnoses was, it could get better or worsen. The most important thing is that you are watching your diet. Some of the things you want to avoid are carbonated drinks, avoid popcorn, vegetable skins, nuts, and other high fiber foods. Drinking more liquids, eating smaller meals more often and keeping a…show more content…
Eating the wrong thing can flame up your intestines and make things 10x worse. Because the exact cause of Crohn’s disease is unknown, factors such as autoimmune reaction, genes, and environment may play a role in this disease. There is no cure for patients with Crohn’s disease. It is chronic and you will deal with this illness throughout your lifetime. The four main goals in treating this disease is to induce remission, maintain remission, improve the patient’s quality of life, and minimize toxicity. Since Crohn’s disease is a life time chronic illness, treating it has evolved and expanded to include healing the intestinal mucosa, preventing complications of Crohn’s disease, preventing hospitalization, and preventing surgery. Treatment for Crohn’s disease depends on how severe the case is. A mild case requires antibiotics including 5-amniosalicylates (olsalazine, dipentum). There are many side effects to these medications, abdominal pain, gas, nausea, hair loss, headaches, and dizziness. Prednison is the most common steroid patients are given to induce remission in about 70-80%. Anti-tumor necrosis is a drug specifically designed to bind to, and block the effects of TNFa, inflammatory

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