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Diarrhea, fever, and weight loss are symptoms of Crohn’s disease. Crohn’s disease is a chronical inflammation of the digestive tract. The cause of this disease is still unknown.…
Every year millions of Americans get an infection in the stomach called Clostridium difficile (aka C-diff). There are antibiotics that can cure it but in the past they haven’t worked as well as expected. They kill off the infection but in the process it destroys good bacteria too. This can cause another infection in the future because your body isn’t powerful enough to prevent it. There are other cures to C-diff too, like fecal transplants. This is the process where stool from a healthy donor is inserted in the colon to prevent another infection. It also restores good bacteria to the body. The only downside is that this procedure is expensive and is a very uncomfortable process. To solve this problem, Dr. Thomas Louie and…
Each form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease takes in the digestive tract is very distinct. Ulcerative Colitis tends to be continuous throughout the inflamed areas. In many cases, Ulcerative Colitis begins in the rectum or sigmoid colon and spreads up though the colon as the disease progresses. In Crohn’s Disease, the inflammation may occur in patches in one or more organs with in the digestive system. For example, a diseased section of colon may appear between two healthy sections.…
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a term used to describe what happens when the blood supply to the heart is blocked or interrupted by a build up of fatty substances in the coronary arteries. CHD is a preventable disease that can be treated.…
Both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis may be defined as an aspect of inflammatory bowel disease or IBD. Both are believed – in some ways more than others - to belinked to genetics, environmental factors and lifestyle, as well as immune system dysfunction.…
Crohn's disease affects an individual's immune system by making it weaker and unable for the immune cells to attack the foreign viruses and bacteria. It can begin with taking antibiotics that depletate the natural bacteria in the body, resulting in an increased resistance to the point of which the immune cells take down both the good and bad bacteria until the resistance becomes too strong, and the body is unable to protect itself from either. The inflammation results in diarrhea, fatigue, vomiting, and fibrosis.…
Crohn’s Disease (CD) is a chronic, intermittent inflammatory, autoimmune disease that can affect any part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract from the mouth to the anus. CD is most commonly diagnosed in the small and large intestines. It is idiopathic in origin and is characterized by a variety of symptoms. Patients frequently present with severe abdominal pain, diarrhea and rectal bleeding. There is no one test available that can diagnose CD therefore it may take some time to obtain a correct diagnosis.…
2. *Approximately 30 percent of patients who have surgery for Crohn’s disease experience recurrence of their symptoms within three years and up to 60 percent will have…
Schmelzer, & F. Verville (2014) describe the pathophysiology of Crohns as inflammation of segment of the GI tract (most commonly in terminal ilieu and colon). The inflammation involves the mucosa, submucosa and muscularis layers of the intestinal wall. Adversely diseased portions occur between normal portions of the bowls. The diseased portions can contain deep ulcerations that penetrate through edematous mucosa where thickening of the bowel wall and narrowing of the lumen occur where abscesses, fistulas lesions may development (Schmelzer, & F. Verville,…
Gastroenteritis is a bowel infection which most commonly causes diarrhoea within the community. Gastrointestinal tract infections are caused by the transmission of gastrointestinal pathogens via a fecal- oral route into the gut where they cause systemic disease, such as typhoid or multiply and produce toxins damaging the gastrointestinal tract.…
When I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease, I was worried about my academic future. I feared that would fall behind in my classes because of multiple absences I had while receiving an infusion at a hospital. However, I became determined not to fall behind in school. Instead of watching television while receiving my infusions, I would do all the classwork I would miss during that day. During my high school years, I have been able to keep up with my school work, which has helped me be ranked in the top ten of my class. The inspirational advice I would give is that an individual living with IBD entering high school or college is to not fall behind in their coursework.…
Crohn’s disease is one of the fastest growing intestinal disease in the United States. You may ask, “who can get Crohn’s disease?”. Anyone can get Crohn’s disease but it is more common for a woman rather than a man to get it. It has affected more than five hundred thousand people in the United States alone, that is about one for every seven people in the United States. Crohn’s has common symptoms of a cold such as abdominal pains, fever, and diarrhea, it also has many more symptoms. Crohn’s can affect any part of the GI tract, though, usually occurs at the end of the small intestine (ileum) and the beginning of the large intestine (colon). Some people may ask, How do people get Crohn’s disease? or, How does someone get rid of Crohn’s disease?…
Explanation of the disease: Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease. It’s caused by inflammation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and complications that can develop if the inflammation is not controlled.…
When I was seven, I began experiencing extreme weight loss and severe abdominal pain. I stayed in a children’s hospital for two weeks until the doctors were finally able to identify the cause of my symptoms. They diagnosed me with Crohn’s disease. Crohn’s disease is not a well known disease like cancer, heart disease or diabetes, but it currently affects almost two million Americans. These more prevalent diseases have extensive foundations that raise money and awareness for those who endure the condition, but because Crohn’s disease is not as well known, it does not have the same level of funding or support. My life’s goal is to raise money for this cause, and to become a research scientist to help aid in finding a cure to my disease.…
A number of other problems may be associated with colitis. These are more likely when the disease is active and include skin…