Crohn’s disease is a disease that causes irritation or swelling in the digestive tract. This disease can affect anywhere from the mouth to the anus, but more commonly affects the lower part of the small intestine and parts of the large intestine. Sores may develop on the insides of the …show more content…
If your parents have Crohn’s disease, you will not definitely get the disease, but you will have a higher chance. Another way to get this illness is when your immune system mistakenly kills good microbes, instead of viruses and bacteria. The environment can also play a huge part in determining whether someone is victim to Crohn’s disease. Smoking, eating something that may have caused the illness, or other currently unknown substances could give someone Crohn’s disease. This disease does not have a genetic pattern of inheritance that is connected to a chromosome or gene. This means Crohn’s disease is not a dominant or recessive gene. This also means this illness is not a sex-linked gene. This odd and rare disease, can cause many problems for an individual who has