Tuesday, October 20, 2015

General information about the symptoms of Crohn's disease

Signs and symptoms of Crohn's disease

The most common symptoms of Crohn's disease are diarrhea and abdominal pain, often in the lower right area.
Other symptoms that can cause this disease are rectal bleeding, weight loss and fever.
Bleeding may be serious and persistent, which can cause anemia . Children with Crohn's disease may suffer delayed development and stunted growth.
Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease. Primarily causes ulcerations (breaks in the mucosa) in the small intestine and large, therefore, it can affect the digestive system from the mouth to the anus. Crohn's disease received its name in honor of the doctor who described it in 1932. This disease is also known by other names, such as granulomatous enteritis or colitis , regional enteritis, ileitis, or terminal ileitis.
Crohn's disease is closely related to another chronic inflammatory disease known as ulcerative colitis affects only the colon. Experts often refer to these two diseases together as inflammatory bowel disease. Both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease have no medical cure. Once the disease begins, they tend to fluctuate between periods of inactivity (remission) and activity (relapse).
Crohn's disease tends to be more common in relatives of patients with the same disease. If a person has a relative with the disease, their risk of developing the disease is estimated to be at least 10 times higher than the rest of population. If the relative with Crohn's disease were a brother, the risk of developing the disease would be 30 times higher. Among the relatives of patients with ulcerative colitis is exactly the same.

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