A Simple Guide To Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn Disease), Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions (A Simple Guide to Medical Conditions)

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Chapter 1Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseI have a priest in my Catholic church who had served as a parish priest for about 10 years.He had sudden onset of abdominal pain and intestinal bleeding and nearly died from hypovolemic shock.He was admitted to the hospital and was given blood transfusion and operated with suspected peritonitis (from ruptured intestine).He was diagnosed with Crohn Disease with complications of rupture of the intestine and bleeding which was operated on.He has since given up his post as parish priest but remain a priest.He still has recurrence of pain in the abdomen and is generally weaker than normal.As in many cases of Crohn disease, he has remissions and relapses.There are many treatments for Crohn disease but none are curative.The treatment part of this book is particularly long because it covers so many ways of treatment and different treatments according to severity, locations of Crohn disease, age, contraception, pregnancy and breastfeeding.Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a medical disorder caused by a poorly regulated immune response to host intestinal micro-organisms.The 2 major types of IBD are:1. Ulcerative colitis (UC), which is restricted to the colon, 2. Crohn disease (CD), which can involve any portion of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract from the mouth to the anus, has skip lesions and is transmural (whole thickness of the lining wall is affected)There is a genetic tendency for IBD, and patients with this condition are more prone to the formation of malignancyUlcerative colitis has been described in the earlier 2016 book “A Simple Guide to Ulcerative Colitis”.Crohn's DiseaseWhat is Crohn's Disease?Crohn's Disease (Regional Enteritis) is a medical disorder with a chronic inflammatory effect of the gastr