Crohn's Disease

What are the Symptoms of Crohn’s diseases?

Symptoms of Crohn’s disease include:

• Abdominal pain
• Diarrhea
• Vomiting
• Fever
• Bloody diarrhea
• Anal fistulae
• Perirectal abscesses
• Weight loss

What are the treatments for Crohn's disease?

There is no cure for Crohn's disease, but treatments can decrease the inflammation in your intestines, relieve symptoms, and prevent complications. Treatments include medicines, bowel rest, and surgery. No single treatment works for everyone.

• Medicines for Crohn's include various medicines that decrease the inflammation. Some of these medicines do this by reducing the activity of your immune system.
• Bowel rest involves drinking only certain liquids or not eating or drinking anything. This allows your intestines to rest. You get your nutrients through drinking a liquid, a feeding tube, or an intravenous (IV) tube. You may need to do bowel rest in the hospital, or you may be able to do it at home. It will last for a few days or up to several weeks.
• Surgery can treat complications and reduce symptoms when other treatments are not helping enough. The surgery will involve removing a damaged part of your digestive tract to treat
• Fistulas
• Bleeding that is life threatening
• Intestinal obstructions
• Side effects from medicines when they threaten your health
• Symptoms when medicines do not improve your condition
• cancers developing in affected intestinal segments

What are the Complications of Crohn’s Disease?

• Fistulas are one of the major complications involved with the Crohn’s disease.
• The thickness of the intestinal wall gets altered thus leading to bowel obstruction.
• Ulcers are also common.
• The painful movements of bowel often lead to anal fissure.
• Colon cancer is also one of the complications.