What is Crohn's disease

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From the name of Crohn's disease, it is difficult to see the nature of the disease. In fact, it is an inflammatory disease of the intestinal tract, characterized by difficult treatment, easy recurrence, and complications. We should pay attention to it. Let's see what Crohn's disease is.

What is Crohn's disease

First of all: Crohn's disease is an unknown intestinal inflammatory disease, which can occur in any part of the gastrointestinal tract, but most often occurs in the terminal ileum and right colon. This disease and chronic nonspecific ulcerative colitis are collectively referred to as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The clinical manifestations of the disease are abdominal pain, diarrhea, intestinal obstruction, accompanied by fever, nutritional disorders and other extraintestinal manifestations. The course of disease is often protracted, recurrent, not easy to cure. The disease is also known as localized enteritis, localized ileitis, segmental enteritis and granulomatous enteritis.

Secondly: Crohn's disease has many symptoms, and is easy to be misdiagnosed, mainly for abdominal pain, diarrhea, abdominal mass, fistula formation and intestinal obstruction, may be accompanied by fever, anemia, nutritional disorders and joint, skin, eye, oral mucosa, liver and other parenteral damage. The disease can occur repeatedly and can not be cured.

Finally: the current treatment of Crohn's disease is relatively single, there is no special treatment. When there is no complication, supportive therapy and symptomatic treatment are very important, which can relieve the related symptoms. Activity period should be bed rest, to high nutrition, low residue diet. In severe cases, temporary fasting should be adopted to correct the disorder of water, electrolyte and acid-base balance, and enteral or parenteral high nutrition support should be adopted. Anemia can supplement vitamin B12, folic acid or blood transfusion.

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After suffering from Crohn's disease, it is best to be able to receive timely treatment, although the current treatment is relatively single, it is still very important to control the disease as much as possible, and pay attention to the usual diet.