Is crohn's disease a disease or condition?

Answer 1

Crohns disease is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the intestines.

Crohns disease can affect the digestive system anywhere from the mouth to the anus. It most often causes ulcerations in the large and small bowels, typically at the joining of the two bowels called the ileum (located on the right side of the abdomen near the appendix) but can manifest anywhere in the digestive tract.

Symptoms include but are not exclusive to, abdominal pain often severe, cramping, nausea, frequent diarrhea, rectal bleeding. These symptoms often result in severe weight loss, fatigue, and depression.

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Crohns disease is an inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract that affects both children and adults. Crohns can affect any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus. The cause of Crohns disease is unknown.

Common symptoms of Crohns disease can include abdominal pain and tenderness, diarrhea, anal pain and or drainage, rectal bleeding, severe weight loss, mouth sores, fissures, fever, infections, bloating, gas and rectal abscess. Patients can also have problems outside of the digestive tract, including skin rash, joint pain, eye redness and liver problems. Crohns disease is a chronic illness, medical and surgical treatments can help control the course of the disease, but cannot cure it. Treatments now are allowing many patients to experience long periods of symptom-free remission.

Answer 2

Crohns disease is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the intestines.

Crohns disease can affect the digestive system anywhere from the mouth to the anus. It most often causes ulcerations in the large and small bowels, typically at the joining of the two bowels called the ileum (located on the right side of the abdomen near the appendix) but can manifest anywhere in the digestive tract.

Symptoms include but are not exclusive to, abdominal pain often severe, cramping, nausea, frequent diarrhea, rectal bleeding. These symptoms often result in severe weight loss, fatigue, and depression.

Follow the link provided below for much more information.

Crohns disease is an inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract that affects both children and adults. Crohns can affect any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus. The cause of Crohns disease is unknown.

Common symptoms of Crohns disease can include abdominal pain and tenderness, diarrhea, anal pain and or drainage, rectal bleeding, severe weight loss, mouth sores, fissures, fever, infections, bloating, gas and rectal abscess. Patients can also have problems outside of the digestive tract, including skin rash, joint pain, eye redness and liver problems. Crohns disease is a chronic illness, medical and surgical treatments can help control the course of the disease, but cannot cure it. Treatments now are allowing many patients to experience long periods of symptom-free remission.

Answer 3

Crohn's is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that damages the lining of the digestive system, from the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, to the anus. It most often affects the large intestines and the lower small intestine (illeum). Crohns causes inflammation, sores, bleeding, scar tissue and thickening of the intestinal walls. The damage can occur in patches, and it can even go through all the layers of the walls of the digestive system.

Ulcerative colitis is another kind of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that damages only the lining of the colon or large intestine. Colitis, like crohns, causes inflammation, sores, bleeding, and scarring of the inner walls of the colon. The disease usually starts near the rectum and continues up into the colon. The damage involves continuous areas of the wall rather than small patches like Crohns.

Answer 4

Crohn's disease (also known as granulomatous colitis and regional enteritis) is an inflammatory disease of the digestive system which may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus. As a result, the symptoms of Crohn's disease can vary significantly among afflicted individuals. The main gastrointestinal symptoms are abdominal pain, diarrhea (which may be visibly bloody), vomiting, or weight loss. Crohn's disease can also cause complications outside of the gastrointestinal tract such as skin rashes, Arthritis, and inflammation of the eye. The precise cause of Crohn's disease is not known. The disease occurs when the immune system attacks the gastrointestinal tract and for this reason, Crohn's disease is considered an autoimmune disease. This autoimmune activity produces inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract, and therefore Crohn's disease is classified as an inflammatory bowel disease. Like many other autoimmune diseases, Crohn's disease is believed to be genetically linked. The highest risk occurs in individuals with siblings who have the disease. Males and females are equally affected. Smokers are three times more likely to develop Crohn's disease. Crohn's disease affects between 400,000 and 600,000 people in North America. Prevalence estimates for Northern Europe have ranged from 27-48 per 100,000. Crohn's disease tends to present initially in the teens and twenties, with another peak incidence in the fifties to seventies, although the disease can occur at any age.

Answer 5

Crohn's disease is an inflammation of the digestive tract, including the colon, large intestine, stomach, and small intestine. Due to this inflammation's, Crohn's suffers may often exhibit, nausea, severe stomach pain, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Answer 6

Chron's disease is a disease that causes chronic inflammation generally of the intestines but can occur anywhere from the mouth to the anus. People with Chron's disease have an overactive immune response because their bodies cannot differentiate between normal tissue and foreign tissue in the body which leads to severe inflammation.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease