Center for Digestive Health

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease includes Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.  They are chronic conditions that wax and wane depending on activation of our immune system.  Diet and nutritional status, as well as general healthy habit, render great influence on the inflammatory process in the gut.
  • 16-year-old female with intermittent abdominal pain, irregular bowel habits, and weight loss

    16-year-old female with a 6-month history of intermittent abdominal pain accompanied by bloating, irregular bowel movements that are periodically loose, and poor appetite that has lead to a 10-pound weight loss.  There is no significant past medical or surgical history.  The child has also been complaining of elbow and knee pain and has reported sores in her mouth.

The differential diagnosis of abdominal pain is quite extensive, but the presence of weight loss and extraintestinal manifestation, such as join pain and mouth sores, raise the suspicion of an inflammatory process. The gold standard for diagnosis and clinical management is colonoscopy and histological analysis of mucosal biopsies.

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