My son is 27 years old and has crohns.?

Question

I would like some info about it so I know how to help him

Answer 1

Most people with Crohn's disease are extremely deficient because their small intestines are inflamed and this is where we absorb most of our nutrients.

The solution for Crohn's disease is the same for almost all of our other dis-eases...eat better foods!!! Anytime we are having problems with our digestive system, that is our bodies way of telling us that it's not happy with what we are putting in our 30 foot food tube. So, we must change what we are eating, but people with Crohn's disease must first do an extended juice fast in order for their intestines to heal. For example, green leafy vegetables are the most nutrient dense foods on the planet, but these foods will irritate people with Crohn's disease. The solution is to juice those green leafy vegetables and eat fruit or just do a juice fast.

Most people need to drink at least a gallon of juices a day on a juice fast, which can be somewhere between 12 to 20 pounds of food. No one can eat 20 pounds of vegetables, but they can juice them and get all of that great nutrition without expending any energy converting the solid foods to liquids. By not wasting all of that energy converting those foods into liquid, this energy is then redirected and is used for healing the body by cleansing and rebuilding every cell throughout the body.

Answer 2

Crohns is where the lining of the bowels thickens...if it thickens to the point where it is too thin, nothing will get through and it can cause a blockage or it can even rupture. Both are very serious. Usually they will have to cut out that piece of bowel, but you will be very sick if either of the above happens. They control the disease with medication and when it flares they may treat it with heavy doses of prednisone. It's incurable though. My mom has had it for decades. You have to know what to eat and what not to eat too but really there isn't a cure...but diet helps with the diarrhea which can accompany it. It can cause a lot of pain too.

Answer 3

My best freind has ulcerative collitis (which is almost Crohn's, but affects the large intestine only). The big thing is to avoid certain types of food. Unfortunately this isn't as easy as it sounds as each individual is different. For example...corn may make person 1 very very sick, but is one of the only things that settles an outbreak in person 2. There'll be a lot of trial and error as your son finds out what makes it worse and what makes it better. He should try keeping a food log book where he can track everything he eats and drinks and the severity of his tummy alongside it. Patterns will soon emerge. My friend is also on medication daily (lots and lots of tablets) that really help her too. I'm not sure what they are, but your doctor will sort all that out). Some people who don't respond well to the first round of meds, may also be put on steroids by their doctor to see if that helps.
To end, some foods that make my friend ill, that maybe your son should try in his log-book first are:
corn,
chilli (anything hot or spicy can really set it off!),
bran/ wholegrain (makes my friend very ill...helps in some people)
Even the slightest abrasive thing (such as the seeds on a strawberry) can trigger an attack in my friend,
Good luck!
Also, make sure he goes for regular endoscopes and tests as Crohn's sufferers are more prone to bowel and rectal cancers. (Just as a preventative measure).

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It affects everyone differently. My mom has it, she was sick for a long time, after surgery (they removed a foot of her bowel) she has been fine. My girlfriend has it, and the 7 years I have known her she has never been sick, but has been in the past.

Answer 6

Call 414-649-6000, ask for Dr. Catalano's office. They specialize in this dz.

Answer 7

ooo me too!!!

I know how it feels! Message me anytime, I would love to help!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), named for one of the physicians who first described the disease. It is a disease that results in chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. The disease can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus.

Because it is a systemic disease, it can also cause complications outside of the gastrointestinal tract. The main gastrointestinal symptoms are abdominal pain and diarrhea, which may be bloody.

Many patients with Crohn's disease have symptoms for years prior to the diagnosis. Because of the patchy nature of the gastrointestinal disease and the depth of tissue involvement, initial symptoms can be more vague than with ulcerative colitis.

Crohn's disease may be classified according to the extent of involvement of the gastrointestinal tract:
1. Crohn's ileitis affecting the area the ileum
2. Crohn's colitis affecting the colon
3. Ileocolic Crohn's disease: The disease may affect both the ileum and the large intestine. Fifty percent of cases involve both the ileum and the colon
4. Peri-anal Crohn's disease: The disease may affect the area around the anus.
5. Other: Crohn's disease may affect any portion of the gastrointestinal tract.

Common initial symptoms of Crohn's disease include the following:

Gastrointestinal symptoms
Abdominal pain: A common symptom is abdominal pain of a crampy nature, as the inflammation associated with Crohn's disease can result in stenosis, localized inflammatory strictures, or areas of narrowing of the bowel. Over time, these areas may develop fibrosis, leading to fixed areas of stenosis.

Stenosis: The pain may occur anywhere in the abdomen, and, as it is related to areas of stenosis, may be relieved by defecation. In the setting of severe stenosis, vomiting and nausea may indicate the beginnings of small bowel obstruction.

Diarrhea: The nature of the diarrhea in Crohn's disease depends on the part of the small intestine and colon that is involved. Ileitis typically results in large volume watery feces. Colonic Crohn's disease may result in smaller volume feces of higher frequency. Consistency may range from solid to watery. In severe cases, the patient may have more than 20 bowel movements per day, and the need may awaken the patient at night. Fecal incontinence may accompany peri-anal Crohn's disease.

Bloody diarrhea: Gross bleeding in the feces is less common in Crohn's disease than in ulcerative colitis, but may be seen in the setting of Crohn's colitis. Bloody bowel movements are typically intermittent, and may be bright or dark red in color. In the setting of severe Crohn's colitis, bleeding may be severe.

Peri-anal discomfort: Itchiness or pain around the anus may be suggestive of inflammation, fistulization or abscess around the anal area.

Flatus (gas) and bloating.

Rarely, the esophagus, and stomach may be involved in Crohn's disease. These can cause symptoms including odynophagia (difficulty swallowing), upper abdominal pain, and vomiting

Systemic symptoms
As Crohn's disease involves a greater depth of tissue involvement, it can present with more systemic symptoms. These include the following:
1. Fever: these are usually low grade (less than 38.5 C), unless there is a complication, such as an abscess.
2. Weight loss: This is usually related to decreased intake since patients with intestinal symptoms feel better when they do not eat. Patients with extensive small intestine disease may have malabsorption of carbohydrates or lipids, which can further exacerbate weight loss.
3. Growth failure: Many children are first diagnosed with Crohn's disease based on inability to maintain growth. As Crohn's disease may manifest around the growth spurt of puberty, up to 30% of children with Crohn's disease may have retardation of growth.

Extraintestinal symptoms
Crohn's disease is a disease of unknown causation. Many of the following symptoms, which are outside of the gastrointestinal tract, would also be symptoms of a chronic, untreated infection. These symptoms, however, may persist in a patient with Crohn's disease, even after all identifiable infections have been sucessfully treated. If the disease is cause by an infection, that infection remains unknown. The prevalent theory is that the immune system is responding as though there were an infection, even though none is present. Crohn's disease is therefore usually regarded as an auto-immmune disease.

As Crohn's disease is a systemic disease, many other organ systems aside from the gastrointestinal tract can be involved.

Extraintestinal symptoms include the following:

aphthous ulcers of the mouth

Opthalmic involving the eye:
1. Iritis or uveitis (inflammations of the eye;
2. Episcleritis (inflammation of the sclera

Musculoskeletal:
1. Seronegative arthritis, which can be a large-joint oligoarthritis (affecting one or two joints), or may affect many small joints of the hands and feet;
2. Ankylosing spondylitis, arthritis of the spine;
3. Sacroiliitis, arthritis of the lower spine.

Cutaneous (related to the skin):
1. Erythema nodosum, which is a painless panniculitis(inflammation of subcutaneous tissue);
2. Pyoderma gangrenosum, a painful ulcerating lesion involving the skin;
3. Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism;
4. autoimmune hemolytic anemia;
5. clubbing, a deformity of the ends of the fingers.
6. Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, a type of inflammation of the bile ducts, occurs less commonly than in ulcerative colitis.
7. osteoporosis, or thinning of the bones.

The therapeutic approach to Crohn's disease is sequential: to treat acute disease, and then to maintain remission. Treatment initially involves the use of medications to treat any infection and to reduce inflammation. This usually involves the use of aminosalicylate anti-inflammatory drugs and corticosteroids, and may include antibiotics. Surgery may be required for complications such as obstructions or abcesses, or if the disease does not respond to drugs within a reasonable time.

Once remission is induced, the goal of treatment becomes maintenance of remission, avoiding the return of active disease, or "flares". Because of side-effects, the prolonged use of corticosteroids must be avoided. Although some patients are able to maintain remission with aminosalicylates alone, many require immunosuppressive drugs.

Drugs used
The treatment of Crohn's disease is discussed under the article treatment of Crohn's disease. The following types of drugs are used:

Aminosalicylate anti-inflammatory drugs
Mesalazine
Sulfasalazine

Corticosteroids
Prednisone
Budesonide

Immunosuppressing drugs
Azathioprine (Imuran)
6-mercaptopurine (6-MP)
Infliximab
Methotrexate
Thalidomide

Antibiotics
Metronidazole
ciprofloxacin

Surgery
Surgery is generally reserved for complications of Crohn's disease, or when disease that resists treatment with drugs is confined to one location that can be removed. Oftentimes surgery is used to manage:

fibrostenotic strictures
fistulae
small bowel obstruction
colon cancer and small intestine cancer
In the case of fibrostenotic strictures, strictureplasty - the expansion of the stricture - is sometimes performed. Otherwise, and for other complications, resection and anastomosis - the removal of the affected section of intestine and the rejoining of the healthy sections - is the surgery usually performed for Crohn's disease (e.g., ileocolonic resection). Neither surgery cures Crohn's disease, as recurrence often reappears in previously unaffected areas of the intestine.[52]

Small intestine transplants are experimental as of yet, and are usually only done when the patient is at risk of short bowel syndrome due to repeated resection surgeries.

Diet and lifestyle
There is no evidence that diet causes or cures Crohn's disease, but many patients with Crohn's disease note that certain foods worsen their symptoms. For example, patients with lactose intolerance due to small bowel disease may benefit from avoiding lactose-containing foods. Many diets have been proposed for treatment of Crohn's disease, and many do improve symptoms, but none have been proven to actually cure Crohn's disease. Similarly, stress can make symptoms of Crohn's disease worse. Patients with Crohn's disease can find that their symptoms improve if they control the stress in their lives.

Because the terminal ileum is the most common site of involvement and is the site for vitamin B12 absorption, patients with Crohn's disease are at risk for vitamin B12 deficiency and may need supplementation.

I have had Crohn's Disease for many years.

Here is a wonderful forum where you can join and get all kinds of info and meet people with this disease:

http://www.healingwell.com/community/