my mother is 50 years old she has the CRHON disease , is there any known cure for this illness ? thank u all .

Answer 1

Sorry as of now they're no cure but whit medication and proper diet, weight control, she can live a normal life and best wishes to your mom.

Answer 2

Treatment is only needed for people exhibiting symptoms. 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.

Once remission is induced, the goal of treatment becomes maintaining remission and avoiding flares. Because of side-effects, the prolonged use of corticosteroids must be avoided. Although some people are able to maintain remission with aminosalicylates alone, many require immunosuppressive drugs.[50]

Surgery may be required for complications such as obstructions, fistulas and/or abscesses, or if the disease does not respond to drugs within a reasonable time. For patients with an obstruction due to a stricture, two options for treatment are strictureplasty and resection of that portion of bowel. According to a retrospective review at the Cleveland Clinic, there is no statistical significance between strictureplasty alone versus strictureplasty and resection specifically in cases of duodenal involvement. In these cases, re-operation rates were 31% and 27%, respectively, indicating that strictureplasty is a safe and effective treatment for selected patients with duodenal involvement.[52]

Recent studies using Helminthic therapy or Hookworms to treat Crohn's Disease and other (non-viral) auto-immune diseases seem to yield promising results.[53][54][55]


[edit] Proprioceptive Therapy
An Alternative Therapy in the treatment of Crohn's Disease: Rothbart Proprioceptive Therapy reverses the anterior rotation of the hips, which in turn, decompresses the intestines and colon. Waste products pass through the colon more quickly and efficiently. In many cases this alone can greatly reduce or totally eliminate the severe pain, vomiting and diarrhea/constipation associated with Crohn's disease.


[edit] Prognosis
Crohn's disease is a chronic condition for which there is currently no cure. It is characterized by periods of improvement followed by episodes when symptoms flare up. With treatment, most people achieve a healthy height and weight, and the mortality rate for the disease is low. Crohn's disease is associated with an increased risk of small bowel and colorectal carcinoma.[56]

Crohn's cannot be cured by surgery, though surgery does happen with blockages, whether partial or a full blockage occurs. After the first surgery, the Crohn's usually shows up at the site of the resection though it can appear in other locations. After a resection, scar tissue builds up which causes strictures. A stricture is when the intestines becomes too small to allow excrement to pass through easily which can lead to a blockage. After the first resection, another resection may be necessary within five years of the first surgery.

Many patients will have temporary stoma formations together with possible associated complications.[

Answer 3

Supposedly no 'known' cure according to modern medical science. But some folks have achieved remarkable recoveries that seem to suggest that the worst aspects of the disease can be reduced to a point where it no longer dominates your life.

I'll include a couple of resources where you can read what hey have to say -- judge for yourself -- they really seem to have reached a point where, if they are technically 'not cured', they are all but, and that is what counts I guess:

Hope you find some inspiration to help your Mum in these

Good luck

Answer 4

There is no cure for the disease, but it can be managed. Your dietitian will put you on a special diet tailored to those with the same problem and your physician will prescribe anti-inflammatory medications as well as oral steroids like prednisone to manage the disease.

In severe cases, after identification of which areas of the intestine are most prone to becoming inflamed, doctors can surgically remove that section of the intestine, providing relief to the patient.

Answer 5

No there isn't. There are treatment options the doctor can give her and diets she can be on. But as of yet, there is no cure for Crohns. Doc told my sister that if the treatment options were followed and a diet was followed, if the disease could be gotten into remission, my niece could live a relatively normal life.

Answer 6

http://www.webmd.com/ibd-crohns-disease/crohns-disease/tc/crohns-disease-topic-overview

http://www.ccfa.org/info/about/crohns