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- What is crohn's disease?
- Symptoms of crohn's disease
- Causes of crohn's disease
- Prevention of crohn's disease
- Risk factors for crohn's disease
- Complications of crohn's disease
- When to see a doctor about crohn's disease
- Diagnosis of crohn's disease
- Conventional treatment of crohn's disease
- Alternative/complementary treatment of crohn's disease
- Living with crohn's disease
- Caring for someone with crohn's disease
The symptoms of Crohn's disease depend on how inflamed the gastrointestinal tract is at any given moment.
The main symptoms of Crohn's disease are:
- Abdominal pain - which can be present more often than not, mostly cramping pain (but pain can come and go)
- Anaemia - from malabsorption of iron and/or passing blood in the stools
- Diarrhoea - sometimes with blood and/or mucous
- Fever
- Incontinence - inability to control the flow
- Lethargy and fatigue
- Loss of appetite
- Nausea
- Passing blood in the stools (usually not much and often only detected in a stool test)
- Shooting pain up the backside (tenesmus)
- Vomiting
- Weight loss
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Other symptoms
Other symptoms associated with Crohn's disease are:
- Blurred vision
- Eye problems - inflammation and sensitivity to light
- Headache
- Joint pain
- Mouth ulcers
- Swelling or stiffness of the wrists, elbows, knees, ankles
Crohn's disease can also make a person more likely to develop gall stones, kidney stones, other kidney and circulatory problems.
Two rare, but serious developments of Crohn's disease are:
- Liver disease and jaundice (where the skin and other body tissues turn yellow)
- Inability of the blood to clot properly
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Disclaimer: This guide is not intended to be used for diagnostic or prescriptive purposes. For any treatment or diagnosis of illness, please see your doctor.
