61. Crohn''s Disease Detailed information on Crohn s disease, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis,and treatment. http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/uvahealth/peds_digest/crohns.cfm

[ Skip Navigation ] Health System Home For Health Answers Healthcare Professionals ... Advanced Search Health System Search Search for Information People UVa Home Health System News Health System Events (all) Health System Publications ... Making a Gift Topics Adolescent Medicine Allergy/Asthma/Immunology Blood Disorders Burns Cancer Common Injuries/Poison Tips Craniofacial Anomalies Dermatology Diabetes/Endo/Metabolism Eye Care Genitourinary/Kidney High-Risk Newborn High-Risk Pregnancy Infectious Diseases Medical Genetics Mental Health Nervous System Disorders Normal Newborns Oral Health Orthopaedics Pediatric Surgery Respiratory Disorders Terminal Illness in Children Transplantation UVa Health Topics A to Z FIND A DOCTOR Pediatric Allergy and Asthma Pediatric Gastroentorology Pediatric Immunology ... CLINICAL TRIALS Search This Site Crohn's Disease What is Crohn's disease? Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease. It is a chronic condition that may recur at various times over a lifetime. It usually involves the small intestine, most often the lower part called the ileum. However, inflammation may also affect the entire digestive tract, including the mouth, esophagus, stomach, duodenum, appendix, or anus. Crohn's disease is also called ileitis or enteritis.

62. Crohn's Disease Cure And Curing Program, How To Cure Crohn's Disease ? Crohn s disease Curing Program Lifestyle Change Crohn s disease Diet.Avoid foods that kill - Sugar, Aspartame, MSG, Milk,.. http://www.curezone.com/diseases/ibd/crohns.asp

Crohn's Disease Homepage What is causing Crohn's Disease ? How to Cure Crohn's Disease ? Support Group Crohn's Disease Testimonials ... Books to read : "Eat Right For Your Type" Crohn's Disease Curing Program - Lifestyle Change: Crohn's Disease Diet Avoid foods that kill - Sugar, Aspartame, MSG, Milk,.. Learn about Foods That Heal Vegetable juices Flaxseed oil Crohn's Disease Cleanse and Cleanup: Cleanse for Adults: Bowel cleanse and Parasites cleanse Dental cleanup - dental work may be one cofactor of your disease: amalgam Root canal Nickel crowns Cavitations (pocket inside jaw bone left after extraction of the wisdom and molar teeth ) Kidney stones cleanse Start cleansing your liver: Liver and Gallbladder Gallstones Cleanse - flush Cleanse for kids: Parasites cleanse Kids older then 10 may need dental cleanup (amalgam) and liver cleanse: Dental cleanup Liver Cleanse - flush Index Home ... Parasites What is Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)? Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is an umbrella term referring to two chronic diseases that cause inflammation of the intestines: ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD). Though UC and CD are different diseases they do have features in common but there are important distinctions also. Frequently, the symptoms caused by UC and CD are similar.

63. Crohn's Disease - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Crohn s disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the digestive tract and it can Crohn s disease should not be confused with a nonprogressive and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohns

Wikimedia needs your help in the final day of its fund drive. See our fundraising page Over US$240,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August. Thank you for your generosity! Crohn's disease From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Crohns Crohn's disease Diagram of the Human Intestine Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the digestive tract and it can involve any part of it - from the mouth to the anus. It typically affects the terminal ileum as well as demarcated areas of large bowel , with other areas of the bowel being relatively unaffected. It is often associated with auto-immune disorders outside the bowel, such as aphthous stomatitis and rheumatoid arthritis . Crohn's disease should not be confused with a non-progressive and non-degenerative digestive disorder called irritable bowel syndrome . IBS is not an autoimmune disease. Ulcerative colitis is a sibling autoimmune disease to Crohn's but only impacts the colon while Crohn's can impact any part of the digestive tract. Furthermore, Crohn's tends to affect multiple layers of the bowel lining, which can lead to many additional and hard-to-treat complications. Contents Symptoms Incidence Causes Autoimmunity ... edit Symptoms Crohn's patients typically suffer from chronic diarrhea and disrupted digestion , making it difficult for sufferers in the acute phase of the disease to eat and/or digest food. The

64. ParaTB Pages:- Does Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis Cause Crohn's Disease? For a description of Crohn s disease, see the page What is Crohn s disease?.For further information about the situation with Crohn s disease and http://alan.kennedy.name/crohns/welcome.htm

Main Page Contents Mycobacteria Mycobacterium paratuberculosis Mycobacterium avium Crohn's disease ... Treatment with antibiotics. Does Mycobacterium paratuberculosis cause Crohn's Disease? Site first published:- Saturday, 15 th March 1997. Site contents last updated:- Thursday, 24 th June 1999. Update: Please read this Important notice For up-to-date news and information, visit the Introduction. Since Crohn's disease was first recognised in the early part of the twentieth century, it has been theorised that the disease is caused by a bacterial infection, with the principal suspect being mycobacteria, and more specifically in recent times, Mycobacterium paratuberculosis. Recently, research is making advances in understanding this organism, and is indicating more and more that at least some cases of Crohn's disease, if not all, are caused by paratuberculosis infection. Most importantly, the majority of Crohn's patients treated with antibiotic treatment which has activity against Mycobacterium paratuberculosis go into clinical remission. This is important information for sufferers of Crohn's disease, because Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is endemic in foods derived from cattle in most areas of the western world. Mycobacterium paratuberculosis causes a chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease in cattle, and many other species, which is similar to Crohn's disease. In some countries, the percentage of cattle herds infected with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is extemely high. In the United States, 40% of large dairy herds are infected with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.

65. Crohn's Skin Disease. DermNet NZ Authoritative facts about the skin from the New Zealand Dermatological Society. http://dermnetnz.org/systemic/crohns-skin.html

@import url("/common/screen.css"); DermNet NZ Ad Authoritative facts about the skin from the New Zealand Dermatological Society Incorporated Home For patients For doctors ... Site map Search: Home Systemic Crohn's skin disease Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that involves inflammation of the small intestine. This can cause pain, fever, constipation, diarrhoea and weight loss. Extraintestinal features are common in Crohn's disease and include arthritis, skin problems, inflammation in the eyes or mouth, gallstones and kidney stones. Skin lesions are often seen in patients with Crohn's disease. When granulomatous lesions of Crohn's disease involve sites other than the gastrointestinal tract then the disease is then termed metastatic Crohn's disease. What are the signs and symptoms? Skin involvement occurs in about 40% of patients with Crohn's disease. Often the involvement is an extension of the intestinal disease and presents as fissures and abscesses around the perineal and perianal region. However, any part of the skin can be affected. Lesions may present as spots or plaques found on the trunk, arms and legs, and they may be mildly itchy. In some cases distinctive dermatoses are present. These include: Pyoderma gangrenosum Erythema multiforme Erythema nodosum Necrotizing small vessel vasculitis Occasionally, skin lesions may occur before any signs or symptoms of the intestinal disease.

66. Crohn's Disease: Manage With Alpha ENF And The Alpha Nutrition Program Crohn s disease is related to the food supply and can be managed with Alpha ENFand Alpha Nutrition Program. http://www.nutramed.com/crohns/

Home Modular Nutrition Logon Alpha Online Solutions for Digestive Disorders Alpha Nutrition, a Division of Environmed Research Inc Home Modular Nutrition Logon ... Digestive Rescue Order Online Topics from the The Alpha Nutrition Program is used to manage: Crohn's Disease Celiac Disease Read the Alpha Nutrition Formulas Using Alpha ENF in Crohn's Other Topics Digestion Functional Dyspepsia Irritable Bowel Syndrome Heartburn, Reflux ... Food Allergy Crohn's Disease Crohn's disease usually begins in young people and tends to involve the end of the small intestine (ileum) in inflammatory swelling. The inflammatory activity mostly involves the small bowel wall and often becomes chronic with thickening of the wall and sometimes perforation. The colon and other parts of the digestive tract are sometimes involved. Crohn's disease affects males and females equally and appears to run in some families. About 20 percent of people with Crohn's disease have a blood relative with some form of inflammatory bowel disease. Crohn's disease also involves whole-body problems - arthritis, skin problems, inflammation in the eyes or mouth, kidney stones, gallstones, and other diseases of the liver and biliary system. We think that this is related to the leakiness of the intestine and immune responses to the increased entry of food and microbial antigens. There are four stages to the immune-mediated disease called "Crohn's":

67. Crohn's Disease - Marquette General Health System Crohn s disease can affect any part of the GI (gastrointestinal) tract from themouth to Crohn s disease most commonly affects young adults, ages 1530, http://www.mgh.org/education/health/crohns.html

WHAT IS CROHN'S DISEASE? WHAT HAPPENS IN CROHN'S DISEASE WHAT CAN BE DONE FOR CHROHN'S DISEASE This web page has been designed by the health care professionals of Marquette General Hospital to answer some basic questions about Crohn's disease. The information provided will help you: Define Crohn's disease State common symptoms of this disease Be aware of dietary needs Please share this web page with family and people close to you so they will understand this disease. If you have any questions, please ask your doctor, nurse, or dietitian. We will be happy to help. WHAT IS CROHN'S DISEASE? Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disorder. Inflammatory means your body's reaction to this condition may cause pain, swelling, and/or redness in the intestine. Crohn's disease is also known as regional enteritis. This is a chronic (life-long) disease. The cause is not yet known but research is being done to look for a cure. We do have partially effective medical and surgical treatment. Crohn's disease can affect any part of the GI (gastrointestinal) tract from the mouth to the anus, but it usually involves parts of the colon and small intestine. It creates patches of inflammation in the intestine spreading from one segment of bowel to another, but skipping some segments. When looked at with a fiberoptic scope, the colon segments appear like cobblestone due to ulcers and fissures (narrow slits) which form with the disease.

68. Crohn’s Disease - Vitacost Crohn s disease is a poorly understood inflammatory condition that usually affectsthe final part of the small intestine and the beginning section of the http://www.vitacost.com/science/hn/Concern/Crohns.htm

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69. Crohn's Disease Irritable Bowel Syndrome Gastrointestinal Problems Colitis The Culprit in Crohn s disease Zeroing In on Crohn s Crohn s diseaseHeartof the Problem? Crohn s disease and Fistulas Crohn s disease http://www.healthbulletin.org/crohns.htm

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70. Crohn's Disease Info, Treatment Ratings Which treatments work for Crohn s disease / Ulcerative Colitis? RemedyFind is afree, unbiased site where you rate the medications, supplements, http://remedyfind.com/hc-Crohns.asp

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71. Canadian Society Of Intestinal Research • Crohn\'s Disease Crohn s disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the digestive system Once a diagnosis of Crohn s disease is made, various treatments are employed http://www.badgut.com/index.php?contentFile=crohns&title=Crohn's Disease

72. Berkeley Parents Recommendations: Crohn's Disease Recommendations Resources Support for Crohn s disease. June 2001. I have recently been diagnosedwith Crohn s disease and am having trouble particularly with my diet. http://parents.berkeley.edu/recommend/medical/crohns.html

Crohn's Disease This page is brought to you by the Berkeley Parents Network Back to June 2001 I have recently been diagnosed with Crohn's Disease and am having trouble particularly with my diet. I have noticed that the "Eat Right for Your Type" diet is recommended by some doctors and when I have tried it, it really does help, but is an extremely difficult one to follow. Does anyone know of a support group in the East Bay or have any other connections that may be helpful for me? Any advice would be helpful since I am still very ignorant to the disease. Kelly I know a woman who has this disease and she found the Chron's and Colitis Foundation of America to be a helpful resource. The national headquarters is in New York. They do research and offer educational programs and support services to people with these diseases. Their phone number is 1-800-932-2423 and their website is www.ccfa.org Good luck. To the person needing a Crohn's disease support group. The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation sponsor support groups. The Berkeley group is currently on hold, but there are active groups in SF, Walnut Creek, and Pleasanton. Contact the CCF for details at 800-241-0758. Christine I am sorry to hear of your diagnosis, I know that this disease can be debilitating at times. I do have some information for you and for anyone else out there who may need it.My mother is the Executive Director of the Colitis and Crohn's Disease Foundation (CCFA) of the Greater Bay Area. . On the local web site, there are lists of support groups all over the Bay Area (including Oakland) for both kids and adults. I recommend you take a look at the web site: http://www.ccfa.org/chapters/greaterbay/ and check out the various pieces of information. You will also find a local phone number for my mother (Carol Gerstein) in San Mateo. She is very knowledgable and has a great network of people whom she can refer you to. Please feel free to call her, she will be happy to talk to you.good luck to you. By the way, CCFA is a national organization (their web site address is: http://www.ccfa.org/ ) Molly

73. Inflammatory Bowel Disease INFO FAQ V4.0 Contact Zimbabwe Association for Colitis Crohn s disease, 2 Montclaire The Crohn s disease and Ulcerative Colitis Fact Book , edited by Peter A. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/medicine/crohns-colitis-info-faq/

Usenet FAQs Search Web FAQs Documents ... RFC Index Inflammatory Bowel Disease INFO FAQ v4.0 There are reader questions on this topic! Help others by sharing your knowledge alt.support.crohns-colitis Subject: Inflammatory Bowel Disease INFO FAQ v4.0 From: smb@panix.com Reply-to: smb@panix.com jdr@io.org . Website: www.interlog.com/~ibs 1.0.3 What support organizations exist in the UK? If you live in the United Kingdom, you should contact the NACC- the National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease, PO Box 205, St. Albans, Herts, AL1 1AB, at 01727-844296 or 0800-655544 from inside the UK, or 01044-727-844296 from elsewhere. This number provides both answerphone and fax. There are around 58 Area groups covering all of the UK, and they publish a newsletter every month. The NACC also runs a voluntary helpline, called NACC-in-Contact. The helpline is a confidential service - callers details are never revealed to anyone. Anybody can call - patients, family or friends, at any tine of day. There are approximately 100 contacts spread all around the United Kingdom. Contact telephone numbers are available from NACC head office. For more information, you can also email nacc@nacc.org.uk

74. ACCUTANE DEPRESSION Although Crohn s disease most commonly affects the end of the small intestine (the In Crohn s disease, all layers of the intestine may be involved, http://accutane.poweradvocates.com/crohns.html

FDA Accutane Warnings Inflammatory Bowel Disease Crohn's Disease Ulcerative Colitis ... Accutane Resources Accutane (isotretinoin) Information Accutane Lawyer Crohn's Disease Under Federal Law, the manufacturer of a drug is required to revise its label to include a warning as soon as there is reasonable evidence of an association of a serious hazard with a drug. The FDA has required Hoffmann-La Roche to change their label for Accutane many times. The most recent label states - Inflammatory bowel disease: Accutane has been associated with inflammatory bowel disease (including regional ileitis) in patients without a prior history of intestinal disorders. In some instances, symptoms have been reported to persist after Accutane treatment has been stopped. Patients experiencing abdominal pain, rectal bleeding or severe diarrhea should discontinue Accutane immediately. Pursuant to FDA Rules and Regulation, the reporting of Adverse Side Effects is on a voluntary basis. In other words, the doctor, hospital, or other medical person or facility are not required by law to report an adverse side effect from a drug. The FDA reported that perhaps only one in one hundred side effects ever get reported. One could only imagine about how many serious Adverse Side Effects there are from taking Accutane, that have never been reported to anyone! Individuals with inflammatory bowel disease have significantly higher risks of colon cancer than in the general population!

75. Crohn S Disease - Saturday Evening Post Reducing the Risk of Crohn s disease A small but increasing number of researchersand clinicians are focusing Unraveling the Mystery of Crohn s disease http://www.satevepost.org/departments/topics/crohns.shtml

76. Ability's_Crohn's_Disease_Page Crohn s disease, research index site with links for disability users, 1000 sof search engines and with live java games, chat s, kids internet, irc, jobs, http://www.ability.org.uk/crohns.html

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77. Crohn's Disease - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital There are many theories regarding Crohn s disease, but none has yet been proven . Physicians believe that there is little proof that Crohn s disease is http://www.lpch.org/DiseaseHealthInfo/HealthLibrary/digest/crohns.html

Clinical Nutrition Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Hepatology Liver Transplantation Gastroenterologists ... Transplantation Digestive and Liver Disorders Crohn's Disease What is Crohn's disease? Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease. It is a chronic condition that may recur at various times over a lifetime. It usually involves the small intestine, most often the lower part called the ileum. However, inflammation may also affect the entire digestive tract, including the mouth, esophagus, stomach, duodenum, appendix, or anus. Crohn's disease is also called ileitis or enteritis. What causes Crohn's disease? There are many theories regarding Crohn's disease, but none has yet been proven. One theory suggests that some agent, perhaps a virus or bacteria, affects the body's immune system and triggers an inflammatory reaction in the intestinal wall. Although there is a lot of evidence that patients with this disease have abnormalities of the immune system, it is not known whether the immune problems are a cause or a result of the disease. Physicians believe that there is little proof that Crohn's disease is caused by emotional distress or by an unhappy childhood.

78. An Alternative View Of Crohn's Disease And Inflammatory Bowel Disease The wife, who had Crohn s disease since adolescence, had only mild hay fever, After a few months, her Crohn s disease, which had given her almost http://www.food-allergy.org/crohns.html

An Alternative View of Crohn’s Disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) often are resistant to alternative approaches to their disease. They have a life-threatening disease and conventional medicine and their conventional physicians may have saved their lives many times over. For this they are quite grateful to conventional medicine and doctors. They naturally may be afraid to try anything else that could be less effective even though they usually do not enjoy actual good health as the result of the treatment they take. I am not a doctor. My “educational” qualifications include college degrees in medical laboratory science and microbiology. My real qualification for writing this website article is that I am a person with Crohn’s disease who, unlike everyone else with IBD I know, takes no medication and is not always a few steps away from a medical crisis. The articles quoted in this section of the website were published in mainstream, respected, peer-reviewed medical journals. I hope that IBD patients and their doctors will put aside their fears and biases and consider the facts presented below with an open mind. In 1991, I was diagnosed as having Crohn's disease. The gastroenterologist who did the colonoscopy and made the diagnosis told me that there were no restrictions on my diet, that there were no dietary or lifestyle changes that I could make that would influence the course of the disease, and that if it went into remission, it would eventually recur. I was put on Flagyl

79. What Is Crohn's Disease? O oday s Moment of Science is about Crohn s disease, its symptoms, cause, andtreatment. Crohn s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease. http://amos.indiana.edu/library/scripts/crohns.html

Audio Scripts Books oday's Moment of Science is about Crohn's disease, its symptoms, cause, and treatment. Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease. It can affect any area within the digestive system, but mostly it causes ulcerations in the small and large intestines. Symptoms can include cramping pains and tenderness on the right side of the abdomen, somewhat similar to appendicitis, as well as diarrhea and rectal bleeding. What causes it? It's not totally clear. A normal immune system, though its job is to protect the body from infections and foreign invaders, does not respond to food, bacteria, and other substances within the intestines. The problem for patients with Crohn's disease seems to be that their immune systems do react to the contents of the intestines, causing inflammation and ulcerations. However, it's unknown as to whether this is the cause of the disease or a result of it. The disease typically makes its first appearance in young people in their teens or early twenties. Once it begins it tends to be a chronic condition with periods of flare-up and remission. It also seems to be a genetically inherited disease. What can be done about Crohn's disease? Patients with minimal or no symptoms may not need treatment, but if treatment is needed, there are various possible medications, including some that suppress the body's immune system. Crohn's patients may also change their diets and take vitamin supplements in order to try to lessen symptoms and complications. For example, it is recommended that patients consume little fiber because it is difficult to digest.

80. Action Medical Research - Crohn’s Disease Crohn’s disease ruins the lives of sufferers and represents one of the major unsolved However for those individuals with Crohn’s disease or their close http://www.action.org.uk/news_media/crohns.php

Page contents The situation MAP What the UK government is doing What the UK Government could do ... What you could do The situation Milk and water can carry MAP These figures are estimates and will remain estimates until the government makes the disease reportable (i.e. requires the collection of statistics upon diagnosis). MAP The bug, an organism known as MAP (Mycobacterium Avium-subspecies Paratuberculosis), is not completely killed by normal milk pasteurisation methods. It can also be found in water. MAP MAP present in 1.9% of raw milk and 2.1% of pasteurised milk samples. MAP MAP is destroyed. MAP What the UK government is doing Milk MAP -infected cows in Scotland The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) conducted a milk survey in 2000. Interim findings showed that MAP had been found in 3% of pasteurised milk and 5% of the raw milk samples. MAP has yet to be proved. Water The Drinking Water Inspectorate has commissioned two studies on MAP and water. The second, at the Public Health Laboratories, is studying the fate of MAP in the treatment and distribution of drinking water. Both studies should report by autumn 2000.

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