Inflammatory bowel disease

Introduction: Inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory bowel disease: This medical term is used for both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, two diseases in which the immune system attacks the gut (intestine). Patients may have diarrhea, ... more about Inflammatory bowel disease.

Inflammatory bowel disease: Any type of digestive condition caused by bowel inflammation. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Inflammatory bowel disease is available below.

Symptoms of Inflammatory bowel disease

• Diarrhea
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Abdominal cramps
• Abdominal pain

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Medical Textbooks Online about Inflammatory bowel disease

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Inflammatory bowel disease?

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Misdiagnosis and Inflammatory bowel disease

Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that...read more »

Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes called intestinal imbalance. The digestive system contains...read more »

Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely to cause some level of diarrhea in patients. The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad"...read more »

Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e. food poisoning). In fact, it's more likely to be...read more »

Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over...read more »

Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive conditions is celiac disease, a...read more »

Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases. Some of the better known possibilities are peptic ulcer, colon cancer, irritable...read more »

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Causes of Inflammatory bowel disease

• Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
• Glycogenosis type 1b
• Ulcerative colitis
• Crohn's disease
• Chronic granulomatous disease

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Prognosis for Inflammatory bowel disease

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Reseach about Inflammatory bowel disease

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Clinical Trials for Inflammatory bowel disease

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Inflammatory bowel disease include:

• Immune Regulation in Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn's Disease - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• MICI-CMV:Valganciclovir in Recurrent Bouts of Cryptogenic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases With an Infection by Cytomegalovirus - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - ganciclovir
• Humanized Anti-IL-2 Receptor Monoclonal Antibody in Moderate-to-Severe Ulcerative Colitis - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Daclizumab
• The Influence of 5Aminosalicylates on Thiopurine Metabolite Levels - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - 5-aminosalicylate (Pentasa, Ferring)
• NICE: Nolpitantium Besylate In Patients With Ulcerative Colitis a Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Efficacy and Safety Study - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Nolpitantium besylate

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Statistics for Inflammatory bowel disease

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Types of Inflammatory bowel disease

• Crohn's disease
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Celiac disease
• Ulcerative colitis
• Stomach ulcers

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Article Excerpts about Inflammatory bowel disease

This medical term is used for both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, two diseases in which the immune system attacks the gut (intestine). Patients may have diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, and pain that can be difficult to control. Illness in afflicted individuals can result from intestinal inflammation and from side effects of the drugs used for the disease. (Source: excerpt from Understanding Autoimmune Disease: NIAID)

Definitions of Inflammatory bowel disease:

Representing a spectrum of small and large bowel inflammatory diseases of unknown etiology. It includes Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and colitis of indeterminate type. --2003 - (Source - Diseases Database)

Inflammation of the colon - (Source - WordNet 2.1)