Symptoms and treatment of Crohn's disease are very similar to ulcerative lesions of the stomach. But if you go into the study of this ailment, some differences can still be found. This is a chronic disease of the digestive tract, which has an inflammatory origin. Any part of the mucosa can fall under attack. As practice shows, the disease does not spare either men or women.
Causes and manifestations of Crohn's disease
Until now, experts are lost in conjecture, not knowing for sure what causes this disease. It is proved only that predisposition to it can be inherited.
It is believed that the disease develops when antibodies to the intestinal tissues begin to form. This can be facilitated by smoking and autoimmune processes. Risk factors are usually:
- transferred infections;
- stress;
- emotional and physical overstrain;
- food allergy.
To timely diagnose and begin treatment for Crohn's disease, you need to determine in time its symptoms. They are really easy to confuse with manifestations of many other ailments of the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, appropriate measures are in most cases taken too late.
The main symptoms of Crohn's disease, which must be urgently removed by drug treatment and folk remedies look like this:
- stomach ache;
- fever;
- weakness;
- a sharp decrease in body weight;
- the appearance of impurities in the stool;
- diarrhea;
- deterioration of appetite;
- frequent bloating;
- vomiting;
- pseudopolyposis;
- night sweats .
There are also extra-intestinal manifestations in the disease:
- dermatitis;
- amyloidosis;
- osteoporosis;
- disorders in the liver and biliary tract;
- arthritis;
- sclerite;
- vasculitis;
- inflammation of the eyes;
- pyoderma;
- anemia;
- fever;
- stomatitis;
- uveitis;
- cracks on the lips;
- iridocyclitis.
Diagnosis and the newest methods of treatment of Crohn's disease
Based on the complaints of the patient alone, it is not easy to diagnose. To confirm the disease, you need to undergo a comprehensive examination, which can consist of:
- laboratory blood tests;
- histological examination;
- transrectal ultrasound;
- colonoscopy with targeted biopsy;
- Irrigoscopy ;
- irrigography;
- scintigraphy with labeled leukocytes;
- endoscopy.
Each of these studies will help to eliminate similarly manifested ailments.
Medication for Crohn's disease is considered preferable. Therapy necessarily involves the intake of salicylates, immunosuppressants, glucocorticoids, hormones. In some cases, antibiotics are effective (and accordingly, there is reason to believe that sometimes the disease is caused by bacteria).
The most popular means for fighting Crohn's disease:
- Sulfasalazine;
- Azathioprine;
- Balsalazide;
- Pentasa;
- Ciprofloxacin;
- Mesalazine;
- Metronidazole.
Surgical treatment of Crohn's disease
To surgical intervention, specialists apply only in extreme cases, when medicines are ineffective, and their reception does not bring the expected result.
Surgical therapy can consist of stricturoplasty - the expansion of stricture, - the opening of inflammation or the laying of anastomoses to bypass the affected tissues and fistulas.
Treatment of Crohn's disease with herbs and other folk methods
If you trust only alternative medicine, you can not achieve a stable remission of the disease. But if you combine
When Crohn's disease helps infusions and broths:
- yarrow;
- St. John's wort;
- plantain;
- licorice root;
- chamomile;
- the root of the marshmallow.