Crohn’s disease is a situation which causes inflammation of the digestive or gastrointestinal (GI) tract. It can occur anywhere in the GI tract; but is principal in the lower part of the small intestine, in the ileum. This swelling reaches the lining of the affected organ to cause pain and leads to the common emptying of intestines to lead to diarrhea.
Crohn’s disease is referred by different names depending on the swelling that occurs in different parts of the intestine. Tenderness that is found in the end of the small intestine is referred to as Crohn’s terminal ileitis and Crohn’s entero-coilitis and ileo-colitis are the terms used to describe the irritation of the small intestine and colon. In both cases of Crohn’s disease, a small intestinal barricade, diarrhea and abdominal pain are the common symptoms.
As the symptoms of Crohn’s disease are similar to other intestinal disarrays, they are difficult to diagnose. Fatalities usually have all the layers of the intestine involved in the illness where there may also be healthy bowel found in between the sections of diseased bowel. The most common symptoms are abdominal pain, arthritis, skin problems, rectal bleeding fever and sometimes constant bleeding that leads to anemia.
Diarrhea that arises from Crohn’s disease may contain blood, pus or mucus that may go up to 10 or 20 times a day, even at night. This may in turn lead to painful tears or fissures mounting around the anus. The tenderness in the abdomen associated with Crohn’s disease is referred to be cramping or colicky. In such cases, the abdomen becomes sore to the touch, and tends to swell up.
Weight loss is another symptom of Crohn’s disease that is a effect of diarrhea and the loss of appetite a person develops when suffering from Crohn’s disease. another symptom of Crohn’s disease is mouth ulcers, joint pain, tenderness in the eyes and rashes or ulcers that are found on the skin.
A chronic sufferer of Crohn’s disease experiences severe tenderness complications which includes fistula which is an abnormal connection that exists between the bowel and a part near the bowel like the bladder, vagina or loop of bowel. These fistulas can lead to regular infections of the urinary genital tracts.