Crohn's Symptoms

Since CD can be located anywhere in the GI tract, symptoms can vary. On the whole however, they often include abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and not surprisingly, weight loss and lack of energy.

Crohn’s disease is a chronic (lifelong) illness. People who have CD will experience periods of acute flare-ups, when their symptoms are active and other times when their symptoms go into remission. The average risk of a flare-up in any one year is approximately 30%.
In 25% of those with CD, perianal disease may also develop. “Peri” means “around” – therefore perianal disease is located “around the anus”.

Specifically this means that a person could develop:

• painful, swollen skin tags (that appear to be haemhorrhoids but are not)
• abscesses (bags of pus created inside the body as a result of infection)
• fistulas (infections that have tunneled from the abscess to a hollow organ such as the rectum or vagina)

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