In the case when a person has appeared and for a long time does not subside despite ongoing therapy, symptoms of an intestinal disorder can be assumed that he develops a rather dangerous and poorly amenable inflammatory pathology such as Crohn's disease. This disease has not yet revealed the exact etiology, and in its manifestations it is similar to both ulcerative colitis and other inflammatory pathologies of the gastrointestinal tract.
Crohn's disease usually develops in adults between the ages of 20 and 40, but children are not immune from this ailment, since the main factor recognized by all specialists as a factor of its development is heredity, burdened with irrational nutrition and wrong way of life. Symptoms and extraintestinal signs in both age categories have no significant differences. The treatment they perform is also similar.
Given that Crohn's disease affects any part of the digestive tract, the disease pattern is very multifaceted, which depends on where the main focus of inflammation is located. It is distinguished as local, corresponding to diseases of the digestive tract, and extraintestinal manifestations of this ailment.
Local symptoms in Crohn's disease are due to the presence of intoxication in the body. Most of them are the constant heaviness in the abdomen, accompanied by its swelling, stool disorders that are expressed by diarrhea or constipation, nausea, vomiting and severe pain in the epigastric region.
They are at the very beginning of the development of pathology are not clearly expressed and have a cramping character. In the fecal and vomit masses, always with this disease, there are signs of blood inclusions, to which, as the pathology develops, mucus and purulent discharge can be added.
Common symptoms that a patient has with Crohn's disease are due to disorders that occur in the immune system. These include elevated temperature, which can reach 39 - 40 °, chills, persistent severe malaise, weakness, as well as loss of appetite and the resulting weight loss.
All these symptoms, although not entirely accurate, still indicate the development of Crohn's disease in the human body, therefore they require an immediate visit to a specialist in order to start an adequate treatment in a timely manner.
Extraintestinal manifestations, which may indicate a possible onset of this disease, are also associated with immunological disorders and include:
- Presence of ulcerative formations in the oral cavity;
- Skin rashes;
- Pathology of vision and its reduction;
- Sacroiliitis accompanied by fever and severe pain in the sacrum;
- Arthropathy, lesion of large joints, with significant limitation of mobility.
They must be taken into account in the diagnosis of Crohn's disease, as well as the appointment of treatment, which is aimed both at removing inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract and alleviating the symptoms of the disease.
Symptoms of Crohn's Disease in Adults and Children
Symptoms of this pathology in different age groups, although similar in most cases, but, nevertheless, have some differences. In children, Crohn's disease proceeds against a background of more vivid symptoms than in adults. This disease develops in both age groups for a long time, with a constant change in the periods of remissions and exacerbations, during which signs of Crohn's disease increase.
The difference in them for children and adults is due primarily to the place of injury. Since, at an early age, the focus of Crohn's disease is mostly found in the iliac or cecum, symptoms such as abdominal pain, a sharp rise in temperature, and an unexpected decrease in body weight are most common. Also, the child with this disease, there are frequent desires for defecation, which can be up to 10 times a day.
In the case where the localization of the inflammatory process becomes the ileo-vaginal department of the intestine, the clinic of the disease will be the same as in the "acute stomach".Pathological damage in Crohn's disease of the colon causes a small patient strong pain during frequent and liquid emptying, as well as rectal bleeding. When the inflammation in the stomach is localized, the symptoms will be similar to chronic gastritis.
In patients belonging to the older age group, such disorder of the chair as constipation is often manifested in this pathology. Their origin is due to the fact that numerous ulcers on the walls of the digestive organs lead to their narrowing and create an obstruction of even soft feces.
Methods for treating symptoms of Crohn's disease
Emerging anxiety symptoms require immediate treatment in the hospital, as they can indicate various diseases. Only professional differential diagnosis can be the basis for diagnosis, as well as the correct purpose of treatment. Therapy for Crohn's disease is carried out by complex methods with the use of combined anti-inflammatory drugs.
Specific treatment of the disease is absent, as its main direction in this pathology will be avoidance of complications and elimination of symptoms, mostly elimination of constipation, which inflict additional damage to the inflamed intestine.
When it comes to treating this disease, it is expected that it should include the following:
- Drug therapy to relieve inflammation and alleviate symptoms;
- Recommendations for lifestyle changes;
- Appointment of a diet;
- Surgical interventions in severe cases of Crohn's disease.
Currently, medicine does not have an effective method for treating Crohn's disease, but it can remove signs and symptoms associated with the disease, reduce inflammation, and reduce the incidence of complications and ease them. At therapy of patients of younger age group it is also possible to compensate and deficiency of body weight.
Symptoms of Crohn's disease usually lead to very serious complications, which may well end in a fatal outcome. Therefore, it is required for any signs of starting problems in the process of digestion, pain syndromes and constipation or prolonged and frequent diarrhea, urgent treatment in the hospital to establish an accurate diagnosis.
Treatment for Crohn's disease can be prescribed only by a specialist who takes into account all the existing symptoms and features of the disease in a particular case. It should not be forgotten with this pathology of the digestive organs and about folk medicine. But the use of any of its recipes, aimed primarily at fighting severe symptoms of Crohn's disease should also be done after consultation with the doctor.
Also of great importance in the treatment of the disease, both in children and in adults, has a diet that is selected by a specialist for each case, taking into account the individual characteristics of the patient. They are taken into account and vitamin complexes necessary for the prevention of hypovitaminosis, which always accompanies this pathological inflammation of the digestive tract.