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Is it ibd?

Inflammatory bowel disease mimics many other similar diseases and disease processes. Before entering into a course of powerful drugs which may cause further distressing symptoms, patients may want to rule out the following similar problems.

Intestinal tuberculosis caused by bacterial disease. Symptoms are almost indistinguishable from IBD, but treatment is very different.Endometriosis of the bowel pieces of the endometrium (womb lining) can attach themselves to the intestine and cause many similar symptoms to Crohn's.

Diverticultis an inflammation of one or more of the diverticula (pouches) in the wall of the large intestine.

Lymphoma cancer in the lymph nodes can result in liver enlargement. Gastrointestinal and bone problems can result.

Some drugs can cause IBD. For instance, NSAIDs cause ileal and colonic inflammation, sulphasalazine can cause symptoms which mimic Crohn's. Gold salts used to treat rheumatoid arthritis have also been associated with Crohn-like symptoms.

Food allergy dairy, yeast and wheat can all cause varying degrees of bowel inflammation.

Inflammatory bowel disease - Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, is a much graver condition than irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). H...

Treatments for inflammatory bowel disease - Change your diet. A wide range of nutritional disturbances have been recognized in Crohn's and UC patients (J R Col Physicians London, 1986; 20: 45-8...

Crohn's disease - The hidden triggers - Viruses, bacteria or even drugs can be the hidden triggers of inflammatory bowel disease, and many other intestinal illnesses can be mistaken for it....

Rheumatoid arthritis - In treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA), conventional medicine has concentrated on powerful drugs to suppress symptoms. But there are a surprising numb...

Rheumatoid arthritis - Four years ago (WDDTY, vol 8, no 6) when I first wrote about rheumatoid arthritis (RA), I reported that wearing copper bracelets, correcting low gastr...

Case study: rheumatoid arthritis and HRT - I have had rheumatoid arthritis for more than 10 years. When it was first diagnosed, I was given Indocid, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Wh...

Rheumatoid Arthritis: But which drugs work? - There are plenty of drugs around for treating rheumatoid arthritis – but doctors don’t have a clue which ones work. Even though researchers have been...

Bone marrow transplant used for rheumatoid arthritis - A hospital in Western Australia has treated a man with severe rheumatoid arthritis by transplanting some of his bone marrow to the affected areas.

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