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What Is Crohns Disease

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If you enjoy this post, please share it using the buttons to your right >> , or email it to a friend , we'd really appreciate it! You can also get natural health articles delivered free by email or RSS - AND get a free mini-course on the Healing Art of Reflexology! What is Crohns Disease? Crohns is a multifaceted condition that affects your digestive tract from your mouth to your anus with inflammation and ulcers. Most commonly Crohns affects the lower small intestines and large intestines but it can affect other organ systems as well. The symptoms of Crohns disease can come and go during your lifetime. The times they are gone are called remission and the times you have the symptoms is called relapse. There are many effective medications that affect and help the symptoms but at this time there is no cure. Interestingly there also is no known cause of the disease. When scientists are able to pinpoint the causative factors of a condition they usually are able to work toward b...

Massage and Crohns Disease

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If you enjoy this post, please share it using the buttons to your right >> , or email it to a friend , we'd really appreciate it! You can also get natural health articles delivered free by email or RSS - AND get a free mini-course on the Healing Art of Reflexology! Crohns disease is an inflammatory disease that affects the small and large intestines. Other similar inflammatory disease is ulcerative colitis. It causes inflammation and ulceration of the inner lining of the intestines. This inflammation can lead to the cells growing larger and obstructing, or closing off, the intestines. Sometimes this leads to the need for surgical resection and taking out the part thats obstructed. Its estimated that there are 100 out of 100,000 that have either ulcerative colitis or Crohns disease. In most cases physicians prescribe steroids, some antibiotics and other opiods to control the inflammation and the pain. But some patients, without medical coverage can afford the medication or o...