What are the differences between Crohns disease and Ulcerative Colitis?
March 24, 2009 by About Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Filed under Crohns and Colitis
Can you answer josh h’s question about IBS?:
I would really prefer an expert or a personal account and not a google search, Thank You.
Irritable Bowel Spastic Colon
I would really prefer an expert or a personal account and not a google search, Thank You.
Irritable Bowel Spastic Colon
IBS Feedback: not real sure, but i looked this disease up once (crohns) and it seems that many foods can upset and damage easily in the entire digestive tract including the stomach and small intestines perhaps even the mucuous membranes of other areas of the body. scar tissue develops you know whereas the ulcerative colitis may be less of a degenerative disease.
of the two, you might prefer to have the latter. crohns seems very dangerous actually. but, really you should look into both if you want more information
IBS Feedback: ulcerative colitis (UC) and crohn’s disease are both inflammatory bowel diseases of which the cause is still unknown. The main difference is the parts they affect. Crohn’s can affect any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus whereas UC only affects the large bowel.
Going into more detail:
Crohn’s has so called skip lesions, where the inflammation extends up the digestive tract but misses sections out and ’skips’ from one part to the next. Whereas UC is continous inflammation of the colon with no skips.
In crohn’s deep ulcers and fissures are seen in the lining of the digestive tract and they have a cobblestone appearance. In UC the lining is red and bleeds and sometimes has ulcers and pseudo polyps.
In crohn’s the iflammation is not confined to the lining but can spread outwards through the tissue of the bowel and granulomata may be present. However in UC only the lining of the bowel is inflammed and no granulomata are present. but goblet cell depletion and crypt abscesses can be found.