People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) experience episodes of diarrhoea, abdominal cramps and pain, bleeding from the rectum, weight loss, fever and fatigue. Both illnesses may be accompanied by various extraintestinal manifestations in e.g. the eyes and joints or on the skin. The...
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Who gets affected by IBD?
IBD may affect as many as 5 million people worldwide. Men and Women are equally likely to be affected, and while the disease can occur at any age, IBD occurs more often among adolescents and young adults between the ages of 15 and 35.
Although considerable...
If you have IBD you might find the idea of travelling quite a challenge. A change of climate, water, or food can upset anyone’s bowels. Yet many people with IBD travel widely, both withing their country and abroad. With careful planning ahead it should be possible for you to travel to most...