Crohn’s Disease

The month of March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month as well as National Nutrition Month. Did you know? Young onset Colorectal Cancer is on the rise 1 in 20 people will be diagnosed with Colorectal Cancer in their lifetime 10% of new Colorectal Cancer patients...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a chronic lifelong condition that causes inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract.  IBD includes Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.  There are approximately 1.6 million people in the United States with IBD and 80,000 or more of them are under the age...

The most common gastrointestinal procedures in children are an upper and lower endoscopy. What is an Upper Endoscopy? An upper endoscopy is also known as an esophagogastroduodenoscopy or EGD. An EGD visualizes the lining of the esophagus (food pipe), stomach and upper small intestine (duodenum). An upper...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a condition that causes chronic inflammation of the intestines. For reasons that are not yet clearly understood, the child’s immune system becomes abnormally active against his or her own intestines. Researchers aren’t sure what causes this, but IBD seems to...