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Digestive Health & Nutrition in Children
Digestive Health & Nutrition in Children
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…
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…
Studies have shown that children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) who attend a summer camp that is disease specific have benefited from the experience. A disease-specific summer camp allows children to build a peer network by exposing them to others…
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…
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in which the lining of the large intestine (colon) becomes inflamed and ulcers develop, which produce mucus and pus. UC occurs when the body’s immune system mistakes food and other necessary…