Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Tag

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in children occurs as a result of genetic and environmental factors. 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.  The...

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...