Crohn's Disease only was identified and named 70 years ago. Though  records go back to 600 BC! It took several years to identify. First, Dr. Samual Wilks  at Guys Hospital in 1859, lectured about a patient of his, and set the ball rolling. Then, in 1930, Dr. Burrill Crohn at Mount Sinsi Hospital received a 17-year-old patient with similar symptoms to Dr. Wilks. Dr. Crohn suspected that it was tubucularous infection, but the boy would not respond to any medication. A dangerous operation was the only was to find out what was wrong with the boy. It turned out, that the thing  that was causing him pain was a small part of inflamed tissue in the ileum. The ileum is a part of the small intestine. Today, no one knows what causes it. By 1932, Dr. crohn searched out several more cases and presented this illness to American Medical Association in New Orleans.

      Did you know that about 100,000 or more people have Crohn's Disease? That is only in the US too! Most people are susceptible between ages ten and sixty, but more  and more often they are fining people older and younger with it. Just three to four years ago it was almost unheard of to see kids with it.

All though no one knows exactly yet what the cause is, people have some good ideas. 

•   Genes. Almost all Crohn's patients have at least one relative with the disease.
• Being too clean. Being so clean as most Americans are, causes the immune system to not have a chance at fighting off certain viruses.
• People with a western culture . Mostly people who were well fed, not over fed, as a baby.

A possible cause for Crohn's

        There are many symtoms to Crohn's. the key ones are severe pain and diarrhea, which can be socially embarrassing, exhausting, and often disabling, sometimes even life threatening. There are many other symptoms. For example, random fevers, bleeding in the rectum, loss of appetite, not growing for a period of time, and arthritis. Last, an effect of the disease is that you can get bowl cancer easier. 

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