Penatasa is the main form of treatment for Crohn's patients. Most people with the disease do take it. It is a large green and blue pill. This pill goes to the inflamed area. ( mainly the small or large intestines.) This pills also taken to help prevent flare ups. A flare up is when the intestine becomes inflamed ( sick) . Most patients have to take this pill for the rest of their lives.

These medicines are steroids. They go straight to the inflamed area and fix it. They work really well, but just like a lot of things they come with a price. Prednizon for instance is a medicine that goes mainly to the small and large intestines. It has one major side effect though. You swell up like a balloon.   6-mercaptopurine, or 6-mp, helps mainly the esophagus area. This ,luckily, has no major side effects like the prednizon.

  All most all people with Crohn's or colitis will have at least one surgery in their life related to the disease. Weather it is to take out intestines or not.

  CT scans are cat scans that take x-rays of your body. These show the area that is inflamed.

     These are tests that let the doctors go in and see right in the intestines. There is a long, thin tube that has a camera at the end. The tube is then put down the patients throat or up the butt. An endoscopy is down the throat, and a colonoscopy is up the back end. You are put to sleep during this procedure. When the tube is in, it takes video and pictures of places in the intestine and the doctors watch what the camera sees on a television screen.

            good intestine                                                 an ulcer in the large        intestine 

    Most patients have to take different vitamins. there are different procedures too. Like upper GI series, that is when you drink a liquid and they watch the liquid go through your intestines on a x-ray. There is blood work all the time  and of course there are all types pf x-rays too. Some people even have to get blood transfusions 

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