How to best support an exercise routine with IBD
Having an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease, has its challenges. Many of the challenges may be more physical, such as bowel may be more physical, such as bowel discomfort and urgency, lack of appetite, and general malaise and fatigue.
Dietary Therapy for IBD
Almost every person diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) will ask the question: “What should I eat?”
Browsing the protein selection
Erin Russell shares her insights into the various sources of dietary protein and emerging trends in plant-based meat alternatives.
Research links gut fungi to intestinal inflammation in Crohn’s disease
Results of a new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University represent a step toward improving our understanding of Crohn’s disease and the factors that cause its intestinal inflammation.
First structure of human protein complex with ‘licence to kill’
A team of WEHI researchers has for the first time visualised a human cell death complex linked to autoimmune and inflammatory conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease, and injuries associated with excessive cell death.
COVID-19 vaccine and IBD
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are frequently treated with immunosuppressive medications.
Finding Your Trigger Foods
When you are newly diagnosed with Crohn’s or colitis, there is a flood of information about how to control symptoms, what medication could assist, and a million different opinions on food that you should or shouldn’t eat.
Is Crohn’s disease considered an autoimmune disease?
Whether Crohn’s can be considered an autoimmune disease remains unclear.
What To Do When Stuck In The Bathroom
Those of us living with Crohn’s or colitis are more than familiar with spending too much time in the bathroom. But the upside is we have so much extra time for activities!
Study shows diet has ‘underappreciated role’ in treating ulcerative colitis
Patients with ulcerative colitis following a novel diet achieved higher clinical remission and mucosal healing compared with patients who received a single donor fecal transplantation, with or without diet, according to a study.
National health literacy programme for people living with IBD
The aim of the CCA IBD project is to implement the Optimising Health Literacy and Access (Ophelia) process over 3 years to collaboratively codesign ways to improve delivery of information, services and resources for people with IBD and their carers.
IBD And Body Image
fe with IBD can often mean a constantly changing body. From weight change due to medication or flare ups, to surgery scars, to side effects that you never could have anticipated, the way you relate to your body can be intimately tied to your diagnosis.