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About Crohn’s Disease
Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. It causes inflammation of the digestive tract. Crohn’s disease usually occurs in the small intestine (the ileum) and/or the large intestine (the colon), but it can happen anywhere in the digestive tract. Normally, an immune system would work to protect the body, but in Crohn’s patients, the immune system cannot tell the difference between normal body tissue and foreign substances. The result is an overactive immune system leading to the chronic inflammation. Crohn’s disease is classified as an autoimmune disorder.
There are five different types of Crohn’s disease:
- Ileocolitis – the most common type
- Ileitis
- Gastroduodenal
- Jejunoileitis
- Crohn’s colitis
