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Health Encyclopedia: Crohn's Disease Dietary Factors
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Dietary Factors
The role of diet and nutrition is very important in Crohn's disease and should be considered for four separate situations:
- As important add-on treatment to medical therapies for maintaining nutrition and correcting any nutritional deficiencies.
- As primary treatment for reducing disease activity.
- As maintenance therapy on a long-term basis in the case of severe intestinal failure or short-bowel syndrome.
- For reversing growth-failure in children.
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