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Most cases of IBD are diagnosed in people 30 or younger and IBD has become one of the most significant chronic illnesses to affect children and young adults. About 10 percent of patients diagnosed with IBD are under 18 years old.
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Welcome to my Bog Blog. "Bog," by the way, is British slang for toilet and it seems so appropriate for an IBD blog. If you had told me when I was twenty years-old that some day not too far in the future I would be scoping out the nearest toilet wherever I went I would have said you were nuts. But, indeed, this odd habit became part of my…
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Jennifer Rackley, Health Guide, posted Early Antibiotic Use Linked to IBD We have all heard by now the risks with taking antibiotics incorrectly or when they…
Melody answered Can you not have the genetic marker for… ". If damaged, then this is almost always a positive sign of Celiac. …
Jennifer Rackley, Health Guide, posted Helping Children with IBD Communicate… Inflammatory Bowel Disease can be hard for an adult to understand. For a…
Jennifer Rackley, Health Guide, posted Preventing Lag Time in Pediatric IBD… Children are the fastest growing population of Inflammatory Bowel Disease…
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