Children
Most cases of IBD, including Ulcerative Colitis (UC), are diagnosed in people younger than 30. As such, most patients are young children or young adults when diagnosed, though the disease can occur at any age. Parents of children with IBD must help their child establish healthy nutrition habits that will best avoid UC flares and provide emotional and physical support when flares do happen.
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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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