Learn about common early signs of ulcerative colitis, including blood in stool, diarrhea, cramping, bloating, and bowel changes, for a prompt diagnosis and effective treatment.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition that currently does not have a cure. However, certain lifestyle measures, such as keeping an IBD journal, can help you track symptoms, identify ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Diet alone can lead children with mild to moderate ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease into clinical remission, suggests a small study published online December 27, 2016, in the Journal of Clinical ...

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), comprising Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, are chronic, inflammatory, immune mediated, relapsing-remitting conditions of the gastrointestinal tract with ...

Researchers from the Medical University of Lodz in Poland investigated how diet can affect the severity of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IBD includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, which ...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Low-dose tricyclic antidepressant therapy is effective in treating moderately severe functional symptoms in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who are not experiencing ...

A study in Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology investigated the effect of the specific carbohydrate diet on active inflammatory bowel disease, to determine whether diet is an effective therapeutic ...

Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suffer from abdominal pain even between acute inflammatory flare-ups.