How Does Crohn's Disease Effect You?

In the first unit of my class Disease, we talked about how different diseases affected each part of the body. We also discussed what each part of the body is called; from Integumentary to Circulatory. We also spoke on how some diseases target certain age groups or locations. We had to conduct an interview with someone with a disease. I chose someone in my family who has Crohn's disease. This is a disease that targets, both the smaller and larger intestines. This was actually pretty difficult, since you had to get all the details right and make sure everything was precise in the drawing of the body. Although this project was really fun and informative, it was also pretty hard!

How Crohn's Affects The Body. DNR, February 13.

Crohn's disease is one of the most horrifying diseases to ever affect the digestive system. Crohn's disease is something that target the intestines and make it hard for you to release waste, and also causes abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss, and malnutrition. When affecting the intestines, it usually slips into the bowel tissue. As my interviewee stated, Crohn's can lead to life-threatening situations. Even though I have a personal relationship with the interviewee, you have to respect the strength it takes to live under these conditions. Since the interviewee has to live under these conditions involuntarily, she can't eat what she wants to eat, she has depend on her family to watch over her children, including a newborn. In our interview, she told me about the time when she was first separated from her baby at 3 months. Her baby had to stop being nursed and live with his grandmother for two weeks. I was also affected by this and it's not easy to be told someone in your family will have to stay in the hospital for two weeks.

Since medical trainers and doctors have not fully understood what causes Crohn's disease yet, there is not a lot of treatments to pursue if you do have it. My mother has implemented another kind of treatment though, she has decided to strictly watch what she puts into her system. What she eats is key to keeping her body from having Crohn's related problems and being healthy. This disease can not be spread or passed on. It is a multi-factorial and environmental disease. Some risk factors are being at a low age or living in an industrialized country. Usually developed from the high-fat diets in more developed countries or from being younger than 30 yrs old.