Crohn’s disease is one of the inflammatory bowel disease, the other being ulcerative colitis. Crohn’s disease may affect the whole intestine starting from the mouth to the anus. However, lower part of the small bowels has got the preference.
There are deep ulcers, and these ulcers may penetrate the bowel wall and cause abscesses or fistula.
Symptoms
Abdominal pain, diarrhoea, weight loss is the predominant feature. Pain is associated with diarrhoea, which may be watery and does not contain blood or mucus. Along with this, there is a weight loss. The patient refuses to take food, because food triggers abdominal pain, and so patient avoids eating. Not only that there may be malabsorption, fat and protein and vitamin deficiencies. In crohn's disease, rectum is not involved, and the presence of perianal abscess and fistula favors the diagnosis of crohn’s disease.
In crohn’s disease chances of cancer is comparatively low.
In blood examination, there is marked anemia and Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and C-reactive protein (CRP) is raised.
Treatment
Aim of treatment
Treat the acute episodes
Prevent relapse
Find out cancer at an early stage
Homeopathic treatment
The treatment aspect includes in a multifactorial approach.
The medicine should work to correct the immunity, to control the acute attack, and prevent relapse and also to prevent complications like abscesses and fistula and cancer.
So the remedy should be deep acting and an antimiasmatic.
A long treatment is needed to achieve the above target. So a classical approach though the path as pointed out by dr Hahnemann a complete cure in early cases and prevention and control for the disease, and its complication in advanced cases are possible.
Medicines like Tuberculinum, Phosphorus, Merc sol, etc. will give excellent results .
