Symptoms of Crohn’s disease
Common symptoms of Crohn’s Disease include abdominal pain and cramps, bloody diarrhea, unintended weight loss, fatigue, and anemia. Other symptoms of Crohn’s Disease may include rectal bleeding, fever, joint pain, and skin lesions.
Crohn’s Disease is diagnosed by the presence of a chronic, progressive inflammatory bowel disease with symptoms that do not resolve after the use of corticosteroids. Diagnosis is confirmed by colonoscopy or other imaging techniques.
These symptoms and the diagnosis of Crohn’s disease are more common in patients who share the habit of smoking, those with a family history of colitis in any form, and depending on their age (it is most common in people between 10 and 30 years old).
