As meals become more plentiful, so do the diseases that come from “eating”. While people are paying more attention to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, chronic diarrhea has not received much attention. The lack of nutrients brought about by long-term diarrhea not only seriously affects bodily functions, but also brings enormous psychological pressure to the “diarrhea family”. Xiao Lin, who is still in his third year of college, had diarrhea 3-4 times a day and initially thought it was gastroenteritis caused by staying up late and loving to eat stalls, but repeatedly took oral antimicrobials and antidiarrheal drugs such as flavonol and still did not get better until there was fresh blood in the stool that made Xiao Lin nervous. The diagnosis is that Xiao Lin has ulcerative colitis. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. This kind of enteritis is not caused by diarrhea or eating unclean food as we often say, inflammatory bowel disease is a complex disease, the following to get to know. The first of these is the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a type of disease that causes an inflammatory response (such as mucosal congestion and edema) in the whole or part of the intestine, and includes two specific diseases: ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Ulcerative colitis: The highest incidence of this disease is between 30 and 40 years old, and the main clinical symptoms are recurrent diarrhea and blood in the stool, with mild and moderate cases being the most common in China, with a good prognosis for treatment and uncomplicated medication. Treatment is based on the main principle of regulating the immune response and suppressing inflammation, and can be combined with local medication. After a period of treatment, most patients’ symptoms can disappear. As for Crohn’s disease, which is characterized by diarrhea, abdominal pain and weight loss as the main symptoms, the treatment of most people requires immunosuppressive drugs and hormones, which are still needed to maintain the disease even when it is in remission. Standardized and continuous treatment is able to reduce the frequency of attacks, thus reducing the chance of various complications due to recurrent attacks, such as intestinal obstruction, abscesses, fistulas, etc. If you have chronic diarrhea with blood in the stool, especially in young people who have not recovered for a long time, you should have more than one “inflammatory bowel disease” string, and it is best to check it clearly. Surprisingly, in 2011, in Zhongshan City, a large sample of epidemiological survey, the results show that the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease has reached three in 10,000, and young people are common. Unfortunately, inflammatory bowel disease is not yet eradicated and prone to recurrence, its pathogenesis is not very clear so far, it is currently believed that the disease has a genetic susceptibility, under the role of unknown causes lead to immune dysregulation, eventually leading to a series of inflammatory lesions in the intestine, with the current level of medical technology can not be cured. Happily, although inflammatory bowel disease cannot be cured, standardized treatment leads to a normal life for most of the life, provided that the treatment is in cooperation with the doctor, especially maintenance therapy during the non-onset period should not be neglected. The key to treatment is to pay attention to maintenance therapy The treatment of inflammatory bowel disease is long and lasts a lifetime. Whether the patient actively cooperates with treatment directly determines the effectiveness of treatment and the patient’s quality of life. Conventional treatment is in internal medicine and requires open intervention when complications such as intestinal obstruction and abdominal abscesses occur. In the non-onset period, medication and follow-up should be maintained, which is called “maintenance therapy” and can greatly reduce the frequency of recurrence. However, because the majority of patients are young and they are busy at work, many of them “forget the pain when they are well” and stop the medication as soon as the symptoms disappear. As a result, the symptoms of diarrhea and blood in the stool may reappear in a short time. Once you suspect the above diseases, you should immediately go to the hospital for examination, preferably to perform electronic colonoscopy, to achieve early detection, do treatment!