Previously, inflammatory bowel disease was mostly seen in developed Western countries and was considered rare in China, but the incidence in China has been on a significant rise in the last two decades. Just in 2011, an epidemiological survey with a large sample was conducted in Zhongshan City, and the results showed that the prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease has reached 3 in 10,000. Because the cause of inflammatory bowel disease is not yet clear, the symptoms are very similar to those of common enteritis, individual patient performance varies greatly, and there is a lack of specific clinical tests, resulting in more misdiagnosis and mistreatment.
Inflammatory bowel disease is highly prevalent in young people, and cases starting in childhood have become increasingly common, mainly including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. According to our statistics, the peak age of onset of ulcerative colitis is 35-45 years, and the peak age of onset of Crohn’s disease is 25-35 years. The former presents with persistent or repeated episodes of diarrhea, mucopurulent and bloody stools with abdominal pain, shortness of breath and varying degrees of systemic symptoms; the latter presents with diverse manifestations, usually including GI manifestations, systemic manifestations, extraintestinal manifestations and complications, with GI symptoms mainly being diarrhea and abdominal pain.
Although the symptoms are similar to those of common diarrhea and general enteritis, they are actually different. Ulcerative colitis tends to have bloody stools, while Crohn’s disease has chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain, and weight loss, all of which start and progress unknowingly. Acute enteritis, on the other hand, has a very clear trigger, an acute attack, and gets better in the short term. However, inflammatory bowel disease has a long and incurable course, and many patients feel painful when they get their diagnosis. Inflammatory bowel disease is like a “green cancer,” he said, more than 90 percent of which is not fatal, but also difficult to cure.
The inflammatory bowel disease or because the environment is too clean Explore the causes of inflammatory bowel disease, many people mentioned that often stay up late, long-term fatigue, smoking, raw and cold unclean diet, fine diet will induce inflammatory bowel disease.
The cause of inflammatory bowel disease is still not completely clear. At present, it is believed that this disease has a genetic susceptibility, and it is environmental factors acting on genetically susceptible individuals, which cause immune dysregulation under the action of intestinal bacteria, thus leading to a series of chronic inflammatory responses in the human intestine. And perhaps the environmental factor is that our lives are too clean. What we eat and use in modern times emphasizes sterilization, and the human immune system instead loses the opportunity to exercise and improve, thus leading to inflammatory bowel disease. He stressed that inflammatory bowel disease is not due to anything you have done and no one has infected you, it has nothing to do with diet or smoking, and a stressful lifestyle does not cause it. But if you are prone to the disease, especially ulcerative colitis, just exertion, anger or a cold can cause a recurrence or aggravation.
Many people don’t know much about the disease, but they don’t know that the attacks are very dangerous. The long and often recurring course of the disease causes digestive disorders and can lead to serious complications, fistulas, abdominal abscesses, intestinal stenosis and obstruction, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, acute perforation, and even cancer.
“Inflammatory bowel disease that invades the large intestine, is extensive, and has a long history of disease has a greatly increased risk of cancer.” Hu Pinzin noted. Some statistics show that the risk of colorectal cancer in patients with inflammatory bowel disease increases at an annual rate of 0.5%-1% 8-10 years after diagnosis. Therefore, patients with inflammatory bowel disease should be followed up with regular visits to the hospital. There is a range of medications available to treat the disease, and these can make symptoms disappear. This is called “maintenance therapy” and can greatly reduce the frequency of recurrences and thus the chance of complications.