Why do patients with inflammatory bowel disease believe that the disease cannot be cured? One of the reasons is that there are several common misconceptions about the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease among patients and doctors. 1. Misconceptions about diagnosis: any disease is “easy to treat in early stages”. However, many patients do not see a doctor in time when symptoms appear, but treat them as they think. For example, blood in the stool is thought to be hemorrhoids, diarrhea is thought to be “eating bad stomach”, so they buy their own medicine to eat. It takes a long time to find a doctor. Of course, there are also some doctors who are inexperienced and do not give patients the necessary tests, but easily administer medication based on symptoms. Both of these cases are causes of delayed diagnosis. The direct problem of misdiagnosis is the delay in treatment, missing the opportunity for early treatment. 2, the treatment of misunderstanding: because many drugs for inflammatory bowel disease will have some adverse reactions, such as long-term hormone therapy will occur abnormal “obesity”, hyperglycemia, osteoporosis, etc., so afraid of the application of hormones. In recent years, the development of biological drugs, such as classical grams, has achieved outstanding efficacy in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, but also brought some adverse reactions, such as allergic reactions, infections, etc., especially the publicity of its adverse reactions on the Internet, so that many patients and doctors have a sense of fear about the application of drugs. The mentality of “choking on the drug” has emerged. In fact, according to the analysis of a large number of patients with the drug, the adverse reactions to the application of the drug are exactly the same as the adverse reactions of patients who do not use the drug. It should be said that the correct understanding of the disease, the correct choice of drugs is the most important basic conditions for curing the disease. 3, the misunderstanding of drug use: also due to fear of adverse drug reactions, or patients stop their own drugs, or doctors prematurely stop using drugs. As a result, the disease is not well to prematurely reduce or discontinue drugs. In fact, the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease is a long process of medication. Even if it is cured, it is necessary to apply medications for long-term maintenance to prevent the disease from recurring. The concept of cure for inflammatory bowel disease deserves special mention here. Many patients, including some doctors, think that the disease is improved or cured when the symptoms disappear. In fact, the improvement of symptoms is only the first step in a long march. Numerous studies have proven that only when mucosal healing is achieved can the disease be considered to be in “remission”. Only then can we switch to maintenance therapy. The patients who have achieved mucosal healing are the ones who are likely to not relapse or have a reduced chance of relapse. 4, lack of vigilance to inflammatory bowel disease “cancer”: long-term chronic inflammation is pre-cancerous lesions. It is very important to strengthen the detection of patients with inflammatory bowel disease, especially pathological histological detection. The above misconceptions are problems that often exist between doctors and patients, so we hope to draw your attention to them!