Guidance on the everyday situations people with inflammatory bowel disease ask about most, from eating out and holidays to periods, pregnancy and insurance.
In this section
- Eating out and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Some patients are embarrassed when they are invited to a meal in a restaurant as they quite naturally don’t want to draw…
- Employment and Inflammatory Bowel Disease CD and UC are chronic diseases, which flare up from time to time, but with appropriate treatment, people can remain well…
- Everyday Illness and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Compared to coping with the complexities of inflammatory bowel disease, everyday illnesses such as the common cold,…
- General Hygiene and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Inflammatory bowel disease is a diarrhoeal illness therefore you should avoid practices which may cause infections and…
- Holidays Inflammatory bowel disease is a diarrhoeal illness and even people with the strongest guts may suffer diarrhoea on…
- IBD Advice for Teenagers Life is never quite straight-forward when you’re a teenager! There are so many exams to take, so many decisions to make.…
- Insurance and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Most policies, whether it is for life assurance, a mortgage application or pension, etc. are subject to a medical…
- Osteoporosis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease What is Osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a condition resulting from loss of collagen and minerals (the components of bone)…
- Periods and Inflammatory Bowel Disease In general women with IBD have normal periods and no particular alternative measures need to be taken. Very occasionally…
- Pregnancy and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) does not affect the outcome of pregnancy and more than 80% of women with IBD are able…
- Preventing a ‘Flare-up’ of Ulcerative Colitis Listed below are a few points to help you prevent a flare-up of your disease. Some flare-ups are unavoidable, but if…
- Relationships and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Forming a new relationship should be a time of high excitement, but for sufferers from IBD it may present problems which…
- Sport and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Most patients with inflammatory bowel disease can enjoy a wide range of sporting activities. It may actually be a good…
- Stress and Inflammatory Bowel Disease There is no evidence to suggest that stress actually causes inflammatory bowel disease but relapses of the condition…
- The Oral Contraceptive Pill and Inflammatory Bowel Disease It is very important that a reliable method of birth control is chosen as it is generally preferable that you do not…
- Vegetarian Diets A vegetarian diet can be successfully followed by those with Crohn’s disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC) although…