Colitis Arthritis Can Be Painful and Debilitating
Colitis arthritis is often an unpleasant and debilitating experience that can cause a patient to suffer a lot of pain, and it is in fact one of the symptoms noticed in people suffering from inflammatory bowel disease. The symptoms are a part of a group of complications that occur in the intestines and which affects not only the joints, but also the kidney as well as the liver, eyes and even the skin. However, colitis arthritis is by far the most common ailment and is believed to affect an estimated quarter of all those who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease.
Failure of the gastrointestinal tract
The sad truth about inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) is that it is IBD that leads to experiencing reactions such as inflamed joints and sinews as well as blood vessels, and the reason for this is that the gastrointestinal tract which must expel dangerous matter from the body can fail and when it does so, ailments such as colitis arthritis occur. Read more about Colitis Arthritis Can Be Painful and Debilitating →
Crohn’s Disease Arthritis
According to estimates, Crohn’s disease arthritis is believed to affect as many as twenty-six percent of patients that reported having a disorder in their guts and when such a condition affects a person, areas that are most affected include the ankles and knees, less than five joints and it can also occur at the same time as a flare-up of Crohn’s disease and then lasts for as long as ten weeks before improvement is noticed.
Polyarticular arthritis
There is also another form of Crohn’s disease arthritis and that is the rather rarer instance of polyarticular arthritis that closely resembles rheumatoid arthritis and it can affect a patient in the long term and often remains unaffected by bowel disease. To be sure, Crohn’s disease arthritis can also take the form of spinal arthritis and also sacroiliac arthritis that can often not be differentiated from spondylitis (ankylosing). Read more about Crohn’s Disease Arthritis →