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Is crohn disease and inflammatory bowel disease a lifelong disease? please advise!

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Unfortunately yes: but you can achieve control of disease with careful medical management is most cases. You need to under the care of a gastroenterologist who specializes in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Try National Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis home page for referral to one in your local area.

Answered 7/25/2014

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