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Can being on low dose antibiotics for 5 years to prevent uti's cause crohn's or ibd? i don't have diarreha, just constant intestinal pain.
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No association: Long term antibiotics are not described as causing crohns. If you have diarrhea you should be checked for c dificile and bacterial overgrowth. Crohns is an autoimmune disorder. Irritable bowel disease is a gut nervous system disorder.
Answered 8/23/2013
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