What sort of disease is crohn's disease?

Autoimmune: The immune system recognizes a protein usually a bacteria protein in your gut and your immune system does its job to clear that particular foreign protein. Unfortunately your gut is the innocent bystander in this process and sustains anywear from mild to severe damage and prevents it from absorbing nutrition.

Inflammatory: Crohn's is a type of inflammatory bowel disease. It can involve any part of the gastrointestinal tract, from mouth to anus. It is a chronic disease that needs to be managed medically, and sometimes surgically. Current medications are quite effective at controlling the symptoms and disease, and people with crohn's can live a normal life with minimal impact from this condition.

Immune: It is an immune mediated disease in which the immune system mistakenly responds to normal bacteria in the gut.