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Vitamin Supplements and Crohn’s Disease Patients

Vitamin Supplements and Crohn’s Disease Patients

Vitamin Supplements and Crohn’s Disease Patients Crohn’s Disease is and IBD-Inflammatory Bowel Disease-that mainly affects the small intestine. It causes both chronic pain and diarrhea and is similar to ulcerative colitis, which causes ulcers in the intestinal lining. Crohn’s Disease affects both men and women and can show up in children of in later adulthood. No one is quite sure what causes Crohn’s Disease, but there are a variety of treatment options. One of the main symptoms of Crohn’s Disease is vitamin D deficiency, because it is not absorbed regularly into the body due to the active inflammation in the...