Crohn’s Disease Facts And Myths

If you suffer from Crohn’s Disease, you should have some accurate information about it.

1. Crohn’s Disease is not a disease. It is a manmade inflammatory bowel condition.

2. A Crohn’s Disease diagnosis just means that there is more damage to the colon than IBS, Colitis, or UC.

3. Scopes and blood work tell you nothing valuable about your bowel condition. The only thing that has any value is your symptoms.

4. If you have Crohn’s Disease you likely do not need surgery unless you have waited too long for the proper care.

5. There are effective treatments for inflammatory bowel conditions. They just happen to be natural vs chemical.

6. The only treatment needed is one that rebuilds the bowel tissue. This treatment uses the natural, organic, raw materials that the flesh of the bowel is made of. The colon is not made of Prednisone.

7. The only dietary restrictions are to temporarily eat a low fiber diet of no raw fruit, no raw vegetables, no nuts, seeds, or corn. We don’t need to drag roughage over an already inflamed colon.

8. Crohn’s is a manmade condition from the prior use of synthetic antibiotics taken for some other health issue that destroyed the mucosal lining of the colon.

9. Crohn’s disease symptoms are incessant diarrhea, blood, mucus, undigested food in the stool, and inflammation.

Crohn’s Disease Basics

Let’s clear up some misconceptions to reduce some of the unnecessary panic and get on the right path.

1. Crohn’s is 100% curable with the proper use of natural medicine.

2. Crohn’s is just a more severe case of ulcerative colitis which is just a more severe case of colitis which is just a more severe case of IBS.

3. Crohn’s is just another one of the inflammatory bowel diseases – which are not diseases.

4. Crohn’s is not an auto-immune disease. It is a manmade condition as all of the above are.

5. If you have diarrhea- blood and mucus in your stool as well as pain and bloating you likely have Crohn’s, a non disease.

Diverticulitis Causes

These are the same as any other inflammatory bowel condition. Essentially it is a man made injury. Diverticulitis does not just occur naturally, as does diverticulosis, which is a breakdown of the internal bowel tissue – this comes about mainly from aging. Diverticulitis occurs when there has been damage to the mucosal lining that protects the intestinal tissue from digestive acids and food passing by. These then erode the GI wall until there is a “pot hole” deep enough to hit nerve tissue, at which point you feel pain. This can also bring about acute, urgent diarrhea. The only difference between this and IBS, Colitis, and Crohn’s is that with Diverticulitis you will have one or two “pin holes” that go very deep. With the other conditions you will have multiple locations, more like gashes and not necessarily as deep, impacting nerve tissue and blood vessels and occurs in acute episodes not chronically.

What DOES happen in relation to diverticulosis is the “pocket” becomes perforated, essentially an ulcer (ulcerated colitis?) and you will then see blood in the stool. When you see mucus in the stool that is your body’s desperate attempt to block the hole and stop the bleeding. If that is not taken care of properly and you are on some drug thinking you are doing good, the mucus thing will finally give out and now you're at Crohn’s Disease.

The cause of Diverticulitis is the same as any other IBD, because they ARE same thing. The difference is, how long did you wait to get proper care and therefore how much damage was done.