Learn about IBD

What to expect from ulcerative colitis

Bloating and what to do about it

Just been diagnosed with Crohn's disease?

Just been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis?

How serious is Crohn's disease?

Children

• Paediatric Crohn's disease
  • What is paediatric Crohn's disease?
  • The digestive system and Crohn's
• Why do I have IBD?
• Symptoms of Crohn's disease in children
• IBD tests
  • IBD blood tests
    • How are blood tests done
  • Endoscopy tests
    • Preparing for an endoscopy
    • Having an endoscopy
    • After an endoscopy
    • Biopsies and paediatric endoscopy
    • Risks and complications of endoscopy
• Treatment for children

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

Newly diagnosed with Crohn's disease

What to expect from Crohn's disease

What causes IBD?

Newly diagnosed with ulcerative colitis

How serious is ulcerative colitis

Diagnosis of IBD

• Tests for IBD
  • Endoscopy tests for IBD
    • Gastroscopy
    • Proctoscopy for IBD
    • Double balloon endoscopy (DBE) for IBD
    • Sigmoidoscopy for IBD
    • Colonoscopy for IBD
    • Capsule endoscopy for IBD
    • What is having a colonoscopy like?
    • Bowel prep for colonoscopy
    • Getting through a colonoscopy
  • Blood tests for IBD
  • Scans and X-rays for IBD
    • Small bowel MRI for IBD
    • What happens during a small bowel MRI scan?
  • Stool tests for IBD
  • Prognostic testing in IBD

Complications of IBD

• Fistulas and inflammatory bowel disease
  • Anal fistula - Introduction
    • Anal fistula - Diagnosing an anal fistula
    • Anal fistula - Causes of an anal fistula
    • Anal fistula - Symptoms of an anal fistula
  • Beverley - My fistula story
• Intestinal strictures and Crohn's disease
• Teeth and IBD
• Pouchitis
• Eye problems in IBD
  • Uveitis - Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
  • Episcleritis - Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
  • Scleritis - Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
  • Keratopathy - Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
• Complications of ulcerative colitis
• Bile Acid Malabsorption (BAM)
  • Bile Acid Malabsorption (BAM) in Crohn's disease- My Story
• Hair loss and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
  • My hair loss story
• Complications of Crohn's disease
• Associated conditions
• Anal fissure
• Vitamin and mineral deficiencies in IBD
  • Magnesium deficiency and IBD
    • Transdermal magnesium baths for IBD
  • Iron deficiency and IBD
  • Electrolyte imbalance and IBD
  • Calcium deficiency and IBD
  • Vitamin D deficiency and IBD
  • Vitamin B12 and IBD
  • Minerals and IBD
  • Vitamins and IBD
• Bowel cancer, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
• Skin problems and inflammatory bowel disease
  • Skin problems and IBD Q&A - Elaine
  • Skin problems and IBD Q&A - Clemmie
• How does IBD affect puberty?
• How does IBD affect periods?

Fertility and pregnancy

• My ulcerative colitis pregnancy story - Jen Rose

Treatment

• Complementary therapies
  • Hypnotherapy for IBD Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
• Medication for IBD
  • Biologics for IBD
    • Infliximab for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
    • Humira diary - Simon Booth
    • Humira diary part 2 - Simon Booth
    • Adalimumab for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
    • Simponi (golimumab) for ulcerative colitis
    • Ustekinumab (Stelara) for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
    • Biosimilars for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
    • Vedolizumab - Entyvio Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
    • Injecting biologic medicine
    • Biologic infusions for Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis
    • Biosimilars and cost of treatment
  • Immunomodulators for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
    • Azathioprine for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
    • Mercaptopurine for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
    • Methotrexate for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
  • Steroids for treating IBD
    • Budesonide for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
    • Hydrocortisone for IBD
    • Methylprednisolone for IBD
    • Prednisolone for IBD
  • Aminosalicylates (5-ASAS) for IBD
    • Mesalazine for IBD
    • Sulfasalazine for IBD
  • Step-up treatment pathway for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
  • Monitoring medication for IBD
  • Managing your medication
  • Over the counter medication
  • Pain relief for IBD
  • Combination therapy
  • Medicine home delivery service
  • Antispasmodics and IBD
  • Repeat prescriptions
  • Laxatives and IBD
  • Antidiarrhoeals and inflammatory bowel disease
  • New small molecule medication for inflammatory bowel disease
    • Filgotinib (Jyseleca) for ulcerative colitis
    • Tofacitinib (Xeljanz) for ulcerative colitis
    • Upadacitinib (Rinvoq) for ulcerative colitis
    • Ozanimod (Zeposia) for ulcerative colitis
• Surgery for IBD
  • Anal fistula - Treating an anal fistula
    • Anal fistula - Recovering from surgery
  • Strictureplasty surgery for Crohn's disease
  • Small intestine resection surgery for IBD
  • Ileocaecal resection surgery for Crohn's disease
    • Ileocaecal resection surgery for Crohn's disease - My story
  • Colectomy surgery for IBD
    • Colectomy with ileostomy
    • Colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis (IRA)
    • Sigmoidectomy surgery for IBD
  • Proctocolectomy surgery
    • Pan-proctocolectomy with ileostomy
  • Stomas
    • Colostomy surgery for IBD
    • Mucous fistula surgery for IBD
    • Ileostomy surgery for IBD
  • Restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA)
    • My J-pouch surgery - Edmund Murray
    • My J-pouch surgery - Alwine Jarvis
    • Things I wish I knew before having J-pouch surgery
    • Living with a J-pouch
  • Percutaneous abscess drainage for IBD
  • Open abscess drainage in IBD
• Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) for IBD
• Induction and maintenance therapy in IBD

Probiotics and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

• Probiotic brands
  • Symprove for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
  • OptiBac Probiotics for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
  • My Symprove diary - Amber Platten
  • My Symprove diary - James Conlon
• Microbiome: Gut bacteria and IBD - Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
• Probiotic foods - ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
  • Kefir and IBD

IBD symptoms when in clinical remission

Symptoms of IBD

• Diarrhoea and IBD
• Fatigue and IBD
  • Why do we get so fatigued with IBD?
  • Tips for fighting fatigue
• Trapped wind and how to relieve it

What is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)?

• What is ulcerative colitis (UC)?
  • What is pancolitis?
  • What is proctosigmoiditis?
  • What is ulcerative proctitis?
  • What is left-sided (distal) colitis?
  • Ulcerative colitis disease types
• IBD and IBS
• How the digestive system works
• How the immune system works
• What is Crohn's disease
  • What is gastroduodenal Crohn's disease?
  • What is crohn's ileitis?
  • What is ileocolitis?
  • What is jejunoileitis?
  • What is perianal Crohn's?
  • What is Crohn's (granulomatous) colitis?
  • Different locations of Crohn's disease
• What is microscopic colitis?
• What is indeterminate colitis

What is faecal calprotectin test for IBD?

¿Qué es enfermedad de Crohn?

¿Qué es la colitis ulcerosa?

Constipation and how to help