Your Child with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Family Guide for Caregiving (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a general term that usually refers to one of three conditions: Crohn disease, ulcerative colitis, and indeterminate colitis. The uncomfortable and often health-threatening inflammation of inflammatory bowel disease occurs when the immune cells attack the digestive system. Symptoms include belly pain, weight loss, diarrhea, skin rash, and failure to grow.

Parents whose child has IBD have many concerns about symptoms, diagnosis and diagnostic tests, treatment, family and school issues, insurance, medical care-and these topics and more are covered in this comprehensive book. The editors of the book, among the foremost experts in diagnosing and treating IBD in children, report that ″many, many parents have expressed gratitude for having a book like this available to them." In this second edition the editors and contributors have updated all of the chapters, paying special attention to information that parents want to hear about.