Mayo Clinic on Crohn's disease & ulcerative colitis : strategies to manage IBD and take charge of your life
Title:
Mayo Clinic on Crohn's disease & ulcerative colitis : strategies to manage IBD and take charge of your life
Author:
Farraye, Francis A., author.
ISBN:
9781945564086
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Physical Description:
191 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Why IBD? Why me? -- Understanding ulcerative colitis -- Understanding Crohn's disease -- Other types of IBD -- Self-management : it's your IBD -- Medications for IBD -- IBD affects more than your gut -- The IBD-cancer connection -- When you need surgery -- The food fight : what can you eat? -- Taking charge of your lifestyle -- Sex, fertility and pregnancy -- Growing up with IBD.
Abstract:
"[L]earn the science behind IBD and how it strikes, what medications to discuss with your doctor, when to consider surgery, how the disease can affect other parts of your body, and ways to change your lifestyle to manage and live well with your illness."--Back cover.
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