Inlfammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) represents a number of conditions principally Ulcerative Colitis (U.C.) and Crohn's Disease (C.D.)

The symptoms commonly include diarrhoea and rectal bleeding but also include a variable amount of absominal pain, mucus in the stool etc.

There are also a number of 'extra-intestinal' manifestations of disease i.e. association conditions which affect other organs apart from the bowel.

Medical Treatment of IBD

There are a number of treatment options...details will be posted soon.