Inflammatory Bowel Disease focuses on your gastrointestinal tract and is caused by a faulty immune system. IBD is divided into two types: crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Crohn’s disease happens when your digestive tract lining is inflamed. Ulcerative colitis occurs when the lining of the colon has sores or is inflamed. You will notice Crohn’s when damaged areas begin to show up in patches next to healthy tissue. For ulcerative colitis it continues but it is not patchy. It begins at the rectum and then spreads to the colon.

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