Crohn's Disease

[Aldhon]

Hi...

The precise cause of Crohn's disease remains unknown. Our best understanding is that Crohn’s disease results from an abnormal immune response in the intestinal tract, triggered by unknown environmental factors, in persons at risk for the disease due to their genetic makeup. There is no clear evidence that diet is involved in causing Crohn’s disease.....

The first symptoms of Crohn's disease are often abdominal pain and diarrhea. Pain is felt in the area of the navel or on the right side. Joint pain, lack of appetite, weight loss, fatigue and fever are common.

Sometimes Crohn's disease affects the skin around the anus. A variety of sores in the anal area such as skin tags, fissures (cracks), fistulas (abnormal openings from bowel to skin surface near the anus), and abscesses may occur. Less commonly, other organ systems outside the gastrointestinal tract may be affected by Crohn’s disease. These include the eyes (iritis, uveitis), liver (PSC), skin (erythema nodosum, pyoderma gangrenosum), and kidney (kidney stones).....

[Luthgee23]

There is no clear evidence that diet is involved in causing Crohn’s disease.....

The reason there is no "clear evidence" of diet having an effect on those living with crohns disease (http://www.living-with-crohns-disease.com) is because no drug company is going to fork out millions of dollars to do a study about anything except their drugs, which will make them lots of money. Diets don't make money except for the people publishing books about those diets. Pharmaceutical giants aren't in the writing business; they are in the chemical business. Diet does indeed have a profound effect on Crohn's; it is a digestive disorder, having to do very much with what you eat and drink.