Morristown (NJ) Memorial
Hospital.
Educating the public about
IBD is of crucial importance
to doctors, patients and their
families.
"I think there is a tremen-
dous feeling in the lay public
that this disease is caused by
emotional factors," said Dr.
Stephen Wang, a pediatric
gastroenterologist at Mor-
ristown (N.J.) Memorial
Hospital: "Emotional stress

"IBD affects Jews
out of proportion
to their
percentage of the
population."

may precipitate it in a suscep-
tible individual, but the emo-
tional stress reason is pure
nonsense."
The main medications used
to treat IBD are anti-
inflammatory drugs, such as
cortico-steroids and
sulfasalazine. Although they
bring relief from the symp-
toms, they are not a cure.
It is not uncommon for peo-
ple to have IBD for some time
before the illness is diagnos-
ed. According to NFIC, two-
thirds of all patients with
Crohn's of the ileum will re-
quire surgery. IBD can strike
at any age, and most cases are
diagnosed in people below the
age of 30. NFIC estimates
that as many as 200,000
children under age 16 suffer
from IBD.
According to the NFIC,
growth failure is present in
about 15 to 30 percent of
children with Crohn's and
ulcerative colitis when the
onset is before puberty. For
people suffering from
ulcerative colitis, surgery to
remove the entire colon and
rectum is a permanent cure.
That is required when non-
surgical treatment, such as
the anti-inflammatory drugs,
does not work.
Research is continuing to
find the causes of IBD, as well
as determining why Jewish
people are more prone to it.
According to the NFIC, much
research is being conducted in
the field of immunology, the
study of the body's immune
defense system, and
microbiology, the study of
microscopic organisms with
the power to cause disease.
Doctors are looking for in-
fectious causes and finding a
defect in the body's immune
system, which seems to cause
it to attack itself.
Meantime, NFIC, now in its
20th year, is raising money
for research and cures.

Copyright 1987, JTA, Inc.

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