Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease where parts of the digestive system become inflamed, leading to symptoms such as abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, fatigue and weight loss. The disease can affect any part of the digestive system from the mouth to the back passage, but it most commonly affects the last section of the small intestine (ileum) or the large intestine (colon).
It’s a lifelong condition with no cure, and although it has a range of symptoms the majority are internal – meaning that the suffering of people with Crohn’s disease is often invisible to other people.
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