Crohn’s Symptoms: Other Areas
Crohn’s disease is usually characterized by symptoms like ulcers and abscesses in the intestine as well as loose motions and bleeding. However, very often, Crohn’s disease is not confined to just the small intestine but affects the rest of the digestive tract as well as other parts of the body as well. Let’s take a look at the other areas that this disease can affect.
There could be fistulas or channels of pus that affect the anus as well as the urinary bladder. Infection here could lead to high fever. There could also be rectal bleeding in Crohn’s disease. The other symptoms could be ulcers in the mouth, inflammation of the eyes and the mouth, skin rashes and pain in the joints. On the skin, there could be red spots that are raised and painful and infection on the skin around the ankles.
There could be more serious complications like kidney stones and arthritis. The spine, liver and bile ducts could also get affected. The lower back as well as the spine could go through a lot of pain and there could be stiffness. One of the main complications that comes on is the feeling of weakness and fatigue. This is something that has different causes because of the different symptoms that Crohn’s disease manifests. It could be due to the bleeding – which could also cause anemia, it could be because of the dehydration brought about by the diarrhea, or it could be the nausea that prevents the patient from enjoying what he has eaten.
Crohn’s patients go through malnutrition as well, not because someone does not provide for them but because the goodness of the food doesn’t get absorbed into the body. This causes weakness, which causes lethargy which in turn causes more complications. The symptoms not only affect the person on a physical level, they affect them on mental and psychological levels as well.