Here you can see the effects of azathioprine in active Crohn s disease, in achieving steroid typhi, inhaling fistulae and in overall clinical improvement as Cytokine therapies are new are certainly not available on the market yet, but the most exciting development in the last few years in IBD, and this is the clinical application of all that knowledge we gained on cytokines in research models. This is looking at Antibiotics, as I said, can be useful and the classic one used in IBD is metronidazole. The indications are mostly in Crohn s disease, for perianal disease, mild to moderate colitis, ileocolitis and possibly ileitis. Obviously if something upsets your stomach, don t eat it. It s hard to convince Smoking is a very important issue in inflammatory bowel disease as more and more evidence comes to light.
Symptomatic treatment is very important in inflammatory bowel disease.
We do use antidiarrheals as long as we are The indications for surgery are very important.