Your Child with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a general term that usually refers to one of three conditions: Crohn disease, ulcerative colitis, and indeterminate colitis. The uncomfortable and often health-threatening inflammation of inflammatory bowel disease occurs when the immune cells attack the digestive system. Symptoms include belly pain, weight loss, diarrhea, skin rash, and failure to grow.

Parents whose child has IBD have many concerns about symptoms, diagnosis and diagnostic tests, treatment, family and school issues, insurance, medical care-and these topics and more are covered in this comprehensive book. The editors of the book, among the foremost experts in diagnosing and treating IBD in children, report that ″many, many parents have expressed gratitude for having a book like this available to them." In this second edition the editors and contributors have updated all of the chapters, paying special attention to information that parents want to hear about.

Author: Maria Oliva-Hemker
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 11/13/2017
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781421423517

About the Author

The North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition is the premier organization for physicians caring for children with digestive disorders in North America. NASPGHAN strives to improve the care of infants, children, and adolescents with digestive disorders by promoting advances in clinical care, research, and education. Maria Oliva-Hemker, MD, is the Stermer Family Professor of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. David Ziring, MD, is the associate director of the Cedars-Sinai Pediatric IBD Program and an associate clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Shehzad A. Saeed, MD, is a professor at Wright State University's Boonshoft School of Medicine, the chief medical value based care officer at Dayton Children's Hospital, and the chief medical officer at Dayton Children's Health Partners. Athos Bousvaros, MD, MPH, is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, the associate director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, and the associate chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at Boston Children's Hospital.