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Inflammatory bowel disease is two chronic diseases of the intestines that are: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. These illnesses cause dreadful inflammation, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and rectal bleeding.

In Crohn's diseases, a patient feels inflammation anywhere in the digestive tract. The burning can extent to the entire thickness of the bowel in the abdomen. Moreover, it occurs in one large patch or sometimes in multiple patches.

While in Ulcerative colitis, a patient feels inflammation in the inner mucosa, and it starts at the anus. If the disease continuously progresses upward, then it affects the colon, apart of the large intestine only.

Causes of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD)

When it comes to causes of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), there are many and several reasons are still under consideration. However, a few factors that lead to bowel diseases and inflammation are intestinal microorganisms, immune dysregulation, environmental elements, and genetic predisposition.

Gastrointestinal Tract Disorders (GI)

Inflammatory bowel disease and any other illness of the body is an organic phenomenon. It affects human phycology, the same is the case with IBD. A few other disorders may include irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and other functional disorders. In such diseases, a patient does not realize any physical change or reason. However, the effect of the emotions and phycology of a person. In this case, a GI disorder patient feels psychological changes quickly. Therefore, doctors catch anxiety easily in such patients. There is no usually any physical change in such patients; thus, most of the time, they are left undiagnosed with the disease and depression.

Link of Anxiety with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

When a patient diagnoses with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), doctors immediately examine the person for the detection of organic gastrointestinal disease (GI). There is a sky-high probability that a patient is suffering from both. A research study of Australian has shown that 66% of IBD patients also suffer from GI disorders. Therefore, the element of anxiety is common in inflammatory bowel disease patients. A person is usually unaware of the depression symptoms and emotional changes in the body. However, a physician cam recognizes the causes and differences between normal IBD and other anxiety symptoms.

Inflammatory bowel disease patients can suffer from acute anxiety. A research study has shown that active mucosal inflammation has a powerful connection with psychological symptoms. Therefore, it can increase anxiety and depression in an ostomy patient. Thus, a patient needs to control the inflammatory symptoms. However, after the diagnosis of IBD, a person can control the anxiety with adequate precautionary measures and doctor's suggestions.

Some other factors that flare-up anxiety in the inflammatory bowel disease patients are increasing age, listless routine, lethargic activities, lack of information regarding the disease, intensity of the disease, and poor economical status.

Treatment of Anxiety and Inflammatory Bowel Disease

A doctor must diagnose inflammatory bowel disease patients with any other functional disorder. It will be difficult for a physician to identify differences; therefore, he should dig into inflammatory symptoms first. Treatment of the initial signs is compulsory, after that doctors should look into other functional disorders and emotional changes.

In many cases, doctors treat inflammatory bowel disease (general practitioners and gastroenterologists); therefore, they do not know much about the phycological disorders. Mental illness is a social stigma; thus, a patient does not want to reveal the symptoms and changes. This is one of the primary reasons behind untreated and undiagnosed anxiety and depression.

So, a physician should know the consequences of GI disorder and IBD, and treat the patient accordingly. It can start with a few general questions of daily activities, sleeping routines, eating habits, behavioral changes, and comfortability in social appearance. Such queries would be effective for patients and doctors. This will be the easiest way of detecting depression, anxiety, and mental pressure. A doctor should send the patient for therapies and give some medicines also.