![]() “As a result, stools have more liquid,” says Louis Cohen, MD, a gastroenterologist and an assistant professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. This inflammation causes damage to the cells in the intestinal lining that normally absorb water. "In Crohn’s disease, the immune system mistakes and attacks the body’s normal cells and bacteria as foreign invaders, resulting in inflammation," says Yezaz Ghouri, MD, a gastroenterologist at University of Missouri Health Care. Persistent, urgent diarrhea is one of the classic signs of Crohn’s disease, according to the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. ![]() You may not want to talk about it in polite company, but if you have an IBD like Crohn’s disease, diarrhea is an all-too-familiar problem for you.
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