If you took acne drug Accutane and now suffer from the IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) known as Crohn’s Disease, you need to know the facts about your condition.
First you should know that the disease was given its name after Dr.Burrill B. Crohn, who joined two associates to publish a paper in 1932 which laid out the realities of the disease. In the year 2011, that disease persists, but sometimes for different reasons than existed in 1932.
Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative colitis are both an IBD. Each involves inflammation of the gastrointestinal or digestive tract.
Crohn’s Disease can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract. But it normally involves the colon (large intestine) and/or the small intestine, affecting the end of the latter or the start of the former. Ulcerative colitis can affect the lining of the colon and the rectum.
Both diseases involve abnormalities in the body’s immunity system. In effect, the body attacks itself by mistaking bacterial substances in the intestines as invaders and causing chronic inflammation in the lining of the intestines.
Indeed, the two IBD maladies are quite similar and in some cases even indistinguishable. But both can be caused by taking defective acne medication Accutane.
Other causes of IBDcan be genetic. IBD sometimes has a tendency to perpetuate in families, with as many as one-fourth of IBD sufferers having a close family member who also has an IBD.
Even so, no genetic tendency need be involved in order for a person to suffer from Crohn’s Disease or ulcerative colitis. Instead, a person can suffer either digestive tract ailment by virtue of taking the acne drug Accutane.
If you or a relative has Crohn’s Disease or ulcerative colitis and also has taken Accutane, you should reach out to an experienced defective drug lawyer. And a good place to start is with this Accutane Lawsuit website. We can provide you with an Accutane attorney or lawyer for your state to fight for your legal right to financial compensation for your Accutane side effects injuries.
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