How Is Acupuncture Used to Treat Crohn's Disease?
Crohn's disease is an inflammatory condition, which causes persistent inflammation of the patient’s intestinal tract, right from the mouth to rectum. This condition can develop anywhere in the intestines, usually in sites surrounded by healthy tissues, and can gradually spread deeper into the affected tissues.
Common symptoms include watery diarrhea, loss of appetite, and fever. Symptoms might manifest and disappear, with the disorder becoming active or moving into remission numerous times during the sufferer’s lifetime. Other symptoms associated with the Crohn's disease include anemia, bloating, weight loss, nausea, vomiting, and floating stools.
What Causes Crohn's Disease?
Medical experts haven’t yet found out what exactly causes Crohn's disease. Certain theories include a defective immune system response caused by a virus or bacteria, genetics, and a diet highly enriched with processed and fatty foods. Most likely, multiple factors are involved.
Risk Factors
These may include being obese, smoking cigarettes, being a European or Jew, living in an urban area, family history of IBS, poor dieting habits, and minimal exposure to sunlight.
An acupuncturist might help lessen the severity of your condition by utilizing a different approach and allow enough time for the patient to discuss and understand the disease better.
Crohn's disease can sometimes be linked to other underlying medical conditions, including liver disease, arthritis, eye infections, skin rashes, and osteoporosis.
Acupuncture in Treating Crohn's Disease
Acupuncture is a traditional treatment practice that involves insertion of fine needles into specific parts of the body. Practitioners believe that this procedure stimulates the brain to release more endorphins, which block the pain. They might also boost your immune system and assist in fighting infections.
The major culprits of the disorder include stress, lack of exercise, poor eating habits, alcohol, and cigarette smoking. Acupuncture works by:
- Decreasing the symptoms associated with the disorder, by helping the patient to stay in remission as well as decreasing the reoccurrence of the severity and regularity of relapses.
- Minimizing the risks of serious complications.
- Helping Crohn's patients to cope and enjoy quality life at work, family, and society.
This speeds up the healing process while lessening the disease in several cases. Acupuncture isn’t just safe and effective, but it’s also cheap and affordable for everyone. Most studies have confirmed that acupuncture is useful in decreasing disease activity as well as relieving disease-related symptoms.
Crohn's disease can lead to intestinal obstructions, fistulas, anal fissures, and ulcers. In addition, patients suffering from Crohn's disease are more likely to develop malnutrition since their intestine can’t absorb adequate nutrients from their diet. Crohn's disease is common in people of ages between 20 and 40 years, although kids and older adults might also develop the disease. There’s no specific medication for Crohn's disease. However, certain diets and medications can be beneficial in controlling the condition and even bringing initiating long-term remission. Some patients will need surgery to remove certain parts of the affected digestive tract. Nevertheless, surgery doesn’t cure the illness.
For each treatment, the practitioners will choose two or more of such points depending on the nature of the patient’s condition plus their personality profile regarding dieting. The acupuncturist might also utilize electro-stimulation on some points in order to accelerate the endorphin release as well as stimulating the metabolism.
Acupuncture is highly effective and can work excellently in alleviating the symptoms of Crohn's disease. Talk to your practitioner in order to understand everything about this form of treatment.
