Inflammation

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are summarized under the term chronic inflammatory bowel diseases. The common symptoms include diarrhea, blood discharge from the intestine and abdominal pain. The diseases progress in episodes. The cause is a “dysregulation” of the mucosal immune system^1,2. The disease affect different parts of the intestine:

Ulcerative Colitis – a disease affecting the innermost lining of the large intestine (colon) and rectum³

Crohn´s Disease – a disease affecting different areas of the digestive tract and all layers of the gut wall⁴

Our Fecal Calprotectin optimized for an efficient workflow with a simple, convenient and hygienic extraction process aids in the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel diseases and specifically in the differential diagnosis to the irritable bowel syndrome⁵.