Inflammatory bowel disease is not something you can generally see by taking just one look at someone.
Or more, in actual fact. IBD is commonly referred to as an invisible illness.
As it generally affects the digestive system, it would not be common knowledge as to whether someone was a sufferer or not.
What many people don’t know, is that IBD can and does affect the outside of the body.
Symptoms unrelated to the digestive system are known as extraintestinal complications and can occur in 25% – 40% of IBD sufferers.
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