Crohn's Disease: A Literature Review

as well as ways to control the blood deficiency. Various old and recent articles relating to anemia and crohn’s were extracted in order to facilitate the relation between the two and identify the frequency, blood tests and treatment of anemia. The findings, based on articles in this review, reveal that increase of anemia in CD is reported in older articles, however the most widespread condition is low levels of iron in the blood and also B12 deficiency has been found to be a cause of previous CD surgery. In order to cure anemia, patients who have been suffering from iron deficiency were prescribed to take iron tablets to increase their red blood cells. It has been found that the patients were not responding to the iron tablets because CD was preventing the digestive system …show more content…
Source of Data:
Numerous data was collected from secondary sources, such as published medical books and journals, and from several internet web pages (tertiary sources) in order to help with my research. In addition to secondary and tertiary sources, a questionnaire was handed out to a group of students in order to determine if they are familiar with Crohn’s Disease (CD) and if they experience any symptoms that are related or similar to CD, and how they are managing it.
Significance:
In my opinion, readers should read my paper because it contains valuable information and data about Crohn’s Disease (CD), which is a disease not familiar by many people. The benefit from reading this paper is that readers will be able to recognize the main causes, symptoms, risk and different ways to manage it. Those who suffer from CD will mainly benefit from reading my research paper because they would be closely related to the