Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatment Principles

The treatment principles of inflammatory bowel disease include promoting intestinal mucosa healing, alleviating clinical symptoms and preventing recurrence of the disease.

1. Promoting intestinal mucosa healing

Patients need to follow the doctor's advice for anti-inflammatory treatment to reduce inflammatory reactions and repair damaged intestinal mucosa. Commonly used drugs are sulfasalazine, olsalazine and azathioprine.

2. Alleviating clinical symptoms

with diarrhea patients can choose antidiarrheal drugs such as montmorillonite powder, bifidobacteria and diphenoxylate according to the doctor's advice; abdominal pain patients can choose anticholinergic drugs such as loperamide, atropine and scopolamine according to the doctor's advice.

3. To prevent recurrence of the disease

Patients usually need to maintain a light diet, quit smoking and alcohol, and appropriate exercise to maintain a good mood, which helps to reduce the recurrence of the disease.