Crohn’s Disease, a chronic inflammation of your digestive tract, involves any part of your digestive tract from the mouth to the anus, but usually involves the terminal part of your small intestine.

This particular inflammation to the digestive tract causes great discomfort and bothersome symptoms and also causes great damage to your digestive tract.

Crohn’s Disease affects both women and men. However, for women, it often leads to many health complications, which are mainly related to the reproductive system such as infertility and also pregnancy complications.crohnes-disease

Reproductive health risks associated with Crohn’s Disease

It becomes essential for you to know more about these specific health risks in advance and take the necessary preventive measures to avoid complications. Here are a few health problems which can be experienced with Crohn’s disease.

  1. Irregular menstrual cycle: In addition to regular symptoms of Crohn’s Disease, you can also experience irregular menstrual cycles. As Crohn’s Disease throws the entire body off, at times it results in unexpected abnormalities.
  2. Pain during intercourse: This is also a major concern for women with Crohn’s Disease. In most cases, this particular problem will not take place; rather it can be a sign of a fistula in the vaginal area. Fistulas are small channels that result from ulcers in your digestive tract and other various organs that are connected to various organs in the lower region of your body. Immediate medical attention is necessary for fistulas because progression may lead to an abscess or other infections with negative effects.
  3. Fertility: If you have Crohn’s Disease, your fertility chances are reduced, especially when the disease is active. If you want to conceive or increase fertility chances, you should try to get pregnant when the disease is in remission. You can experience flare-ups during pregnancy, but they are usually mild and will immediately respond to appropriate medical treatment.
  4. Complications in pregnancy: Very rarely will you experience complications in your pregnancy with Crohn’s Disease. The majority of pregnancy cases with Crohn’s Disease results in normal children. However, it would be better for you to discuss the matter with your doctor before you try to fall pregnant.

Apart from these reproductive health concerns, you can also experience inflammation in your reproductive system. Inflammation to your reproductive system mainly includes certain major organs such as uterus, ovaries, perineum, vaginal canal and also vulva.

For most women, suffering from gynecological complications with Crohn’s Disease, often requires hormonal replacement therapies or even other forms of hormone-based treatments to treat gynecological complications to some extent.

If you are a woman with Crohn’s Disease, it is very important for you to discuss the complications with your personal doctor and take better suggestions to get the right treatment at the right time.

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  1. I am a 21 year old women with Crohn’s disease & im in remission since i had surgery in 2005, (i had 3 feet of my intestine removed.) I am pregnant and have to get an anortion because im in beauty school & my boyfriend & i are not financially stable to support a baby, & plus he lives with his parents still & so do I. What are the problems i should worry about with getting an abortion even though i have crohn’s???? please i need an answer

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