Crohn's
Secure-IBD, the Epidemiology of COVID-19, and IBD
The Secure-IBD project is an international effort being led by doctors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York to act as a database of outcomes of COVID-19 occurring in patients with IBD. At their site, https://covidibd.org, they are collecting data on reports of coronavirus cases as well as providing summaries of that data.
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As the COVID-19 virus pings closer and closer to home we have been running through all the questions,
What should we cancel (answer: as much as possible)?
What happens within our kids who are at college?
Maybe more importantly, what happens if we are all stuck at home together?
And, how do we keep Joshua from getting sick?
Having an immunocompromised person in the house adds another level of co...
They say that we have a lizard brain, but I know it’s a lion—fierce and territorial—that emerges when there is nothing else to keep us safe.
Six years ago I was woken up from what was supposed to be a relatively routine surgery related to Crohn’s and told they found something unexpected, a cavity the size of a softball that was filling from my leaking intestines. On the day before Thanksgiving,...
Over two years ago I was put on Remicade (infliximab), a TNFa immune blocker, to control my Crohn’s disease. Two of the main biomarkers they use to measure inflammation with IBD is C-reactive protein (CRP), a protein released by the liver as a response to inflammation, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) which is the rate at which red blood cells sediment in a period of one hour. My CRP ha...