Does rational therapy exist in patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis?

Abstract

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis belong to an autoimmune mediated, civilizing diseases having a rise of incidence. The cause of both disease is still unknown with undoubted importance of diet, a lifestyle and using of antimicrobial drugs in the last fifty years.

The rational therapy is based to use the drugs with high anti-inflammatory efficacy. The choice of therapy is driven due to disease course in individual patient.

The integral part of patients follow up are activities directing to minimize of drug’s side effects.

Keywords

• Crohn's disease
• ulcerative colitis
• inflammatory bowel disease
• autoimmune diseases
• aminosalicylates
• biological therapy
• immunossuppresive