Dying from crohn;s
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Here is something I found that may help. I would think it'd be more probable to die from colon cancer than from crohn's. But, hopefully this will give you better info.
www.everydayhealth.com/crohns-disease/specialists/risk-of-dying-from-crohns.aspx
www.everydayhealth.com/crohns-disease/specialists/risk-of-dying-from-crohns.aspx
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you could have a blood clot. or die form malnutrition. not sure of how else. cancer.
Anaemia would probably get you in the end too, and related to that B12 deficiency. There's a reason why it was initially called "Pernicious" Anaemia - i.e. deadly.
I'm sure if I hadn't had surgery or some other radical treatment 2 years ago I wouldn't be here now.
I'm sure if I hadn't had surgery or some other radical treatment 2 years ago I wouldn't be here now.
Crohn's itself is not normally deadly - rather it is complications from untreated disease, duration of disease or other factors.
I've seen reference to people with Crohns and Colitis passing from infections.
Some of the popular medications for IBD conditions weaken the immune system, making it more difficult to fight off infections. I hate to admit it, but I remember seeing an episode recently on Long Island Medium. It's a guilty pleasure! A mother was trying to reconnect with her deceased daughter. The daughter had Crohns, developed an infection and sadly quickly passed away.
There was the famous situation early this year. Musician Glenn Fry had UC, was taking immune suppressing medications for it, and developed an infection that he wasn't able to fight off. A little on Glenn Fry's situation with doctors comments can be read in this article ~
"Eagles Founder Glenn Frey’s Death: A Look at Rheumatoid Arthritis, Colitis, and Pneumonia"
https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/why-did-glenn-frey-die-145613332.html
Some of the popular medications for IBD conditions weaken the immune system, making it more difficult to fight off infections. I hate to admit it, but I remember seeing an episode recently on Long Island Medium. It's a guilty pleasure! A mother was trying to reconnect with her deceased daughter. The daughter had Crohns, developed an infection and sadly quickly passed away.
There was the famous situation early this year. Musician Glenn Fry had UC, was taking immune suppressing medications for it, and developed an infection that he wasn't able to fight off. A little on Glenn Fry's situation with doctors comments can be read in this article ~
"Eagles Founder Glenn Frey’s Death: A Look at Rheumatoid Arthritis, Colitis, and Pneumonia"
https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/why-did-glenn-frey-die-145613332.html
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Ditto to all of the above with complications being the biggest risk factor.
Specific to us. My daughter went undiagnosed for at least 18 months, with the 6 months preceding her diagnosis being the worst. She received her diagnosis on the operating table and even then they only went in with the expectation of removing her appendix and just having a bit of a look around. Turns out she had a ruptured bowel, pus throughout her abdominal cavity and peritonitis. She came within a whiskers breadth of losing her life. Again I will stress she was undiagnosed at the time but also her bloods didn’t reflect the severity of what was happening and nor did an ultrasound and CT Scan, she was not scoped and her symptoms were not what many consider ‘classic’ for Crohn’s.
My son was diagnosed very quickly but he also quickly developed complications. Fortunately for him we knew what we were dealing with, plus his bloods were very sensitive to changes in his body. However, even with prompt hospitalisation and treatment for perforation, fistula and abscesses it was repeatedly stressed to me how sick he was (I did realise this without being told) so I guess failure to respond to treatment would have made his situation very dire indeed.
Specific to us. My daughter went undiagnosed for at least 18 months, with the 6 months preceding her diagnosis being the worst. She received her diagnosis on the operating table and even then they only went in with the expectation of removing her appendix and just having a bit of a look around. Turns out she had a ruptured bowel, pus throughout her abdominal cavity and peritonitis. She came within a whiskers breadth of losing her life. Again I will stress she was undiagnosed at the time but also her bloods didn’t reflect the severity of what was happening and nor did an ultrasound and CT Scan, she was not scoped and her symptoms were not what many consider ‘classic’ for Crohn’s.
My son was diagnosed very quickly but he also quickly developed complications. Fortunately for him we knew what we were dealing with, plus his bloods were very sensitive to changes in his body. However, even with prompt hospitalisation and treatment for perforation, fistula and abscesses it was repeatedly stressed to me how sick he was (I did realise this without being told) so I guess failure to respond to treatment would have made his situation very dire indeed.
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Untreated Crohn's is where the risk of death is. My Crohn's was not treated because I was told for 6 years it was IBS. By the time the diagnosis was corrected to Crohn's in 2010, my gut was so bad that I had developed a mass in my T.I. My surgeon told me that the passageway in my small bowel was only about the diameter of a pea. I was lucky to be alive. If I had not received my surgery I think that I would not be here today.
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You could die from malnutrition, especially vitamin deficiencies. An obstruction could cause toxicity or shock, toxic megacolons are very dangerous. Finally bleeding could cause hypovolemia or infection.
