{"id":7240,"date":"2022-08-31T07:11:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T07:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2022-08-31T07:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T07:11:24","slug":"treatment-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/treatment-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Treatment focuses on reducing the risk of complications, such as nutritional imbalances, and addressing the inflammation that causes Crohn\u2019s symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A doctor can prescribe medication to curb this inflammation, slow damage to the digestive system, and reduce symptoms, including secondary symptoms such as skin issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One drug that doctors may recommend for children with mild to moderate Crohn\u2019s symptoms is 5-aminosalicylic acid, known as 5-ASA. Kids with more severe symptoms may require\u00a0corticosteroids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Crohn\u2019s medications suitable for children and teenagers include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>antibiotics<\/li><li>immunomodulators<\/li><li>biologics, such as:<ul><li>infliximab (Remicade)<\/li><li>adalimumab (Humira)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>More treatment options\u00a0include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Supplemental nutrition:<\/strong>&nbsp;A doctor may recommend liquid nutrition, vitamins, or even intravenous fluids.<\/li><li><strong>Pain medication:<\/strong>&nbsp;Some children need pain medication to manage symptoms of Crohn\u2019s.<\/li><li><strong>Diarrhea medication:<\/strong>&nbsp;This type of medicine can help with this common Crohn\u2019s symptom.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treatment focuses on reducing the risk of complications, such as nutritional imbalances, and addressing the inflammation that causes Crohn\u2019s symptoms. A doctor can prescribe medication to curb this inflammation, slow damage to the digestive system, and reduce symptoms, including secondary symptoms such as skin issues. One drug that doctors may recommend for children with mild [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[878],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}