Use of tobacco can put the life of Crohn’s disease patients in jeopardy, along with increasing the frequency of hospitalizations as well as the indispensability of surgery for IBD. At the outset, though most of us are well aware of the negative health impacts of cigarette smoking, continuing researches on the link between cigarettes smoking and Crohn’s disease. Apart from harming various organs, smoking can also lead to various reproductive risks as well as several respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
The aggravated impacts of smoking can lead to fatal cancers as well. Crohn’s disease patients who smoke constantly might experience frequent and unmanageable flare-ups that include acute diarrhoea, abdominal pain, cramps, and fatigue. When compared to the category of non-smokers, CD patients who fail to quit smoking might need higher doses of medications and repetitive surgeries to curb both gastrointestinal inflammation and the debilitating symptoms of the disease.
Though researchers continue to elucidate how exactly does smoking worsen the symptoms of Crohn’s disease, it’s been suspected that cigarette smoking damages the protective mucous membranes of the digestive tract, thereby aggravating both gastrointestinal inflammation and the debilitating signs of Crohn’s disease. Being an autoimmune disease where the immune system starts attacking the healthy cells uncontrollably, damage of mucous membrane might worsen both gastrointestinal inflammation and the symptoms of Crohn’s disease.
Ongoing researches on Crohn’s disease also emphasize the chances of restricted blood flow in CD patients who smoke cigarettes regularly. This can eventually slow down the efforts to successfully reduce the inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract. Moreover, cigarette smoking can lead to a significant decrease in responsiveness, which might be a major hurdle that slows down the effects of anti-inflammatory drug therapies to curb Crohn’s disease. With all these and many more health concerns to worry about, experts keep advising Crohn’s disease patients to quit smoking soon to lessen the severity of the disease condition, and to prevent health complications that might arise due to the impacts of smoking.
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