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Topics Discussed… What is it? Who gets it? Symptoms Nutrition Treatment Definition… Crohn’s disease is a chronic disorder that causes inflammation of the digestive or gastrointestinal tract. Most commonly it affects the small intestine and/or colon, but can affect any part of the GI tract from the mouth to the anus. It is one of the two main classifications of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A picture of the digestive tract, from mouth to anus. Picture from Crohn’s Health Center found at: /chronic-pain/crohns/introduction.html A picture of the small and large intestine that is infla