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Crohn Disease FAQs (cont.)

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What Are the Symptoms of Crohn's Disease?

The symptoms depend on which part of the digestive tract is affected, but diarrhea and abdominal cramps are almost universal. Weight loss, fatigue, and feeling "blah" are typical. Some people have pain with a bowel movement, blood in the stool, and/or rectal bleeding.

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Crohn disease is an idiopathic, chronic, transmural inflammatory process of the bowel that often leads to fibrosis and obstructive symptoms, which can affect any part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract from the mouth to the anus.

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