Updated: 19/05/2021, 3:13 pm
To raise awareness on World Inflammatory Bowel Disease Day, Samantha Leckie spoke to IBD specialists, as well as north-east people living with the illness, who have bravely chosen to speak about their symptoms, and the ripple effect the disease has had on their lives.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease is chronic, lifelong and cruel… yet it’s an illness many people don’t know much about.
Surprisingly, despite so many people being diagnosed with IBD every single day, concrete research around the disease is few and far between. There’s still much speculation around why more and more people are suffering from Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn’s Disease – the two conditions which come under the umbrella term of IBD.