- IBD by Alexis Ramos
Abbreviation for inflammatory bowel disease. See ulcerative colitis.
- olsalazine by Sarah Pena
... a derivative of mesalamine used as the sodium salt as an antiinflammatory in ulcerative colitis.
- balsalazide by Kennedy Love
... a prodrug of the antiinflammatory mesalamine, to which it is converted in the colon; administered orally as the sodium salt in the treatment of ulcerative colitis.
- budesonide by Hunter Castillo
... an antiinflammatory glucocorticoid used to treat allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma, nasal inflammation, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease.
- Crohn's disease by Skylar Murray
... another part of the GI tract. Diseased segments may be separated by normal bowel segments, which give it the characteristic "skip lesions." Also called regional enteritis. Compare ulcerative colitis. See also colitis, ileitis.