Comparing and contrasting IBD and IBS: a look at how these two gut conditions are similar, the crucial ways they are different, and why it’s important to know which you are dealing with.

Receiving a diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis can feel very overwhelming. Written from a patient’s point of view, this is some of what I wish I had been told when I was diagnosed with IBD 20 years ago, and what anyone who has been recently diagnosed should know now.

Tips for eating for IBD, including the 3 key foods to remove from your diet, and the 3 to start eating more of now!

My experience of proctocolectomy surgery - why it was necessary, what happened, post-op complications and finally getting on the road to recovery.

Vitamin D has been in the spotlight recently as a result of a study suggesting that it helps fight Covid-19. But it does a lot more than that! It has many key roles to play in the body and is important for immunity, gut health and more.

The essentials of what IBD is, what it involves, and how it is dealt with. Just the essentials - the ABCs - and a must-read for the newly diagnosed and anyone who needs a ‘crash course’ in this chronic condition.

When you have been diagnosed with anything, you are immediately faced with a bit of a conundrum when it comes to treatment options: which is the 'right' one?

Crying over your blood test results doesn’t seem like normal behaviour, and yet that is what I did earlier today. My black and white paper profile just drove home the message that my body has been giving me for the last few weeks: I am entering a flare.