Hot packs and Crohn’s disease: heat can make you feel better

In this week’s article, we will discuss the benefits of heat to combat health problems due to Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory disease that impacts the intestine and which, if not identified and monitored scrupulously during treatment, can endanger an individual's health.

Hot packs and Crohn’s disease: heat can make you feel better

The benefits of heat can help the individual suffering from Crohn’s disease find some relief: we will discover how supported by an article read on everydayhealth.com and on an information page from humanitas.net.

Hot packs and Crohn’s disease: definition, causes and symptoms

Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammation of the intestine that can involve the entire gastrointestinal tract.

If complications arise, surgery may be necessary.

The causes of the disease are not yet well known.

According to scientific studies, it seems that Crohn’s disease is neither a hereditary nor a genetic disease: it might be caused by environmental factors, a particular physical predisposition, smoking, and alterations in the intestinal bacterial flora.

The most common symptoms of Crohn’s disease are generally:

• bloating caused by narrowing or blockage of the intestine;
• fistulae (lacerations) in intestinal membranes;
• abdominal pain;
• chronic diarrhoea (also at night) with traces of blood in the faeces;
• constant fever and exhaustion;
• joint pain.

If one or more of these symptoms correspond to your current health situation, see your doctor immediately and have specific medical examinations done.

Colonoscopy, abdominal ultrasound, enteroscopy, and MRI are the examinations recommended to detect Crohn’s disease.

Regardless of the severity and stage of Crohn’s disease, it is important to find strategies immediately to get better and to try to simplify daily life as much as possible.

In addition to medical examinations and eventual medications prescribed by specialists, there are simple remedies that can help a patient feel better. Heat therapy is one of these.

Hot packs and Crohn’s disease: the benefits of heat 

If you suffer from abdominal and joint pain and feel tired due to Crohn’s disease, a source of heat may help you feel better: the benefits of heat are able to relax muscles and have an anti-stress and calming effect - also on the psyche.

Try an instant hot pack or a gel pack - heated in hot water or in the microwave: the benefits are immediate.

A medical device that gives off heat should be used with caution: if you wear a heated gel pack, make sure it does not come into direct contact with the skin.

Wrap it instead in a soft, dry cloth for optimal heat transmission.

If you use a disposable hot pack or reusable gel pack, remember to hold it in place for no more than 15 minutes at a time, several times a day.

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