Living with Ulcerative Colitis: 'I Was so Sick I Thought I'd Do My Junior Cert and Then Die'

Living with ulcerative colitis: 'I was so sick I thought I'd do my Junior Cert and then die'

When Tammy Strickland was 15, she was diagnosed with colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease.

Inflammatory bowel disease, which can lead to the risk of malnutrition, is a chronic, complex disease with very variable manifestations that mainly affects the digestive tract. It can appear at any age, although its incidence is concentrated between 15 and 30 years old, and it repeats from the age of 50. This pathology includes two main tables: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Therefore, the Confederation of Associations of Sick Crohn and…

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