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Diagnosing Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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You should suspect inflammatory bowel disease if a child or teen has any of the following symptoms:
- Abdominal pain combined with a positive family history of IBD
- Persistent rectal bleeding not associated with hard stool.
- Recurrent perianal fissures, infection, or abscess.
- Significant weight loss.
- Fall-off in height percentiles of more than one channel.
- Pronounced pubertal delay, or absent or delayed menstrual periods.
- Unexplained joint swelling or skin rash or erythema nodosum.
- Unexplained fever, anemia, low albumin, or elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
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