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Written By: Editorial Team | Published : April 8, 2015 12:58 PM IST
Changing lifestyle and eating habits are bound to take a toll on one's health. A new study claims that switching to processed foods from organic foods has resulted in the rise of inflammatory bowel disease in children in India. The study also claims that Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is as common in India as in western countries affecting almost 4-6 children in per lakh children. (Read:Bacteria may be the cause for inflammatory bowel disease)
The study was carried out on 221 children out of which 42% children suffered from ulcerative colitis that affects the large intestine, 55.2 % from Crohn's disease that affects the food pipe, small intestine as well as the large intestine.There were two centres from northern India (including Sir Ganga Ram Hospital), four centres from southern India and one from central India which participated in the study.
The changed eating habits have resulted in altered bacterial flora in gastro-intestinal system which further results in child's own immune mechanism causing inflammation in their own instestine. The paediatric inflammatory bowel disease is more severe than the adult inflammatory bowel disease and needs prolonged treatment. It is also leading to growth failures in children.According to Nishant Wadhwa, co-author of the study and paediatric gastroenterologist at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital: 'This study has for the first time outlined the baseline profile in paediatric population with IBD from India and has shown that two-third (60.5 percent) of the children in this series were suffering from growth failure.'
The results of the study have been published in the January 2015 edition of Indian Journal of Gastroenterology.
With inputs from PTI & IANS
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