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    Can drinking alcohol or smoking worsen my crohns disease?

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    I have a bucks night coming up and I know that my friends will encourage me to drink. Will this make my crohn’s worse?
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    A/Prof Greg Moore

    Gastroenterologist

    Greg Moore is a Gastroenterologist specialising in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD), Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. He is Head of IBD at Monash Medical Centre … View Profile

    Smoking has been shown to increase a persons chances of developing Crohn's, make their Crohn's have a more severe course, make them respond less well to medical therapy, increase the need for surgery and increase the rate of recurrence of Crohn's after surgery.
    The story for alcohol is less clear but often patients report feeling unwell if they drink to excess but there are no firm recommendation to avoid alcohol such as there are for smoking.
    Encourage your friends to smoke outside away from you if they must.

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