Some suggestions for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

Abstract

The basic goal of treatment of idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease is alleviating the symptoms (induction treatment) and maintaining remission (maintenance treatment). For induction treatment we use fast acting drugs such as aminosalicylates, corticosteroids and biologies.

For maintenance treatment we use aminosalicylates, immunosuppressives and biologics.

Keywords

• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Crohn’s disease
• ulcerative colitis
• adalimumab
• infliximab
• golimumab
• vedolizumab
• ustekinumab
• aminosalicylates
• corticosteroids
• azathioprine