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Having a lifelong condition like inflammatory bowel disease can be challenging, especially for kids. At Children’s Hospital Colorado’s Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, we aim to provide compassionate, patient-centered service from the initial diagnosis to the time a child is ready to transition to adult medical care.
About the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
Our Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center specializes in diagnosing and treating inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, in children, teens and young adults. This includes Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, inflammatory bowel disease undetermined and very early onset IBD with a possibility of immunodeficiencies causing intestinal inflammation.
In addition to our pediatric IBD specialists, Children’s Colorado is the only hospital in the Rocky Mountain region to offer an entire team of professionals dedicated to IBD care for kids and teens. From surgeons to social workers to nutritionists and more, a team of this size means we’re able to focus on how IBD impacts an entire family and provide an individualized, age-appropriate treatment plan.
We're also the only program in the region participating in ImproveCareNow, a community working to improve the well-being of kids with IBD.
Services offered at our IBD center
An initial visit includes:
Review of medical records and intestinal biopsy specimen
Physical exam
Physician evaluation and plan for IBD diagnosis or treatment
Personalized education about IBD from our nurse coordinator
Dietitian evaluation and diet planning
Social work evaluation for school and mental health needs
Psychological screening for coping skills, anxiety and depression
Follow-up visits include:
Physician evaluation and plan for treatment
Nurse evaluation for needs and coordination of care
Dietary and social work follow up, as needed
Psychologist follow up, as needed
Our bowel treatment program also provides the following services and procedures:
Advanced endoscopy, including upper endoscopy, colonoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound, therapeutic endoscopy and balloon enteroscopy
Video capsule endoscopy
Advanced imaging including magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) to avoid radiation and small bowel ultrasound
Primary nutritional therapy for Crohn’s disease
Research into the causes of IBD and development of new treatments for IBD
Clinical trials that make new medications available
Why choose us for inflammatory bowel disease care?
80Years of combined experience
COMPLETECare for patients and families
ONLYIBD center in the region to offer nutritional therapy
Our Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the Digestive Health Institute is the only IBD center in the region to provide comprehensive, pediatric-specific multidisciplinary care. Essentially, this means we have a well-rounded team of specialists who can provide seamless care for children with IBD, no matter the type or severity.
Our team includes:
Board-certified pediatric gastroenterologists who work alongside pediatric radiologists, surgeons, endocrinologists, immunologists and rheumatologists
In addition to our unique, multidisciplinary approach to care, our focus on nutrition and its role in treating IBD in kids stands out as an example for other caregivers and providers. We’re the only IBD department in the region that provides nutritional IBD therapy as an option for inducing remission for Crohn's disease.
After nutrition as therapy, our specialists help patients and their families learn to maintain good nutrition and a healthy diet, adjusting fiber, lactose and foods high in fat to improve symptoms. We also participate in research and clinical trials, which helps us identify new and innovative treatment methods.