Bacterial overgrowth syndrome in 34-year-old patient with crohn’s disease

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) - ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) are characterized by a specific clinic: diarrhea, the presence of blood in the stool, abdominal pain, general weakness. However, IBD can be combined with other bowel diseases, for example, with the bacterial overgrowth syndrome (BOS). BOS may not be suspected due to the similarity of symptoms with manifestations of exacerbation of CD or UC, the symptoms of BOS can be regarded only as a manifestation of IBD, which leads to incorrect treatment tactics. In this article, we demonstrate the clinical case of such a combination.