Inflammatory bowel diseases includes:

• Ulcerative colitis - involving only the large intestine
• Crohn's disease - involving any region of the gastrointestinal tract (mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and colon)
• indeterminate colitis
• Proctitis
• Eosinophilic gastroenteritis

The most common symptoms of inflammatory bowel diseases may include one or a combination of the following:

• Abdominal pain
• Weight loss
• Growth retardation
• Chronic diarrhea
• Blood in the stool
• Unexplained fever
• Joint pain
• Fatigue