Don't worry too much. Stomachs hurt regularly in healthy people too !

I totally understand the worry though, but the good thing about Crohn's is, if you're not sure you have it, one day you will be certain.

The disease is still reasonably rare only 1 in a 1000 people will have it so the odds are in your favour - just keep an eye out just in case !

Preventative measures are a good place to aim, but no one can agree on any hard and fast rules to prevent the disease occurring in the first place. The few we have are below:

. No nicotine or tobacco use.

. Regular exercise

. Limited processed food.

Please do some careful and diligent cross-checked googling to make sure I haven't missed anything out above and try to ignore the conspiracy big pharma peoples advice, they convinced me to go off my meds and I lost a year of my life !