Food for Thought: Remission of Perianal Pediatric Crohn's Disease on Specific Carbohydrate Diet Monotherapy

Authors

David Simon
Kalyani Patel
Prakash Masand
Richard Kellermayer

Publication Date

8-1-2023

Journal

JPGN Reports

DOI

10.1097/PG9.0000000000000343

PMID

37600622

PMCID

PMC10435014

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

7-17-2023

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Post-print

Published Open-Access

yes

Keywords

inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, specific carbohydrate diet, dietary therapy, nutrition

Abstract

There is growing interest among patients about the specific carbohydrate diet (SCD) as a treatment for Crohn's disease. In the meantime, deep remission in patients using SCD as their sole treatment has not been documented. We report a case with perianal and ileocolonic Crohn's disease in whom SCD monotherapy successfully induced and maintained not only clinical, but also endoscopic, radiographic and histologic (ie, deep mucosal remission) remission as well.