In this video, Dr Emanuelle Bellaguarda recaps her presentation at the Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Disease regional meeting held on August 7, on Diet as Therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).

Emanuelle Bellaguarda, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

TRANSCRIPT:

Dr Emanuelle Bellaguarda:  Hi, everyone. I hope you enjoyed Advances in IBD Regionals in August. I'm Dr Emanuelle Bellaguarda, Assistant Professor of Medicine here at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

During this conference, I presented on the topic of diet as a therapy for inflammatory bowel disease. During this talk, I discussed the limited data available today to recommend diet as a primary therapy for inflammatory bowel disease. The majority of these studies show that diet can improve symptoms. However, they do not change the disease scores or improve inflammatory markers.

The only exception to this rule is exclusive enteral nutrition, which was studied in the pediatric population with Crohn's disease. Patients who were started on an exclusive enteral nutrition were able to achieve steroid-free remission with improvement of endoscopic findings.

The key takeaway from this presentation is that we need larger clinical trials in order to understand better the role of diet on the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.

Thank you for attending Advances in IBD Regionals, and I hope you enjoyed my presentation in the meeting.