Neurological Manifestations in Children Diagnosed With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

screen for neurologic and psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents with IBD.

Neurologic symptoms have a great importance in early diagnosis and treatment preventing major morbidity and later sequelae, especially if they precede GI symptoms The prevalence of neurologic manifestations of IBD varies between 0.2% and 36%. Their pathogenesis of neurologic manifestations in IBD consists of 6 mechanisms: 1.malabsorption and nutritional deficiency 2.metabolic agents 3.infections complicating immune suppression 4.side effects of medications or iatrogenic as a surgical complication 5.thromboembolism 6.immunological factors UC patients are similar to or higher than CD patients in the probability of neurologic symptoms. Neurologic manifestations and complications include: headache, dizziness, hypotonia, ADHD, tics, sensory complaints, seizures, neuropsychiatric disorders, peripherial neuropathy, meningitis, vestibular dysfunction, idiopathic IC hypertension, cerebral vasculitis, demyelinating disorders and migraine