Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis are two of the most common inflammatory bowel disease managed by gastroenterologists. Patient with such conditions requires lifelong follow up due to risk of disease flare-up and cancer. They often requires anti-inflammatory medication to suppress the intestine inflammation by using drugs such as mesalazine, azathioprine, steroids and even biologics.

Under Acorn Gastroenterology, you will find a team of specialist capable of diagnosing, confirming and treating inflammatory bowel disease due to years of training and experiencing in this field. This is important as there is an increase incidence of inflammatory bowel disease cases in Singapore from local and foreign patient migration.

These are some of the most common encounter in our clinic which we can advise you :
1) Persistent diarrhoea concerned about inflammatory bowel disease
2) Having Doubts between Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
3) Having Doubts about Your Inflammatory Bowel Disease Diagnosis
4) Concerned about your Treatment plans and Drugs
5) Escalation of Treatment to Biologics requires second opinion
6) Concerned about long term use of medication
7) Concerned about the cost of treatment

These are our team of specialist : Dr Shim Hang Hock, Dr Loh Poh Yen, Dr Chong Chern Hao. Click below to verify them