Top 10 tips for people with Crohn's disease and UC during the COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic

I am a gastroenterologist, scientist, geek, retired trumpeter and active ultra-trail runner. Investigating the causes and consequences of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. How do genetic, environmental and microbial factors affect lead to the development of Crohn's disease? The GEM project aims to find out and we have over 2 dozen sites recruiting across the UK. How do these factors affect disease flare in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis? We have set-up and recently launched the PREdiCCt study to find out. Recruiting people with IBD in clinical remission across the UK, PREdiCCt will aim to figure out how diet, lifestyle, the microbes in our guts and many other factors affect disease flare. We may then be able to ask the very simple questions, asked so ofter in our clinics "doctor, what should I eat" " what can I do".