you can take acetaminophen (tylenol others) for pain. you will want to avoid nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) such as aspirin ibuprofen (advil motrin others) or naproxen (aleve). these are likely to make your symptoms worse for crohn's disease. i've had crohns' disease for 50 years. in those days the treatment for chrohns' was primitive. it was first diagnosed in 1942 the year i was borrn. i was in 2nd year medicine at the time & had to take a couple of years out before i could gat back. it was thought to be ulcerative colitis at the time & it was 12 years before we found that the small bowel was affected as well & i required at the time to have 6 ft. of my small bowel removed (no fun). now i can tell you that over the couinter drugs are useless in treating a flare-up. you need an anti-inflammatopry such as prednisone to battle the flare-up. anything less is useless. i advise you to go to your doctor & get a prescritption for prednisone. you start at 8 (5mg. ) tablets the first day. the next day take 7 then 6 etc. you'll probably find that the flare-up will be over in 4 or 5 days & you won't even finish the prescrption. one must be careful with drugs like prednisone; they are steroids & must be used with care. btw i once talked to dr. crohn in a conference call. he was 92 & living in connecticut. i'd strongly advise against taking nsaid's especially is she has ulcers because they can cause ulcers to bleed.
my daughter has crohn's disease. can she take ibuprofen?