 [ Symptoms ] my daughter has crohn is disease can she take ibuprofen [ Disease ] 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 is disease i have 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 will probably find that the flare up will be over in 4 or 5 days & you will not 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 would strongly advise against taking nsaid is especially is she has ulcers because they can cause ulcers to bleed