 [ Symptoms ] my daughter has crohn is disease can she take ibuprofen [ 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