#3: Diarrhea and Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Older Adult with Dr. Bharati Kochar

Diarrhea. Abdominal pain. Weight loss. Patient might not be able to tolerate colonoscopy. What do you do?! Join us and Dr. Kochar as we go through the bread and butter of diarrhea and IBD and the "beyond" of an intersection between Geriatrics and GI.  Check out the show notes for more nuggets of wisdom and quick links & references: https://verigeripodcast.com/show-notes/f/diarrhea-and-inflammatory-bowel-disease-in-the-older-adult 02:08 Introduction of Dr. Bharati Kochar 05:57 The Case 06:46 The Questions 09:05 IBS vs IBD 10:07 Microscopic colitis 10:38 Review  11:34 Scratching the surface on PPIs 13:30 Ddx  14:20 Workup 16:18 Flex sig? 17:45 What's a really red flag? 18:26 Coordinate care with GI 19:27 What if dx'd with IBD? 20:36 UC vs Crohn's  20:51 Treatments  21:57 What Geriatricians should know about IBD treatments  22:22 The 'Roids  Guru: Bharati Kochar, MD, MS Hosts and Co-Producers: Patty Lee, MD & Samantha Ing, MD Editor: Patty Lee, MD Peer reviewers: Christopher Chiu, MD, FAAP, FACP, Antoinette Pusateri, MD Show notes creator: Marissa Korte, BS; edited by Antoinette Pusateri, MD Faculty Mentor: Christopher Chiu, MD, FAAP, FACP Music:  - Theme Song: Samantha Ing and Patricia Lee, mixed by Takakuni Ikuma - Piano transitions and background: Piano by Patricia Lee