IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) is an incurable debilitating medical condition that affects more than 100,000 American youth under 20 years of age, for which the prevalence continues to increase.
IBD is one of the most stigmatized medical conditions. Patients with IBD had a high prevalence of suicidal ideation, depression, and a significantly higher likelihood of suicide attempts and suicide. The recent school policies that prioritized students who self-identified as transgender over all others hurt students with IBD the most. These policies treat such students as if their suffering doesn’t matter. In addition, school administrators, most of whom fully support trans-identified students, often are unaware of or ignore the needs of IBD students.
To help these students (and all students with invisible debilitating medical diseases) avoid embarrassment and humiliation associated with the symptoms of their condition, all publicly funded schools should ensure that teachers and school personnel:
understand that IBD students are reluctant to discuss their condition and don’t want other students to know about it;
understand that these students are especially prone to be hurt emotionally, often severely when adults around them single out some kids into a specially protected category and force other students to celebrate them as heroes and obey their demands;
be open and ready to provide students with easy access to bathrooms, including staff and teachers’ bathrooms, and let them use microwaves or keep food in teacher’s refrigerators;
monitor these students on signs of depression;
keep in touch with parents because kids often try to protect their parents from bad news about troubles they have in school.
Thank you for the advice about how to deal with IBS, but I’m not talking about IBS. I’m talking about IBD - Inflammatory Bowel Disease. It includes Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease depending on the location of the inflammation.
A proper diet could help with some types of Crohn’s disease, but diet changes for ulcerative colitis are not helpful.
Once again, stop talking about something you know nothing about. I know how I fed my son and how many other parents feed their kids. You know nothing. Either you are a teacher who doesn’t want to deal with the inconveniences of letting a child with bloody diarrhea use teachers’ bathrooms, or you are an ignorant, spoiled narcissist who has never had real health problems in your life. In either case, your illiterate narcissistic opinion doesn’t matter, and I’m not going to waste my time anymore on trying to convince you to learn the facts.
How do you know what my level of education or knowledge is on this subject. You don’t like my reply because it requires accountability instead victimhood seeking. DON’T EAT THAT SHIT, and the IBS and IBD and diabetes and obesity vanish.
