Specific Carbohydrate Diet as Maintenance Therapy in Crohn's Disease

Inclusion Criteria:

   - Adult or pediatric patients presenting with a new diagnosis or flare of existing
   Crohn's disease based on standard diagnostic criteria including: clinical symptoms,
   laboratory parameters, disease activity indices (Pediatric Crohn's Disease Activity
   Index (PCDAI) for patients <19years and Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) for
   patients >19years), pathology from upper endoscopy/colonoscopy and imaging studies.

Exclusion Criteria:)

   - Pregnancy

   - Other autoimmune conditions including celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple
   sclerosis

   - Otherwise immunosuppressed patients including HIV and prior organ transplant

   - Patients diagnosed with ulcerative colitis or indeterminate colitis

   - Active tuberculosis