World IBD Day 2025 | Five Tips to Savor Life with IBD

Living with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis comes with mental, physical, and financial challenges that can complicate moments others take for granted. 

This World IBD Day (May 19), we’re breaking the silence on what it’s really like to navigate life with IBD. Let’s go there and talk about the real struggles—from navigating trigger foods to missing out on trips and everyday moments due to symptoms.

Whether modifying your diet, traveling to new environments, or building a treatment that works for you, the following tips can help you savor life with IBD. 

1. Download Our Free Global Gut Guide

   Our new Global Gut Guide helps make food, travel, and daily life with IBD feel less overwhelming. Packed with recipes, travel tips, and a symptom tracker, the guide will help you navigate daily life with confidence.

    

2. Try a Gut Friendly Recipe

   Explore our 500+ easy recipes for gut friendly and nutritious meals designed to bring joy back to mealtimes. Each recipe is dietitian-approved to help you feel your best and reduce stress around meal choices. 

    

3. Know Where to Go

   If you have IBD, you know how to be prepared for the unexpected. When you're ready to explore somewhere new, the Foundation’s restroom finder app, We Can’t Wait, offers a simple way to locate publicly accessible restrooms.

    

4. Get Support

   Surround yourself with the resources you need to live your best life through our My IBD Learning education programs, support groups, online community, IBD Help Center, and more.

    

5. Share Your Story

   When it comes to IBD, there’s no such thing as TMI. Our Let’s Go There campaign brings conversations about living with IBD into the open. Go there with us and share your story! Let us know how you savor life with IBD. The advice you have to give might be the message someone else needs to hear.

    

   Thank you to our World IBD Day sponsors: AbbVie Inc., Eli Lilly & Company, and Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

    

   

   

   

    

   You can make an impact on IBD cures! Please consider making a donation to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation.