Leo/Conditions/Crohn's Disease

Crohn's. HBI on your phone.

The Crohn's hub is built around the same instrument your gastroenterologist scores you on: Harvey-Bradshaw. Daily HBI, Bristol-typed bowel-movement logging, the eight extra-intestinal complications HBI counts, and the seven labs that travel with Crohn's. One screen.

Status · in app today·Scoring · Harvey-Bradshaw Index·Not · a diagnostic tool
The condition

A chronic inflammatory disease of the digestive tract.

Crohn's disease is one of the two main forms of inflammatory bowel disease. It can affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus, most commonly the ileum and proximal colon, and the inflammation tends to be transmural — it goes through the wall, which is why fistulas, abscesses, and strictures show up as the disease progresses. Onset is most often between 15 and 35 years old, with a smaller second peak in the 50s and 60s.

Day-to-day management lives in the gap between gastroenterologist visits — what flares look like, how bowel movements are changing, whether the extra-intestinal manifestations (joints, skin, eyes, mouth) are quieter or louder. The hub is designed for that gap.

Sources · Lichtenstein GR et al. “ACG Clinical Guideline: Management of Crohn's Disease in Adults.” Am J Gastroenterol. 2018. · Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, “Overview of Crohn's Disease” (2024).
The daily score

Five components, scored live as you fill it in.

Harvey-Bradshaw is the most widely used clinical score for Crohn's activity — short enough to do every day, validated enough that your GI will recognize the numbers. Leo's diary fills in less than a minute. The total and severity band update live as you fill it out.

General wellbeing
0–4 · Very well → Terrible
Abdominal pain
0–3 · None → Severe
Liquid / very soft stools
Count per day
Abdominal mass on palpation
0–3 · None → Definite & tender
Complications
+1 point each (see §04)

Severity band:

< 5
Remission
5–7
Mild
8–16
Moderate
≥ 17
Severe
HBI history shows every past assessment with the component breakdown, so you can trace what changed — a dropping wellbeing score, increasing stool frequency, new complications — between any two visits.
Bowel-movement log

Bristol type, urgency, blood, mucus, pain — one BM, one record.

The bowel-movement log is the working surface of the hub. Each BM gets its own record with the fields a GI nurse would ask about anyway:

Bristol type
1 through 7 with descriptors
Urgency
1–5 · None → Extreme
Blood present
Yes / no, plus amount: none, trace, moderate, significant
Mucus present
Yes / no
Pain
0–10 slider at the time of the BM
Notes & timestamp
Free text. Back-dating supported.

The hub aggregates the last seven days into a per-day frequency chart and a rolling Bristol average, so “am I getting worse or am I just having a bad week” has a number attached.

1
Constipation
2
Constipation
3
Normal
4
Normal
5
Normal
6
Diarrhea
7
Diarrhea
HBI complications

The eight toggles that count toward your score, spelled out.

Each of these adds one point to the HBI total. They're also the most important non-GI signals your gastroenterologist watches for — when they appear, it's worth flagging.

Arthralgia

Joint pain — most common extra-intestinal manifestation.

Uveitis

Eye inflammation.

Erythema nodosum

Tender red nodules, usually on the shins.

Aphthous ulcers

Mouth ulcers.

Pyoderma gangrenosum

Painful ulcerating skin lesions.

Anal fissure

Tear in the anal canal.

New fistula

Abnormal connection — Crohn's-defining feature.

Abscess

Walled-off collection of infection.

The hub

Six cards, no premium tab, seven labs pinned.

Open the hub and everything is there. If you track a menstrual cycle, the current phase is read from the Cycle hub and shown for context — many people with Crohn's see hormonally-timed flares.

Overview

Today's BM count, 7-day average Bristol type, latest HBI with severity color.

HBI trend

Today's score with severity band + 30-day mini trend chart.

Bowel movements

Today's log + 7-day frequency bar chart by day of week.

Food triggers

Top 8 food tags from the last 30 days of symptoms with frequency bars.

Recent symptoms

Last 5 symptoms logged for Crohn's, with severity 1–10 and date.

Labs pinned

CBC · CMP · Inflammatory · Iron · B12 / Folate · Vitamin D · Liver — all on the hub.

The Crohn's pack also defines two episode templates — “Crohn's Flare-Up” (GI + systemic) and “Food Reaction” — that pre-fill a flare-log with the right symptoms already selected.
What it isn't

The list of things we'd like to ship, and haven't yet.

The Crohn's hub is intentionally focused — HBI, Bristol, complications, labs. The list below is what it doesn't do yet. Every item is on the feature-parity tracker, and the page updates as items ship.

◦ Not yet
Ulcerative colitis as a separate pack

Crohn's ships today; UC doesn't have its own pack yet. The Bristol logger and many of the symptom tags are usable for UC patients in the meantime via custom condition setup.

◦ Not yet
Fecal calprotectin as a pinned lab

Calprotectin is the standard non-invasive marker of intestinal inflammation. It's not on the pinned Crohn's lab list yet — you can log it as a custom lab today.

◦ Not yet
Biologic / infusion scheduler

Humira, Remicade, Stelara, Entyvio, Skyrizi — schedule, dose, infusion-day side effects, antibody / trough levels. Biologics can be logged in the general medications surface today; a dedicated biologic shelf isn't built.

◦ Not yet
Colonoscopy & endoscopy log

Procedure record with prep, findings, biopsy results, Mayo / SES-CD grade where relevant. Today only generic appointment tracking.

◦ Not yet
Ostomy tracking

Output volume, stoma care, pouch supplies. Not in app.

◦ Not yet
Stricture & bowel-obstruction logging

Anal fissure, fistula, and abscess are HBI toggles. Strictures and partial obstructions aren't separately tracked yet.

◦ Not yet
Detailed extra-intestinal trackers (PSC, joints, skin)

Toggles exist in HBI. Standalone trackers for primary sclerosing cholangitis labs, joint involvement, or skin lesions don't.

◦ Not yet
Crohn's-specific PDF report card

HBI trend, BM frequency, complication timeline, lab trend as one shareable document. Not yet — exports go through the general Leo health report.

◦ Not yet
CDAI / Partial Mayo as alternate scoring

HBI is the daily-use score; CDAI is the research-grade equivalent. Adding CDAI would let you mirror exactly what your GI's notes use.

Leo does not diagnose Crohn's, doesn't interpret your HBI score, and doesn't recommend biologic changes. The hub describes what you've logged. Medication, biologic, and surgical decisions belong with your gastroenterologist.
Crohn's hub

The score your GI knows, done daily.

Harvey-Bradshaw, Bristol-typed bowel-movement logging, eight complication toggles, seven pinned labs, and a backlog we name out loud. Built for adults and kids with Crohn's and the parents and partners helping them through it.