Crohns desease & elegability for support group ESA

My son suffers from crohns decease and is often having flare ups etc. He does not have a colostmy as yet but has lost 8 feet of his bowels in an operation several years ago due to crohns.With this comes the problem of soling himself etc and going toilet very often sometimes to late. My question is would be would he qualify for the support group of ESA due to the fact he has several episodes of being unable to control his bowels a day/ week, often more and a change of clothes is required very often. This would be able to be substantiated by his gp and consultant. Thanks for any help and advise.

Thank you Gordon for your imformative reply. in reading your sumary of this am right in thinking on this medical problem alone and he dos have the situations that you mentioned on a feqeunt basis he should be in the support group?

Thanks again

Hi Skyblue

Just to confirm i also have severe Crohn's Disease and have incontinance due to the nature of this disease so have to carry spare clothes if i go out. Because of this i am in the support group, but atos in their report stated there was no obvious sign of incontinance so gave me nil points for that descripter. I appealled the decision and a week before my tribunal DWP overturned the decision following a letter from my GP. So if they try to put this issue to one side or ignore it it really is worth the fight to appeal.

My advice to you is to get a written statement from your GP or consultant and send this in with your application for ESA. I was embarrassed about having accidents so i didn't talk to the health professionals until it was too late. I did tell the atos dr but that wasn't enough as he chose to ignore that descripter.

Good luck
Mm xx

Millymoo, I am disgusted that you told the Atos doctor about your incontinence and he/she said there was no "sign" of it. What sign is there supposed to be? Anyway, I'm glad it all came right for you in the end.