IBD Monitor

IBD Monitor: Helping Predict Flare-Ups Before They Happen 🚨 What Inspired Me In April, I experienced a severe ulcerative colitis flare-up that led to an 18-day hospital stay. Just as I was recovering, I contracted gastroenteritis, C. diff, and norovirus—a brutal combination that pushed my body to its limit. After finally being discharged, I was home for just 10 days before another flare forced me back into the hospital for an additional 9 days.

This cycle was not only physically exhausting but emotionally overwhelming. I realized how unpredictable and devastating IBD flare-ups can be—and how little support exists to anticipate them before it's too late.

That’s what inspired me to build IBD Monitor.

💡 What I Built IBD Monitor is a proactive health companion for people living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. It helps users track their symptoms, lifestyle factors, medications, and environment, and uses those inputs to predict potential flare-ups.

Core Features: Symptom and lifestyle logging

Timeline visualizations of health data

Machine learning-powered flare-up prediction

Real-time alerts for high-risk days

Option to securely share data with healthcare providers

🧠 What I Learned Building for chronic illness requires empathy, not just engineering.

Health data is messy—but with the right structure, it can be meaningful.

Predictive analytics, even at a basic level, can provide real peace of mind to patients.

Patients often feel unheard or unsupported—tech can help fill that gap.

Frontend: HTML , CSS , javascript, typescript,

ML Model: Trained on anonymized symptom data to recognize early warning signs

UI/UX: Designed for ease of use during physical distress

🔥 Challenges I Faced Turning a deeply personal experience into a usable product without letting emotions take over the design process.

Handling sensitive health data responsibly and securely.

Training a machine learning model on limited and diverse data sources.

Designing for accessibility and simplicity for patients in distress.

🙌 Why This Matters Millions live with IBD, navigating a painful and unpredictable condition with very little tech support. With IBD Monitor, I hope to help others avoid the pain I went through by giving them time to act before a flare hits.