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This seems pretty basic but I realized today that I don't really know what"healing" means. I know it means feeling better with no incessant runs to the bathroom but what is happening internally that leads to the experience of feeling better? Seems I should know this but I don't. Tex, I think I need your book (no pressure or anything).
Jean
Healing, What is it?
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Hi Jean,
Healing to me means a return to normal intestinal cellular histology. IOW, total resolution of the diagnostic changes that define MC. The GI docs consider a lymphocyte count below 20 (per 100 enterocytes), and/or a collagen band thickness below 10 microns to be evidence of a "cure". (Yes, many of them apparently believe that MC is "cured" when the diagnostic markers disappear).
IMO, though, healing should mean a return to normal histology, which requires a lymphocyte count less than 10 per 100 enterocytes, and a collagen band thickness less than 5 microns. Clinical symptoms should also be absent, of course.
Tex
Healing to me means a return to normal intestinal cellular histology. IOW, total resolution of the diagnostic changes that define MC. The GI docs consider a lymphocyte count below 20 (per 100 enterocytes), and/or a collagen band thickness below 10 microns to be evidence of a "cure". (Yes, many of them apparently believe that MC is "cured" when the diagnostic markers disappear).
IMO, though, healing should mean a return to normal histology, which requires a lymphocyte count less than 10 per 100 enterocytes, and a collagen band thickness less than 5 microns. Clinical symptoms should also be absent, of course.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.