First significant flare since remission in 2010
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First significant flare since remission in 2010
I am (I think) at the end of a significant month-long flare since I found remission in late 2010, fortunately after just a few months of symptoms. I have had occasional mini reactions of a day or two but this one was reminiscent of my original flare. The pain, WD, etc were awful. I had been under a lot of stress again, which I think triggered my disease the first time but I'm wondering about this one. I don't think it was food-induced. DH and I both had what I think was an intestinal virus.....some cramping and D and it lasted for more than a week. His improved...mine seemed to progress into MC symptoms. Has there been any experience here with MC possibly being triggered by a virus? I didn't take any meds. I always wonder if this is the time I need to eliminate dairy, soy or eggs for which I also tested positive but at a much lower reaction level than the gluten. During the flare my diet was pretty limited but I'm back to eating those items without apparent problems. My dairy mostly involves some cheese and some butter. I really think I had become complacent and didn't think I would flare like that again. Deb
Re: First significant flare since remission in 2010
Sure. Any source of enteritis can trigger MC.Deb wrote:Has there been any experience here with MC possibly being triggered by a virus?
Remember that even though you might be clinically asymptomatic to casein and soy, because you've developed a tolerance, those antibodies are always present as long as you ingest those foods with any degree of regularity and that keeps your immune system in a stated of heightened readiness. That infers that a flare might be more likely to be initiated by some other potential trigger. It's impossible to say whether that was a factor in your flare or not, though. It's certainly possible that a virus potent enough might trigger an MC flare regardless. On the other hand, it's also possible that the antibodies prolonged the flare.
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.
