Tex, you quoted on another post that there is a type of MC known as "asymptomatic LC (which as the name implies, involves none of the traditional LC symptoms). "
Could you enlighten me as to the particulars of this? If you are "asymptomatic LC" how would a person then ever know he/she has LC? And if a person is asymptomatic, how does that person help heal themselves without using their symptoms as a measure?
Curious Mandy
Asymptomatic LC
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The answer is, they wouldn't know. For almost everyone who has this condition, it is discovered accidentally, when they happen to have a colonoscopy with biopsies for some other reason. It is claimed by researchers that asymptomatic celiacs (who remain untreated, because they are unaware of their disease) have no higher risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma than someone in the general population. That suggests that someone with asymptomatic MC may not be at risk, either.Mandy wrote:If you are "asymptomatic LC" how would a person then ever know he/she has LC? And if a person is asymptomatic, how does that person help heal themselves without using their symptoms as a measure?
Asymptomatic LC is actually quite common, and most people who have it claim that they never noticed any symptoms, so they probably do not represent cases of MC that were once active and then went into spontaneous remission. The question is, "Why does this happen, when for some of us, once the disease presents, it never lets up?" Could it be that those individuals have never been exposed to a sufficient level of chronic stress, or mast cell activation, to actually trigger the disease?
Research on this type of MC is typically lumped together with paucicellular MC, but not much information is available on it. Here's a link to an article on it:
http://ajcp.ascpjournals.org/content/122/3/405.full.pdf
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.