Study on Refaximin (antibiotic) for IBS-D

[Zizzle]

Seems to work pretty well...I'll admit, I'm thinking about it. A reset if you will. Might be a huge mistake though.

IBS Yields to Rifaximin -- Repeatedly

Treatment of diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) with rifaximin was associated with significant symptomatic improvements, and treatment could be successfully repeated if patients relapsed, researchers reported here.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCove ... term=Daily

[Zizzle]

On second thought, I think I'll skip the antibiotics. Don't want to risk getting Crohn's instead!

Good to know:
Autoimmune Diseases are Treated/Exacerbated with Antibiotics

Both the aggressive and the suppressive immune cells require gut flora, so after initial antibiotic treatment wipes out bacteria required for suppression and results in autoimmunity, the remaining aggressive half of the immune system can be eliminated by blasting the remaining gut flora with more antibiotics. Of course this will leave a highly compromised, incompetent immune system that will ultimately yield more extreme symptoms. This is the typical medical progression for Crohn’s disease, for example. The alternative is just fixing the gut flora to begin with and curing autoimmunity.

http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.com ... unity.html

[tex]

Zizzle,

If you consider the case histories of individuals who repeatedly rely on the use of powerful medications, it's pretty easy to see that in many/most cases, in the long term, their dependence on increasingly more potent treatments continues to escalate, as their symptoms continue to progress. Each time their doctor prescribes a drug, they see some short-term improvement, and that keeps them "hooked". But as time passes, the improvement fades away, as the drug becomes less effective for them, and eventually they begin to develop new symptoms, as another AI issue presents. It's the equivalent of an iatrogenic merry-go-round.

Tex