Wow, Wayne, glad to know the sprue IS treatable. That poor woman in that study!!
Thanks for sending all those excellent articles -- how do you do it?!!!
Yep, grannyh, I'd forgotten about the codeine, but I'm trying to remember just when it was that you were on the cholestyramine-like anti-cholesterol med in your time-line, and particularly, if you were on one of these in that family of choestyramine up to the time you had that prep? I'm just asking this to rule out the possibility of masking, but it would just be too great a coincidence if that were the case, right?
Wayne, your mention of the horses being let out of the barn leads me to another question. Is there anyone who is/has been our way who's M.C. was probably related to a high intake of NSAIDs just prior to onset? Did they still do well gf? If so, I'm trying to get my mind around how that could happen.
Would it be what triggers off the appropriate HLA gene/s, and on down the line through the immune system? If so, that means that there's almost nobody in the USA who wouldn't have at least one gluten sensitivity gene. If this is the case, the FDA needs to rethink the use of NSAIDS.
This has turned into a very interesting post.
Perhaps these articles should all be in an articles room if not already. Whatcha think?
Yours, Luce
MC Can Affect Many Parts of The GI Tract
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Luce,
As I alluded to in my P S, in my last post, Katy's MC was initially triggered by the use of NSAIDs, and , of course, she does respond to the diet. There are several others, but I don't recall who they are, offhand.
While it's true that almost everyone has a gluten sensitive gene, that doesn't necessarily mean that NSAIDs might act as a trigger for them. For all we know, another unknown gene type might have to be present to enable triggering by NSAIDs, or maybe some specific condition of body chemistry might have to be present. There are a lot of possibilities, and very little is known about most of this.
I'll try to remember to move a copy of this thread over there after it appears to be finished.
Wayne
As I alluded to in my P S, in my last post, Katy's MC was initially triggered by the use of NSAIDs, and , of course, she does respond to the diet. There are several others, but I don't recall who they are, offhand.
While it's true that almost everyone has a gluten sensitive gene, that doesn't necessarily mean that NSAIDs might act as a trigger for them. For all we know, another unknown gene type might have to be present to enable triggering by NSAIDs, or maybe some specific condition of body chemistry might have to be present. There are a lot of possibilities, and very little is known about most of this.
I'll try to remember to move a copy of this thread over there after it appears to be finished.
Wayne
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.