Collagenous & lymphocytis colitis

[angy]

Heres a link to John Hopkins medicine in gastroenterology & Hepatology....

a lot of information on this site. with other stuff too...... read information tabs to faqs


http://www.hopkins-gi.org/GDL_Disease.a ... 1E7426C8BA

The last paragraph i found to be interesting..which mentions "Enteropathic Athritis.."Im beginning to wonder about that....

[Gloria]

Thanks for the link, Angy. It's a good explanation of MC, but I rolled my eyes over this quote:

Physicians should suspect collagenous and lymphocytic colitis in middle-aged patients presenting with chronic, watery, noninfectious diarrhea. Often mistaken for irritable bowel syndrome, there are key differences. Collagenous/lymphocytic colitis patients present at an older age and without long-term history of alternating constipation and diarrhea.

They just don't seem to understand that this isn't strictly an older woman's disease.

They also admit that they are clueless about how to treat MC and give a very slight reference to gluten.

I don't understand how they can recognize that this is an immune-related disorder, but not consider what agent is causing the reaction. They want to treat the symptom, but not remove the cause.

Gloria

[ant]

Gloria


I thought researchers were meant to be good at logical thinking , but seems that is not part of the program anymore!

Best ant