Interesting IBS article

[Babci]

Wonder if this is why I have trouble with meat.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Gastroenter ... e/tb1/1358

Love & light, Rita

[Polly]

Babci,

This is very interesting. WOW! They are now finding food triggers in IBS patients. They will have to stop calling IBS a functional disease (meaning no medical findings on tests) now that food antibodies are being discovered! Amazing how diet is increasingly being implicated as a cause for disease. Thanks for sharing.

Love,

Polly

[moremuscle]

Hi Rita,

Thank you for sharing the finding of this article. I enjoyed reading it - it is encouraging that some MDs are finding the relationship between food and symptoms of diseases (such as IBS) to be relevant and worth while to study and follow up on. It holds some promise for the patients of those MDs. As many of us have already discovered food plays a major if not solitary role in our own disease and symptoms.

I wonder if the tests done on meat were "pure" meat or if they used deli meats and or injected, marinated meats in the trial. If the meats were not clean it could have had a devastating effect on the results of the trial.

It is encouraging that even if you have problems with meat, Rita, perhaps you can still enjoy certain meats such as chicken, fish, shrimp, and turkey - fowl and fish.

Love,
Karen

[tex]

Very interesting. That link should probably be in the "current research" forum.

Love,
Tex

[Babci]

Hey Karen, Tex & Polly,

This came through on my FDA drug alert bulletin. That means I didn't have to search for it (& neither will any other practitioner who reads it). It is encouraging to see attention being paid to diet & illness. I am trying to expand my diet but can't seem to get past fowl & fish. I am finding things I enjoy but it continues to be more work than "picking up a slice of pizza". I'm sure the food was not "pure". It will take years before that connection is made. Love & light, Rita

[MaggieRedwings]

Fascinating article. The Brits seem to be taking their research very seriously. They also have a much different outlook on GI problems and that could be because Celiac Disease is so plentiful in their country and related GI problems.

Hope the research is continued long-term and also that the US gets on the bandwagon.

Maggie

[mle_ii]

While reading a bit more about IgG4 I came across a couple of interesting pages. Though the info is about particular diseases that we probably don't have the info about IgG and IgA and other immune info is very good reading. I haven't looked at the rest of the site, but it appears that there might be a lot of good info up here for those intersted.

http://www.immunedisease.com/US/patient ... class.html
http://www.immunedisease.com/US/patient ... t_iga.html

[mle_ii]

While reading a bit more about IgG4 I came across a couple of interesting pages. Though the info is about particular diseases that we probably don't have the info about IgG and IgA and other immune info is very good reading. I haven't looked at the rest of the site, but it appears that there might be a lot of good info up here for those intersted.

http://www.immunedisease.com/US/patient ... class.html
http://www.immunedisease.com/US/patient ... t_iga.html

Here's a site that has the book in PDF form from where these pages came from:
http://www.primaryimmune.org/pubs/book_ ... k_pats.htm

The first chapter looks like its a good read for learning about the immune system. :)

[mle_ii]

Ok this is rather interesting. I found information about Selective IgA Deficiency and it sounded like it fits in with what we have, and then what do I see when researching some more, well that Selective IgA Deficiency is also linked with Celiac Disease.

Here's some pub med stuff on it:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... mdl=DocSum

Wow! Almost full circle.