This article Published in April this year, shows that there is some sort of link between IBD's and food intolerances, quick print it off and show it to your GI's!
Key points from the article:
IBD has a multifactorial etiology but food sensitivity/intolerance appears to play a role, and the culpable foods vary on an individual basis. Techniques to identify food intolerance require refining. Progress has been made by looking at factors such as IgG4 responses to food antigens, but a large expanse of work exists in trying to determine people’s food sensitivities and the degree to which these affect disease activity. Without further research, it remains unclear whether dietary manipulation will continue to have a role solely in symptom control, orwhether complete remission may be possible using these
methods in combination with pharmacological agents.
Exclusion diets inpatients brought into remission using an elemental diet
have been shown to maintain remission for longer periods.
This is good news
'The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.' Horace Bushnell
Great article. Maybe some other research group will take the hint and carry these findings farther.
Thanks,
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.
My best, best friend has Crohn's (and now drug-induced Lupus due to Remicade treatment). She has never tried an elimination diet, other than going dairy-free for a week or two. It kills me to see her so sick, and believing that eliminating gluten and other foods would be too difficult. I send her links to articles whenever I see them, without adding any opinion, because I'm like a broken record.
