DH just found out he has Chron's

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Just wondering if anyone else out there has a child with it– are the syptoms pretty much the same? I am worried about our 8 year old and our 3 year old— more so the 8 year old since he barely gains any weight. He does ahve reflux

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no chrons here—we have celiac at our house—but i just read a fascinating book that i checked out from the library that was discussing our overzealousness with cleanliness which seems to be causing health problems—i can tell you it isn’t fun suffering the results of our overuse of antibiotics after suffering a bout with MRSA in february. it still hurts and still will itch and swell a little at times—of course it has to be on my face!!

back to the book i was talking about. it was discovered that chrons and ulcerative cholitis are diseases of our modern societies where we are so clean. some experimenting was done with pig whipworm eggs and people with these two diseases. of the people treated with the whipworm eggs and chrons disease, all got better, and all but one went into remission—-until they stopped the whipworm eggs. these particular worms don’t mature in the human digestive tract, so they don’t cause bad side effects. basically, it was cure by infection.

i can’t remember the name of the book, but i will see if i can find it again or remember the name of it in case you would like to read it. i found it fascinating.

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I am so sorry to hear of this. I dont have blood relatives with this, but my stepfather has Chron’s (severe). He’s in his late 40’s now and he’s had it since he was VERY little and was in the hospital on and off as a child. Back then, they didn’t know too much and would just take out affected intestine, colon, etc as they found it to be a problem.

About 9 years ago, he started getting treated at John’s Hopkins Hospital with Remicade treatments (IV treatments) and it went into complete remission. There are good treatments out there!! Just wanted to let you know…he was sooo severe and ok now. HUGS.

If you are worried about your children, bring this up to a specialist/GI doctor. I think they should do an upper endoscopy and or colonoscopy. I know that is how they found my stepfather’s neice’s Chron’s. She had trouble gaining, had ulcer’s in her mouth and was symptomatic (stomach pain, occassional diarrhea, etc) I am not exactly sure what the :see” in the scope to make the dx though.

jilly782009-06-02 14:35:30

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