[metmom]

You know what I think is also sometimes misdagnosed as Crohn's or Irritable Bowel? Food allergies. I know a woman who started going into anaphylactic shock over a food she couldn't ID. She knew it was something common but until she got tested, didn't realise it was WHEAT! When I asked her if she had any symptoms (because it's rare to all of a sudden develop this out of the blue) she said yeah, that she had been having nausea, vomitting, and intestinal problems for years and it had been diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome. She never got the hives type reaction.

[djf]

Yeah, the last time I was in a health food store, they had tons of stuff for people with gluten allergies.

It's funny, because I imagine if you told a doctor twenty years ago that you thought bread was causing you problems, he'd a probably told you to get your head examined.

I have very little faith in the medical profession.

[chuckles]

Getting a diagnosed case of Crohn's is more than hives. If a doctor tell someone they have Crohn's and hasn't done a colonoscopy with biopsy, then they should be sued. There is a genetic test, also, that is about 80% accurate. My theory is it is caused by a tuberculin type bacteria that comes from milk. Why some get it and others don't may have to do with weak immune systems. The bacteria is not killed by ordinary antibiotics and kills off the normal bacteria in the gut. Replacing the dead bacteria with probiotics does help. Remicade stops the symptoms and stops the tissue attack for my daughter.