Hi all- i havent posted for quite some time. I hope u all are well.Hope someone might be able to discuss IBD with me.
Background:
My son has had somewhat loose bowels with some urgency after eating. There is also some small amount of blood. This occurs about twice per day.I have been feeding him rice with coconut milk and cooked vegetables, recently , and some improvement seen.

He tested positively to a protein suggesting crohn's, and a colonoscopy will be done soon.He tested negatively for infection such as h pylori, and celiac panel was negative.(tho i doubt he is not reacting to food proteins such as dairy and wheat)

i want to give him l .reuteri, which has proven to help those with his condition, i've read. Now, it works by lengthening villi. Villi are only in the small intestine . Is this correct?

Questions: If the l.reuteri works for those with this condition, does this imply there are food allergies that have led to shortening of the villi, and malabsorption.The fact that it help people seems to imply the existence of food allergies. or is there some other reason for shortening of the villi?

Also, does the stuff going on in the small intestine with the villi have an affect on the damage and inflammation that can occur in the large intestine(colon).

My son who had his first bout of this one year ago, after a great deal of beer drinking(wheat, alcohol), and now again this summer after same.

Our doctor didnt even look at the reuteri articles or the box, and he asked, in so many words, 'how can the product which works on the villi within the small intestine work toward the inflammation that excists in the colon.


Is it that the antibodies that attack the colon and cause the inflammation, evolve in some way due to the food allergies etc in the small intestine? thanks --limpia

Hi, I am sorry your son is having IBD problems.

I was very sick with undiagnosed Celiac Disease for years. After getting diagnosed in 2005, My best friend learned to cook Gluten Free for me since she loves to cook.

Two years ago her son was diagnosed with Crohns. He was not checked for Celiac and they gave him drugs. He was 20 years old. At first he just took drugs and felt miserable.

He asked his gastro if food could be the problem and he laughed in his face and said drugs were the only way to control Crohns.

He went on the internet and researched for himself and found the SCD diet.
http://www.scdiet.com by Elaine Gottschall. The SCD diet is much more involved said my best friend but it works.

He is now not only gluten free but also had to eliminate a variety of other foods. After following this diet he was able to eliminate all drugs. If he cheats, he gets sick so he knows he is on the right path. There is some recent info out that is connecting the IBD to gluten problems too but I will have to search. Most old Gastros are not very up-to-date with the relationship of foods and IBD.

I hope this helps a little.
Llonghair