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Is there not already disbiosis from ibd patients due to inflammation anyway? Swapping one for another but one has no inflammation seems like a good idea. For partial nutrition setup perhaps high fermented foods can help undo disbiosis?

I have determination to try 12 weeks on een polymeric formula. I don't have good relationship with food as it is, I find it a chore so I won't miss not eating lol. As long as I can avoid tooth decay I'll be able to get through it I believe.

I read a paper that said een significantly improved gut biome in terms of removing harmful bacteria, that thrives on sugar, and so I think it's worth doing even for colonic inflammation. Gut biome is heavily under researched for ibd. And I don't imagine many with ibd have a biome balance...

I never understand why it's more common in the pediatric world. EEN works on adults too according to a lot of studies.

Interesting, i wonder if they could ever come up with a jelly or solid form of EEN for those who can still eat, such that it dissolves quickly in the stomach and not cause issues in the GI tract like regular food that would then quenches hunger and won't stick to teeth. Doesn't seem like any one...

From what I've been reading, EEN is quite effective in adults after 8 to 12 weeks. Why isn't this the standard over prednisone which comes with lots of problems?

I see so mre is likely unavoidable, thanks for the advice. Is pill cam as effective given it only sees surface level inflammation, seems a bit redundant if having mre

Thanks for the links, seems the NHS isn't aware of it. I'll email my consultant on it. He's suggested CT scan which I didn't want so I'm waiting for colonscopy but I think a scan would still be needed. They never seem to suggest ultrasound here in the UK at least not with the contrast technique.

Is there a name for that type of ultrasound I'll see what they say, but I doubt they even support ultrasound technique I never saw it listed on the website

I was wondering how necessary is the gadolinium contrast agent for this scan? I saw some research saying it might not be as needed as expected. Has anyone rejected having the gadolinium injection and still had a successful scan?

I've been referred to get a CT scan suspected of having Crohn's. I don't really want the x-ray exposure and would rather an MRI. Is there a difference in these two scans in terms of what they can detect/find ? Or are they the same? If they are the same i would like to switch to have an MRI but...