ALLERGY and crohn's pollen season can cause worsening symptoms

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Twenty-three of 37 or 62% of patients tested positive to at least one environmental allergen. Twenty-one or 57% of patients had rhinitis and 2 patients had asthma. Sensitivity to seasonal allergens was identified in 46% of patients (ragweed 27%, grass 24%, trees 35% and mold 19%). The majority of patients with sensitivity to seasonal allergens had small bowel involvement (82%). 100% of CD patients with seasonal allergy were diagnosed before age 40.

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There is a high prevalence of environmental allergy in patients with CD. Small bowel involvement and diagnosis prior to age 40 were characteristic clinical features. The high rate of pollen and mold allergy may play a role in seasonal exacerbations of CD.

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http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(04)00472-5/abstract

Increased prevalence of environmental allergy in patients with Crohn's disease
 
Depends.....
If you have mild allergies
Or fit in the my whole body freaks out during pollen season category

DS fits the latter.
He takes daily stuff plus shots
But his crohn's still goes berserk during the spring
 
I copied this to Books, Multimedia, Research & News as I find it interesting.
 
MLP, we recently were px'ed new allergy meds as zyrtec/flonase weren't doing the job. He was px'ed xyzal and dymista. Xyzal seems to be doing good so far but after a few days the dymista(I think) started causing nosebleeds, we stopped and went back to flonase and the bleeds stopped.

You know anything about the xyzal or dymista? I've scheduled another appt to discuss the nose bleeds, is there another nasal spray, you've used or reccomend?
 
We had a flare this spring too, it was so obvious that that was what was going to happen. But my daughter doesn't have any known small bowel disease (she does have a UC dx but I'm questioning that at the moment). This is the first year that the change of seasons has caused such an obvious change in symptoms and it correlates with her starting to break out in hives in the winter so I assume allergies. What is the mechanism by which allergies cause a flare? We were on a mast cell stabilizer with no affect at all on the IBD.
 
I haven't noticed a correlation between allergies and worse IBD symptoms. I did take an anti-histamine but have since stopped because I want to reduce the Meds I'm on. There is a lot of research showing the potential benefit of anti-histamine for IBD.
 
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