BBC News - Bacterium 'to blame for Crohn's'

[mikeyarmo]

Article from BBC health:

Researchers believe the lack of a specific bacterium in the gut may be a cause of Crohn's disease.

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[Isla]

My question to ponder on then, is why does stress bring on flares? If it purely bacterial, wouldn't stress be inconsequential?

 

[merrywidow]

look at this link as well. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7657400.stm

i quite like the idea of eating space food, it must be better than the rubbish you get from fast food place. sharon xx

 

[D Bergy]

Stress weakens the immune system and brings out any problem on the verge of happening anyway.

Dan

 

[fenway1971]

Fascinating stuff. Let's hope that this leads to a potential breakthrough in treatment.

 

[katiesue1506]

If stress weakens the immune system... shouldn't it be good for us as it would correct the overactive immune system? PONDERING!!!

 

[pb4]

Stress can exacerbate symptoms, it's not necessarily one of the causes of the disease, but more needs to be learned on that too...and from last I read, the jury is still out on weather it's an over-active or under-active immune system so they just chalk it up to a confused/messed up immune system, for some IBDers their immune system may be over active and for others it may be under active at times, again, much more needs to be learned on that too...

from my understanding reading one version of the above article, they will be looking into making a specific probiotic containing F. Prausnitzii to hopefully help us crohnies...that is the crohnies that have a lack of that specific bacterium god only knows if we all do or only the majority or minority of us do....I'm sure they'll have to learn that as well.