Calprotectine levels?

[djatwork]

What are your levels when you are diagnosted with IBD?

 

[djatwork]

Another question, is the level of calprotectine a measure to search for all sorts of inflammation or ONLY for chronic inflammations?

I have a level of 290 but that is normal because the doctor saw an inflammation in my rectum so maybe it's a normal inflammation instead of chronic or is that impossible with high calprotectine?

 

[Bespectacledberries]

From what I know it just measures inflammation that is currently present, it can’t say if the inflammation is chronic. 290 while high isn’t anything crazy and could definitely be explained by document rectal inflammation. When I was diagnosed with UC my calprotection was well above 1000 though I was never given an exact number. When my levels were rechecked after I started prednisone it was 83. I would like to clarify this is just as I understand it, and my experience.

 

[my little penguin]

Only biopsies from a scope can tell you if the inflammation is chronic or acute .
Fecal cal just measures a type of cell found in the stool
Whether the increases is from inflammation or infection can be known by number
Lower numbers can be still severe disease if you have crohns in the small intestine .
Higher numbers are inflammation typically from the large intestine .

Fecal cal is just one marker
Most docs look at scopes , biopsies, imaging and bloodwork along with fecal cal.

 

[my little penguin]

Rectal inflammation typical doesn’t affect the fecal cal number since most cells from the rectum are not in the stool
At least that is what we have been told for my adult child
Lots of rectal inflammation