Hi Everyone,
Thank you for your replies. Mr Bufford, there is a tenuous commonality between me and thee, the inasmuch that some twenty odd years (1973?)ago, I had a rectal abscess which was extremely painful, but treated with and resolved by antibiotic therapy. It is odd that you should have had a similar precursory experience.
Perhaps I should have mentioned that long before my involvement in probation work, I started off as a soldier and morphed into psychiatric,
and general nursing for the majority of my working life. A 'mister sister,' so to speak.
What I would like to put to all of you is the proposition that Burrill Bernard Crohn perhaps got his diagnostic statement of 'Regional ileitis ' just a tad wrong. Undoubtedly , he identified the extent of the condition, but I am not sure that Crohn considered it to extend from' the mouth to the anus . Your thoughts would be appreciated.
With the benefit of hindsight we all acknowledge that despite the hesitancy of medicos to leap to the conclusion that the final diagnosis is CD , rather than the ill-defined IBD. then I think the question must be asked - are there multiple causes of CD?
What perturbs me is like the majority of you , we have be subjected to a battery of medications that were targeted to treat, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. Not a single drug specifically designed to combat CD.
So , although we all are aware that this is an autoimmune problem, then what theories can any anyone of your imagine might be a aetiological factor? , Genetic, familial , environmental, tough luck? The floor is yours-got to skip to the loo!
Bless you all,
Merv