Find a cure?

[NoNameNoFace]

Do you think they will ever find a cure for Crohns disease?

 

[mickey]

Yes!

 

[Beach]

I hope so. I don't have the condition, I have MC, but will see articles from time to time about Crohn's. What has somewhat surprised me is how well the sunshine vitamin D3 has helped some. A few crohn's sufferers have even reported being cured by supplementing with D3. For example, one case out of Australia ~

"Mailbag: vitamin D and Crohn’s"

http://blog.vitamindcouncil.org/2011/10/22/mailbag-vitamin-d-and-crohns/

 

[Ihurt]

I do not think a cure is anywhere in the near future. To have a cure would mean they have to find the cause..... I have not been dx yet, am going through the motions, but I have a ton of other health issues( interstitial cystitis, fibro, possible lyme etc,,,), and one thing I have learned along the way is that western medicine is NOT interested in finding cures, only bandaids. If they found a cure, then no one would buy pharmaceuticals or have surgery and make the doctors and pharmacies rich!! So sad, but so very true. You have to be your own advocate when it comes to your health. I do believe eventually in the very very far and vast future people will change and the medical profession will get better and actually make the patients best interest, their best interest, but I highly doubt I'll be around to see it happen....

 

[Beach]

I was going to make more of a production of this, but thought, well, I'm really getting into areas I'm not all that familiar with. What interested me about vitamin D3 being helpful for some with Crohn's concerns Burrill Bernard Crohn's original idea. Burrill thought Crohn's disease was related to the animal disease called Johne's. Johnes's disease is thought to be caused by the bacterium called Mycobacterium para tuberculosis (MAP).

Back in the days before antibiotics, hospitals treated patients with tuberculosis by exposing them to sunshine and UVB rays. Those are the rays that create vitamin D3 in the skin. Sometimes doing this would cause the condition to stop progressing, and in a few cases the TB would go away.

Additionally some here have mentioned that avoiding wheat and other grains has improved their condition. (That has helped me, along with vitamin D!) Some appear to have even found their cure avoiding grains/gluten. Well, of the two natural ways that I'm familiar with on how to treat tuberculosis bacteria, taking vitamin D3 and avoiding grains are the two.

So possibly Burrill Crohn was correct in that MAP bacteria are involved or cause the condition of Crohn's.

I was reading on Wikipedia that a group of drug was in the works for dealing with MAP, but searching further didn't find anything. Maybe the trial was a bust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_avium_subspecies_paratuberculosis

...MAP is recognized as a multi-host mycobacterial pathogen with a proven specific ability to initiate and maintain systemic infection and chronic inflammation of the intestine of a range of histopathological types in many animal species, including primates.[7]
On the assumption that MAP is a causative agent in Crohn's disease, the Australian biotechnology company Giaconda is seeking to commercialize a combination of rifabutin, clarithromycin, and clofazimine as a potential drug therapy, called Myoconda, for Crohn's. As of April 2007, Giaconda received United States FDA IND approval for a new Phase 2/3 trial.[8]
MAP has been found in larger numbers within the intestines of Crohn's disease patients[9] than those with ulcerative colitis and healthy controls...
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Saw also that there is a thread going on in the research section here about MAP bacteria and the fat soluble vitamins being helpful in killing them off.

"Vitamins A & D Inhibit the Growth of Mycobacteria"

http://www.crohnsforum.com/showthread.php?t=33666