Hello There,
I recently became involved with a woman (a few dates) that had undergone antibiotic's for a sinus infection and out of which had developed an autoimmune disease / Crohn's / Ulcerative Coilitis, i believe they are giving her a methotrexate infusion every 6 weeks or so to wipe out her white blood cells which are attacking her digestive tract.
I did a bit of research over the past few days and just wanted to run my thoughts past you all.
It seems that the methotrexate infusion (chemo therapy?) is simply fighting the symptoms rather than the cause, the white blood cells. But not what is causing them to run rampant.
It seems to me that since this all started after a course of antibiotics that this could be bacteria related, is it possible that the white blood cells could be onto something undetected and not necessarily acting crazy?
The way i picture it in my head is after taking antibiotics there is a bacteria tug of war match that starts between good and bad bacteria, is it possible that the bad bacteria won here and it wasnt detected? Then the bad bacteria goes on to inflame or cause issue with healthy tissue, at which point the white blood cells start to attack it?
If so can you detect or measure bacteria growth? What causes good bacteria to be there in the first place? Is there something that can disrupt this "source" of good bacteria or can it be improved upon?
Can you specifically target bad bacteria with a specialized anti-biotic? Rather than one that fights all bacteria?
Could it be possible to try varying forms of anti-biotics until you find the one that kills off the rampant bad bacteria then assist the good bacteria in the tug-of-war match afterwards with a pro-biotic of some sort?
I'm an IT guy and naturally curious, i spend most of my time diagnosing technical (not medical) issues during the day.
I recently became involved with a woman (a few dates) that had undergone antibiotic's for a sinus infection and out of which had developed an autoimmune disease / Crohn's / Ulcerative Coilitis, i believe they are giving her a methotrexate infusion every 6 weeks or so to wipe out her white blood cells which are attacking her digestive tract.
I did a bit of research over the past few days and just wanted to run my thoughts past you all.
It seems that the methotrexate infusion (chemo therapy?) is simply fighting the symptoms rather than the cause, the white blood cells. But not what is causing them to run rampant.
It seems to me that since this all started after a course of antibiotics that this could be bacteria related, is it possible that the white blood cells could be onto something undetected and not necessarily acting crazy?
The way i picture it in my head is after taking antibiotics there is a bacteria tug of war match that starts between good and bad bacteria, is it possible that the bad bacteria won here and it wasnt detected? Then the bad bacteria goes on to inflame or cause issue with healthy tissue, at which point the white blood cells start to attack it?
If so can you detect or measure bacteria growth? What causes good bacteria to be there in the first place? Is there something that can disrupt this "source" of good bacteria or can it be improved upon?
Can you specifically target bad bacteria with a specialized anti-biotic? Rather than one that fights all bacteria?
Could it be possible to try varying forms of anti-biotics until you find the one that kills off the rampant bad bacteria then assist the good bacteria in the tug-of-war match afterwards with a pro-biotic of some sort?
I'm an IT guy and naturally curious, i spend most of my time diagnosing technical (not medical) issues during the day.
