Little question to see if something make sense, please answer it won't take long.

i absoulutely agree that out "sterile" world now leads to our bodies not producing the correct gut enviornment. Why else would IBDs be so rare in places like India or Asia where they literally still eat off the land?

I developed CD at 17 years old, prior to that I had childhood ezcema and asthma which didn't cause any major probs and outgrew them by my teenage years. Never had any problems prior to the CD with stomach issues and only had one day off sick through all my school time. No one in my family has any sort of CD but both my brother and I were both born with asthma. My Mum died of the type of brain haemmorage caused by blood clot, which is odd as she also had horrendous varicous veins on her legs and had her first op for them at 14!!! I say oddily as 5 years later I was dx with antiphipholipid syndrome (sticky blood disorder) and she was only 57 when she died and her mother died of blood clot in lungs at 60 yo. Think they could also have had the sticky blood disorder though not dx at that time and think that maybe as all my medical issues seem to be immune system based that the female line of the family pass on some sort of screwed up immune disorder gene.

I have always been a healthy child who suffered from nothing except for heartburn every now and then. At age 12, I started some gastritis problems and used to take stomach effervescents ( heredited from my father). The peak was at age 21 when I got chronic GERD and gastritis. However, at age 22, I got paratyphoid and apart from that I don't remember I had any gastroenteritis, very few throughout my life. I always ate "very sterilized" food. This was 7 years before I started my first CD flare up.

I had allergies as a child and couldn't eat most anything but I outgrew that and never had problems since my diagnosis a few years ago.

When I think back, I remember eating anything and everything, I did however have a nervous stomach I guess. Before I went out on a date I would not drink milk in fear of having to go, maybe a sensitivity started there. I drank alcohol and ate all kinds of junk. No allergies. Raised on a farm for a bit. I was diagnosed when I was 20. I was an only child. No one in my maternal family has it. Don't know the other side. Now, no milk, no alcohol, no pork, no spicy :(, no fun! I sure hope my kids don't get it.

Oh ya, I started smoking when I was 13. Quit in 1997

I had reflux as a baby and a lot of upper gastric pain as an adolescent. I had random bouts of appetite loss as a young adult and started having trouble with my SI joint in my 20s. I would have loose bowels linked to school exams, stuff like that. I did not like to eat high-fat food even as a kid, and I really did not like to eat red meat.

In my 30s I had trouble conceiving, partly because of ovarian dysfunction which was attributed to some unknown autoimmune disorder.

But my first overt symptom of IBD was bloody stool following the birth of my first child, and that was at age 37.