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Posted 3/24/2015 9:33 AM (GMT 0)
I always wondered how it's possible to stay without blood poisoning/sepsis while flaring. I know it happens but why doesn't it happen every time one is flaring?

I think about it. My colon is inflamed and has ulcers and open wounds. It keeps bleeding. Stool is still passing through that mess. How come the stool is not passing through the open inner wounds and right into my blood stream, being released into my entire body and therefore killing me off?

In theory it sounds plausible to me. As I said I know this happens in severe cases and that's also how inflammation is spread to joints and other parts of your body.
Posted 3/24/2015 12:28 PM (GMT 0)
bump.
Posted 3/24/2015 1:12 PM (GMT 0)
Because our ulcerations don't penetrate thru the intestinal wall like Crohn's does.
Posted 3/24/2015 3:19 PM (GMT 0)
If your feces ever leaked through the intestinal lining (as in a perforation) it will kill you if you don't get it repaired soon enough, it's basically feces poisoning/toxicity. With feces just rubbing against inflammation/irritation of the lining it's was causes all the pain and symptoms and frequency from having IBD.
Posted 3/24/2015 3:50 PM (GMT 0)
I think it's much more likely (but still very rare) to get toxic megacolon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_megacolon. TM can lead to sepsis. I got it from having my immune system compromised from ibd medications.
Posted 3/24/2015 7:45 PM (GMT 0)
Nssg isn't that crazy :(

So then how come crohn people survive a flare in their colon? I think I should have been dead from first flare on. Not sure why nature made us such fighters but it's a good thing. Such an evil disease.
Posted 3/24/2015 8:51 PM (GMT 0)
People with CD have different severity of flares like we do. Mild, moderate and severe. My mother had a severe case of CD and ultimately passed away from sepsis.
Posted 3/25/2015 5:23 AM (GMT 0)
It's happened to me when very ill and ulcerated and bleeding a lot, especially if I try to hold in a BM very hard. I'll get fever, chills, weak, headache and takes hours to recover. I know the feces in those situations gets forced into my bloodstream.
Posted 3/25/2015 11:38 AM (GMT 0)
Sherry I'm sorry I didn't know.

Burli I'm sorry this happened to you.

I'm in remission but fear a flare every day.
Posted 3/25/2015 1:27 PM (GMT 0)
I don't know about feces passing thru the intestine causing sepsis. But there is speculation about bacteria leaking through, “leaky gut” syndrome. It might explain why inflammation can spread throughout the circulatory system causing arthritis, eye inflammation, liver problems, etc., that are the side effects of IBD.

Researchers propose intake of natural anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative substances (NAIDS's), such as glutamine, N-acetyl cysteine and zinc, prebiotics and the use of probiotics to help fix bowel hyperpermeability.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22903217/

High fructose corn syrup can encourage the perforations:
drhyman.com/blog/2011/05/13/5-reasons-high-fructose-corn-syrup-will-kill-you/
free fructose from HFCS requires more energy to be absorbed by the gut and soaks up two phosphorous molecules from ATP (our body’s energy source).

This depletes the energy fuel source, or ATP, in our gut required to maintain the integrity of our intestinal lining. Little “tight junctions” cement each intestinal cell together preventing food and bacteria from “leaking” across the intestinal membrane and triggering an immune reaction and body wide inflammation.

High doses of free fructose have been proven to literally punch holes in the intestinal lining allowing nasty byproducts of toxic gut bacteria and partially digested food proteins to enter your blood stream and trigger the inflammation.

The takeaway: Cane sugar and the industrially produced, euphemistically named “corn sugar” are not biochemically or physiologically the same.
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