child on remicade, germ magnet!

trojen,

I am so sorry your son has to deal with UC, let along a recurrence of infections.

I would suggest you look into:

1) has his blood levels of vitamin b12 and d been checked?

2) is he on probiotics? VSL#3 DS ( via prescription) are the best ones with 900  billion active cultures

3) LDN - low dose naltrexone, not only does it put people with UC and Crohns in remission, but it generally boosts the immune system, which it sounds like he really could use.

What do you think?

Thanks guys, I'm going to check into Vit b12 and LDN, I've heard so much about them. He knows about hygiene and is pretty good about it. His GI just told me that kids on remicade get about one more infection a year than kids not on remicade. If that's the case, then Jack has just had some bad luck. We will check his labs in two weeks at his next infusion. He had a fecal transplant two weeks ago for the cdiff, hopefully that is behind us. The only problem is he picked up strep throat one week later and had to be put on abx. We're hoping that doesn't disrupt the good bacteria he received from the transplant. Thanks again for the advice and support.