Hospitalised for an IBD flare/ food poisoning

This has been a crappy week. I was hospitalised because I had food poisoning which made me go to the loo +20 a day with blood and mucus. I have had bleeding off and on for a while and although I was pulled off the pentasa by the GP’s (because of stomach cramps) I was still taking the rectal drugs. For the IBD they treated me with IV fluids and steroids, they then found a new oral drug for me to take called Dipentum. These helped a little but the real drug that helped with the bleeding is called Erythromycin, which is an antibiotic. They gave this to me 3 times by IV and then followed it by oral tablets. My rectum has never felt so good, I am wondering if the antibiotics have kicked the IBD and the food poisoning out of my body. I am on a course of predisone as well, which I will have to reduce. I have been put on 40mg of pred. First time on pred I haven’t seen any moon face yet.

Yea they did stool samples. I am now looking at my diet as well, if IBD is going to happen then I am not going to be so strict anymore. Its driving me crazy. I have just quit my natural program it did not get rid of the IBD so I am not going to pay for anymore of it. I will take some things I have learnt as for some reason the IBD has not spread out of my rectum, but if I have some gluten free things then so be it.

I will use the rectal drugs and the Dipentum. The pred did not make a differnece to the bleeding in a day but the antibiotics did.

Hellokitty said...
I am now looking at my diet as well, if IBD is going to happen then I am not going to be so strict anymore.

I dumped my diet and my doctor.

If your sitting in the hospital then you have some time to research. Take a look at the Resistant starch diet. I could not taper pred for surgery without bleeding. Then I read about RS healing the colon by creating SCFA - butyrate. It began working immediately and despite being on blood thinners I dropped prednisone faster than ever without bleeing. Went down from 20mg to zero in less than 2 weeks. Day 4 of 0.00 today.

There are many benefits of RS which is considered a third type of fiber. I have an extensive thread on it here at healingwell.com. I am free and clear of prednisone and I dropped Lialda as I tapered because I suspected it was worthless ( for me ).

I was using RS type 1, now I use RS type 2 - just received a 5 lb bag of HI-MAIZE type 2 and am dumping spoonfuls into drinks and baking with it. I eat whatever I want too, I baked almond poppy seed muffins with 1/2 cup of sugar across 5 muffins. RS diet does its job on insulin resistance and satiation too I don't crave sweets, they kind of turn me off now.

BMs are vastly improved, solid logs, not perfect yet but RS is supposed to correct the flora and heal and THICKEN the mucosal lining. So over time I expect to improve. I also cut out nitrates which destroy B1.

Post Edited (aguywithuc) : 4/14/2013 1:26:40 PM (GMT-6)

Thanks for your post aguywithuc

That's interesting about erythromicin. about ten years ago when I wasn't particularly in flare but was having problems with urgency and loose stools I had that antibiotic for an ear infection and my bowels also cleared up really well and stayed that way for a good amount of time afterwards. I hadn't known what the antibiotic was until my currently helpful GP looked back at my old notes. He said to me, that must have been a coincidence, it wouldn't have helped an intestinal problem, but he is no G.I. expert and from reading I am doing, erythromicin can help intestinal infections.
Hope you continue to improve!

Here is a 5 page thread on it, I posted a lot of googled info, some from pubmed. The latest activity shows where I bought my RS type 2 HI-MAIZE starch I am using after having incredible success with RS type 1 - Legumes ( Navy beans are very high in RS ).

www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=2687863&p=1