IBD and Diet series - part one
Why don’t GI doctors refer patients with IBD to dietitians? There are so many nutrition issues.
I am SO glad that I am a dietitian. It has saved me a lot of suffering with ileal Crohn’s disease.
Refer, refer, refer!!!!!
Food and diet could be the cause but only part of it at most.
I’d say the aetiology proposed by Anthony Segal makes the most sense to me:
- putting CD and UC under the umbrella term IBD doesn’t help much
- CD is caused by a defective innate immune system, hence call of duty of our adaptive immune causing hallmark granulomatus inflammation
- genetic predisposition but there must be a trigger e.g. an acute GI infection
I just can underline what Jeanne Bradford wrote: IBD patients need multidisciplinary care!
Why don’t GI doctors refer patients with IBD to dietitians? There are so many nutrition issues.
I am SO glad that I am a dietitian. It has saved me a lot of suffering with ileal Crohn’s disease.
Refer, refer, refer!!!!!
Food and diet could be the cause but only part of it at most.
I’d say the aetiology proposed by Anthony Segal makes the most sense to me:
- putting CD and UC under the umbrella term IBD doesn’t help much
- CD is caused by a defective innate immune system, hence call of duty of our adaptive immune causing hallmark granulomatus inflammation
- genetic predisposition but there must be a trigger e.g. an acute GI infection
I just can underline what Jeanne Bradford wrote: IBD patients need multidisciplinary care!