Visit the Microscopic Colitis Foundation Website
This article focuses first on Crohn's, then on UC, but all the theories apply to us MCers. It includes virtually all the possible causes of MC that we've dicussed on this board, as well as treatments, including a new one (which includes some fasting and supplements) which makes some sense to me.
Check it out!! There are pearls of wisdom for everyone!
http://www.crohns.net/Miva/education/ar ... rapy.shtml
Crohn's Disease
Phytotherapy Review & Commentary
by Kerry Bone, FNIMH (Fellow, National Institute of Medical Herbalists)
Townsend Letter For Doctors & Patients - June 2004
Evidence exists to support the hypothesis of a microbial trigger for Crohn's disease. Although the association of bacteria, viruses and bowel flora with Crohn's Disease may confound a clear infectious cause, such a multiplicity of factors is consistent with the proposed model for the development of autoimmune disease. In the case of Crohns Disease, a virus could provide the primary lesion but bacteria are more likely to be involved. A combination of effects from bacteria, imbalanced bowel flora, diet and stress trigger a state of immune 'dysregulation' which results in active disease. A similar theory for the cause of Crohns Disease has been proposed by French scientists.29
That appears to me to be mostly a sales article for the author's merchandise.