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A poll only for mothers with MC or other autoimmune conditions.
Here's an article about microchimerism in autoimmune thyroid disease. My autoimmune issues began 3 months after the birth of my first child, a son. I've often wondered if his cells circulating in my body are creating all this mayhem. I don't have Hashimoto's, but my two friends with Hashimoto's also have sons.
http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/full/86/6/2494
Tex remarked:
It raises the question of the possibility of the involvement of a "leaky placenta", (though that wasn't implicated in the "conclusions"). That makes me wonder if the tight junctions in the placenta are modulated by the same mechanisms involved with the leaky gut syndrome. I would guess that there is a very good chance that they are. That opens the door for all sorts of chemical "shenanigans" for mothers with autoimmune issues.
For example, it might be somehow connected with the relatively high female to male ratio of patients with CC. IOW, I wonder if most or all female patients with CC have given birth to a son, before their CC symptoms presented.
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Shouldn't this poll apply to CC only, because the female to male prevalence for CC is usually quoted at about 4 to 1? With LC, the odds seem to be approximately equal, (IOW, no gender preference).
Tex
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
The various types of MC are similar, and the symptoms and treatment are the same, but the initial cause may be different, (for all we know) - I thought that was what we're trying to establish. Of course, you have to remember that I don't consider MC to be a disease - I view it as a symptom, FWIW. 
You may well be right, though, that it's possible for microchimerism to cause LC, even though that doesn't seem to fit very will with the gender prevalences attributed to the respective types of MC.
Tex
You may well be right, though, that it's possible for microchimerism to cause LC, even though that doesn't seem to fit very will with the gender prevalences attributed to the respective types of MC.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Ok, I answered the poll question. I do have a son. I was diagnosed with LC and I am hypothyroid. However my son was about 40 years old before I sympomatic of either one, for what it's worth.............. I don't knowl.
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I'm basically just commenting so when I have time in December to research microchimerism that this thread pops up. I just wanted to say that I have had what I think is a mild case of psoriasis (never diagnosed) from about 13 on, but I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, which later revealed itself to be Hashimoto's, when my son was 14.
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Dum spiro, spero -- While I breathe, I hope
Psoriasis - the dark ages
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - Dec 2001
Collagenous Colitis - Sept 2010
Granuloma Annulare - June 2011
Dum spiro, spero -- While I breathe, I hope
Psoriasis - the dark ages
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - Dec 2001
Collagenous Colitis - Sept 2010
Granuloma Annulare - June 2011
Psoriasis is very common with MC.
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Tex
Incidentally, are you aware that you can bookmark any thread? Simply click on the link in the upper left corner of the thread, that says, "Bookmark topic". To view all your bookmarks, just click on the link right above the "Potty People" logo, that says "Bookmarks". I use that feature a lot, to keep track of threads I might want to refer back to at some point in the future, especially if I think that they might not be easy to find, using the most logical keywords.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.