GASTRIC GOLD'S BLOG: Food Poisoning May Raise IBD Risk

Food Poisoning May Raise IBD Risk

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Study Shows Food-Borne Infections Are Linked to Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Salmonella or campylobacter food poisoning triples the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) -- for at least 15 years.

IBD typically refers to Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. It's not clear exactly what causes IBD. Genetics, environment, diet, abnormal blood vessels, infections, immune-system overreaction, and psychological factors all have been blamed.

To see whether infections play a role, Henrik Nielsen, MD, of Aalborg Hospital in Denmark took advantage of his nation's system of tracking citizen's health records.

The system allowed Nielsen and colleagues to look at whether people who've been treated for certain infections are at higher risk of developing IBD.

The researchers looked at two kinds of food poisoning: salmonella and campylobacter. They identified 13,149 people treated for either infection and compared their health records to those of people who never suffered these infections.

People who had one or the other kind of food-borne infection had a 1.2% risk of getting IBD over the next 15 years. Those who never had either infection had only a 0.5% risk of IBD. Statistical analysis showed that the food-borne infections tripled IBD risk for at least the next 15 years.

"If we can reduce and prevent the spread of food bacteria and infections, we may reduce or even largely eliminate IBD in the long term," Nielsen says in a news release.

Nielsen reported the findings in a presentation to this week's Digestive Disease Week (DDW), held May 30 to June 4 in Chicago. DDW is an annual conference sponsored by the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Association for the study of Liver Diseases, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.

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Aloe Vera Benefits

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The aloe vera plant has been used for several thousand years. There are references to aloe vera in many cultures, from the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, as well as in literature of the Indian and Chinese peoples. The aloe Vera plant is also mentioned in the Bible several times.

There is evidence that suggests that aloe Vera helps inflammatory conditions of the gastro intestinal tract such as gastritis, diverticulitis and colitis. One research paper suggests that peptic ulcers treated orally with aloe vera had good results.

Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in California studied the results of Aloe Vera in the gastro intestinal tract of normal people. He found that aloe had several measurable effects. There was faster movement of food through the bowel with better protein digestion and absorption, an increase in water in the stool made it bulkier and a normalization of stool bacteria where there had previously been high levels of yeasts in some of the subjects. As a result of these findings a closer look at IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) was taken. In the U. K. IBS effects over five million people and is common to be seen by doctors in hospital clinics.

Aloe concentrate (AMP as the main ingredient in Gastric Gold) was given to some of the UK patients that have IBS, and the results were very good. It worked in a majority of the patients using it. One patient was so pleased with her newly controlled bowel that she said “I can go shopping now with confidence-its great”.

Many people that have arthritis have reduced the number of anti-inflammatory and pain killing medicine to a level where they ceased to get the usual side effects of abdominal pain and indigestion. These effects were probably due to aloe Vera’s innate anti-inflammatory effect as well as its effect on the immune system.

The plant alone has many vitamins such as vitamin D, vitamin A, C and E and even contains Vitamin B12. It has many different types of biochemical catalysts when taken orally aid in digestion by breaking down fats and sugars. One enzyme called Bradykinase helps to reduce excessive inflammation when applied to the skin topically and therefore reduces pain. Lipases and proteases breakdown foods and aid digestion are also present.

AMP, which is the concentrated freeze dried extract taken from the aloe Vera plant also strengthens the immune system when take orally. Many conditions which are caused by a disordered immune system such as asthma and forms of arthritis also can benefit from Gastric Gold. Gastric Gold when taken three times daily gives you the maximum safe dosage of one of natures best blessings.