Ulcerative Colitis – Colitis Symptoms, Colitis Diet, Colitis Information

Participants must meet certain criteria and there is a screening process for fecal donors. Patients may not be in remission, on biologic therapy, or be using probiotics.

WHAT UP UC’ERS: Earlier today, I noticed that a longtime writer of the website named Angie, posted a story where she mentioned some eye problems she’s dealing with.  And she wanted to know if this type of thing could be related to her ulcerative colitis.  And of course there’s a never ending list of website [...]

FOR ANYBODY WHO ALREADY KNOWS about “Helminthic Therapy”, I’m guessing your first thoughts were somewhere along the lines of, “Oh HELL NO!”.  Could anybody blame you?  Of course not. For crying out loud helminths are little parasitic worms.  And who wants to be messing with those right?  Disgusting, nasty, full on ridiculous…well maybe.  But the [...]

 Have YOU visited PubMed.gov before? If your answer is no, or even if it’s yes, I’d highly encourage you to continue reading the quick and easy steps below for using PubMed to find UC articles. This is one of those posts I should have written ages ago.  So my apologies for that, but the time [...]

Dear UC’ers of the world and all other concerned family/friends, I received an email a few days ago from one of you asking what the heck was going on with the SCD study that is taking place right now at Rush Medical Center near Chicago, IL.  Crazy how times flies, but I originally posted on [...]

Hey UC’ers, What’s happening!  It’s another end of the week, and I thought it would be great to do a little re-visit on an old topic that is making the headlines once again.  That’s right, the good old “Hygiene Hypothesis”.  As you might have guessed, it is pretty controversial like most “new” ideas in the [...]

I hope everyone is doing well this Friday, the first one of November 2011.  Whether you are brand new to IHAVEUC or a longtime follower, I wanted to share an old fashioned poop story. It has been a little while since I updated everyone on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) Clinical Trial that I am [...]

So I’m sifting around on PubMed. It then occurred to me that maybe some UC’ers haven’t heard of it; so here is the link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ PubMed is a site that provides access to peer reviewed medical journal articles (research and case reports written by doctors). Type Ulcerative Colitis and you get 30,000 hits. Below is [...]

A 35 Patient Survey about Taking Remicade to Treat Ulcerative Colitis Symptoms Objective: To find out if there are similarities when it comes to taking Remicade (Infliximab) for treating Ulcerative Colitis with respect to effectiveness, side effects, and the decision to continue use of the medication in the future.  The 35 people who took part [...]

I myself have already enrolled in this clinical study and have completed several stool samples and placed them in the mail so far.  You may be eligible too.  If you are interested in taking part in this clinical study, here are the current details below: Do you have Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis or indeterminate colitis? [...]