In 2006 I self published my doctoral thesis on IC and chronic illness. In that dissertation i explain my model for the developement of IC and other chronic illnesses-the foundation of which being low grade microbial translocation via the Peyer's Patches into the messentary ultimately infiltrating the entire lymphatic system. Incredibly today an article has reached my email from a patient-I am unclear as to where it was found on FB but she reports that this is where it was found. The article is reclassifying this part of the body as a separate organ and identifying it as potentially playing a significant role in gastrointestinal disease-this is what I have said from the beginning of my research. Please read: http://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-official-a-brand-new-human-organ-has-been-classified and if anyone has not read it yet, my dissertation may be found on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&fi...
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This is so interesting Matia.
This is so interesting Matia. (I am feeling great, by the way). While in pharmacy school, I was on a surgical rotation for morbid obesity and during the surgery the doctors would pull off handfuls of fat and fill a pan with large amounts to help the patient out. Also, during the surgery, they would pull all the intestines out and lay them outside the body cavity as they were sorting through and removing large amounts of digestive tract. I remember them stuffing everything back in- kind of haparzdly. Now that I see this article and structure- it makes me wonder what damage we were causing to the system in general. I am pretty sure the mesentary was cut- and lost its purpose and integrity. This was 35 years ago, so I hope they do not do this anymore. Creates quite a word picture.
This is so interesting Matia.
This is so interesting Matia. (I am feeling great, by the way). While in pharmacy school, I was on a surgical rotation for morbid obesity and during the surgery the doctors would pull off handfuls of fat and fill a pan with large amounts to help the patient out. Also, during the surgery, they would pull all the intestines out and lay them outside the body cavity as they were sorting through and removing large amounts of digestive tract. I remember them stuffing everything back in- kind of haparzdly. Now that I see this article and structure- it makes me wonder what damage we were causing to the system in general. I am pretty sure the mesentary was cut- and lost its purpose and integrity. This was 35 years ago, so I hope they do not do this anymore. Creates quite a word picture. Now that I think more about this, one of the frequent side effects of doing this was adhesions....where tissue sticks or grows onto other tissue that causes blockages or other problems. I remember one lady that had 15 surgeries to fix her surgeries....causing more and more adhesions. I guess I learned that you have to be careful with abdominal surgeries, and I think surgery should be a last resort. Just something more to think about as you talk to patients with prior surgeries/contemplating surgery.