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Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis
By Fred Hui, M.D.
The Traditional Etiology of the Disease
Like many other unsolvable chronic diseases traditionally viewed as autoimmune disease,
conventional medicine views the mechanism of Crohn’s disease is as an overactive
immune system hitting innocent tissues and organs. The mode of the quieting the riot is
to suppress the hyperactive policemen. Immunosuppressive medicine such as
Prednisone, is used as the trump card in most severe flare up. While the medicine usually
achieves dramatic results, as soon as doctors observe that everything is under control,
they like to lower the dose. As doctors are well aware of the extensive side effects of
Predinisone, some of which include diabetes, weight gain , osteoporosis, ,high blood
pressure, and cataracts, they often have wishful thinking that when things are quiet,
somehow everything will be all right when the immunosuppressive drugs are cut down.
However, most of the time, as soon as the bound hands of the “policemen” are loosened,
they do their due diligence to hit again, and often do so with bigger vengeance.
Physicians will usually conclude that we need to use even stronger drugs, such as
Remicade, Immurane, Methotrexate, Cyclosporins (transplant anti-rejection medications),
given that the goal of the intervention is to knock down the policemen so to prevent them
from ever managing to get up again.Eventually, when the bowel becomes out of control,
ulcerates and bleeds, the only option is to cut the rotten segment out.
An Alternative Approach to Understanding the Disease
Being an integrative physician, I always try to think out of the box. This is one stellar
example where accepting a different view point and approach will bring tremendous
success where conventional wisdom fails.
Over the years of treating numerous Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis patients, I came to
put together a protocol that has yielded very successful results. To deal with this
condition, instead of frowning my forehead when I come across such patients, I now look
forward to treating these types of patients. The gratification of seeing them dramatically
and quietly turn around is exciting.
In my opinion, the underlying mechanism of the disease is as follows:
There is actually an underlying genetic food allergy in most of these patients. It could be
any food, but most commonly milk products, wheat or others. Normally, when any food
is ingested, it is eventually broken down into the most basic single “alphabets” (Proteins
into amino acids, carbohydrates into simple glucose, and fat into fatty acids). For one
who does not have enough digestive enzymes, either geneticallyor by virtue of an episode
of bowel infection, the food is presented to the body as an unfamiliar combination of
“alphabets”. When the body sees this alien molecule trying to enter the bowel wall, the
emergency response team will start to bombard these “insurgents” (foreigners). The
inner lining of the bowel wall where these aliens are trying to cross, are bombed and
attacked by the body’s white blood cells and chemicals.
If the bowel lining is still perfectly intact, the main action of the deportation team is to
wash the undigested food out by pouring in copious amounts of liquid (watery diarrhea)
and squeezing them out through the rear door (cramps). Symptomatic treatment with
Imodium, Codeine or narcotics paralyzes the squeezing action of the pulsatile intestines
to cut down cramps and diarrhea. If the bowel lining is damaged by the friendly fire
bombing, however, we now have a phenomenon of a broken fence (leaky gut). More
undigested food will be able to cross the border un-scrutinized. Vicious cycles are set in.
More leaky gut will ensure more ulcerative wall, will bleed or secrete more mucous in the
intestine, there are always some anaerobic bacteria living there. If they ever enter the
body through these broken fences, they will infect the thickness of the bowel wall itself,
causing pockets of abscesses and rotted through walls (perforation and fistulas).
When these bacteria flow into the blood stream, the body will get into a mode of national
alert in the form of chills and episodes of low-grade fever. Those floating in the blood
usually get killed by the immune system or doctors’ prescribed antibiotics.
But for the insurgents that have ventured into the joints, or ‘hidden caves’, they have
found safe havens and are protected against the immune system. Since there is no blood
flow into joints spaces beyond the cartilages, the army can only bomb outside the caves,
which results in collateral damage to the surrounding tissues. Will they ever get rid of
these ‘insurgents’? With enough chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, associated joint
involvements may occur.
Another common etiology of chronic inflammatory bowel disease is parasites or tough
bacteria such as C. Difficile. Their infestation constantly damage and inflame the bowel
lining. This is particularly likely if the initial onset was started by a “Traveler’s
Diarrhea”.
My Protocol
1) Identify the food allergy
There is a finger prick blood test that we can send to the US, called IgG delayed
food antibody tests. It will identify among a list of 100 food groups which are the
patients is allergic to. Avoidance of the offending food is paramount.
2) Do a detailed stool and saliva antibodies analysis for parasites and bacteria
infection.
3) Use Digestive Enzymes
A comprehensive digestive enzyme is taken with each meal. Megazyme is my
favourite brand.
4) Patch up the leaky guy
I prescribe a pre-digested protein from white fish (A brand called Sea Cure) to
patch up the leaky gut. It seems like the body likes this material to patch up the
leaky filters and broken lining. Two capsules are taken, three times a day before
meals.
5) Reinstall a colony of good bacteria to drive out the bad bacteria from the intestinal
lumen. They also seem to reinstall the right environment (eg. pH balance) for the
body’s digestive enzyme to function optimally.
6) Clean up the aerobic bacteria in the pockets of the bowel wall, the blood and the
joints. Antibiotics such as Cipro, Metronidazole, and sulphur drugs are prescribed
by physicians. These antibiotics have some success, but they have limited
penetrating power, often cause antibiotic resistance, and some have side effects
causing an upset gut, nausea and diarrhea, in addition to what the patient already
has.
As an alternative, an intravenous of Hydrogen Peroxide, together with
penetrating agent (hylauronic acid) seems to be able to diffuse into any place the
blood reaches and fumigates into abscesses pockets and joints (Hydrogen
peroxide is metabolized into water and oxygen.). The anaerobic bacteria strives
in pockets of abscesses, joints that are low in concentration of oxygen and get
killed in areas of higher oxygen concentration. After a few sessions of low dose
IV Hydrogen Peroxide, patients will notice that the occasional episode of chills
and low grade flu-like achiness will no longer return.
Most patients notice a distinct difference within ten sessions of twice a week
treatments. If successful, they will go on to more sessions until all the symptoms
of inflammatory bowel disease have subsided. Average patients “graduate” after
20-30 treatments.
The above proposed mechanism of the disease and the treatment is (vs. may be) my way
of explaining my observed success. With eradication of the underlying real cause, most
patients get off their immune suppressive drugs and symptomatic drugs. No more chills
and “flu”, no more aches and pain, no more cramps, gas and diarrhea…and no more
blood!