systemic?

[Guest guest]

Okay, thank you!

Can you tell me what " systemic " candida is and how you know if you have it?

Mic

> i was told yeast cleanse has good ingredients but not

>strong enough, if u have a small case will work, if

>systemic wont be strong enough.

[Guest guest]

Do you know what a search button is? Ever heard of search engines?

There are hundreds of web site about candida that will answer your

question. If every new member would ask the same questions all the

time, this group would be pretty boring.

> Can you tell me what " systemic " candida is and how you know if you

>have it?

>

> Mic

>

[Guest guest]

YES.

JAS can affect any organ system in the body. With Rob, it is theorized that it affected his lungs before it started attacking his joints. He had asthma since age 1 that was poorly responsive to standard therapy. It was always thought that there were other reasons than his allergies causing his symptoms. When he was diagnosed with JAS, his asthma doc immediately ordered pulmonary function testing, and it was found that his diffusion capacity was low. The pulmonologist believes that it was inflammation that was causing stiffness and thickening of the alveolar-capillary membrane in his lungs. He thinks that this theory was quite correct, because since Rob has been on Enbrel, his diffusion capacity has increased greatly and his asthma symptoms are rare.

Also, when Rob began having hematuria (large amount of blood in the urine), it was thought it was a complication of the JAS. JAS is known to cause problems with the kidneys and a disease known as IgA nephropathy. It was assumed Rob likely had IGAN until he had the renal biopsy last year, when it was found he actually had Alport syndrome, an unrelated kidney disorder.

JAS can also cause eye inflammation. It is imperative to get frequent eye exams with dilation of the eyes with drops.

JAS can also affect the heart. There are many websites you can find that will tell you more about it. I also like pubmed for the scholarly articles. Another good one is www.spondylitis.org

So, I guess you could say that JAS is a systemic disease. Unfortunately, not a lot of the docs out there are very well educated in this.

Hope this helps.

and Rob, 16, spondy (JAS)

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:51:11 EST bncknwurnumber@... writes:

For those who have children with ankylosing spondylitis or spondyloarthropathy I have a question. I was looking at my medical charts and it has the JAS down as a systemic disease. Is JAS a systemic disease? or did the ER have it written down incorrectly. I never thought of JAS as a systemic disease but now that I think of it, it would explain all the strange systemic type things that I had before that didn't seem to fit with the Poly course (which when I was 18 they decided I fit the JAS dx better then the poly). So the question is, is JAS a systemic disease?

(JAS, 20)