What is microscopic colitis?
Microscopic colitis is an inflammation of the colon that a health care provider can see only with a microscope. Inflammation is the body’s normal response to injury, irritation, or infection of tissues. Microscopic colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease—the general name for diseases that cause irritation and inflammation in the intestines.
The two types of microscopic colitis are collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis. Health care providers often use the term microscopic colitis to describe collagenous colitis, and some scientists believe that collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis may be different phases of the same condition rather than separate conditions. In both types of microscopic colitis, an increase in the number of lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, can be seen in the epithelium—the layer of cells that lines the colon.
An increase in the number of white blood cells is a sign of inflammation. Presently the frequencies used for Microscopic Coitis are the pseudomembranous colitis set Colitis, Pseudomembranous: pseudomembranous colitis is almost always associated with an overgrowth of the bacterium Clostridium difficile. According to the World J Gastroenterol 2012 November 21; 18(43): 6206-6215,
A role has also been suggested of Bacterial infectious agents such as Clostridium difficile with Collagenous colitis, for this reason the frequency set Colitis, Pseudomembranous, is considered the most applicable set at this time.
Colitis, Pseudomembranous: 0.28, 0.75, 0.81, 0.98, 107.41, 128.31, 176.21, 517.10, 609.42, 717.21
Clostridium difficile are anaerobic motile bacteria related to Collagenous colitis, ubiquitous in nature, and especially prevalent in soil. Under the microscope, they appear as long, irregular (often drumstick- or spindle-shaped) cells with a bulge at their terminal ends.
Under Gram staining, C. difficile cells are Gram-positive and show optimum growth on blood agar at human body temperatures in the absence of oxygen. When stressed, the bacteria produce spores that are able to tolerate extreme conditions that the active bacteria cannot tolerate.
If the Pseudomembranous set above does not prove to be effective for Collagenous colitis treatment, then target the Gram Positive bacteria using the GRAM+ set
Bacterial Infections, Gram (+): 0.15, 0.92, 2.75, 13.22, 163.00, 275.29, 307.25, 435.37, 587.50, 795.52 Finally client should be taking Probiotics, or eating yoghurt which contains Probiotics, as there is clearly a “bad bacteria” imbalance present. Perhaps consider a Rife Mat placed under the lower back, as the foot straps are positioned a little further from the colon. This could help to target the issue.
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