I know nothing about the medication you ask about. I do however work as a health practitioner and ask that you consider the possibility of parasites as an underlying cause of your son's condition.
This may seem unusual but the Anasakid invades a host (fish) and mimics the symptoms of Crohn's Disease. Treatment is given but nothing seems to work because the diagnosis is incorrect. The Anasakid worm used to be found in Pacific fish but has spread to the Atlantic and can be found in many fish populations.
I wish you well
Graeme Delglyn
PS I wrote this piece for a recent publication:
Before we get into the unpleasant aspects details of parasites in food, I have covered a selection of parasites that either may be of general interest, or will answer specific questions that newsletter readers have sent in. You may not be travelling to the exotic parts of the world mentioned here but international transport has a way of bringing these parasites to you, as does shaking hands, touching a contaminated door handle or being served in a restaurant by a carrier who may have recently arrived in your country.
I will cover the basic information on these parasites from the perspective of what they are, how you catch them and a few of the symptoms you may display if infected.
It is important that practitioners recognise and acknowledge the symptoms presented by parasites so they may consider parasites as the underlying cause of a health condition.
Anasakid Worm
Dr. Clifford Dacso, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine, recalls a case he was involved in while working in the San Diego area about a decade ago.
"A friend of mine, a professor of biology at (the University of California-San Diego) had a dinner party for 40 people. He served sushi and had put a few pieces in his refrigerator to have the following day. It was a Sunday, and he called me at home, in a panic because things were crawling out of the sushi. I went over there, and sure enough, he was right. I took it to the lab and identified the worms as a nematode, Anisakis simplex. Fully half of the guests had to be treated for the parasite."
Anasakid is a parasite of marine animals such as sea lions and elephant seals. The early part of its life cycle is spent in marine fish. Along the US Pacific coast, commercially important species such as salmon and Pacific rockfish (Pacific red snapper) may have an infestation rate above 80 percent. An FDA study published in The Lancet in 1990 stated that the average number of anisakis larvae per an average-sized dressed salmon is 46. The study estimated that an average salmon yields about 1,000 sushi-sized slices of flesh, putting the odds of swallowing an anisakis larva at one in 22. However, since the front part of the fish is where sushi chefs prefer to obtain their slices -- and the front carries a disproportionate number of larvae in an infected salmon -- the odds improved to one in 13.
Ingested live larva attaches itself to the stomach wall causing a strong allergic reaction that at first may appear to be an allergic reaction to a food. If the worm perforates the stomach wall and enters the peritoneal cavity, symptoms may suggest acute appendicitis or a gastric ulcer. Since humans are not the definitive host species for this worm, the luckiest carriers cough up the inch-and-a-half-long parasite. For most others, fiber-optic endoscopy will spot the worm and remove it with the endoscope's grappling tool.
To a diagnosing doctor, the anisakid worm can present the symptoms of Crohn’s Disease thereby preventing the real culprit from being discovered and recovery treatment taking the wrong direction.
Graeme Delglyn
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