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Posted 4/12/2012 6:26 PM (GMT -5)
From this month's Scientific American magazine:
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=food-poisonings-hidden-legacy

Most people think of foodborne illness as an unpleasant few days of fever and diarrhea, but for some there may be lifelong consequences including reactive arthritis, urinary tract problems and damage to the eyes after Salmonella and Shigella infections;
Guillain-Barré syndrome and ulcerative colitis after Campylobacter infection;
and kidney failure and diabetes after infection with Escherichia coli. Those organisms are very common: federal investigators have identified them in meat, milk, poultry, eggs, seafood, fruit, vegetables and even processed foods...

A survey of 101,855 residents of Sweden who were made sick by food between 1997 and 2004 found, for instance, that they had higher-than-normal rates of aortic aneurysms, ulcerative colitis and reactive arthritis...

A review of a major provincial health database in Australia revealed that people there who contracted any bacterial gastrointestinal infection were 57 percent more likely to develop either ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease...

In May 2000 the drinking water in Walkerton, Ont., became contaminated with E. coli O157 after heavy rains washed manure from farm fields into its aquifer. More than 2,300 people, about half the town’s population, developed fever and diarrhea soon afterward...
compared with residents who did not get very sick, those who endured several days of diarrhea during the outbreak had a 33 percent greater likelihood of developing high blood pressure, a 210 percent greater risk of heart attack or stroke, and a 340 percent greater risk of kidney problems in the eight years following the outbreak...
Posted 4/12/2012 6:29 PM (GMT -5)
This is what happened to me to kickoff my UC.
It was already well documented that an "event" usually starts UC or CD on it's rampage, of course if the defective genes weren't there, then UC/CD would not occur.
I had no idea food poisoning had so many other lifelong consequences.
Thanks for posting.
Posted 4/13/2012 7:21 AM (GMT -5)
THanks Babe for posting this article.

Very enlightening and interesting.

I remember over 1 year, we had a similar discussion with badslinke.

Posted 4/13/2012 11:51 AM (GMT -5)
My first every UC flare decades back was triggered out of the blue (zero symotoms in my life up to that point) by a very spicy spaghetti sauce that a friend made- kicked off D the next morning which then continued for months including eventual blood after a few weeks.
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