need help interpreting labs for IBD

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> I realize pediatrics are different than adults but my local GI is

> reluctant to reduce my 13 y.o.'s steroids since I'm refusing Imuran. (He

> is on Pentasa.)

I can't tell you about the c-reactive proteins or the physician, but

perhaps you could ask about sulfasalazine rather than Pentasa. There is

information about it from Elaine on her website. I know over the years

of living with CD, sulfasalazine is a far more effective maintenance

drug, and it could help be a substitute in coming off of the steroids,

since you are refusing Imuran. It has far more side-effects and is more

dangerous, and many people are intolerant to it, so that is why the

5ASA's were developed. But I know at Stanford, it is the preferred

daily anti-inflammatory, and I have tried every 5 ASA out there and

experienced far greater success with sulfasalazine. It's just a

thought. Here are the links to what Elaine has to say about it:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/knowledge_base/kb/azulfidine_and_asacol.\

htm

and

http://www.healingcrow.com/ELF/ELF51.html