Re: Asacol

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Hi Katrine,

Pentasa and Asacol are the same drug , they just work is different areas of the intestines. My son tried both but did not improve much until he stopped them. Maybe you should ask your doctor to switch to either Colazol or Azulfidine.

Here's what I posted before in case you didn't see it.

Elaine writes: I know that the Asacol seems to be without efficacy for 98% of the people to whom I speak. But the azulfidine does not breed yeast and it is one of the older and more effective drugs. I was told this story by the president of a drug company: In spite of the fact that azulfidine was the tried and tested help for almost 50 years, the patent began running out. (By the way, the azulfidine fools microbes, bacteria and yeast, into picking up a "counterfeit" molecule with which they make their own folic acid and which they need to multiply) The generic drug companies started producing azulfidine since the patent ran out and the big companies now had a competitive product, just as good, but much cheaper. So the big companies started a big hype about the azulfidine: that they had finally found out what the active component was (this was a lie, they knew for years it minimized the growth of microbes) and that this component would be put in a new breakthrough drug called 5-amino salicylic acid. You know it as Asacol and a few others.The terrible thing about this was that the active component in Azulfidine was not so much 5-amino salicylic acid as it was the sulfated form of para-amino-benzoic-acid which was designed to fool bacteria into picking it up and trying to make their own folic acid out of it (they cannot use preformed folic acid as we do). So every doctor connected with the powers-that-be went about lecturing about this new discovery. I attended a lecture while doing research in London, Ontario at St. ph Hospital and Dr. W. C. Watkins gave the hype on the new drug. I had learned otherwise in microbiology and I raised my hand to say 'BUT WE DO KNOW WHICH COMPONENT IN AZULFIDINE IS MOST EFFECTIVE' and he waved me down.

There are better and moreeffective drugs Colazol also works with a twopronged attack: one of the prongs is to keep bacterial growth down.