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Just found this article.
The mast cell stabiliser ketotifen decreases visceral hypersensitivity and improves intestinal symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Never read about it before, and was wondering if someone here knows about it or even tried ketotifen?
Can't find anything about it by seaching the board.

I'm seeing my GI tomorrow. Last week I've had an gastroscopy with biopsies (and some other tests).
The GI mentioned (microscopic) lymfocytic infection (??), which he wanted to exclude, before we're going to try ADs.
I searched for this (rare?) condition, but it seemed very unlikely to me.

So I thought this gastroscopy was nonsence, because I already had one last year (without biopsy), it was all fine then.
But now I'm wondering if this (new?) insight might be what he is looking for..? Can one easily see (too much) mast cells in a gastro/duodenal biopsy?

Well I'll find that out tomorrow. But otherwise I'm also going to ask him about it.

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PI-IBS-C/A nausea & very bad gastric pain
meds: lansoprazol+macrogol
started EFI +FODMAPs 1/2011. 'Relapse' for 8 months. Now partly back on track again with the diet..

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