appendix and bacteria

I read this too, wonder if UC'ers have a bum appendix to add to the the list. :p

I remember reading somewhere that people with their appendix taken out had a lower risk for UC in general? 

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Diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis 6/2006 at age 26 after sudden E.R. visit

~Affecting Transverse Colon

 ~I had Mono in 2000

On Colazal 3x3/day; Folic Acid 1mg; Calcium/Magnesium/Zinc combo, Biotin

In remission about 2-3 months after E.R. but not back to normal!

 

~Interested in finding a cure/making sense out of U.C. and philosophical and psychological aspects of UC and "Stress" and Personal Development issues with Chronic Illnesses. 

I've been out of town for the weekend and when I watched the morning news it had that story. I think that maybe we all have bad appendixes then! Just not enough to cause appendicitis (in most). I noticed that in the article it also mentioned the same thing about tonsils. How the tonsils have anything to do with gut bacteria is beyond me but I do know that tonsils help filter viruses, bacteria etc from causing infections in our throats and sinuses. So I wonder why they say that tonsils are useless organs? I used to get a ton of sinus infections, strep throat, tonsilitis, pharyngitis etc until I had my tonsils yanked - then all the infections stopped because I (and the docs) believed that the tonsils were harboring the bad stuff instead of filtering. So maybe our appendixes are doing the same thing, maybe they are now defunct and instead of managing the good bacteria are now collecting the bad? I'm just wondering "aloud" here.

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