VIDEO: Physicians must provide guidance for patients seeking alternative IBD therapies
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NAPLES, Florida — In this video, Jennifer L. Seminerio, MD, stresses the importance of medical professionals “arming themselves with information” about alternative therapies, a topic she presented at the 2022 ACG/FGS Spring Symposium.
In order to “guide [patients] in the right direction,” Seminerio advised focusing on complementary alternative therapy that can be used in conjunction with proven, conventional medicine.
“When you do that in combination, then you take away the fear that we have as medical professionals about them being on unproven therapies,” Seminerio, assistant professor and director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the University of South Florida, said.
She added that while many options are not proven, some do appear to have benefit, including yoga, exercise, cognitive behavioral therapy and even some supplements. Others, such as cannabis, do not have evidence to support their use in IBD.
“The really exciting area is in diet, where the [DINE-CD] study came out and showed us that things like specific carbohydrate diet and the Mediterranean-style diet can be effective and improve both clinical outcomes as well as show some decreases in laboratory indices,” Seminerio said.
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Seminerio JL. Approach to Mild-Moderate IBD - Drugs to Alternative Medicine. Presented at: ACG/FGS Spring Symposium; March 11-13, 2022; Naples, Florida.
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