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MAP, or Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis, is a bacterium that researchers believe is the cause of Crohn’s disease. It belongs to the kingdom Bacteria, phylum Actinobacteria, order Actinomycetales, and family Mycobacteriaceae. MAP can withstand heat, and can sometimes be found in white blood cells, which is one theory for how humans get infected with it.
MAP is also known for causing Johne’s disease in animals such as cows, primates, and others. Because of this, researchers are almost certain that MAP is the cause of Crohn’s disease. MAP is capable of withstanding pasteurization, and is hard to cultivate.
Due to the problems caused by MAP many people are in pain and suffer from inflamed intestinal tracts, and other problems. Researchers believe that using medicines like Rifabutin and Clarithromycin can help fight MAP and Crohn’s disease.
Get rid of MAP, and Crohn’s disease will go with it. Incidentally, researchers are still unable to say that MAP is the actual cause of Crohn’s, so treatment for it can not be used on people who suffer from Crohn’s until researchers can.
MAP is slowly infecting our population, already over 500,000 people in the U.S. alone have been diagnosed. That’s not even half of how many all over the world have been diagnosed. How are we getting infected with it?
MAP has been shown to survive through pasteurization, and it can survive chlorination of our drinking water. It is a slow growing bacterium that can work its way into white blood cells of cattle, and thus move from the cattle to the milk with ease, and before recently, totally undetected. We drink the milk or water that has the MAP in it without even knowing it. Then MAP just sits there enjoying its ride to our intestines and other organs.
So when you think about it, which is doing more damage, MAP and Crohn’s disease, or us? Even when we have all the proof in front of our eyes, researchers are still unable to do anything about it until they know for sure that MAP is what is making us sick with Crohn’s. Think about this the next time you are pouring your child a glass of milk.
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