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SCD Success – “One year with absolutely no Crohn’s symptoms” [03Oct10]
Oct 6th
I’m featuring this comment from a new friend on http://crohnsend.ning.com named Ryan.
I really appreciate your feedback Ryan. Thanks for the awesome testimonial!
Amplify’d from crohnsend.ning.com
Hi Daniel, thanks for writing. Here’s some info about my diet, I’ve had amazing success using what is basically a low carb diet. I’ve now been 1 year with absolutely no Crohn’s symptoms. When I was diagnosed 2 years ago the doctor said my Crohn’s was sever and perscribed remicade and prednisone. I chose not to use any of the drugs and instead tried SCD. It took a year of planning with diet, and I ended up on an even more restrictive version of the SCD (mostly meat and fat) but I got into total remission with no symptoms. I eat any meat, coconut oil, avocado, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, broccoli and cauliflower, plus some SCD multivitamins. I eat nothing else.
Almost very meal is steamed broccoli (I eat about 5 lbs a day, I’m tired of cauliflower), with coconut oil and salt on it plus fried patties of either hamburger, ground chicken, turkey or pork. at dinner I make guacamole with salt, avocado and lemon juice.
My bathroom habits are pretty much exactly the same as before I got crohn’s. I go once a day, any it’s pretty much normal. All the symptoms it went away slowly during the year after my diagnosis as I played around with the diet. after one year of trail and error I came to the diet I now eat and never had D again. it’s blows my mind that it works for me.
Anyway, happy to pass on support for the idea that diet works to control Crohn’s. I hope more people can find a solution to this brutal disease.
Cheers,
RyanRead more at crohnsend.ning.com
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Healing with Diet – How to tackle Crohn's Disease without the help of drugs [11Oct10]
Aug 13th
If you have Crohn’s disease, please go and read the entire article.
Amplify’d from www.mailonsunday.co.uk
When John Maffioli first fell ill at 19, he put it down to the excesses of his life as a university student. But after six months of acute stomach cramps he had lost almost two stone and was suffering extreme fatigue.
He was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, where the body’s immune system attacks the digestive tract, causing damage and inflammation.
And he feared the debilitating gut condition would mean a lifetime of medication and even surgery, with an increased risk of cancer.
Remarkably, eight years after his diagnosis, John, who is one of 60,000 Crohn’s sufferers in the UK, is free of symptoms – yet has never had a single drug treatment.
He has run the New York Marathon, regularly plays club rugby, and achieved this medical breakthrough thanks to a simple diet.
John, a 28-year-old accountant, is one of about 1,000 patients who have taken part in a continuing medical trial at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.
But at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, gastroenterologist Professor John Hunter and his team identify foods that act as a ‘trigger’ for symptoms, eliminate them from a patient’s diet and ‘switch off’ the disease.
Now 90 per cent of his patients are symptom-free and 56 per cent can resume a normal diet after five years.
During the first phase of treatment, patients consume only specially formulated drinks.
‘They contain all the nutrients a patient needs, already broken down into their most simple constituent elements so the body does not have to do any work digesting them,’ explains Professor Hunter.
‘By taking the gut out of action, we effectively switch off the disease. After two to three weeks, 90 per cent of patients find their symptoms have disappeared.’
‘But there is no profit to be made from explaining how to control diet, so trials receive no funding and no one ever hears about the treatment, even if it is more effective.’
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), which approves all treatments offered by NHS doctors, has produced detailed guidelines for the use of various drug treatments for Crohn’s disease.
There are, however, no comparable guidelines for dietary approaches.
One consultant gastroenterologist at a major London teaching hospital, who wished to remain anonymous, explains: ‘Exclusion diets are not easy for the patient or supervising doctors; it’s much easier to just hand out a pill.
In the meantime, thousands of patients are left in the dark about the success of dietary management for Crohn’s.
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Crohn's Symptom – Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
Aug 13th
The article describes how scarring from previous Crohn’s related small intestine surgery can result in SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth). Symptoms of SIBO include: Weight loss, excess gas, abdominal bloating distension, diarrhea, abdominal pain body aches and fatigue.
Investigation needed: What are some of the ways we can eliminate overgrowth without using harsh antibiotics?
Amplify’d from www.medicinenet.com
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is also known as small bowel
bacterial overgrowth (SBBO).
Anything that interferes with the progression of normal muscular activity
through the small intestine can result in SIBO. Simply stated, any condition
that interferes with muscular activity in the small intestine allows the bacteria to
stay longer and multiply in the small intestine.
Many conditions are associated with SIBO.
Partial or intermittent obstruction of the small intestine interferes with the transport of food and
bacteria through the small intestine and can result in SIBO. Causes of obstruction
leading to SIBO include adhesions (scarring) from previous surgery and
Crohn’s
disease.Read more at www.medicinenet.com
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Old Study – Parasitic worms may offer effective treatment for Crohn's disease [14Dec04]
Aug 13th
I can’t believe this study was done back in 2004. Seriously folks, why isn’t this mainstream yet?
Amplify’d from www.medicalnewstoday.com
Parasitic worms, or helminths, may be an effective treatment for the chronic inflammatory bowel disorder, Crohn’s
disease, suggests a small study in Gut.
Helminths, such as roundworms and threadworms, are rare in developed countries, where rates of Crohn’s disease are high. But
in developing countries where corresponding rates of the disease are low, many people carry these parasitic worms.
Every three weeks, 29 adults with moderately active Crohn’s disease swallowed 2500 whipworm eggs of the species Trichuris
suis, commonly found in pigs. The eggs were disguised in a commercial drink. The volunteers repeated this exercise for a
period of 24 weeks in total.
They kept daily diaries of their symptoms and were monitored every three weeks at the clinic.
Most of the patients had had their symptoms for around 4 years, and standard treatment had not worked.
Four of the patients had to withdraw before the half-way mark, and a further patient stopped the treatment when she became
pregnant. But none of them had got any worse.
By week 12, 22 patients experienced a significant improvement in symptom score, and 19 patients had no symptoms at all. By
week 24 the respective numbers had climbed to 23 and 21.
This translates into a response rate of 80% and a remission rate of 73%, say the authors. There was no indication that the
helminth treatment had worsened symptoms and there were no side effects. But patients taking drugs to suppress the immune
system at the same time tended to fare betterRead more at www.medicalnewstoday.com
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