[Clinical remission of an HLA B27-positive sacroiliitis on vegan diet]

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[Clinical remission of an HLA B27-positive sacroiliitis on vegan diet]

[Article in German]

Huber R, Herdrich A, Rostock M, Vogel T.

Ambulanz fur Naturheilverfahren und Umweltmedizin, Abteilung Innere

Medizin II, Universitatsklinik Freiburg. rhuber@...

BACKGROUND: Positive effects of fasting and vegan diet in patients with

rheumatic diseases are reported in the literature. MEDICAL HISTORY: We

present a 33-year-old patient with double-sided HLA B27-positive

sacroiliitis, which was diagnosed by magnetic resonance tomography.

Since about 10 years he therefore had pain in the iliosacral region.

Numerous sessions of physiotherapy, a cure treatment, and treatment with

sulfasalazine and doxycycline were not effective. The patient was

dependent on the daily intake of the nonsteroidal antirheumatics

meloxicam 2 x 7.5 mg and ibuprofen 400-800 mg and the analgetic tramadol

50-150 mg, but evening and night pain and morning stiffness persisted

under this treatment. TREATMENT: We recommended a temporary vegan diet,

i.e. to completely avoid animal fats and proteins. COURSE: 3-4 days

after changing on vegan diet the complaints improved distinctly and

persistently. After consumption of meat 6 weeks later, complaints

worsened. Consequent vegan diet again resulted in significant

improvement of the pain and morning stiffness. At follow-up 3 months

after the initial contact, tramadol and ibuprofen intakes had been

stopped, meloxicam had been reduced to 1 x 7.5 mg. The patient was

almost completely free of complaints. CONCLUSIONS: It was demonstrated

that in a single case of sacroiliitis which was refractory to other

treatment, vegan diet resulted in a convincingly improvement of

complaints. Copyright 2001 S. Karger GmbH, Freiburg

PMID: 11574747 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]