Antioxidents to Eileen

[Guest guest]

I hope the vitamins and minerals help you. I am a huge proponet of

taking supplements and took tons. Probably about a dozen each day. I

did a lot of reading of research articles and chose those. Karyn has

posted my list on the file section under nutrition supplements, or

somehting along those lines. I really and truly feel that one of the

reasons I have done so well is due to trying to keep myself as

nutritionally sound as possible. There were times when I could not

always tolerate them but I tried and still do take quite a few.

I hope the test go well and let us know what they find. It may take a

few days/weeks to get all the results, but I will be thinking about

you.

Warmly,

[Guest guest]

i hope so too!

I found this:

Antioxidant treatment in hereditary pancreatitis. A pilot study on

three young patients. Uomo G, Talamini G, Rabitti PG. Dig Liver Dis

2001;33:58-62.

BACKGROUND: Abdominal pain is the most challenging symptom of

hereditary pancreatitis. No specific and proven therapy is yet

available; analgesics, often in large doses, are required also in

children and young patients.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: We performed an open-label, pilot study on

three young patients, coming from the same kindred, with hereditary

pancreatitis. The study period lasted two years (July 1997-July

1999) and was divided into four sub-periods of six months each. In

the first and third period the patients took only oral analgesics,

if necessary; in the second and fourth period, an antioxidant

regimen per os was added.

This treatment consisted of sulphadenosyl-methionine (800 mg per

day), Vitamin C (180 mg per day), Vitamin E (30 mg per day), Vitamin

A (2,400 microg per day), and selenium (75 microg per day).

RESULTS: Compliance of patients to the treatment schedule was

satisfactory and no important side-effects were observed.

Antioxidant treatment led to a significant reduction (p [is less

than] 0.05) in the number of days with abdominal pain experienced by

the three patients and this was verified for both periods of

treatment. Albeit, consumption of analgesics was lower in the

antioxidant treatment periods.

CONCLUSIONS: Oxidative stress may be one of the principle

contributors to pain in hereditary pancreatitis and orally

administered antioxidant treatment appears to be effective for

control of the condition, in young patients, suffering from this

rare disease.