Re: Antioxidents

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Hi I take the ANTOX fronm the UK and it has helped me hugely

I have taken it for 5 years it is imported for me

debs

> 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.