Re: Renewed Symptoms Help!

[Guest guest]

Hi Mara,

Could you give me more details on how exactly to use and make the vitamin e

enema? Thanks so much

> >> I have UC and have been on this diet for 11 months with great success.

Unfortunately, I have had reoccurence of moderate bleeding and urgency. Is this

normal?? What do you suggest I do? I could use any advice possible. I have never

cheated on this diet and am very happy with the success but I'm worried now.

Thanks so much.

> >

> > It's not uncommon to have regressions, even though it is scary and

worrisome, especially when you haven't cheated.

> >

> > I would drop back to easy to digest foods -- your intro diet -- for a couple

of days, and then gradually return to your normal foods.

> >

> > Have you added any foods or supplements or medications recently?

>

> If the bleeding is making you worried, I would try the vitamin E enema method

to help - 4000IUs

> of natural mixed tocepherols vitamin E in a TB of warm water before bed

delivered with an ear syringe.

>

> Mara

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Mara,Could you give me more details on how exactly to use and make the vitamin e enema? Thanks so muchhttp://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=67345Except instead of using a pin to open the gelcaps (which is insanely slow and annoying), use a small sterile scissor instead. Mara

[Guest guest]

Hi Mara,Could you give me more details on how exactly to use and make the vitamin e enema? Thanks so muchhttp://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=67345Except instead of using a pin to open the gelcaps (which is insanely slow and annoying), use a small sterile scissor instead. ALSO, I don't think you have to work up to 4000IUs. As Terry pointed out,in the medical study, where they used 8000IUs, they just humped rightin to the higher dose. Mara

[Guest guest]

At 09:02 PM 2/17/2010, you wrote:

On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:59 PM,

Wizop Marilyn L. Alm wrote:

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>

> At 09:25 AM 2/17/2010, you wrote:

>> I have UC and have been on this diet for 11 months with great

success. Unfortunately, I have had reoccurence of moderate bleeding and

urgency. Is this normal?? What do you suggest I do? I could use any

advice possible. I have never cheated on this diet and am very happy with

the success but I'm worried now. Thanks so much.

>

> It's not uncommon to have regressions, even though it is scary and

worrisome, especially when you haven't cheated.

>

> I would drop back to easy to digest foods -- your intro diet -- for

a couple of days, and then gradually return to your normal foods.

>

> Have you added any foods or supplements or medications

recently?

If the bleeding is making you worried, I would try the vitamin E enema

method to help - 4000IUs

of natural mixed tocepherols vitamin E in a TB of warm water before bed

delivered with an ear syringe.

Uhm, could we be careful on the quote backs? I did NOT say that I have UC

and have been on the diet for 11 months, yet that's what the above looks

like at a glance....

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Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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[Guest guest]

My 10 year old son (peri-anal Crohn's) is also having some renewed symptoms (cramping and underwear accidents) that he has not experienced since starting the diet 8 months ago. I looked up "relapse" in the BTVC book and it says that a relapse can occur if one develops a respiratory infection. It also says a relapse can occur for no obvious reason.

Sure enough, my son just recovered from bronchitis. I did not give him the antibiotic Zithromax that the Dr. prescribed for fear of disturbing his gut flora and causing worse problems like C-diff..... Thanks to Marilyn's help and watching him like a hawk - kept him home from school, lots of rest, fluids, sinus rinses, steam showers, and mucinex - he is better now. I let the doctor know what I was doing and felt safe not giving him the antibiotic since his initial fever subsided and never returned. Now, he has Crohn's symptoms returning.

Can anyone expand on the relapse/respiratory infection phenomenon? BTW he is on Remicade. I'm wondering if the Remicade is even doing anything....

Michele

[Guest guest]

My 10 year old son (peri-anal Crohn's) is also having some renewed symptoms (cramping and underwear accidents) that he has not experienced since starting the diet 8 months ago. I looked up "relapse" in the BTVC book and it says that a relapse can occur if one develops a respiratory infection. It also says a relapse can occur for no obvious reason. Sure enough, my son just recovered from bronchitis. I did not give him the antibiotic Zithromax that the Dr. prescribed for fear of disturbing his gut flora and causing worse problems like C-diff..... Thanks to Marilyn's help and watching him like a hawk - kept him home from school, lots of rest, fluids, sinus rinses, steam showers, and mucinex - he is better now. I let the doctor know what I was doing and felt safe not giving him the antibiotic since his initial fever subsided and never returned. Now, he has Crohn's symptoms returning. Can anyone expand on the relapse/respiratory infection phenomenon? BTW he is on Remicade. I'm wondering if the Remicade is even doing anything.... Just kind of shooting in the dark here, but sinus can have pathogenicbacteria and yeast biofilms - and I assume the fever increases them,and they could spread easily to the rest of the body, thus disturbingthe body flora anyway.Or another possibility is that the white blood cells were elevated tofight off infection from the bronchitis - and that will have an ancillary effecton the crohn's, as the immune system first under responds then over respondsto the situation (as is typical of crohn's), eventually triggering the disease. Mara