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Yep, I have been a busy bee! Just to let you know I have updated the following for you: Gluten Plan Updated Barrier Healing section and Core Protocol to take account of Permavite no longer being TGF safe. Phew - I wish they'd stop changing the ruddy products! Free update on the Facebook Gluten Planners …
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Not for the faint-hearted this article, but here is a fab piece on faecal transplants - that's transplanting poo from one person to another to you and me. Why the heck would anyone want to do that?! Well, if you have recurrent C Diff infection, or indeed some other chronic GI issues, it's becoming a …
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I note these new guidelines have recently come out and I have now had a chance to look through them. You can read the whole thing below on Medscape but here are some salient points I picked out for you, and my comments, of course! Joint BSPGHAN and Coeliac UK Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management …
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Most people would think that continued diarrhoea is a sign that their coeliac disease is causing damage still. It is, but actually researchers believe that people who present with anaemia are the ones with the most villi damage and worst coeliac disease. In a recent study, researchers concluded: Anemic patients were more than 2-fold more …
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I thought this long overview piece from Medscape today might be useful for those of you with diagnosed coeliac disease: The Management of Refractory Coeliac Disease As the article says, there is a significant number of coeliacs who do not heal on a traditional gluten free diet: Complete recovery of the intestinal mucosa occurs in …
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I do lots of Vitamin D testing for you so you can check this so-important vitamin. I am pleased to announce that we now have a fingerprick Vitamin D Status test available - no need to get your blood taken and much cheaper 🙂 It is just as effective and gives you the same total Vitamin D, …
Remember the post I wrote quite recently about the importance of B12 and how blood tests can really be misleading: B12 Deficiency: Fatigue, Muscle Pain, Brain Fog, Neuropathy Well, I have now finished my research on that so here's an update for you... How to confirm B12 and folate deficiency when your blood tests look …
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Interesting post from GFS today making the point that people with gluten sensitivity can react to the disease, and to the treatment, with either weight loss or weight gain. Traditionally, doctors look for gluten sensitives as people losing a lot of weight, failing to thrive etc etc but that view is outdated and many gluten …
This is an interesting one. Since we know that much of our problem being gluten sensitive is the inflammation it causes, I am always on the look-out for ways to lower the inflammation, hence the anti-inflammatories included in the Barrier prescription. One of our other problems, of course, is malabsorption and therefore low nutrient …
When I am thinking about how to get someone well, the first thing I think about generally is 'are they digesting and absorbing well enough?' Imagine: the person has fatigue, can't fight infections off, perhaps has candida, just generally feels they're operating at a lower level than they should be. They used to be …
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