Inflammatory bowel disease: individualised dietary therapy
Keywords:
Grohn's Disease, Colitis, ulcerative, Diet therapy.
Abstract
A project was done in the Johannesburg Hospital on a group of patients who suffered with inflammatory bowel disease (including Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis) treating them with a personalised elimination diet. All of these had previously been on cortisone, meticorten or other drug therapies. The purpose of this trial was to identify foods which may trigger their symptoms. The results are given and discussed but six of the seven patients in the active trial group were symptom-free after only a few months on the diet.
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