Thanks Azi! Best wishes to you and your brother as well! Amanda   [End]
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Hello Sheldon. I just wanted to leave a quick post with wonderful news. My son is doing wonderfully thanks to you, your procedure, and diet! I consider him cured! Through trial and error, we’ve determined that he has a wheat allergy. He is able to eat everything else without a problem (though I am still hesitant to let him have popcorn). He had his six month follow-up with his GI doc, and she said that he has beaten the odds! She couldn’t be more thrilled with his current state of health. He’s gained 8 1/2 lbs and grown 2 inches in the last 6 months. Besides his inability to toler ...
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Best wishes to your brother on the diet! It really does work. My son has been completely healed of the disease for about a year now. He still has minor dietary restrictions, but that was learned through trial and error, and is probably due to allergies rather than the UC. Even still, he’s had no symptoms or problems for a year now even when he cheats and eats the things he shouldn’t once in a while. Three months of strict adherance to the diet and enemas (and a little common sense) was all it took! If you haven’t already, I encourage you to read all of the postings in response to She ...
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Hi Aaron. I have experience with both drugs because they were prescribed for my son at one time or another. I was told by one of the top pediatric GI specialists in my area that stopping Asacol abrubtly (if you feel it isn’t helping you) will not cause additional problems. Prednisone, however, is a different story (I know this from personal experience with my son as well as from professional advice). If it is truly helping you and you stop taking it too soon, you can flare up within a day or so of stopping. There is also a chance of prednisone dependence (often as a result of long-ter ...
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Good luck w/ the new GI doc. Most will not agree that food choices make a difference, but we’re very fortunate to have one that does. In the experience I had with my son, Asacol actually made him sicker rather than better. It’s a sulfa drug, and it’s not all that unusual to have sensitivity to it. I also question the thinking of the tablet dissolving directly into the large intestine. It’s an asprin-type medication, and I’ve read (somewhere) that asprin and other asprin-type meds can permanently damage your digestive tract. If you already have an irritated and bleeding colon, how, ex ...
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Dear 66427, I am truly sorry that you’ve taken offense to my post. I cannot relate to your experience the way that others suffering from UC can, but I do empathize having witnessed firsthand my son’s suffering for more than a year before I found a treatment that worked for him. During his worst times of suffering with the disease, his experience was almost exactly as you’ve described yours. I understand that you’ve been suffering for many, many years. UC has not only broken your body, but your spirit as well, and I understand fully how and why this can happen. I appreciate how frus ...
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I have been following closely your post as well as that of 66427. Sheldon’s information is absolutely invaluable! He has given us the basics of the procedure that has proven to work for him as well as for many other people. Unfortunately, he has no way of knowing your individual abilities to tolerate certain foods. For example, if you are sensitive to dairy products during a flare, eating yogurt is not a very good idea! My (now 10 year old) son started responding to Sheldon’s treatment when he started taking the oral probiotics you can buy at the health food store. They offer a broade ...
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Well, it’s been more than two months since my last post but I have fantastic news. I gave my son the Fecal Occult Blood Test last week, and it was negative for blood. Back in February when my son’s stool tested positive for blood, he wasn’t following the diet very well. I put him back strictly on the diet, and his stool form improved within a few days. I did not resume the enemas because it is very invasive for me to do them for him since he’s 10 now, and he can’t do it himself yet (yes, we tried). Within one month of going back to stricly following sheldon’s diet, my son’s stools b ...
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Well, the fecal blood test result was positive. I suspected that it might be because my son has been cheating on the diet for the last week without my permission - and not in a small way. Not to mention the fact that he hasn’t been eating his vegetables that I pack in his lunch - and sometimes with dinner (I found his veggies in the cat’s bowl last night after he went to bed). Well, as the saying goes - you give them and inch and they take a mile. It’s back to the basic diet and enemas again for him. He’s not happy about it, but there’s no alternative as far as I’m concerned. I plan ...
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Hi Sheldon. Thanks for your response! I had no idea that I could purchase a stool test kit at the pharmacy. I will do that today. You are so right about the processed and junk foods. I try to purchase healthy snacks from the whole foods market that resemble junk food. So far, I’ve discovered that my son can tolerate oat and corn products very well. He does fine as long as they don’t contain too much fat. I once had a momentary lapse of sanity and allowed him to have corn chips. The results wheren’t horrible, but I definitely noticed a reduction in stool form because of the exc ...
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Greetings. You have definitely made the right decision to pursue this treatment. I came across this forum back in September of last year (2005). When I first read Sheldon’s testimony on how he cured his UC, I was very excited and skeptical at the same time. Let me begin by telling you our story: My 9 year old son was diagnosed w/ UC last July, but had been suffering for 9 months prior to the diagnosis. Upon diagnosis, his Pediatric GI Doc prescribed 2400mg of Asacol daily. My first reaction when I read the prescription was that it had to be wrong - who would prescribe a 70lb kid tha ...
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I use d-alpha tocopherol. I’ve tried several different kinds, and the containers labeled 100% natural are definitely the best. Unfortunately, the better the product, the more it’s going to cost. The good news is that it will be well worth it when you start to see results. Good luck to you, and take care. Amanda   [End]
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Hello everyone. Just wanted to post quickly to let all of you who are wondering if this treatment works that it really, really does! My 9 year old son was diagnosed with UC this past July, but has been suffering from it for well over a year now. I started him on this treatment back in September after his second serious flare-up of the disease (the first of which was only a month prior). During both flares, he had a fever of almost 105 along with heavy bleeding and very abnormal liver function blood test results. Over the past two weeks, my son had another series of bloodwork done alon ...
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Hello Sheldon (and to all of the rest of you who are following all postings on the Vitamin E diet and cure.) Just wanted to give a quick update on how my son is doing on the diet. Well, I totally gave up on trying to get my son to eat yogurt, and am now giving him a pro-biotic supplement in its place. I’m still giving him brown rice and white potatoes (either/or at a meal, not both), and plenty of veggies along with chicken and fish. He’s gotten sick of eggs, so I haven’t been able to get him to eat those for the last week or so. I’ve also found it impossible to get him to eat the c ...
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Hi Sheldon. Thanks once again for your message, and more importantly for your support. I went on a hunt this past weekend to find ways to get my son to eat the yogurt and brown rice that would be easier and more appealing to him. I figured I should start at the local whole foods shop. What a wonderful place it is! I found everything I needed to buy, and then some. I found an organic version of the kids yogurt my son likes so much, and it even comes in the tubes so that we can freeze it and he can eat it like an ice pop. Unfortunately, it only comes in fruit flavors, but there is n ...
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Hi Sheldon. Just wanted to give you an update on my son’s condition. We started the enemas and diet on Sunday. My son had a mild flare-up on Monday. I can’t pinpoint what caused the flare-up, but I suspect that it was because my son was coming off of the prednisone. It was really strange, my son started with (mildly) bloody stools and pain in his legs Monday morning, but he spiked a fever of over 105 early Tuesday morning, and I took him to the ER at Children’s Hospital. They took all of the necessary bloodwork, and sent him home with instructions to start back on 20mg of prednisone. ...
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Hello Sheldon. First of all, I’d like to thank you for posting this information. I have several concerns, however, that I’d like to ask you about. My nine year old son was diagnosed with UC this past July. He’s taking Asacol and Zantac for treatment of the UC (Dr. says that the UC is causing my son to suffer from esophagitis as well?). He also takes medication for allergies and asthma. The first thing I did after reading your posting was call the pharmacist to make sure it would be safe for my son to take vitamin E along with his many meds. The pharmacist stated that there would ...
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