Crohn's disease article in the Daily mail

[bobby.parker]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ays-ditch-deadly-bowel-disease-treatment.html

A good read. Hopefully increase awareness of this disease.

 

[IAmTheWalrus]

Oh, she has it real bad, God bless her, fed through a tube between the ages of 11-16.

 

[Crohn's Mom]

Wow ! What a story...that poor girl!
I hope the stem cell treatment does it for her!

 

[Misty-Eyed]

I agree with the poor girl comments.. she looks like she's been through a lot!

I'd hate to read this article if I had just been diagnosed though! Not a fan of the daily mail calling crohn's a deadly bowel disease!

 

[tiloah]

I agree with the poor girl comments.. she looks like she's been through a lot!

I'd hate to read this article if I had just been diagnosed though! Not a fan of the daily mail calling crohn's a deadly bowel disease!

"If left untreated, Beth faces slowly starving to death." Kind of like how if you don't treat diabetes, you face slowly (or not so slowly) dying from hyperglycemia? That's why we treat it.

 

[IAmTheWalrus]

"If left untreated, Beth faces slowly starving to death." Kind of like how if you don't treat diabetes, you face slowly (or not so slowly) dying from hyperglycemia? That's why we treat it.

I was going to say the exact same thing. Kinda exaggerated it a bit. . .

 

[Mr. Izzy]

Heart felt story. Hope all the best for her.

However the quote below is total BS. Was it not said that no one has yet to die from stem cell transplants for crohns, otherwise known as the long known "bone marrow transplants". I highly doubt Dr. hawkey told her this has just as high chance of killing her as it does beating her disease (92% success rate. probably 1% chance of death or less). I would call the editor of that article on that quote. Misleading to others. How many bone marrow transplant patients has the world had so far 400,000+? First bone marrow transplant - 1968! 16 transplants done in 1973 alone. Not so experimental for 2011 huh... I wish they would explain that it is "experimental" because it has not been used in crohns patients. It been used on humans for awhile as you can see.

""But the procedure is highly experimental and she has been told it has as much chance of killing her as it does of beating the condition.""

 

[Nataliekim]

.......I'd hate to read this article if I had just been diagnosed though! Not a fan of the daily mail calling crohn's a deadly bowel disease!

Ugh. :ywow:

 

[Gav]

I saw this article the other day. I felt so sorry for the girl.

But the Daily Mail has a reputation in the UK for being very extreme with it's articles, tweaking the edge of articles to make things a little theatrical. She has Crohn's very bad there is no doubt of that, but as has been said to any new patient who has just been diagnosed this article could cause quite a panic.

 

[CrohnsGuy]

They are finishing the clinical trials in Europe as we speak: http://www.boston.com/business/heal...worms_could_help_fight_crohns_disease/?page=1

 

[Grant]

Gav has called this right. The Mail tries to sensationalize things as do the other tabloids. Shame because a well reported factual story about Crohns would be good in terms of awareness. Mind you a lot of people know someone with it these days.
Anyhow I hope the treatment works for her.
Rgds
Grant

1st symptoms 1983
Diagnosed 1985
1997 Right Hemicolectomy & Resection
2002 Laperotomy & Resection
2010 Laproscopic Ileocolic Resection
Currently got yet another stricture.

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