8/Feb/2008
Summarising what I have found so far.
1. Tesco, Sainsburys and Morrisons have quite a wide range of gluten and dairy free items. Asda is poor. ALL are EXPENSIVE.
2. They could all do with dropping their prices, which would encourage more people that HAVE to buy it, to do so. Otherwise they appear to be making
profit from other people's misery.
One useful site, putting this one to shame, is
www.puredairyfree.co.uk
It has recipes suitable for people with food allergies, and some useful links, which I repeat here.
(Update December 2007- The story also appeared in a newspaper recently, so it looks like a breakthrough. Take the bit about milk seriously
and consider safer alternatives. It was said that a substance secreted by the MAP bug prevents the gut from defending itself from the e-coli bug that is
found in the diseased parts of the bowel in Crohn's victims).
MAP bug
Original website contents below:
A Professor has been said to have found that a "MAP BUG" is responsible for Crohn's Disease.
He apparently treats with a range of antibiotics to kill it, according to the TV article recently.
Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (MAP) bacteria have been found in 92% of patients with the disease.
Use the Google Search box on this site to search for more info if interested.
The result is that there MAY be a cure some time for an illness that can kill, and had no known cure, just symptom relief,
before this discovery.
Another finding is that previous studies have suggested that MAP is found in 2% of retail pasteurised milk cartons.
This means that some suggest that, rather than give up milk altogether, for those individuals with Crohn's disease,
or their close relatives who may feel particularly at risk, it may be sensible to start drinking UHT milk, as the
higher temperature of he UHT treatment "probably kills the MAP bug".
The BBC site is acknowledged as the source of some of this interesting, and possibly life saving,information.
More info on MAP BUG and Crohn's (and IBS by association)
Another thing, if the test you for Crohn's and say you have no ANTIBODIES showing, so you do not have it, our daughter
showed no results from a blood test, but a radio transmitter/TV camera probe investigation over a few hours one day, with a recording
device carried around on a strap recording the data, proved she has got it in fact.
The point being, do not let the doctor's profession (the very same one that gave us thousands of unecessary operations for
"FLOATING KIDNEYS" before they realised that, UNLIKE the dead bodies they studied, kidneys moved lower down in the body
when a real live patient is standing up) tell us we are OK, when we are not.
Gluten free stuff, add a bit of variety to your life!
www.discoveryfoods.co.uk