Well, I’m not sure how to start off, so forgive me if this beginning is a little bit rough! As I’m hoping to start trying for a baby soon, my intention is that this blog will follow my journey through the preconception diet and maternal PKU, but as it’s my first blog post, I suppose I should introduce myself and tell you a bit about my PKU journey thus far J I might also use this blog as a food diary, which I’m normally rubbish at keeping!
Archive for July, 2008
Life & Living with PKU
Friday, July 25th, 2008Crohns – Getting the diagnosis right
Monday, July 21st, 2008I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease three years ago when I was 15, but I had been very sick for many years before I received that diagnosis. I always felt extremely weak and tired, was in a lot of pain, and had low blood counts. I also got dizzy a lot and would often have to throw up.
What is the ketogenic diet?
Friday, July 4th, 2008It’s Friday and I want to have some fun- so I’m going to post about the ketogenic diet. I’ll introduce the concept of dietary treatment of epilepsy now. I’ll discuss how these diets might be working in a later post. Of course, I’m no doctor and most of this info has come from research I’ve done on the web so please feel free to correct me if you don’t agree with anything.
Tyrosinaemia
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008This is part four in the series for Metabolic Disease Awareness Week. It focuses on Tyrosinaemia which is another inborn error of metabolism (metabolic disease) caused by a deficiency in fumaryl-acetoacetate hydrolase.
There are 3 types of this disorder: