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  • Maternal PKU – Part 2: Twins

    This is part 2 of Angela’s story on PKU and Pregnancy.... Read more

  • Maternal PKU – Part 1

    During a recent study day in London, Angela Thomas shared her experience of tackling the subject of PKU and Pregnancy.... Read more

  • Specific nutrition as an integrated part of pressure ulcer care

    Pressure ulcers are a common problem in all healthcare sectors, affecting quality of life and increasing healthcare costs. Providing sufficient amounts of protein... Read more

  • Targeting immunity: an illustration of HIV disease

    Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) results in progressive destruction of the immune system, ultimately resulting in opportunistic infections and AIDS. HIV-infection, affecting 40 million ... Read more

  • Immunopharmacology of non-digestible carbohydrates, a breakthrough for clinical nutrition?

    Early in human history, nutrition and pharmacology were closely linked as people derived their medicines ... Read more

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Cows milk allergy? Any advice?

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

This is my first blog and I’m doing it to see if anyone has any useful information they can give me. Let me tell you the problem, my 6 year old son was born with to the symptoms he has now.He was diagnosed with a CMA after showing severe colitis when he was about a week old. He was put on Neocate and after a year we weaned him back on cow’s milk. He showed no colitis so they said he’d outgrown the allergy.
Not long after this he developed an ear infection that for 18 months  would not clear up. He had tubes put in to allow drainage. They were taken out 2 years later and they said that should be the end of his problems.

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Inherited Metabolic Disorders

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Inherited Metabolic Disorders are rare but there are over 1000 known types. Such disorders are treatable with special diets (in some cases drug therapy may also be used).

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What is the ketogenic diet?

Friday, July 4th, 2008

It’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. 

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Metabolic Disease Awareness Week: PKU

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

This is part two in the series for Metabolic Disease Awareness Week. It focuses on the most common of these diseases Phenylketonuria or PKU (which is what it is commonly known as).

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PKU and other metabolic diseases, now and then…

Sunday, June 29th, 2008
    As part of meatbolic awareness week over in the UK, I thought I’d write this blog for people who want to know more about meatbolic diseases and what we, as medics, hope the future holds for them.

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