Dear Mr Thysman,
The answers are in the body of the letter.
I hope that you find them
helpful
Mike Matthews (Medical Director)
----- Original Message -----
From: "EDDY THYSMAN" <eddy.thysman@pandora.be>
To: "Diane " <Diane@allergy.co.uk>
Cc: "Danny De Rop" <droppi10@skynet.be>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 7:10 PM
Subject: foodintollerance tests
Hallo Diane ,
Danny tells me that he uses only 2 drugs :
1) INDERAL 40mg (since 20 years and he will have to take it for the
rest of
his life) .
It is a drug for the hart . It also lowers his bloodpressure .
He takes 1 tablet a day .
2) LIORESAL
This is a drug which diminishes the spastic movements of the
muscles .
He also takes 1 tablet a day .
His condition got worse two years ago , in the summer of 1999 , and
he then
was given a 5 day treatment with corticoids . Result : He could walk
again
but only for a very short period of time .
He has never used the immunosupresive MS drugs like interferon beta
or other
MS
drugs .
We find It hard to believe that these 2 drugs that he is taking , could
hamper the testresults
>>>>>>>>>They will not hamper the results.
I myself suspect that the alcohol in his blood could perhaps have some
effect .
Could the presence of alcohol in his blood influence testresults ?
>>>>>>>Only to make things show up. Not to mask them.
Or could his immunesystem have become so depleted that hardly no antibodies
are formed ?
>>>>>>>>>>This can happen in Immunodeficiency syndromes but only
as a very
late problem. I suggest that he discusses these results with
his doctor
We also took very special care with the samples . It is certain that
no
mistakes were made there .
I read that you are actually doing a study with MS patients and they
do not
always come
up to things.
>>>>>>>>>We have a small prepilot study underway with MS-Diet but
as the
investigator I am blind to any results until the study is finished.
It is
regarded as cheating for the investigators to check results mid
trial!
Theoretically there should be
some relation between leaky gut problems
and MS but in my experience (I was
a Family Physician for 27 years) MS is
notoriously difficult to research in any rigorous way because of
its
fluctuating nature and remissions. These make it very difficult
to assess
cause and effect without using vast and impractical timescales and
patient
numbers. It is also likely
to have multiple factors in its causation, of
which food intolerance may be one, so quite
a few people with MS will not
have any intolerances.
I'm sorry to sound so negative but the realistic
view is that some
people will have food intolerances and some will not. Food
Intolerance
affects about 45% of the population as a whole
and there is no reason to
suppose that some of the people who have MS
will also have eczema, migraine
or irritable bowel syndrome (Our top 3 ) with
the symptoms masked by the MS
which is a much worse problem.