Q: gluten-free diet for sz?
A very interesting question...
Here's my non expert take, after a quick search on line.
First thought..the similarity of 'living life with' either diagnosis once a person have been handed the unwanted 'label' with the implied strict requirement for life-long adjustments for improvement in long term health..... (diet /medications,insight, education, understanding from family friends all very important)
Neither condition should have life long 'patient' inevitably attached.
Expect you may have come across this, but in case you haven't I will try and give the link. Guess the gist of the study would be that a population of coeliac 'patients' was shown to include a significantly increased number of people with sz as compared with a population without coeliac disease, an auto immune disorder with a genetic component, but an external trigger...(Sounds a bit familiar..)
Interestingly adult coeliac disease is not always diagnosed.... and certainly screening of family members could be warranted.
Whether strict gluten free diet would benefit sz symptoms would seem highly unlikely, unless the person also has coeliac disease. Will try and google some more info.
What occurs to me is that it must be so much harder for the person with active sz symptoms to have the insight and self control, comply with strict restrictions of the gluten free diet with its cost, not to mention taste implications.
Here goes with the link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040220081037.htm
Chris,
retired doctor, non expert
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Thank you, Chris. I had searched online and all I could find was conflicting information. Needless to say, I am still out there looking for a "cure" for sz when everyone says there is none. And there are always people out there on the web hawking such "cures." My cousin told me all I needed was B-12 shots. So for a long time, I took super-complex vitamin B capsules hoping that would do the trick. Nope, didn't work. I still have to take Zyprexa or have a meltdown in a very short period of time. Maybe some day, though....
I saw that the FDA has approved of a new atypical antipsychotic, but it looks like it has the same negative side effects as Zyprexa. Why can't they find one that doesn't make you gain weight and sleep too much?
Carolyn