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FOOD INTOLERANCE: JOHN’S STORY
For the past 15 years, John had suffered from regular bouts of mouth ulcers. Sometimes these were so painful that he could not eat for several days. Eventually the ulcers would clear up, only to come back again a few weeks later. During a long holiday in Southeast Asia, John’s mouth ulcers were much less of a problem, and this made him wonder if food might be the culprit, because he was eating a very different diet on holiday. Soon after his return, the mouth ulcers began to trouble him again. His doctor suggested that being on holiday, and free from stress, could have effected the cure, but John
pointed out that they had never got better on holiday before. The foods he had eaten very little of in Southeast Asia were bread, milk, butter and cheese, so he decided to try cutting these foods out for a while. There was no improvement, so the doctor suggested that John should also cut out other foods containing wheat, such as biscuits, pastry and pasta. When he did so John’s mouth ulcers improved considerably but did not disappear. The doctor then advised a gluten-free diet, cutting out oats, barley and rye, as well as wheat. On this diet, John has not suffered from mouth ulcers for over two years.
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