Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Marijuana as therapy for CD

Foto de www.liberadamaria.org No doubt medical marijuana is a topic for debate. The therapeutic help offered by this ancient plant diseases and is not disputed by most experts.

In 1998 the Dr. Rob Killian kicked out with their support to the Washington's Medical Quality Assurance committee to decide whether marijuana is acceptable therapy in Crohn's disease and other diseases (as it were glaucoma, cancer, intractable pain and multiple sclerosis among others). Thanks to his initiative, the list of diseases that allow the medical use of marijuana now includes CD. I got after one of his patients, suffering from this chronic disease, was arrested and prosecuted for using marijuana. Also about five years, Dr. Karen Wright , University of Bath, was responsible for a study that showed that patients suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Irritable, had a high number of cannabinoid receptors, components of marijuana in the body.

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Videos, how to live with an ileostomy

Via Colitis Diet and thanks to Martin, a Spanish reader Video blog about Ulcerative Colitis, ucvlog.com can see translated a series of three videos very interesting how we can improve our quality of life if we are ostomates.

In ucvlog.com find the hand of its creator Dennis , a collection of videos in their original version (English) translated into Spanish and Japanese.

In the three videos the protagonist is himself and tells us why your surgery (ileostomy) and provides interesting tips or interesting comments. For example in the first video speech EEEU that in new techniques are being applied in gastrointestinal surgery which reconstructs the using the small intestine.

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