A Gut Reaction is an entertaining as well as informative true story about the author's battle to save her son's life -- or at least his large intestine-- from a very severe case of Crohn's disease. With persistence, humour, much searching of the Internet and the help of two unusual doctors, one in Canada and the other in Australia, she and her son, who was in his early twenties, finally find a regime of fecal infusions that replaces the bacteria that had ulcerated his gut with a healthy flora donated by his mother. The manuscript details their adventures and then concludes with a helpful summary of how they did it. It includes a foreword by Dr. Thomas Borody, a globally recognized gastroenterologist and the Director of the Centre for Digestive Diseases in Australia, whose emails and phone conversations helped the author understand what, how, and why to do what was necessary. When the regime is only a partial success, she figures out on her own that she must eliminate many of the problems that are preventing the helpful bacteria from being able to colonize her son's intestine. By talking to a helpful pharmacist and then with the support of a helpful doctor she begins the healing of the intestine walls and develops a more extensive regime of fecal infusions that cures her son. Sky Curtis's sometimes desperate, often hilarious, and always determined international quest for a treatment for her son's life-threatening Crohn's disease resulted in a new protocol for the treatment of this disease.--Publisher's description.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 362.196/3440092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781771330831 1771330805
- LCCN
- RC862.E52
- LCCN Item number
- C87 2013eb
- Modifying agency
- DLC
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 140 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00239926 (OCoLC)856524769 (CaOOCEL)457541
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- A Gut Reaction 2
- Title Page 4
- Copyright Notice 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Foreword 10
- 1. the beginning 14
- 2. hope 34
- 3. instructions 50
- 4. the shopping list 60
- 5. medical supply store adventure 68
- 6. choosing a blender 74
- 7. the trial run 80
- 8. the first infusion 88
- 9. the first few weeks 94
- 10. figuring it out 100
- 11. new infusion protocol 110
- 12. the process 120
- 13. the first year 132
- 14. the colonoscopy 140
- Acknowledgements 148
- About the Author 151
