General Medical issues thread

[prozac]

GP suspects Master TC may have a dairy intolerance. He's had two bouts of sudden onset watery stools in the last two weeks which clears up within hours. No impact on appetite etc, no fever etc. The kids are really keeping me on my toes at the moment!

Not medical advice but a s a parent I would try him on A2 for a couple of weeks and then switch back to normal milk and note any changes. You then have something to relate to doctors when you get say a sensitivity test. Of-course he might just have been eating dirt or caterpillars in the garden.

 

[mrsterryn]

New news regarding Alzheimers research released at 0830 this morning. News was embargoed until then. New study has confirmed a link between herpes simplex virus and Alzheimers disease. This could be a game changer and will change the direction of research, hopefully in time to potentially help recently diagnosed MrsP.

EXPERT REACTION: Cold sores may be implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease

EXPERT REACTION: Cold sores may be implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease Herpes simplex 1 (HSV-1) - the virus responsible for cold sores - may have a key role in the development of Alzheimer's disease, and treatment with antiviral therapy might be linked to a lower risk of th

www.scimex.org

Having read the article it mentions the shingles thingy (sorry zero medical knowledge) and that vaccine has been brought up before as a possible slight barrier for Alzheimer's as well.
Hoping some of the medical people will comment
Hope it will be helpful for Mrs P.
I wonder if herpes was more prevalent decades ago eg my mother's era and grandmother's, both of whom had dementia

 

[Pushka]

GP suspects Master TC may have a dairy intolerance. He's had two bouts of sudden onset watery stools in the last two weeks which clears up within hours. No impact on appetite etc, no fever etc. The kids are really keeping me on my toes at the moment!

From experience. It never lets up.

 

[blackcat20]

Not medical advice but a s a parent I would try him on A2 for a couple of weeks and then switch back to normal milk and note any changes. You then have something to relate to doctors when you get say a sensitivity test. Of-course he might just have been eating dirt or caterpillars in the garden.

Fortunately he's not the dirt eating sort

 

[drron]

Having read the article it mentions the shingles thingy (sorry zero medical knowledge) and that vaccine has been brought up before as a possible slight barrier for Alzheimer's as well.
Hoping some of the medical people will comment
Hope it will be helpful for Mrs P.
I wonder if herpes was more prevalent decades ago eg my mother's era and grandmother's, both of whom had dementia

First rule of statistics - Correlation doesn't mean causation..
Second reading the article there are lots of uses of might and maybe.
Third Alzheimers patients had a history of HSV 1 in 0.44% whilst controls it was 0.25%. Not world shattering.
To me this article says we will get more junior reseachers on to this which will keep us in jobs for a few more years.

Takeaway HSV1 (and HSV 2 and varicella ) viruses might be a minor reason for the developement of dementia but certainly not the cause.

 

[prozac]

Fortunately he's not the dirt eating sort

Evidently drinking A2 will not be a good thing if it is a milk allergy, different if lactose intolerant.
FWIW someone tried to tell us MasterP was allergic to dairy when he was around 8yrs. It was BS.

Cow`s milk (dairy) allergy - Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA)

Cow's milk is a common cause of food allergy in infants. In Australia and New Zealand around 2 per cent (1 in 50) infants are allergic to cow's milk and other d

www.allergy.org.au

 

[Quickstatus]

New study has confirmed a link between herpes simplex virus and Alzheimers disease.

That is actually not the conclusion.
It's an observational study and by definition lacks causality. No link between Alzheimers and HSV is confirmed because it is not possible with this type of study.

All it shows is that slightly more people identified in an administrative database with Alzheimers had HSV than not. It could also be said that Alzheimers increases the risk of HSV.

 

[Quickstatus]

The A2 milk benefits are based on very weak studies - mostly observational studies. Proper A2 vs NonA2 Clinical trials are non existent last time I looked (I have not looked for a few years though).

MstrQS1 and MstrQS2 actually had a milk allergy - they were IgE tested. So they were dairy free for a few years as A2 didn't help. They have grown out of it.

Jersey cows are apparently A2