Re: Ileocaecal Valve Syndrome

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Try copious quantities of Mellissa tea, and maybe some more

nervines, .......perhaps a little borago for her fear.

Sally Owen

> I have a very complicated, extremely needy patient, who I believe is

> suffering from ileocaecal valve syndrome. Her problems include

> alternating diarrhoea/ constipation, passing huge amounts of mucus

> (which she kindly photographs for me), extreme anxiety and a degree

> of mental instablility - she has been sectioned twice - once as a

> result of extreme anxiety arising from a bowel impaction - she is

> terrified of this happening again. She has also been diagnosed with

> slow gastric emptying, various parasites and pancreatin deficiency.

>

> She over-medicates enormously - enzymes, enemas, colonics,

> magnesium, castor oil, cholagogues - anything to empty her bowel.

> She has been eating a mostly raw food diet with a juice for

> breakfast. She is also concurrently seeing a kinesiologist and

> chiropractor.

>

> I have put her on a simple diet of simple, bland cooked food, and

> some herbs: gentian before foood, plus a main mix of mentha pip,

> Matricaria, Foeniculum, Tarax radix, Humulus and Valeriana. I have

> firmly requested that she stop self-medicating.

>

> She complains that she can taste food and herbs that she has taken

> days before, even a coffee enema she took 2 days ago(unprescribed)

> she says she can taste, even after 2 colonics.

>

> Does anyone know why and how this might happen?

>

> And any treatment ideas welcome

>

> Many thanks

>

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