Bilko,
Another question to get things clear, as Ebringer's diet trials and using NSAID's seems to be the other topic of this thread. What was Ebringer's strategy in using NSAID's? Did he let the people do the diet and continue medication as usual (NSAID and sulfasalazine) and then when ESR figures dropped build off the NSAID's. I'd reckon that this was the way he did it as in his publications he states that some where able to stop medication altogether and others still needed an occasional NSAID every now and then to cope with the irreversible damage the disease already had caused.
In this forum however it is sometimes advocated to stop NSAID together with doing the diet as the NSAID's cause intestinal damage and because they mask the effects of bad food. Though the logic of that is clear enough it is also clear that there are more risks attached to this method. Anyway I just wanted to know how things were done in the old days.
Gerard
"That we become twice as old now as a century ago is the work of plumbers, not doctors" -Midas Dekkers-
