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PIP Managing Treatments Q5
8 years 3 months ago #147483 by mommaduck
Replied by mommaduck on topic PIP Managing Treatments Q5
I can't argue this point with you Gordon as I obviously don't know, but unless you understand the Gluten Free diet from the perspective of a coeliac then you probably won't understand it. It is a medical condition with grave consequences if not adhered to.
To be 'glutened' in the short term, means diarrhoea, vomiting,damage to the intestines causing inability to absorb nutrients, vitamins and minerals from your food, malnutrition and weight loss, and in the longer term, stomach cancer.
All I am saying is that for me to stay healthy and not become ill by eating gluten containing, or contaminated food, I have to stick to this diet.
I have no choice, and because of this, that is why these 'staples' are provided on prescription rather than expecting me to go out and buy them using the now 'fad diet gluten free foods', that have started appearing in the supermarkets..it is too expensive, cost alone is prohibited..£3 for a tiny, unpalatable loaf. Don't think you would be happy to pay that, no more than you would privately go and purchase medicines that have been prescribed on the NHS at an elevated cost.
As the flour is special flour with the gluten taken out, not a gluten alternative as per the supermarket, it cannot be bought in any supermarket, it is provided by the NHS so that it can be turned into palatable bread..this is as necessary to my well being as taking any one of the 15 different medication/inhalers that are also prescribed. In effect, it is still medicine, and medicine comes under 'managing therapy'.
As previously explained, as with preparing a cooked simple meal, I don't no longer have the physical ability, and along with this, I don't have the ability to make bread, that is why my carer does it.
It appears from your reply that you are advising me to stop eating bread and eat something else instead? Bread is a staple food and it is the rare person that does not eat it.
It's a bit like Marie Antoinette saying 'let them eat cake'.
Don't mean to rant Gordon, not have one of my 'good days'..whatever they are.
To be 'glutened' in the short term, means diarrhoea, vomiting,damage to the intestines causing inability to absorb nutrients, vitamins and minerals from your food, malnutrition and weight loss, and in the longer term, stomach cancer.
All I am saying is that for me to stay healthy and not become ill by eating gluten containing, or contaminated food, I have to stick to this diet.
I have no choice, and because of this, that is why these 'staples' are provided on prescription rather than expecting me to go out and buy them using the now 'fad diet gluten free foods', that have started appearing in the supermarkets..it is too expensive, cost alone is prohibited..£3 for a tiny, unpalatable loaf. Don't think you would be happy to pay that, no more than you would privately go and purchase medicines that have been prescribed on the NHS at an elevated cost.
As the flour is special flour with the gluten taken out, not a gluten alternative as per the supermarket, it cannot be bought in any supermarket, it is provided by the NHS so that it can be turned into palatable bread..this is as necessary to my well being as taking any one of the 15 different medication/inhalers that are also prescribed. In effect, it is still medicine, and medicine comes under 'managing therapy'.
As previously explained, as with preparing a cooked simple meal, I don't no longer have the physical ability, and along with this, I don't have the ability to make bread, that is why my carer does it.
It appears from your reply that you are advising me to stop eating bread and eat something else instead? Bread is a staple food and it is the rare person that does not eat it.
It's a bit like Marie Antoinette saying 'let them eat cake'.
Don't mean to rant Gordon, not have one of my 'good days'..whatever they are.
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