While so much ill health can be attributed to poor lifestyle choices – and in my community this is the norm rather than the exception – others can only blame the genetic pot luck that they have been unfortunate enough to inherit. Annie is such a young lady.
At the age of 11, Annie had an attack of diarrhoea. Assuming it was “a virus” her parents watched and waited – and waited – and waited. Days turned into weeks, so I was consulted. Stool cultures were negative, as was coeliac serology. When blood began appearing in her stools, her father mentioned that he was taking Salazopyrin since an attack of “colitis” years previously. Soon after, Annie’s mother revealed that...
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