Posted on 10/02/2007 3:51:14 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
A boy of 12 suffers from so many allergies that he is able to eat only five foods.
Tyler Savage is violently ill every time he is given dishes containing dairy products or wheat, gluten, eggs, lactose and soya.
The sole foods he is allowed are chicken, carrots, grapes, potatoes and apples.
To help him survive, minerals and vitamins are pumped directly into his stomach through a tube.
Tyler started to fall ill at the age of six when even a morsel of food would leave him writhing in agony from sickness and diarrhoea.
His mother, Lynne Savage, 43, said: "We asked for help but kept being told that he was suffering from a stomach infection. As a result his weight dropped drastically.
"He ran out of energy really quickly and couldn't do the things other children were doing. He just seemed to be getting worse and worse.
"It's been a real struggle. We didn't know what to do."
Tyler - from Earls Colne in Essex - was seen by a paediatrician at Chelmsford's St John's Hospital and had his appendix removed in December 2005.
Although the operation was a success it failed to solve the problem and he was referred to Colchester General Hospital for further tests and treatment.
That shed no light on the mystery illness and in April last year Tyler was sent to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London for checks on his stomach and bowels.
The tests led to a diagnosis of eosinophilic enteropathy, a rare and condition in which the intestines produce too many white blood cells.
These act as a miniature immune system and attack food passing through the gut to the stomach.
The condition saw Tyler's weight drop to barely three stone.
"He was becoming malnourished," said Mrs Savage, a married mother-of-three and housewife.
At first, Tyler was fitted with a nose tube to help get food direct to his stomach, bypassing the rogue blood cells in his gut.
Then, this May, he had a tube inserted into his stomach allowing him to be fed for up to ten hours through the night.
"Even though this will continue for the foreseeable future, it is a godsend," said Mrs Savage.
"Last year he was only at school for about ten days, but in the first two weeks of this new term he's only missed one day.
"We've got a long way to go but at least we're now getting some answers."
In the day, Tyler, whose father, David, 60, is an engineer, can eat the five foods he is not allergic to.
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According to the organization's Web site, www.iwopf.org, coalition members include the Sisters for Life, Western New York Lawyers for Life, Human Life International, Relevant Radio, Priests for Life and Women Against the Killing and Exploitation of Unwanted Persons, known as WAKEUP.
"This is ... a grass-roots effort of groups from all over the world that we have been working with for over 15 years," said Maureen Flynn, coalition chairwoman, in a statement.
She added that the movement has grown as problems in the world have grown, "especially with terrorism and the decline of the culture of life."
Flynn said the coalition organizes prayers for world peace, works to promote pro-life issues and sets up "prayer cells" to counter global terrorism.
The coalition planned several national events in Washington, including an Oct. 8 eucharistic day of prayer at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception featuring Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life; Bobby Schindler, brother of Terry Schindler Schiavo; and evangelist Father Clement Machado, a member of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, who lives in Rome and is a frequent contributor to Vatican Radio and the Eternal Word Television Network's radio programs.
Week of prayer, fasting aimed at stopping abortion, promoting peace
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It's troglodytic, Joe, not "troglyditic." If you're going to insult Christians by comparing their views to pre-historic cave dwellers, you might at least want to spell it correctly.
Incidentally, with respect to the Schiavo case, is Klein saying the 47 Democrats in the House of Representatives who voted in favor of the Schiavo legislation hold "troglyditic (sic) religious views?" Or were they merely cowards for not standing up the "fundamentalist mullahs?" What about Senators like Harry Reid and Tom Harkin who supported intervention and helped craft the language that ultimately passed by a voice vote in the upper chamber?
Or was the Schiavo case just a wee bit more complicated than that and was something people of both parties could disagree about in good faith?
For the record, I thought Congress' intervention was a massive overreach that set a terrible precedent and raised all sorts of questions (which I discussed in an April 2005 Sun-Times column reprinted here).
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Almost too pathetic to be comical, this report of a leftie demonstration rings the Terri Legacy bell once again.
Theyre the ones at the pre-screened rallies, thanking him for all hes doing. Theyre politically like Terri Schiavo: there, but not. Im a lefty and will be until I die. I think we can have a world of justice and freedom and that capitalism and its various sicknesses, man-made as they are, can be unwrought and a better society can be formed. I dont think there is a liberal solution: we couldnt reform our way out of the concentration camps and we cant lobby our way past the death squads.
First Person: Im Tired of Marching in Circles
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Now Terri comes up regularly, almost branded as a logo, on Fred's campaign. This supportive article mentions it in the second paragraph.
He won't talk about religion. He only goes to church when he's visiting his mom.
He lobbied for an abortion-rights group. On the campaign trail, he shrugs off questions about conservative hot-button topics like the death penalty and Terri Schiavo.
Conservatives gamble on Fred Thompson
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I'm say'n it again. The lefties cannot shake Terri's Legacy.
A slip-up like mistaking Russia for the extinct Soviet Union is not all that remarkable in the United States.
But Republicans were surprised that Thompson, during a campaign trip to Florida, was unable to recall details of the case of Terry Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman who in 2005 was at the center of a politically charged right-to-die battle in the state.
Thompson not bogged down in details in campaign
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Thread by wagglebee.
WASHINGTON, DC, October 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, yesterday released new documents obtained from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, detailing a total of as many as eleven deaths related to Merck's HPV vaccine Gardasil. Those deaths resulted between June 8, 2006 - when the vaccine received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - and August 2007 when the latest data was available.
The adverse reports coming from the HPV vaccine are increasing daily at an alarming rate. A LifeSiteNews.com report which scanned a publicly available database of adverse affects coming from the HPV vaccine found 3,137 adverse effects reported on September 28, 2007. Today the US Government's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) lists 3,779 adverse effects. 52 of the cases were deemed "life threatening" and 119 required hospitalization.
US Death Toll Associated with HPV Vaccine Jumps to 11 with 3779 Adverse Reactions Reported
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If you rung apples they’d go thud thud thud. But if you wrung apples hard enough you might get a little juice or applesauce.
The phrase "Death with Dignity" may or may not be familiar to many citizens of the United States.
However, it is yet another new term our society has had to learn and face in order to keep up with the polarized ethical debates which mark our time.
It is the idea that as humans, we deserve to pass away in a dignified matter. However, for many citizens in our society, dignity means control.
Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) is the practice in which a physician provides the means by which a patient takes his or her life.
Medical euthanasia raises quesions about dignity
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Easier to wring if they are peared.
I haven’t had my coffee yet, it is still too hot, but as I read the article he has to ingest food for it to make him sick. These schools are banning peanut butter because the little skulls full of mush can get sick by merely touching a surface sticky peanut buttery hands have been on. They don’t have to actually eat the peanuts. Therefore it is more of an environmental thing. I guess.
Say what!?! So is Kerry.
Your efforts are indeed fruitful and your logic is unimpeachable.
As to the granes most, if not all have gluten in them. Hes not allergic to wheat he is allergic to gluten.
A missing enzyme you be intolerance not allergy. An allergy is an immune problem.
Theres a cabal of people here who equate peanut allergies with lactose intolerance and think when a school tires to make the environment safe by making the reasonable request ‘no peanuts’ their civil rights are being violated.
Even before I had peanut allergic kids I was ok with a school saying they wanted to ban them. Some kids dont even need to touch peanuts, if thy inhale the dust off of a peanut its enough.
bttt.
Remembering Terri: www.terrisfight.org.
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