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Thalassemia - Wheat Grass Clinical Studies 2004 -2010
Akita:
Dear Readers,
these are the studies i could find in the internet referring to Wheat Grass and Thalassemia. For your reading and studying.
There are a few additional informations in them which i could not read in the wheat grass posts you recommended for this topic.
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1. Effect of wheat grass tablets on the frequency of blood transfusions in Thalassemia Major, 2010
2. Effect of wheat grass therapy on transfusion requirement in beta-thalassemia major, 2009
3. The Role of Iron Chelation Activity of Wheat Grass Juice in Blood Transfusion Requirement of Intermediate Thalassaemia, 2007.
4. Wheat grass juice reduces transfusion requirement in patients with thalassemia major: a pilot study, 2004.
With Links:
ad 1. Effect of wheat grass tablets on the frequency of blood transfusions in Thalassemia Major. 2010
PMID: 20135271
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20135271
Clinical Brief:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m88t31m23275n358/fulltext.pdf
Result: Wheat grass has the potential to increase the Hb levels, increase the interval between blood transfusions and decrease the amount of total blood transfused in Thalassemia Major patients."
ad 2. Effect of wheat grass therapy on transfusion requirement in beta-thalassemia major. 2009
PMID: 19205635
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19205635
SpringerLink to Clinical Brief actually broken, only a preview of the first of the two pages can be read by preview
ad 3. The Role of Iron Chelation Activity of Wheat Grass Juice in Blood Transfusion Requirement of Intermediate Thalassaemia, 2007.
http://abstracts.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/content/abstract/110/11/3829
Wheat grass could be an effetive alternative to transfusions
ad 4. Wheat grass juice reduces transfusion requirement in patients with thalassemia major: a pilot study. 2004,
PMID: 15297687
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15297687
4.1. Discussion and reply
http://www.indianpediatrics.net/june2005/618.pdf
4.2. Discussion and reply
http://www.indianpediatrics.net/jan2006/79.pdf
Best wishes,
Margarete
Andy Battaglia:
Margarete,
Thank you for posting the links to these articles. I had not previously heard about the chelating properties of wheatgrass. This is one more reason to be using wheatgrass. I feel that its affect on the immune system alone, is plenty of reason but its ability to increase Hb in some people and its role as a supplemental chelator just add to the benefits one can find with wheatgrass. I hope it is all the chelation your will now need. We already know that tea and IP6 can act as natural chelators and I am happy to be able to include wheatgrass to this group.
Akita:
Andy,.. thank you for your comment,
it`s on my side to thank you and all the contributers of the forum, giving one another hope and advice, in sharing experiences and informations! In my own history of illnesses i have had much help through such self-help networks/groups. How precious it is when this forum with all its informations and actual helping/responding members goes on and on..
When i read postings concerning experiences with wheat grass i had sometimes the impression that there would help a systematic dose taken in the frame of sort of research-controlled study perhaps user-leaded and controlled. In this moment - at least for me - it seems not to be clear, which sorts of products are the optimum for this purpose. It might be that for enhancing the hb another product would be optimal than it would be optimal for iron chelating..
Therefore it would, in my opinion, need another lot of discussion and sharing of experiences. We have still not any discussion in Europe concerning Wheatgrass. In my "home-forum", http://lil.lu/ there is only one ladyr with chronical lymphatic leukemia who uses wheat grass for cures in wintertime and is very happy with that because wheat grass enhances her health in general. She is not transfusion-dependent. Another lady in our forum has myelodysplastic syndrome, low risk, and is transfusion dependent. She is chelated by Exjade, but actually she has to pause for the second time because her kidneys did not work properly. Now, in the pause, her creatin is getting normalized. But she fears for her kidneys for future and so she would be happy to take additional wheat grass. But her hematologist advices her not to do so, because perhaps her liver could take damage. No studies, no further arguments which would prove that.. According to all the studies i read there were never complications observed.
But there could be some in case you would take wheat grasses in higher doses and/or for longer periods as the studies included. So its necessecary to be careful.
Also i communicated another wheat grass study - one that relates to MDS and reports also some success like some of the studies i sent to this forum - to the forum on http://www.marrowforums.org/ with open acess to archives where mainly MDS Patients and Patients. They had no information concerning wheat grass before.
Further i tried to registrate in the *......*, but that seems impossible actually..
Are there any other forums probably interested in the wheat grass topic in relation with transfusion-dependency or even palliative care (also therefore exists already a wheat grass study)?
Have a nice Sunday, you all, who read this!
Best regards,
Margarete
7assan:
Thnx akita , my brother Search a lot in the markets of Bahrain for wheat grass juice, but to no availbal because we dont have in Bahrain, but we found tablat of wheat grass. Is the impact of juice has the same effect in the tablat of wheat grass.
Akita:
--- Quote from: FaReS AL BaLoShi on November 14, 2010, 01:38:14 PM ---Thnx akita , my brother Search a lot in the markets of Bahrain for wheat grass juice, but to no availbal because we dont have in Bahrain, but we found tablat of wheat grass. Is the impact of juice has the same effect in the tablat of wheat grass.
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In one of the studies i listed above, wheat grass tablets where successful in
- increasing the Hb levels,
- increasing the interval between blood transfusions and
- decreasing the amount of total blood transfused in Thalassemia Major patients."
But: the study does not tell, if it really was successfull with all the patients.
Tablets were given on empty stomach, so this seems to be helpful.
Tablets were bought from
R. J enterprise, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
www.greenheartindia.com
The minimum of time-period of intake was one Year! And then they compare the Hb levels etc. with the data in the year before beginning of intake. And then the success was shown.
But the other study from 2009 was not successful. It seems that they used another sort of wheat grass tablets, which had not the right exact ingredients. I think so, because otherwise perhaps they would not published the 2010 study (conducted in 2005) now, after the 2009 published study and that in this study they indicated the enterprise where they bought it.
It could be possible, that the wheat grass tablets your brother has seen in Bahrain would be not of much help for your purposes. Wheat grass tablets are sold for many health reasons, and iron chelation is only one, not one known in public.. Anyway, it will enhancen your help..
So, sorry, i can not tell you how much this tablet will help. Do you know the brand, how many mg has one tablet? How much of them are in one serving? Is it expensive?
Could you or your brother buy one by internet?
Why not growing wheat grass indoor at home? (Not possible?)
How is your health status actually?
Many questions..
best regards,
Margarete
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