Worried About Mom

[jasonD2]

My mother has had oral erosive lichen planus for about 9 months and she said its not getting better. She recently started the gluten free diet and she said its even worse now - could that actually be a good sign? perhaps its a sign that gluten was causing the problem and its her body's way of going into defense mode. anyway, aside from the diet is there anything else she can do to treat this? i feel so bad for her and shes concerned about oral cancer. would appreciate any feedback

thanks

Jason

[burdee]

My mother has had oral erosive lichen planus for about 9 months and she said its not getting better. She recently started the gluten free diet and she said its even worse now - could that actually be a good sign? perhaps its a sign that gluten was causing the problem and its her body's way of going into defense mode. anyway, aside from the diet is there anything else she can do to treat this? i feel so bad for her and shes concerned about oral cancer. would appreciate any feedback

thanks

Jason

What I read about that condition said that it's higly correlated with other immunological conditions (like gluten intolerance). So perhaps your mom went off gluten and then accidentally consumed some gluten after a period of abstinence. Most people get even worse reactions after they abstain for awhile and then consume gluten. So perhaps that later reaction also exacerbated her other immune condition. Reacting more intensely after abstaining from gluten is neither a sign that she's getting well or getting worse. That's merely an immunological phenomena.

SUE

[Katie B]

Might be worth looking at vitamin supplementation like Vitamin E, A, C, D, Zinc etc. Have to be careful about amounts taken though as some are fat soluble and you can take too much.