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A WHEELCHAIR-BOUND woman diagnosed with multiple sclerosis was able to walk just 48 hours after revolutionary treatment.
A medical test costing just 3.37 led to Peterlee woman Catharine Iceton, who was diagnosed with MS seven years ago, being given vitamin injections that improved her symptoms by 60 per cent in just two days.
Horden GP Dr Joseph Chandy has been investigating vitamin B12 deficiency for the past 25 years and has been treating hundreds of his patients with special injections.
Dr Chandy, who practises at the Shinwell Medical Practice, Fourth Street, Horden, believes thousands of people could have been misdiagnosed with debilitating illnesses when they really have a vitamin deficiency.
Dr Chandy claims his research shows that hundreds of patients fall through the net because the symptoms of B12 deficiency are not recognised.
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Mum-of-two Catharine, 30, said she was virtually wheelchair-bound, suffered depression and had chronic fatigue, until she was tested for B12 deficiency in August.
Catharine, of St Leonards Close, Peterlee, said: “Before I started the B12 I needed help walking and I spent a lot of time in a wheelchair.
“Now I can walk unaided and I would say I had improved by 60 per cent in just two days.
“It’s incredible. I would never have believed it.”
Sufferers exhibit a wide range of health problems from single limb paralysis to hair loss, severe depression and blindness, and these are often put down to other causes.
Now Dr Chandy has won his battle to treat patients for B12 deficiency after being given the go-ahead from health chiefs.
More than 700 of his patients, some as young as 10, have been getting regular injections for a low level of the vitamin and, in the majority of cases, it has made a remarkable improvement to their health.
The doctor is hoping that his pathway of care will pave the way for thousands of patients across the country to have their condition recognised and treated Dr Chandy said: “It is frightening the amount of people who are B12 deficient and I think this work will make an enormous difference.”
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