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My daughter Mya-Grace was diagnosed with Crohns in 2011 she has since been admitted into hospital at least twice a year.

The medications she has been prescribed such as pentasa, azathioprine, and prednisolone are prescribed to ease the symptoms of the inflammation as it is said there is no cure, although none of these have actually worked. She was also on a milkshake only diet which she had to be fed through a tube in her nose.

Recently we discovered Mya-Grace had a mycobacterium infection this is after I pushed for her to be referred to an infection specialist she was then prescribed two antibiotics for three months.

The outcome has been amazing for the first time she is actually well with no stomachs complaints at all she is growing in height and weight I am buying her clothes for her age for the first time in years.

I want to help raise money for the vaccination as I really do believe it is the cure and I want to see my beautiful daughter live a normal and happy life again without taking these medicines that do very little and have awful side effects

Crohn’s MAP Vaccine is an awareness and

support group comprised of members of the

Crohn’s Community. Our mission is to find a

cure for Crohn’s Disease. We believe the best

hope for that cure lies in the Vaccine developed

by Prof. Hermon-Taylor...

What is Crohn’s Disease?

Crohn’s Disease is a debilitating and aggressive

form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. It affects

around 5 million worldwide, including 1.2 million

in the USA and over 100,000 in the UK –and

numbers are increasing, especially in children.

Symptoms include chronic severe abdominal

pain, weight loss, bloody diarrhoea and fatigue.

Up to 80% of patients will need surgery at some

point in their lifetime. There is currently no cure

and the lives of most sufferers are blighted by

multiple hospitalisations, surgeries,

immunosuppressive therapies (and their side

effects) and difficulty holding down a job or

attending school.

The Research: Professor John Hermon-Taylor

(King’s College London) is an expert in Crohn’s

Disease who has been researching its cause for

over thirty years. He strongly believes that

Crohn’s Disease is caused by a bacterium

called Mycobacterium avium subspecies

paratuberculosis (MAP) – a distant cousin of

Tuberculosis. Controversially, MAP is most

commonly passed to humans through cow’s

milk. Professor Hermon-Taylor has invented a

modern therapeutic vaccine against MAP which

he believes holds the best hope of a cure for

Crohn’s that there has ever been. It is designed

to stimulate the body’s own immune system to

selectively eliminate MAP-infected cells. This

vaccine is currently sitting in a freezer in a

research institute, awaiting the funding to take

it from the lab to the clinic.

Every penny counts and no donation is

too small! Help raise awareness:

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Follow us on twitter: @CrohnsVaccine

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Kings College London Crohns MAP Vaccination

Kings College London Crohns MAP Vaccination

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