Christine Clifford

In memory of Kylie-Anne Lisa Gillen 1978-2018

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Sadly the story has ended for Kylie-Anne who after a long and painful fight to beat this cruel disease lost her brave battle on Monday 30th April 2018. The vaccine wasn’t in time for Kylie-Anne but I hope that the fight to get the vaccine out there for our children and grandchildren is successful. Kylie will be forever with us.

Her story...

There is light at last at the end of a long dark and painful tunnel for Crohns disease suffers, hopefully medical history is about to be overturned and rewritten. Crohns may not be incurable after all. If you would like to become part of that moment in a small way, please help raise funds for Professor Hermon -Taylor and his team at Kings College, London, so that the human clinical trials of the Crohn's Map vaccine can go ahead as soon as possible. The vaccine is in place, a blood test to confirm the presence of the bacterium has been perfected and successfully trialled. The vaccine has already been successfully tested on cattle with Johnes disease, thought by Professor Hermon - Taylor to be the main source of Crohns in humans via the milk and food chain, rivers streams and the environment.

We are on the verge of a cure for Crohns and giving more than 4 million people world wide, their lives back. Crohns is an awful, painful and debilitating disease of the digestive system which can hit the digestive tract anywhere between your mouth and your bottom, and everywhere in between. Up until now the the cause has been unknown and there is currently no cure, the treatment to manage the symptoms and pain being steroids, antibiotics and very powerful immune suppressing drugs which all come with their own problematic side effects. Add to this surgery to remove progressively more and more diseased intestines and the awful pain and fatigue and you have "incurable" Crohns. The amount of people now being diagnosed with this once largely unheard of disease is escalating daily and what is so scary is that even small children are now being diagnosed with it, who have no history of family problems. Remember up until now there has been no cure only management.

My daughter is one of these people, a young mum and primary school teacher whose life is on hold through no fault of her own. So far nothing has worked for her from surgery to drugs and in keeping with everyone else who has or  knows someone special who has Crohns, we want them Cured not Managed. My daughter  would like her life back, her job back and another baby, not too much to ask really is it, and it may be so near for her and the millions of other sufferers all over the world. PLEASE donate whatever you can spare and support the trials now underway, through to completion and out there to those who need it and those who will need it in the future.

Thank You



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King's College London

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King's College London is one of the world's top 25 universities. It conducts world-changing research in a variety of areas including: cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's, conflict resolution and the environment. It also educates nearly 20,000 students, inspiring them to become the next generation of leaders, both in the UK and overseas. Only one third of the College's income comes from the Government - charitable donations are vital to its work. King's College London has charitable status under the Charities Act 1993.

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