Have a look at the comments below for a summary of recommendations. However, I would also try to get your doctor to give you the DNA test for genetic predisposition. I’m really only saying that because you mention the arthritis. Typically with iritis they check for arthritis in the hips but it might be worth getting tested. Having said that the test doesn’t really get you anywhere, so I would still look at the supplement recommendations, try Yakult, vitamin D, check your fillings etc.

Cheers
Simon

I omitted to say that I also take pharmaceutical grade Cod Liver Oil daily to keep up my Omega 3-6-9 since I don’t eat seafood.
As you know both Vitamin A and Vitamin D are contained in Cod Liver Oil and is a vital ingredient of a healthy immune system.

Your suggestion of Vitamin A is good because anything that boosts the immune system can only help in the prevention of iritis.

Thank you to everyone for contributing to this discussion. Andrew, the connection between amalgam fillings and an iritis outbreak is an interesting one.

I had my first bout of iritis in my left eye only, about 12 years ago. Unfortunately, it was misdiagnosed at first, but when I eventually received the correct treatment, it cleared up and didn’t recur until the exact time of the following year – late October and after a hot day!

The second time I was onto it quickly and within a few hours, I’d seen the specialist, started with the drops and iritis didn’t fully develop. Around this time, I came across an article in a magazine written by a long term iritis sufferer. He claimed to have freed himself of iritis with regular vitamin A supplements.

I took a vitamin A supplement daily for 10 years or so and had no iritis. Other iritis sufferers I know have also tried vitamin A with good success.

However, for the last couple of years I haven’t bothered taking the supplements. A week ago, I had an amalgam filling replaced, top left jaw and after a few days, pain started to develop. I had been thinking about contacting the dentist because the pain was increasing rather than subsiding, but the pain was above my jaw, rather than at the site of the dental work. After a hot day last Sunday, the pain was enough to keep me awake, but it wasn’t until this morning (Thursday) that I woke to blurry vision and inflammation in my left eye. In less than a hour of taking vitamin A, my vision has cleared.

Unfortunately, I can’t remember if my previous iritis attacks correlate with dental treatment. I also start each day with a glass of unsweetened lemon juice and take vitamin C powder a couple of times per week, but in future I’ll be careful to take vitamin A and increase my vitamin C intake before and after any dental work.

After you have your amalgam’s removed you have to undergo chelation to remove the built up mercury in the body. The dentist, Dr Eric Davis has a nutritionist working with him Jim Noonan who looks after removing the mercury from the body. There are two main ways, chemically and using vitamins so naturally the vitamin approach is what Eric and Jim recommend. Vitamin C is the main chelation agent for mercury. So the normal process, besides other vitamins, is large amounts of Vitamin C. Now, since I would get Iritis at a drop of a hat Eric was very mindful that removing the amalgam could result in a slight build-up of mercury despite using a rubber dam and extractor fans etc. He thought it wise to have intravenous Vitamin C after each quadrant. You cannot chelate the mercury when you still have fillings because it would leach it out into the body and cause more problems. So I had in all four lots of intravenous vitamin C, one for each quadrant until I could start the chelation process.

I have changed my diet considerably but one thing I was told was never to eat seafood and I buy rock salt rather than sea salt.

An interesting story was a lady had multiple sclerosis, which is an autoimmune disease, and the doctors could only provide drugs to prolong her useful life. She went to Eric Davis Dental, had her amalgams replaced with ceramic and after chelation she walked away from her wheelchair. She was told never to have seafood but one Christmas she had a few prawns and the small amount of mercury in the prawns was sufficient to put her back in the wheelchair until the mercury was again chelated out.

There are many toxins besides mercury and Fluoride is a toxin so we have a reverse osmosis water filter that removes the Fluoride. Eric Davis has a completely fluoride free dental practice.

For the first few years I carry around a script for prednefrin but now I don’t as the scripts keep expiring.

I start each morning with a glass of lemon juice ( we squeeze lemons and turn them into ice blocks) to which we add Vitamin C powder.

I mentioned in a previous post that I had high cholesterol and when Jim told me to change my diet to a high fat, high protein low carbohydrate diet I was concerned about having a heart attack. He reassured me by saying “ There is a naturally occurring amino acid in the body called methionine and in the presence of toxin it mutates to homocysteine and it is the presence of homocysteine that causes the LDL to attach to the arteries. By taking folic Acid, B6 and B12 the homocysteine is retuned back to methionine” So I also take folic acid and a B complex.

Hope this helps

Everyone cases are individual.I treated by Immunosuppressive drugs.I am also hla b27 negative. It dosent mean you need the same drugs.

Uvitis cause by IBS,May be get better with Yakult drink.Doesnt need Immunosuppressive drugs.Sorry.Its depent how serve your uvitis aswell.

I think allways speak to some one who specializes in Uvitis.Most opthamologists dosent know how to treat this disease.sorry, Do you have IBS?

Sorry to here you have had a bit of a recurrence. I just thought I would comment that fish is not that great for mercury content. I’m guessing that it depends a bit of the fish, but I know that in the UK, where I am from originally, there was always reports of high mercury content in cold sea fish. I think this is due to mercury pooling in the poles, but don’t hold me to it!

Cheers
Simon

(I’m the same ‘Michael’ as immediately above and some earlier posts)

I’ve been off the Pred drops for just one week and I suspect a recurrence albeit very mild, even milder than last time, nevertheless I’m depressed about it. I see the ophthalmologist tomorrow, Monday, which I suppose is good…

I’ll quiz him about mercury and other things.

I have also gone almost VEGETARIAN since June, so just over 4 months now, although I still eat fish, AND my FISH INTAKE would have multiplied by about three times or more, fish is the only meat I eat, is there mercury content in fish????

And, I have at least 3 amalgam fillings which I believe contain mercury, and I a habit of occasionally grinding my back teeth a bit where the fillings are.

My first iritis attack came on the very same day as my last dental visit, for a scale and clean!! About 10 hours after…

Interesting… all just coincidences…??

I’ll be honest and say I am rather disdainful of doctors with their approach to things like eczema and iritis, when they don’t know the cause and all they can do is hand out the stock-standard treatment. It seems as if they don’t really care about the cause, I wouldn’t even bother going to my doc now about eczema, all he will do is prescribe steroid cream (terrific!! pain in the arse to use it, you’re not supposed to use it long-term, AND it does not cure it, just keeps it at bay WHILE you are using the cream). And when I ask what is causing the eczema, he says things like, it’s stress, it’s the heat, you body hair in that area making you hotter… great help!! I hope you don’t think I’m getting side-tracked here; it seems iritis sort of falls into the same category, they don’t know what causes it usually, AND they don’t really seem to care! I think if the doctor had bouts of iritis he may be a lot more interested in what causes it and how to prevent it, rather than just treat it when it happens!

Anyway, now that’s off my chest!