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Flaxseed Treatment Report

What is Flaxseed? Flax seeds contain high levels of lignans and Omega-3 fatty acids. Lignans may benefit the heart, possess anti-cancer properties and studies performed on mice found reduced growth in specific types of tumors.


Reasons taken

114 patients in the community are taking or have taken Flaxseed.

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Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
General health 41 35%
Other 12 10%
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) 7 6%
Bowel problems 6 5%
Support another treatment 5 4%
Slow my MS progress 5 4%
Constipation 4 3%
Don't know 2 1%
Cholesterol high 1 <1%
health 1 <1%

Other treatments patients are taking for General health include Multivitamins, Omega 3 Fish Oil, and Vitamin C.

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Flaxseed.

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All (Show top 10)

  1mg as needed 1other as needed 5g as needed daily 1 other weekly 1 tbs. weekly 1 tps. weekly 1 g daily 1 intl units daily 1 mg daily 1 other daily 1 tbs. daily 1 tps. daily 2 g daily 2 mg daily 2 tbs. daily 2 tps. daily 3 tbs. daily 4 tbs. daily 4 tps. daily 5 mg daily 5 tbs. daily 6 other daily 15 g daily 50 mg daily 100 mg daily 200 mg daily 300 mg daily 400 mg daily 1000 mg daily 1200 mg daily 1500 mg daily 1800 mg daily 2000 mg daily 2400 mg daily 3000 mg daily 5000 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 17 Number of Patients: 17 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 13 Number of Patients: 13 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 11 Number of Patients: 11 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 14 Number of Patients: 14 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 8 Number of Patients: 8 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Flaxseed or how long patients were taking Flaxseed before stopping.

Currently Taking Flaxseed

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
3
13
18
22

Stopped Taking Flaxseed

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
2
2
4
0
Why Patients Stopped Taking Flaxseed (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 5 56% Other: 56%
Did not seem to work 3 33% Did not seem to work: 33%
Expense 1 11% Expense: 11%
Not indicated 1 11% Not indicated: 11%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 15 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 57% 4
Can't tell 43% 3

General health

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 0% 0
None 100% 15

Top reported side-effects include:

Summary results are based on 15 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 15)

  • itsnotmummy
    Sex: F
    Pain: Some
    Fatigue: Most
    Sleep: Little
    Stiffness: All
    function: Little
    external_stress: Some
    Stickman: most
    Description:F50y
    FM:6y Dx
  • itsnotmummy
  • by itsnotmummy
    Dec 07, 2008
  • EfficacyModerate
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Advice/Tips
helped with regularity and colestoral

  • AnnieOakley
    Sex: F
    Sensation: Moderate
    Overall: Mild
    Cognition: moderate
    Vision: mild
    Speech: moderate
    Swallowing: none
    Upper limb: moderate
    Walking: mild
  • AnnieOakley
  • by AnnieOakley
    Jan 25, 2009
  • EfficacyCan't tell
  • Side-effectsNone
  • General health

See all evaluation results for Flaxseed

Report created on November 07, 2009.