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What is Nightshade-free diet?

A nightshade-free diet is thought to help relieve arthritis pain and inflammation. The nightshade family includes the Datura or Jimson weed, mandrake, deadly nightshade or belladonna, capsicum (paprika, chili pepper), potato, tobacco, tomato, eggplant and petunia.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Pain 7 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 2 1 Efficacy_moderate
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) 2 1 Efficacy_major
Fibromyalgia 1 0
Bowel irritability 1 1 Efficacy_major
Pleurisy 1 1 Efficacy_major

See all 12 patients currently using Nightshade-free diet

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 5

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Using Nightshade-free diet

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

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Nightshade-free diet

Always
 2 40%
Usually
 3 60%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Nightshade-free diet

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 4 80%
A little
 1 20%
Not at all
 0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Nightshade-free diet

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 1 100%

Report created on May 28, 2012.