Desiccated pigs stomach

[PhilAB]

My sister recently read research from 1930s and I was wondering if anyone knows anything about eating desiccated pigs stomach. By doing so they ingested pigs intrinsic factor.

I will try and find the article and add it to the post.

[clivealive Forum Support]

Hi PhilAB forty odd years further down the line from the 1930s research, I was told in 1972 that having been diagnosed with P.A. I had only about two years to live without treatment.

I was given the option of either eating raw liver three times a day or having the cyanocobamalin B12 injections every four weeks for the rest of my life.

Much as I love baked liver and onions (in gravy) I chose the injections

That I am still "clivealive" at the age of 79 suggests that the injections are still working.

I wish you well.

[Galixie]

The one thing I recall about this topic is that, in the 1960's, a committee of the FDA recommended against it as a pernicious anemia treatment and advised that injections were the only safe, effective treatment available.

[FlipperTD]

It's good to see there's nothing new under the sun!

Animal intrinsic factor was used in the Schilling Test, until we lost that test.

Interestingly, dessicated Fish Tapeworm [Diphyllobothrium Latum] has been used as a source of B12, because the tapeworm is a successful competitor for B12, which is why getting an infestation of it will lead to a B12 deficiency state.

[ACPA41]

My father used to relate having to take powdered hog’s stomach for his pernicious anaemia. I guess that would have been sometime in the 1930s. Apparently it smelt awful and tasted even worse! Before my time but other family members also recalled the smell of it. I don’t think he’d have taken it by choice but I don’t think injections were available then.