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Semi-OT – foods and allergic reactions
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Could be symptoms of systemic yeast overgrowth. High carb (high sugar), antibiotics, and corticosteriods (medrol, etc) are often factors that can cause yeast, which is a fungus that lives naturally in the body (and is not affected by antibiotics) to overgrow and replace the void caused by the killed bacteria. (PS, also can cause carb cravings!) Dr. Crook’s "The Yeast Connectio" is a pretty significant book in this area. I had problems with asthma and allergies for years and after 3 days on a antifungal medication, my asthma cleared up…very amazing. Jim
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Debbie, basically you have to do an elimination/addition diet. I’ve written on this (elsewhere) dozens of times and mean to stick it on my webpage, so sorry that I’m giving you the short version. Basically, remove all the common foods the person is eating. Keep removing until the person is relieved of all or most symptoms for at least a week. Add back foods one at a time. If no reaction, you can try a different food one day later. If there is a reaction, you must wait a couple days for it to clear before trying another food. Keep a diary of this process. Test every item twice, whether you got a reaction or not. Yes, this takes a while (a couple of months) and it’s a pain in the butt for kids (especially those whose parents are used to giving them everything they want). But it is the ONLY way. Blood and skin tests are next to useless for food allergies. Save some time by assuming the offending allergens are the person’s favorite foods. Elminate and test first the foods the person feels they can not live without. Craving something is often a sign of an allergy. Do the same for *EVERYTHING* else in the person’s environment. Do not limit yourself to foods. Most allergists only consider foods and things like pollen, dust, and animals. You have to go beyond that dangerous thinking. Test shampoo, soap, laundry detergent, lotion, clothing, water, and even air too. When you have it narrowed down to a few items, you will either have your answer or you will still have questions. If the latter, you can write me and I’ll help you figure out the last step. I’ve done this for myself and for many others. Good luck, Cyndi "There’s nothing wrong with me. Maybe there’s Cyndi Norman Owner of the Immune Lists: http://www.best.com/~immune
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thankyou Dr. A!–oh yes, speaking of the 60’s—instead of the usual Halloween fest we throw on the 31st–we are having a 60′S Party!!! Everybody dresses up in tie-dye or love beads, nehru, india gauze, bellbottoms or whatever you were into!!!! And of course the music will fit the theme……Have to drag my turntable out and where is that patchouli incense??? ……LOL!! Groovy! Outasite! Far-out!
Do you live around Virginia Beach? I’d LOVE to be DJ at that party! Marc (13 in 1968) 180/157/155
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no, but you can come to AZ if you want!!!!! Peace & Love! Deb "Every day is a good day." Yun-Men
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Deb, tell him only if he brings cheesecake!! 
Gail 197/175/150 Atkins since 6/5/98 — The fault finder will find faults even in paradise. Thoreau – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – thankyou Dr. A!–oh yes, speaking of the 60’s—instead of the usual Halloween fest we throw on the 31st–we are having a 60′S Party!!! Everybody dresses up in tie-dye or love beads, nehru, india gauze, bellbottoms or whatever you were into!!!! And of course the music will fit the theme……Have to drag my turntable out and where is that patchouli incense??? ……LOL!! Groovy! Outasite! Far-out! Do you live around Virginia Beach? I’d LOVE to be DJ at that party! Marc (13 in 1968) 180/157/155
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Yes! A Psychedelic Cheesecake!!!!!..Kind of like Alice B. Toklas Brownies… LOL!!! Deb "Flower-Power" Evans
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My friend called the state beekeeper’s association and found a beekeeper a mile from her house. Within a couple of months, this child no longer needed the shots.
My father was a beekeeper. He use to save the caps from the top of the honeycomb for several people with allergies. Its been a long time, but if I remember correctly, the caps where the most pollen intense part of the honeycomb…plus it’s chewable. It must of worked because I remember how anxious and appreciative the people who needed it were. — < —— PLEASE NOTE: USING SPAM MASK —— < — Remove the Z from my address to respond —
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The reason I started eating low carb was because I was very ill, diagnosed with a lot of different problems. I went to a doctor who basically told me I had to stop eating all the high carb food. My doctor believes that eating carbs (for a HUGE percentage of the population) is an allergy. The way she explains it is that when you go to an allergist you get a shot of something you are actually allergic to, only just enough to not have a reaction. That’s the same reason people eat high carb foods. When you cease eating it for about 4-6 weeks and then re-introduce the food into the diet, you should be able to see a dramatic reaction from just one serving. She makes her patients keep a "food-mood" diary to teach people how to learn what food is doing to their body. Rule of thumb I have found is if you really crave it, it’s probably because you are reacting to it in a bad way. My doctor is now in the process of opening up a clinic and treating patients from around the world using her own version of a low carb diet. She is finding that people with mental disorders, drug/alcohol problems, extreme fatigue and a myriad of other problems can easily be resolved by changing the diet AND adding some natural hormones. I just saw my doctor yesterday and she went into a rather lengthy explanation that high carb eating eventually causes the body to stop producing the hormones that it needs to function properly. I wish I could repeat it however my doctor’s background is in biochemistry and it was too technical for me to reiterate it. I also think that since she has made me be so aware of how food makes me feel (and also because I have been so sick) it keeps me from ever being tempted to cheat on my diet. I would say the things that she has me do differently than most low carb diets is that I do not have to count carb grams at all, just avoid certain foods. Also I don’t have to worry that much about trace amounts of sugar found in things like ketchup(as long as I use those foods in great moderation, like less than a teaspoon). She also has me on a good deal of natural hormones which for me, would not have made the whole thing pallatable, because I noticed a big change once the hormones kicked in. Also, there is no artificial sweetner or caffiene on this diet. I’m glad to say I don’t miss it tho. Oh, and I have to exercise at least 5 times a week for one hour. The nice thing is I am losing a lot of weight in the process but I feel really healthy as well. I just wonder if our society will ever face up to the fact that high carb eating is really unhealthy and causes many more medical problems than it could ever solve. Somehow I doubt the drug companies would allow it. Pavanne
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I haven’t used my proventil, or asthmacort, or beconase or allegra or allocade since the second week of August!!!!! this "blows my mind" to quote a 60’s-70’s saying!! I have had severe, chronic asthma since I was 6 months old…had all the tests….all the drugs…weeks in the hospital..and now, here it is–the worst time of the year for me, and I am wheeze,cough and sputter-FREE!!! thankyou Dr. A!–oh yes, speaking of the 60’s—instead of the usual Halloween fest we throw on the 31st–we are having a 60′S Party!!! Everybody dresses up in tie-dye or love beads, nehru, india gauze, bellbottoms or whatever you were into!!!! And of course the music will fit the theme……Have to drag my turntable out and where is that patchouli incense??? ……LOL!! Groovy! Outasite! Far-out! deb 252/205/130 atkins since 8/6/98 Deb "Every day is a good day." Yun-Men
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My daughter and I took grandboy off wheat and milk and low and behold now he is off inhaler…We were very unhappy with him constantly on inhaler…Yes it seems that an awfull lot of kids are on them….grandboy is 6 We make his lunch and he is very good about not taking things from other kids… Sharon
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Well Debbie, my allergies are not diagnosed as food-related. However, this past summer is the first time in 8 years that I have had no major allergy outbreaks and no sinusitis, and I attribute it to my WOE. It seems to me that nowadays so many children are diagnosed with ADD, when in all actuality, they probably have allergies. I used to work for a girl whose son had to take shots once a week for his allergies. His allergist had him start taking 1 tablespoon of honey every day (I know, too many carbs for us). They had to find honey that was collected near his house (so the honey would be made from local pollens and whatever it’s made of). My friend called the state beekeeper’s association and found a beekeeper a mile from her house. Within a couple of months, this child no longer needed the shots. Just a thought! Gail 197/175/150 Atkins since 6/5/98 — The fault finder will find faults even in paradise. Thoreau
A little OT perhaps but most of us here have experienced unusual reactions to foods at one time or another. My sister took her 11-year-old son to the doctor today for coughing, hacking, listlessness, and eczema-like rash on his belly and skin folds. The doctor got out Scott’s chart and looked it over, and said that Scott seemed to have a pattern of these same symptoms going back to his infancy in 1988, and he suspects that they are all related. He wants my sister to take Scott to an allergist.
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A little OT perhaps but most of us here have experienced unusual reactions to foods at one time or another. My sister took her 11-year-old son to the doctor today for coughing, hacking, listlessness, and eczema-like rash on his belly and skin folds. The doctor got out Scott’s chart and looked it over, and said that Scott seemed to have a pattern of these same symptoms going back to his infancy in 1988, and he suspects that they are all related. He wants my sister to take Scott to an allergist. He also gave Scott an inhaler to try since breathing problems are one of his issues. He said he doesn’t know what it is but 20 years ago when he first started out in his practice (my son was one of his first patients!) he almost never had kids on inhalers, and now it seems 50% of his practice needs them. My sister says just about every kid on her block is on an inhaler. Anyway, my sister is seriously wondering if any of these symptoms can be food-allergy related. She gets some weird food-related symptoms herself, and so do I. Her kids do have a pretty rotten diet – lots of Captain Krunch cereal and Wonderbread. When I ask her why she feeds her kids that stuff she says "because they want it". LOL. That never worked for *my* son. Anyway, anyone else ever experience or know of anyone who experienced similar symptoms that turned out to be food-related? — Debbie dcusick at prodigy dot net "There is no sincerer love than the love of food." – George Bernard Shaw
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