Food Allergies -- Do You Have Unexplained Symptoms?

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Dr. Vargas DC — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:33:09 GMT

Thanks Dr. Mercola for the information, my son is 7 month old and is been breastfeed since the first day. When he was around two months old his mom got emotionally stress and did not produce enough milk, in totally desperation we gave him milk base formula, he subsequently vomit ones, was satisfied, and was constipated for 3 days, after the emotional problem was resolved and *** milk came back everything was normal, then we have another situation at around 4 month were his mom could not pump enough milk and his mother in law gave him organic milk base formula, was even worse, he vomit for several hour, after he drank mother milk again everything when to normal. After that we studied the wise tradition raw milk base formula, we developed at home, just to supplement him in the days of low *** milk. We try 1 oz and the vomiting was constantly, we have not tried again. Now the problem, At 6 month his grand father let him taste vanilla ice cream, and he developed an allergic reaction around his mouth and and eyes. The same reaction happened with raw butter and a drop of raw milk, also happen if this get in contact with his face. We have no idea what to do other that not give him anything milk base, We couldn't find any info in our nutritional notes (we are both chiropractors and his mother is also an acupuncturist) or in you website, maybe i have not look enough, also can't find anything in westoraprice.org. Does somebody have a solution to stop the allergic reactions? Should I forget about supplement him with raw milk when he is older? Thanks Dr.Vargas

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Liz79 — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:46:23 GMT

It has been amazing finding out my allergies and how much better I feel. Since I can remember I have been getting horrible headaches and always had a bottle of pain reliever on hand. The main problem was wheat. As I cut it out of my diet I realized how many other problems it had caused...Low energy, rashes, and gas to name a few. This has changed my life!

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rawfood — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:46:47 GMT

When my Naturopath doc tested me on a bio-meridian machine, I was becoming allergic to wheat and goat's milk, as I did not rotate my diet. I cut these out for a while, not easy, and was re-tested weeks later. I was ok to eat them again! I am now having problem with Xylitol or another natural sweetner. I forgot to rotate them. I guess that is the key, to not eat the same things everyday.

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wlbedell — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:42:44 GMT

has any one heard of the ALCAT blood tests for food sensitivities?

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4myhealth — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:40:13 GMT

I recently got a cd and a book about "kevin Trudeau" called: "natural cures" what they dont wont u to know!

If we were all to go back to the days of growning our own foods in our back yards and making our own breads and pastas and possibly butter and had our own cows for milk and chickens for egg and chickens to eat.. Then we might be in better health! I truley believe this! Even if we buy organic foods form stores u still can have chemicals in these foods, just because they labels say that there is none.. that doesnt mean it isnt present in some form. It use to be where we could trust stores and people ..Those days are gone! And some of people that are not rich can not afford to go buy and farm and raise our own foods nor can we always buy organic items! There fore we have to buy all this chemical inhanced foods and hope we dont die from it.

I truely belive that all this chemicals in the foods is what is causing us to be allergic to foods that we have eaten all our lives.. I remember as a kid my mom fixing pork chops for dinner and eating pork shoulders for thanksgiven...MMM..all that was so good.. but now... they feed the animals all kinds of stuff including drugs and other things that may be good for that animal but bad for us to eat it! But this is those things they dont tell us and dont wont us to know about..

For example I use to work in a resturant many years ago, I actually saw someone drop a pan of hamburgar steaks and some of the burgars fell off on the ground ..The man looked around to see if anyone was watching or if there was a manger and he put the hamburgar steaks back in the pan and served them to the customers.. He also gave me this evil look as if I told I would be in deep trouble.. He told me that what the customer doesnt know wont hurt them! So see u can not trust what business tell u!

They want u to believe u are getting good quality items but really u may be getting a hidden suprise instead!

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david — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:04:23 GMT

It appears to me that many people have food allergies...or more commonly sensitivities.....because their digestive system is not fuctioning well.

Generally, IBS with leaky gut syndrome, will enable some foods' natural constituent molecules, to cross back into the blood stream.... instead of being excreted...... and therein lies the problem,

For me, the first thing to check and correct with diet/exercise, is the digestive system, thereby correcting malnourishment, the attendant problems associated with this ... adverse food responses being just one.

David.

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spring chicken — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:48:49 GMT

One of my problems is egg allergy. I develop hives, and my skin can itch terribly especially around the ankles. I also have a serious fish allergy, particularly salmon, which makes me quite ill. Shame, really. I quite like the taste of fish.

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Dr.B — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:01:33 GMT

If we all just ate like our hunter-gatherer ancestors (like we are genetically programmed) we would have little to no allergic or sensitivity issues! I always say, "if it's got a label, it ain't food!" Just how do we get our suffering patients to believe in this?!?! Some get it but most do not! They are so influenced by the advertising media of the"little purple pill". Eat what you want and take the pill.....sigh.....any pearls of wisdom?

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katz — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:23:48 GMT

With all the additives of chemicals ,pesticides and antibiotics that are added to our food , we now have another set of problems with GModified foods and if this is not enough to set allergies and other health problems in high gear .... then we have the questions about where our food comes from, how it is handled from the grower to our tables and the list of problems gets longer and longer and our bodies get sicker and sicker with our immune system overloaded and unable to fight off the constant attacks ...... Allergies are one way our body is screaming to us that ..... enough is enough of something that is dangerous to "our body " !

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Katpug — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:58:05 GMT

In regard to someone mentioning the problem with constipation, try a supplement using bile along with the magnesium. Bile is a stimulant for peristalsis and if you have a congested liver or gall bladder, you are not releasing enough bile. Or you can deal with the problem of the congested liver and gall bladder to cure the constipation.

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alansmith — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:41:44 GMT

This is good.

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4myhealth — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:33:20 GMT

I am allergic to Pork! I too had to keep a food dairy of foods I ate because of the fact I was having Hives. about 5 years ago I started getting the hives and I couldnt figure out what the deal was. I was told to keep a food dairy and write down everything I ate and when i got the hives go back and circle what I ate before I got the hives. One night before Thanksgiven since I was on the atkins diet at the time I thought I would bake some pork chops in the oven. I decided I didnt wont any veggies to eat with it.. and too my suprise I had the hives show up all over me.I itched for days...So from that point on..I tried not to eat it..sometimes I would accidently eat it and get more than just the hives, If it was sausage or ham I would swell somewhere on my face usesally my lips. I actually looked like someone beat me up, I refused to go anywhere! To this day I am extremly allergic..I do not eat pork in any form, If I accidently eat it I am in trouble. I carry a epipi pen with me which I have never had to use. Thank god! I keep benadryl and zertec with me and I watch what I eat very closely and let all resturants that I am allergic to pork! Which means no Ham, sausage, BBQ, ribs, and anything else that might contain pork in it..I do not know what is causing this. My immune system thinks that this dirty white meat as some call it is bad for me. So now i live in fear as to when the next reaction might change my life. I have been tested by doctors as well they all find it hard to believe but do not have a answere for me! I have also been told by one allergiest that I had Lupus! I also have alot of arthritis pain in my joints but I take water areobics which helps with that. The lupus may be the cause of why my body thinks that pork is bad for me! I have been lucky and have not had a reaction in the last 8 months. but I watch what I eat very very closely! I read labels and ask alot of questions. Once my throat tried to close shut and was rush to hospital. Very scary!

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Ms. Shirley Westberg — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:38:19 GMT

I am one of those people who is sensitive to many many foods. What may have to be done, which is how I did it, is to eat one food at a time all by itself and not repeat that for for 5 full days. You have to keep a strict account of what you eat when, but it really does let you know exactly what your reaction to that food is if any. I was so ill in fact before I did this, I was almost not able to function. Afterwards, I knew what to eat and when. Also please be aware that there is an acupuncture program that will alleviate most of the problems with allergies/food sensitivities. I went through with the acupuncture program for months. Now I can eat almost everything except grains. I can eat sprouted grains which do not cause problems. The only other product I do have to continue to avoid is pasturized and homogenized milk and mild products. They still make me itch all over and cause acne on the face and head. I can use raw milk but cannot find it so except for a few types of cheese made with raw milk, I do avoid milk products otherwise.

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docpoehlmann — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:15:30 GMT

One of the main causes of allergies are low level poisonings from heavy metals like lead and mercury. The most common sources are amalgam fillings (also from the mother!) and vaccinations. As vaccines also contain foreign proteins that are injected this protein attaches to the body's cells and they become foreign to the immune system. So the immune system starts to destroy them (eg type 1 diabetes). As vaccination germs are often grown on egg protein it leads to sensitivity to eggs. But many food allergies are not allergies to food at all but to the additives. People that are sensitive to milk are often only sensitive to commercial milk but not to raw biodynamic milk. The food you crave most is usually the one you are most sensituve to (as godiva described from her own experience).

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HappyDaze — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:40:40 GMT

I found I am allergic to cow's milk which causes arthritis in my joints... they become red and inflamed then swell and are painful. If I indulge in milk products the symptoms can return. I've noticed the longer (6 months or more) that I've avoided the problem food the less likely I will have a reaction from a tiny amount.

I wonder how many people with arthritis have ever suspected a food allergen as the cause? I wonder how many doctors think of this possibly cause before putting them on drugs?