Update on Allergies/Sensitivities

[Guest]

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm back from Florida where we rechecked my allergies and tested some new foods. The sensitivity of all of the foods, dust/molds, and pollens I'm currently being treated for stayed the same. We tested coconuts, almonds, green beans, peas, potatoes, bananas, olives, citrus mix, and rice. I am allergic to every one of those except rice was negative. We didn't add close to all the new foods I'm eating because they didn't want it to backfire with doing too many new foods at once. It was disappointing to find out I'm allergic to all those also, but its also really good to know.

 

Also some good news. My doctor said for me to continue my shots for another year, but in another three months I can try to cut back on the amount of infections of the dust/molds & pollen shots. He said we'll talk throughout the year and see how it goes, and that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

 

Carolyn

[Claire]

Interesting that he is discussing cutting back on the pollen etc shots. I took them for 20 years, and when I would stop, symptoms always came back. Until I got my amalgams out and did all this supplementation. Now I am doing without them and so far it is okay.

 

Sorry you still have the food allergies!

 

Claire

[Chemar]

Carolyn

 

I am glad our quirky Florida weather remained good for your visit.

 

sorry re the food allergy stuff

do keep us posted on how you are doing on the rest

[Giselle]

Hi Carolyn, I'm so glad you can add rice - there are so many neat things you can do with rice! We love Annie's rice noodles, they have both super thin and pad thai! There are cookies, cakes, breads! We live on rice as that's also one of the few things Hoyt's not allergic to. I have a great pancake/tortilla/waffle recipe using rice flour. Oh and rice milk - takes a bit to get used to it but now I love it.

 

Be careful with the banana allergy. That one surprised me (Hoyt has that too) as I thought - O.K. that's easy, just stay away from bananas right? Wrong, as it includes all the plantain family of which arrowroot is a member - used a lot by gluten free product manufacturers. Plus you can also be allergic to latex as that comes from the same plant. I think if you google each allergy it will bring up lots of stuff to watch out for.

 

Also watch yourself with potato's relatives - night shades are notorious. Hoyt is allergic to tomatoes (night shade) but not potatos - but I limit those as I think he could eventually become allergic should we overindulge. Plus remember once you get totally healthy you might outgrow the allergy as they might just be a sensitivity not true allergy - at least that's what I'm hoping happens to Hoyt. He already is over his plum and watermelon sensitivity and we have been told he can have those but sparingly and not day after day, skip 4-5 days before having it again. On this last Monday we had a new IGg test done so hopefully there will be more. He's been avoiding his allergens for two years now so it will be interesting to see if there is further change.

 

Good luck,

Giselle

[Guest]

Thanks for informing me that Arrowroot is in the banana family. I've been using that quite often since going gluten free. I hope Hoyt has outgrown some of the allergens he's been avoiding.

 

What are other oil options? I've been using coconut, sunflower, and olive oil. I had even been rotating them. We didn't test sunflower, but since coconut and olive oil are allergens are there any other good oils to use for cooking and substituting in place of butter?

 

Has anybody read the book, "Body Ecology Diet 9th edition", by Donna Gates? My acupuncturist suggested it. I was able to get the 7th edition from our libary. The 9th has information about autism. If you do have it, does it differ much from the 7th edition?

 

Carolyn

[Giselle]

Hi Carolyn, regarding olive oil and coconut oil- I know that the oil is very different from the actual olive - how was your test done? For example on Hoyt's IGg test he's allergic to soy, dairy, citrus but when his Enviro Doc uses her test she finds that he's not allergic to soy lecithin, is only allergic to the casein part of milk, and he's not allergic to lemons. This helps a lot as there are so many things that have soy lecithin! He can have milk sugar and fat (which we use very sparingly and only when out as the chance for cross-contamination is high) and being able to have lemons is huge! I think the IGg test is awesome but they can only test blanket categories of foods and don't get to the different components.

 

Oil options: We use canola, safflower (my favorite), palm and cotton seed oil (which I don't like as much as it supposedly is not well made - cotton seeds tend to get moldy quickly so who knows if they process it properly - he only gets this type of oil in one restaurant and does well but we don't go there often). Safflower is great because it has a high smoke point - you can heat it quite high before it smokes, great for sautees and baking. There are loads of other nut oils too but we haven't tried them yet.

 

Arrowroot, I know - what a bummer - it is sooooooo yummy and it's in all sorts of easy to get and use foods. Again, perhaps by staying away from it for a certain length of time you'll be fine with it.

 

I'm going to start down the road of chelation and am really looking at MT therapy instead/in addition - if what they say is true, even after you chelate it will come back because you're not getting to the root cause whereas with the MT therapy you help the body eliminate heavy metals itself - what are your thoughts?

 

Giselle

[Guest]

Giselle,,

 

My test was done with intradermal skin testing. So they're all IgE reactions. I wish my reactions were IGg because then I would have some hope that mine would go away after avoiding them.

 

I hope your road of chelation helps a lot. I look forward to hearing about the progress Hoyt makes with it. Make sure he gets lots of water. I think that was a big part of my problem with chelating for quite a while and it took ten months to figure out. I don't really know anything about MT promotion therapy done by Pfeiffer.

 

Claire-if you check in on this post I just read this from here: http://www.bbbautism.com/dan_william_walsh.htm

 

MT promotion therapy

Step 1: Removal of excess copper and toxic metals

- give nutrients which promote MT function

- use clathrating agents – binds copper and nothing else

- Tetrathiolmolydate

- Chelation agents ?

Step 2: Long-term maintenance

- MT promotion formulation (Zinc plus others)

- Minimization of toxic exposures

 

Claire-does Pfeiffer use clathrating agents such as PCA-RX? Maybe there's others their talking about that I haven't heard of. After I'm done chelating with DMPS I'm planning on going to PCA-RX or NDF-Plus for a while as I've got pesticides also. I think that will still be another year though.