SC - Allergies in general
alm4 at cornell.edu
alm4 at cornell.edu
Thu Mar 2 12:17:32 PST 2000
Nanna,
Your question is interesting because 'experts' in America don't even
agree on why it happens.
One family I know had a child about 25 years ago that was diagnosed as
ADHD or something like that and was given medicine for it and it didn't
help. So the mother did some 'alternative' research where she found that
someone thought food additives such as nitrate and BHT, etc were causing
the sort of problems her son was having. So the mother decided to take
him off the medicine since it wasn't helping very much anyway, and
restricted his diet to food with no additives.
Her son got better and didn't need the medicine and was not 'acting up'
except when he ate too much food that had additives in it. She also had
him tested for allergies and found out he was allergic to cats and some
kind of peppermint. He also was allergic to chocolate but that could
have something to do with additives. I can't ask her about it anymore
because she has passed away.
The other theory I heard what is called an 'environmental medicine
allergy doctor' (in layman's terms--if you have allergies he tried to
find out what in your environment may be causing them so you could
possibly eliminate them instead of drugging you up first) told someone I
know is that every one 'toxic' thing you add to the list of things you
expose yourself to the more likely your immune system is to overload and
cause allergic reactions. I don't know what sort of 'protections' there
are in your country but in USA we have not always been friendly to the
environment or the workplaces to which we expose people along with
everything else.
Angeline
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