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Allergy Drops


Laura Wesson

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Allergy drops are an alternative to allergy shots, you take the allergens orally. I have tons of allergies, and I was getting sick from allergy shots, so I tried the drops.

They are gluten-free but I have many other food intolerances, I eat an exotic-foods diet.

I tried my first allergy drop yesterday, but it made me sick :( . You take the drops sublingually, you put the drop under your tongue and let it sit there for a while. I washed my mouth out well with water and spit it out afterwards. But I got sick anyway, this morning I can definitely tell it's a food reaction. Probably not from the tiny amount of allergen that went down my throat, but from the contact in my mouth.

So that is FYI ... I didn't try allergy drops for a long time because I was afraid I'd get sick from them. But I hoped that since the main food reaction happens in the intestines - it really comes on about 4-5 hours after eating and that's when the stomach empties into the intestines - that if I washed my mouth out after the drop and didn't swallow, it'd be alright. But no :(

I don't seem to get as sick as I used to from eating the wrong thing. I don't mean gluten accidents because I'm hyper careful about that, but from experimenting with other foods.

I think, at least, my reactions are getting better. I don't feel nearly as out of it as I used to from foods. I've been gluten free for 5 1/2 years now.

Possibly it's an overgrowth of mast cells. Celiac disease causes too many mast cells in the intestines. But I didn't know there might be too many mast cells in the mouth, also.

Laura


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Please check out the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. There is a thread on the 'Other Food Intolerances' section and websites like 'breaking the vicious cycle' and 'Pecanbread' are full of info.

Many of us who are and have suffered with multiple allergies and intolerances and who have not improved on just gluten-free, have finally found relief for the first time after perhaps many years and are gradually recovering because of the diet.

It removes the carbs that feed the yeasts, parasites and rogue bacteria.

A biopsy may pick up villi damage but cannot detect Leaky Gut. If the gut wall is breached then food molecules that shouldn't normally be able to, can get through the gut wall into the blood stream triggering the immune system into histamine responses and reactive intolerances to other foods.

By removing the antagonistic foods - of which gluten is only a small part, the gut is then able to heal properly. gluten-free foods are actually higher in carbs than gluten foods and can sometimes end up making things worse.

Please feel free to ask anything on the thread - we are hoping that we can get a dedicated section for the SCD but will have to wait and see on that one. We are up to nearly 70 pages and still going which, for those new to the diet is a lot to read through .

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It's long been my belief that people who get better on restrictive diets like the SCD and paleolithic diet probably have hidden food intolerances to some of the foods that are eliminated on these diets, and that's why they feel better.

There is no research that contradicts that idea, I'm pretty sure. And it's hard to find hidden food intolerances, hard to do elimination diets and food challenges - I spent a lot of time getting sick from food challenges. And elimination diets are tricky, they often fail. I had to do several of them, because earlier ones weren't careful enough. That's why many people don't find their specific food intolerances. They are reluctant to do a careful elimination diet. It's awful getting sick from food challenges. Easier just to try a special diet.

But when I did eliminate the foods I had reactions to, it helped me dramatically, with my mental, emotional and physical health. So I can easily believe that people sometimes get a lot better on the SCD.

So I do not want to see canned posts promoting the SCD. Which are not even particularly in response to my post. And I wasn't even posting about "leaky gut", I was saying that I think I might have had a reaction in my mouth to the allergy drops. People have immune cells in their mouth.

I tried one again, to make sure I was having a reaction to the drop, and I had a worse reaction the second time. I felt pretty bad and out of it the following day.

Laura

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