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  1. Laura Wesson
    I read a story once where somebody said she was given digestive enzymes by alternative-medicine practitioners for her food intolerances, and, she said, they "stripped the lining of her gut" and made the problem much worse! It was a cautionary tale about alternative medicine - their treatments can actually be harmful. Unless you've been diagnosed with...
  2. Laura Wesson
    I used to feel suicidal a lot. Not planning it, but crying and thinking, "is it ever going to get any better", and feeling like I might as well kill myself. It stopped, not after I quit gluten, but after I quit eating many, many other foods that I'd developed reactions to. I'm much more cheerful, emotionally stable and less anxious than I used to be. ...
  3. Laura Wesson
    I'm NOT talking about salicylate sensitivity, please keep that to a different thread. I read something online about low-dose aspirin making food reactions less severe. See Open Original Shared Link Aspirin is anti-inflammatory. A lot of NSAIDS increase intestinal permeability so they might make food reactions even worse. But low-dose aspirin, I've...
  4. Laura Wesson
    Noooo ... getting more water does not cause diarrhea, it simply makes you pee more. It's part of allergists' skin testing. Allergists have told me I'm not allergic enough to Candida to have to modify my diet for it, but they could easily be wrong. Medicine doesn't know much about food sensitivities. Yes, a high-fructose diet can cause Candida...
  5. Laura Wesson
    I just found out I'm fructose intolerant! I went on a low-fructose diet - my fructose intake has been about 30 gm/day. Before I was having many bowel movements per day. Like 5 or more. And I had a tendency to loose stools. On the low-fructose diet, I'm suddenly only having 1 per day! It seems I had a bit of irritable bowel syndrome and it was...
  6. Laura Wesson
    What you could do is, eat it once; wait 5 hours, if you don't have a reaction, eat more.
  7. Laura Wesson
    Garlic is in the same genus as onions and whenever I've checked, if I'm sensitive to a food, I'm also sensitive to other foods in the same genus. So I would not even be eating the onions if I got sick from garlic. Laura
  8. Laura Wesson
    I eat an exotic foods diet because I have so many food sensitivities. I need to get a colonoscopy, but how can I do the colon prep without eating something I might get sick from? Has anybody been through this? Laura
  9. Laura Wesson
    I have lots of allergies. What they put in the drop were things I'm allergic to, like cat and dust and molds etc. etc. The drops are gluten-free. But I have reactions to a huge # of foods besides gluten, and there was something in the drops that made me sick. I get sick from tiny amounts of the foods, like a small fraction of a milligram of protein...
  10. Laura Wesson
    I tried allergy drops and I got sick rather quickly from an allergy drop. I washed my mouth out with water after holding the drop under my tongue, to swallow as little as possible. I have many food intolerances and I figured that if I swallowed the allergy drop it would make me very sick. But I got sick anyway, even though I washed out my mouth without...
  11. Laura Wesson
    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...
  12. Laura Wesson
    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...
  13. Laura Wesson
    That's exactly what double-blind studies are for. To figure out whether it works on average, how much, and to control for placebo effects. Because people's symptoms come and go, they often are trying more than one thing, human beings are VERY complicated, with many interacting factors. Although it was not my intention to get into a discussion of the...
  14. Laura Wesson
    Well, I said that the acupuncture in NAET might help people. There's evidence that acupuncture is antiinflammatory. Although the antiinflammatory actions aren't more than symptom control so far as I know. That was my tentative conclusion after reading about it, that there might be something helpful in it, but surrounded by a lot of hocus-pocus. You...
  15. Laura Wesson
    actually EPD is available in the U.S., it got turned into LDA or low dose antigens. Laura
  16. Laura Wesson
    Well, it has an environmental component too. A lot of people really come down sick with it right after they've been through a lot of emotional stress. This happened to me. After a really painful breakup I started getting generally sick all over, my joints hurting, etc. I think having these health problems might be related to my abusive parents too. It...
  17. Laura Wesson
    I was helped a lot when I quit gluten and some other foods. But my spells of despair didn't go away until I figured out all the food intolerances. It took me about 3 years. Good idea to do an elimination diet, in other words. I was probably also helped by taking omega-3's. I take a kind that's made from algae, with EPA and DHA, from water4.net.
  18. Laura Wesson
    EPD has a whole lot more evidence backing it. There are double-blind studies on Pubmed, on EPD for inhalant allergies. It might even be better than allergy shots. Nobody knows much about what goes on with food intolerance reactions, so they don't know if EPD works for them. I read a book, "5 years without food" or whatever, by someone who had Crohn's...
  19. Laura Wesson
    Anybody have ideas about how to do something about non-gluten food intolerances? Besides just waiting for them to go away? I have a lot of them, and I still get sick from foods that I've carefully not eaten for years. My food reactions are mostly a groggy bleary state that goes on for a few days. Somebody sent me an interesting email once. She said she...
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