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TREATMENT
If You Suspect Food &
Environmental Allergies...
FIRST: Think of any significant changes in your life just prior to
the time when your symptoms began.
* Was it a pollen season?
* Had you just moved or started a new job
or school?
* Did you purchase a new mattress, carpet,
furnace, and furniture?
* Did you paint or pesticide your home?
* Did you remodel or repair something in
your home? Construction materials can cause illness.
* Was there an upset in your health (infection
/ operation)
or an extreme stress
in life, home, family?
The "Big Five" Will
Give You Specific Accurate Solutions That
Everyone Else Has Missed ...
1. WATCH: your behavior or activity
When
there is a characteristic change in how you or your child feel, act,
or behave. This indicates the brain has been affected.
2. WATCH: your appearance
When there is a characteristic warning change in how you look. The
red earlobes, dark eye circles, nose rubbing, throat clearing, wiggly
legs, lip licking and itchy skin are all typical clues that say watch out. It is about to begin!
3. WATCH: your pulse
If your pulse
becomes irregular or too fast after a chemical or allergenic exposure,
your entire body is in an alarm state because your blood circulation
or heart has been affected. In others, it is the blood pressure that
is affected. You can either take medications for years, or find the cause and eliminate it - without drugs.
4. WATCH: your handwriting
If your handwriting
or drawing suddenly deteriorates, your nervous system and brain have been affected.
Ask why.
5. WATCH: your breathing
If
your breathing is fine, skip this one.
If, however, it becomes more difficult
or your Peak Flow Meter (PFM)* reading drops, this indicates your lungs
have been affected by some exposure. A PFM is a hollow plastic tube
with a gauge on it that moves when you blow
into it. With it, you can measure how easily you
breathe air from your lungs.
(For more
helpful
details about
the "Big Five," see chapter 3 of
"Is
This Your Child?" or check out
Is This Your Child’s World?).
Always
think in terms of what was eaten, touched, or smelled just prior to
the onset of any significant activity, medical, emotional, learning or memory
problem.
Most environmental or allergy symptoms
are due to:
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Something inside your home, school, or work area
* Something outside your home, school,
or work area
* Foods or beverage
* Chemical exposures
So check out the Big Five. Determine for
yourself which of the above are related to
some change in your behavior, activity,
appearance, pulse, handwriting or breathing,
You, like thousands of others, can find
answers from cause and effect relationships.
Eliminate the cause and there is
nothing to treat. This will save you money, time and discomfort.
THIS IS A VERY KEY POINT:
Most foods
and inside or outside contacts cause symptoms within an hour. However,
some delayed
food and mold symptoms can occur in 8 to 24 hours after an exposure.
This makes it more difficult to readily see cause and effect, relationships
associated with the onset of eczema, bed-wetting, mouth ulcers, colitis
or bowel disturbances, and arthritis, for example. Simply knowing this,
however, will greatly help you pinpoint even these culprits. In
contrast, chemicals typically cause illness within minutes.
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