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Lung involvement, as a target organ for food allergens, tends to produce more serious
and chronic breathing problems. Asthma, chronic bronchitis, and "pneumonia" are
all possible consequences of food allergy. Often asthma is treated as an airborne allergy
problem or as a problem unrelated to allergic processes and the possible role of food
allergy is neglected. Laptop adapters
Chronic coughs may mean food allergic bronchitis with or without
asthma. Food allergy patients are often given antibiotics repeatedly since allergic
symptoms and infection symptoms are similar. Some patients deterioration with repeated or
prolonged antibiotic use.
Occasionally a child will react dangerously to allergenic food
with an acute pneumonia -like illness" (inflammatory swelling and edema of the lungs)
and will require hospital treatment.
Brief Note on Delayed
Pattern Food Allergy
In this section we are discussing
delayed food allergy, not the more obvious immediate food allergic
reactions.
Delayed patterns of food allergy are not so obvious and generally go
unrecognized. Allergy skin tests do not show this problem nor do blood tests
for antibodies such
as RAST or ELIZA. Delayed patterns of food allergy are responsible for causing
specific diseases such as asthma and eczema and also common but ill-defined illness patterns in children.
Distribution of
Food Antigens
Food antigens are proteins
that make their way through human bodies in a remarkable fashion.
Consider the long and improbable path of milk proteins through a mother's gut, into her
blood, through her liver, out into her breast milk, through her infant's gut mucosa and
into the infant's nasal mucosa to cause Rhinitis, the lung to cause asthma, or the skin to
cause eczema. There are many potential paths from mouth to target organ for food antigens
to follow. Every tissue of the body can manifest a delayed food allergic response. Some activity
may be noticed in minutes but the onset of bigger problems is delayed hours to days.
General symptoms such as flushing, fever, aching, fatigue, are followed
hours later by localized target organ activity, usually some form of inflammation, manifest as
pain, swelling, heat in the target organ.
There are many ways for food problems to interfere with a child's normal functioning
and to promote disease. We assume that several problems interact in a complex manner
to produce the symptoms and dysfunction that we seek to remedy.
It is always necessary,
therefore, to correct illness problems by complete diet revision using the the
Alpha Nutrition Program. A children's
rescue starter pack combines this program with the Book of Children in
printed or eBook format with a 500 Gram jar of Alpha ENF, our complete
nutrition, food replacement formula. You can order a Children's Starter Pack
and add the Book of Breathing for
complete instructions.
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