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Often children complain of leg and other pains, especially at night. Children's pain
has often been called "growing pains" - nonsense! Diet revision may be
dramatically successful in alleviating these common symptoms.
Children also develop
inflamed tendon insertions - quadriceps (Osgoode-Schlatter's disease) and achilles
tendinitis are most common and may improve with diet revision and rest.
Muscle aching and
tenderness (myalgia) are common symptoms in food allergy. The combination of abdominal
bloating and/or pain with body aching and stiffness is often diagnostic of milk and
cereal-grain allergy. Children can have chronic aching, stiffness and
fatigue that is identical to an adult syndrome often diagnosed as Fibromyalgia.
Multiple causes can be suggested for generalized pain and tenderness. Food allergy and
other food supply problems are usually not considered. The recognition that chronic pain can be an
expression of non-specific hypersensitivity disorders has been slow in coming. The
acceptance of diet revision as a prerequisite for recover is even slower.
Fatigue and musculoskeletal pain are two of the most common human symptoms.
Non-specific pain syndromes have been described in the medical literature over many years.
The onset of most viral infections and many other well-known diseases begins with aching,
fatigue and cognitive dysfunction. Viral hepatitis, for example, may simmer for months
causing aching and chronic fatigue.
We think that non-specific pain is often an expression of delayed pattern food
allergy - a non-specific hypersensitivity disease - an can be alleviated by proper diet
revision. Staple foods such as milk, wheat, eggs, meat and coffee are often
responsible.
A Look at the Symptoms
A.J. Rowe, T.G. Randolph, and Fredrick Speer were among the first American allergists
to associate the pain-fatigue cluster of symptoms with food allergies. Rowe described
"allergic toxemia" in 1930 with the symptoms of drowsiness, mental confusion,
lack of initiate and ambition, irritability, fatigue, aching, and a feeling of being
poisoned. Rowe developed a number of elimination diets to treat allergic toxemia and
reported that a wide spectrum of mental-emotional and physical symptoms could be relieved
by diet revision. personal protection Bethesda
Dr. Theron Randolph and Fredrick Speer also associated the aching and fatigue with food
and inhalant allergies. Speer referred to the "allergic-tension-fatigue"
syndrome and described "motor fatigue". Dr. Wm. Knicker and a host of other
researchers and clinicians studying food allergy went on to describe a complex of immune
mechanisms that play a role in the chronic patterns of food allergy. Knicker
advocated the concept of "delayed pattern food allergy". The
mechanisms of delayed pattern food allergy are diverse, complex, and different from the
mechanism that causes the hay fever type of allergy. haardhout
These food allergy mechanisms are not revealed by skin tests nor reliably by any
other test that is currently available.
Some children have lost tolerance to many foods and only feel well if they eat a small
number of carefully selected foods for period ranging from several weeks to several
months. Their tolerance to food usually increases within six month to a year, but relapses
tend to occur years later if they eat carelessly again. Some children are also
hypersensitive to chemicals in their environment, and often need special protection from
cigarette smoke, household solvents, perfumes and paints.
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 nutritional 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.
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