The Connection Between Food Allergies and Anaphylactic Shock
A food allergy is an immune system response to a food that the body mistakenly believes is harmful. Although an individual could be allergic to any food, such as fruits, vegetables, and meats, there are eight foods that account for at least 50% of all food-allergic reactions. These are: milk, egg, peanut, tree nut (walnut, cashew, etc.), fish, shellfish, soy, and wheat.
The majority of the time, consuming a food you are allergic to results in an upset stomach, a body rash, hives, or labored breathing. But in rare cases, food allergies can be life-threatening, resulting in a condition known as “anaphylaxis.” This serious allergic reaction is rapid in onset and may cause death. Anaphylaxis and minor food allergies negatively impact your biliary tract, adrenal gland, spleen, and the entire immune system. Certain substances are more likely to cause an anaphylactic reaction. These are: shellfish, peanuts, latex and bee venom.
Non-Emergency Responses to Food Allergies
In addition to the serious immediate reactions that can result from eating certain foods, many digestive disorders, fatigue conditions, insomnia, brain fog, aches/pains, and even stubborn weight gain are a result of your food choices. In fact, chances are high that several of the foods you eat regularly are “triggers” that cause subtle, but serious, immunological reactions in your body. Consuming “trigger foods” may flood your system with histamines, prostaglandins, and other immune chemicals that wreak havoc with your tissues and, if left untreated, can cause permanent tissue damage.
These hidden food sensitivities greatly contribute to and aggrevate or even result in conditions such as ADD/ADHD, OCD, arthritis, asthma, autistic disorders, chronic fatigue, colitis, gastritis, irritable bowl syndrome, migraines, and many other problems and conditions too numerous to list.
One example of how food sensitivities/intolerances negatively impact the body is weight gain. If your body interprets your “trigger” food (or food allergen) as a chemical toxin that must be either rejected of buffered, your body will initiate a protective mechanism in which your fat calls bind to and sequester the food toxins. Your fat cells act as buffers between these chemicals and your organs and tissues. As a result, your fat cells grow larger, and your percentage of total body fat increases. Thus, you’ll gain weight and bloat despite your best efforts at dieting and exercise.
Other symptoms caused by food allergens can include: acid reflux, diarrhea, constipation, rashes, hives, eczema, dermatitis, disturbances of the heart and pulse, migraines, asthma, sinusitis, colitis, gastritis, cystitis, mood changes, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, tinnitus, IBS, bloating, gas, edema, fatigue, and muscle and joint pain.
Unfortunately, it’s very often difficult for patients with non-life threatening food sensitivities to identify exactly which food or food combination is responsible for their symptoms because the adverse reactions may not reveal themselves to them for many hours or even several days after ingestion. As a result, many patients will visit a Western Medicine doctor for advice, but their techniques for testing food allergies are often unreliable and incomplete, as explained below.
Western Medicine’s Incomplete Approach for Testing Food Allergies
Western Medicine protocol for testing food allergies typically consist of one or more of the following: blood chemistries, skin scratch tests, sublingual provocative testing, cytoxic food testing, and/or Rast testing, among others.
The trouble with this approach is that food allergies are not always one particular food, a patient can be allergic to a combination of foods not typically tested by the conventional medical approach. Western Medicine techniques are also not able to test for chemicals in foods, colors, artificial preservatives, and sweeteners, as well as most food additives, food phenolics, food salicylates, vitamins, minerals, and enzymes.
Also, it is well known that conventional food allergy testing is notoriously inaccurate, expensive, and sometimes painful. To add insult to injury, conventional testing can only detect a full blown antibody response to a food, not the subtly destructive immune cell responses typical of hidden food sensitivities or intolerances.
The Proven Alternative - AllerCease™
In complete contrast, Dr. Cushing’s “AllerCease™” technique will test any food or food combination, all food related chemicals, enzymes, preservatives, additives, colors, phenolics, and salicylates, in fact, it will safely and painlessly test any thing you put in your mouth. Dr. Cushing’s “AllerCease™” technique also tests a patient’s reaction to digestive enzymes, PH factors, and hormones, which can also contribute to the severity of your food reactions.
The “AllerCease™” technique completely avoids the false positives and false negative findings that are rampant in conventional medical allergy testing methods. It is 100% accurate because it relies entirely on your neuromuscular/bioenergetic reflexes. In contrast to orthodox medical testing, it is completely painless and safe. The procedure does not involve needles or subject the patient to physically traumatic testing procedures. During your first visit for testing, we will be able to accurately test and identify up to 100 or more different substances.
The correction is the culmination of Dr. Cushing’s 35 years of research and clinical testing on thousands of patients.
The correction itself consists of making the offending substance acceptable to the body using the “AllerCease™” technique. For more information, please see Dr. Cushing’s report entitled “Neutralizing Allergies & Hypersensitivities using AllerCease™”
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Dr. Cushing has two clinics:
Holistic Wellness Center of Charlotte
1704 East Blvd., Suite 100, Charlotte N.C. Tel: 704-776-4185
Trinity Healing Center Inc.,
210 Dr. Carter Blvd., Box 2199, Bunnell, FL 32110 Tel: 386-437-4778