Dairy allergy

[JohnE]

I have been using advair for two years now to take care of a chronic cough due to mild asthma that I've been enduring for a long time. Pre-advair I seemed to be a sucker for resperatory colds as well. The doc and I never figured out what was triggering it. A few times I tried stopping the advair and the cough would start to come back after a couple days.

A month ago I dropped dairy to try to improve my scuba performance. Wow! Within a couple days I felt quite good and saw some long-term excema start to go away too. I quit the advair when I saw what was happening and no problems since.

I have an appointment to see my doc in 2 weeks to see what he thinks, but the way it looks right now I've found the trigger.

If I am right I am pretty sure my doc will tell me to just keep watching for the symptoms to come back, keep the diet, and diving is fine as it was before with the asthma well under control.

Anyone know of similar situations involving divers?

 

[fisherdvm]

As far as I can recall, the only food that has been strongly associated with causing acne is dairy. I've not done a recent search... but all the other associations - chocolate, onions, etc... has not proven to be true.

I find peanut allergy to have strong association with severe atopic dermatitis, especially when it continues to be bad in adulthood. I wish that allergists would do more complete food allergy work up on kids with bad eczema or bad asthma. I've sent some kids to allergist with specific request for skin prick test www.royalfree.nhs.uk/pip_admin/Docs/skin_prick_test_158.pdf food allergy work up, and has been very disappointed when I get a letter back saying "review of the history does not suggest food allergies". Then you have other nutball doctors who tell parents that their kids are allergic to half the food they eat based on the result of the RAST blood test http://www.healthatoz.com/healthato...?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/dc/tp/tprast.jsp. I just then want to say ARRGGGGHHH.... Then the poor parents have to find another allergist who work well with kids.

 

[scubaren]

google NAET and find someone to cure you of the allergy! It worked for me with an allergy to vitamin C.

 

[pescador775]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 18 - Consumption of farm milk appears to reduce the risk of asthma and allergy, according to findings from a European study.

"All the children drinking unpasteurized farm milk and eating other farm-related dairy products showed the same level of protection against asthma and allergies, regardless of whether they were living on a farm or not," lead author Dr. Marco Waser, from the University of Basel in Switzerland, said in a statement. The benefits were greatest when consumption of farm milk began during the first year of life, he added.

However, consumption of raw or unboiled milk is not recommended, Dr. Waser emphasized. "Raw milk may contain pathogens such as salmonella or enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and its consumption may have serious health risks."

The findings, which appear in the May issue of Clinical and Experimental Allergy, are based on a study of 14,893 children, between 5 and 13 years of age, who were drawn from farm, rural, and suburban communities across Europe. Food consumption was determined through parental questionnaires.

Farm milk consumption ever in life was inversely linked to the risks of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, sensitization to pollen and the food mix fx5, and sensitization to horse dander. As noted, these benefits were apparent regardless of the child's area of residence.

Further studies are needed to identify the properties of farm milk that confer protection against asthma and allergy, Dr. Waser said. In addition, there is a need for research looking at ways of making the product safer, while still retaining the benefits, he added. (end quote)

I get so tired of hearing about these allergies and the stupid comments and "cures" but for those who soak up this kind of news there is plenty out there.

 

[fisherdvm]

I think the drinking of unpasteurized milk to prevent allergy is likely true. This is similar to some of the reports I've heard such as children of pregnant mom with intestinal parasites, children who lives in households with more than 2 pets, children who are left at daycare and exposed to other kids, and children brought up in third world countries - are less likely to have allergy and autoimmune diseases.

The dirtier, the filthier you lived your childhood, the more bugs you catch as a child - the less likely you're to suffer from atopic illnesses and food allergies. So, feed your kids intestinal parasites, dirt, cat hair, and dog hair - and they will grow up with a more mature and more intelligent immune system!!

Before you feed your child unpasteurized milk, do realize that bovine tuberculosis (in deer herds in MI), brucellosis (in native buffalos), listeria, and other zoonotic agents are making a comeback to the USA. Before you drink that milk, ask your local dairy farmer how much manure is sucked into that milk tank daily. I can tell you it is closer to a quarter cup per every 100 cows. All it takes is for a cow to kick the milking cups, and it falls down into a pile of plop....

 

[Jim Lapenta]

Thanks dude! BUt what you say is true. Kids are too protected these days and they suffer for it. My mom used to kick us out if the house as often as possible. Go play! We did, in the woods, in the dirt, and would come home for lunch and get a sandwich passed thru the door. You're not coming in here like that! I just mopped the floor. We got the big chunks of dirt off on our pants and the rest came off on the bread! We did not get sick, did not have as many colds, and drank from the garden hose. Still like the plastic taste of water every now and then! Hand sanitizer was unheard of. Some of our baths in the summer looked like many of the lakes I now dive in when they were done. Kids are too sissified today and too controlled.

 

[pescador775]

Good to vent, besides, it's all true. Thirty years ago, a study was done in South Africa with the following result. Statistically, white children who had black nannies did not go on to develop MS, not one. Recent findings confirm that MS is due to an immune disorder. Early exposure to a pathogen or antigen conditions the immune system for life's challenges.

An old folk remedy for an asthmatic child is to present the kid with a Chihuahua dog. Breaking my rule here, but I've seen it work.

Get a pet or visit the petting zoo, play in the dirt, catch a frog and ditch the Lysol. An antiseptic environment presents dangers to children rendering them susceptible to various problems later in life.

The resulting complaints and maladies create a political environment like anti-dairy and the like. Some of this is misguided especially in view of the fact that milk processing is causing some of the problems, not milk itself.

 

[JohnE]

I have to tell you though that I am a lifelong country boy who has had plenty of pets, dirt, farm life, etc...

I kind of thought the same things you have written until my recent discovery. I don't know how it happened. I wish I had been a little more in tune with this before though. It is so simple to stay nice and clear now.