Fear and Allergies in the Lunchroom

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The rise in food allergies is directly related to the vaccinations. Food is used in the manufacturing of vaccines. Minute particles of the food protein remains in the vaccine. This is a "secret ingredient" protected by trade law. Search on "patent vaccine peanut oil" and you will find many patents that contain every food oil imaginable. A fatal food allergy is a horror story. The best way to fix the problem is not to create it in the first place.

Thank you for this informative article. If you have young children with food allergies check out http://www.alertclothingcompany.com Young children with food allergies need to be identified to keep them well. A medical identification bracelet alone could be overlooked; because, young children are moving and busy their hands are not always within sight, ALERT CLOTHING COMPANY is needed and new,designed with the child in mind! Bright, cheerful colorful, child friendly graphics (ladybugs, butterflies and fairies to rockets, dinosaurs and cowboys...) with the message of food allergies included on each t-shirt, sweatshirt and tote bag. The company logo is on the back of each item for easy identification as well. There is even a bright blue elephant with a yellow crown shooting stars that states,"NO nuts for me- thank you!". A parent cannot be present constantly (pre-school, place of worship, summer camp, field trips...) and a two, three or four year old cannot be depended upon to relay their food allergy message to all. According to (FAAN) The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network the numbers are 1 in 17 estimated to be about three million children ,under the age of three, have the highest incidences of food allergies. Peanut allergies have doubled over a five year period 1997-2002. Education is the key! In a busy pre-school classroom (or summer camp) teachers, volunteers and caregivers are thankful because food is an issue daily. The goal raise awareness, help the caregivers with the identification of food allergies, and have the child feel special too! ALERT CLOTHING COMPANY supports FAAN. Please pass this information along raising awareness can help so many children. Let's keep these children safe! Thank you for your time.
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Allergens in the food but what about the irritants and unnecessary chemicals in our skin care products. For parents of eczema sufferers its hard to keep up with whats in there. Thats why I always try to check out the ingredients at www.exederm.com just to be sure there are no eczema triggers

Look up the list of ingredients that FDA allows into our food and you'll find a long list of chemicals there and it is obvious that they (chemicals) entered the list by the pressure of the manufacturers' lobbyists. FDA is - after all - government and as such is prone to influences. Gosh, why McDonald's is still here if FDA cares?
I got my child's eczema cleared after we gave up all prescription medicines (steroidal!!) and went with the herbal remedy from www.champori.com What a relief to know that alternative cures still exist !!
SK

This article fails to mention the connection between vaccines and food allergy, as well as higher rate of food allergy in autistic children (25 - 30% vs 1 - 5% in normal kids). Aluminum in many vaccines and thimerosol in some flu vaccines are known to cause food allergy, asthma and eczema. The aluminum adjuvant in vaccines causes the immune system to react to the vaccine, inducing immunity. However, it is not specific to the vaccine and can react to anything in the body: an odd food protein, dust or even to the body itself (auto-immune disease).

The aluminum in vaccines wasn't tested for safety for injection into babies, as it was grandfathered by FDA. Safety trials of vaccines often compare vaccines to side effects of other aluminum vaccines or, worse, to a placebo containing aluminum (Gardasil). The CDC uses data on ingested aluminum to justify its safety in vaccines, though it is known aluminum enters the body very poorly through the intestine (as little as 0.1 %) as compared to 100% through injection. The amount of aluminum injected according to CDC shot schedule at a well baby visit is several times (even corrected for body weight) an amount known to cause harm to preterm babies; in a New England Journal of Medicine study, babies who received very small doses of aluminum in contaminated IV solution, tested lower on cognitive tests and developed irritable bowel disorder (IBS).

Several studies show that aluminum vaccines increase asthma in kids. The HiB vaccine is most associated with rise in peanut allergy. OSHA and EPA both regulate aluminum but FDA does not, despite mountains of evidence it is a potent neurotoxin and immune toxin.

The American Academy of Pediatrics states that aluminum exposure in infants should be minimized. AAP studies show how higher levels of aluminum found in soy infant formula cause developmental delays and food allergies. Cumulative amounts of aluminum in shots given to babies from 0 to 12 months according to CDC schedule contain comparable amounts of aluminum to that absorbed from soy formula.

Aluminum causes developmental delays, ADD/ADHD, learning disorders, seizures/tics, dementia, low muscle tone, brittle bones, loss of speech, poor coordination, swelling of the brain/increased head circumference, auto immune disorders (rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, lupus, irritable bowel disorder, crohn's disease, celiac disease, gulf war syndrome, MMF), blood clots, and is associated with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's diseases. Children with autism have higher rate of these conditions and family history than normal children.

Aluminum can be found in many foods kids eat, despite AAP warning it is dangerous to kids. Chicken nuggets, pancakes/waffles, food dyes, table salt, pickles, american cheese, sweets, flour tortillas, drink mixes, baking powder, and frozen pizza can contain added aluminum. It is also added to drinking water, though may occur here and in certain foods naturally.

I am also a mother of a son with not only peanut allergies, but also milk, soy, eggs and wheat. He is 15 months and we found out about two weeks ago. I breast fed him until he was 14 months old, he never had milk before this. So don't tell me that breast feeding is going to prevent children from getting allergies, that is not true! My other two children were formula fed babies and they neither one have allergies of any type. I think it is very mean of people without children with food allergies to be so insensitive, My son could die, DIE, if he were given any type of peanut. What would you feel like if it were your child? I have to worry about anything we do, from going to the store and putting him in a cart to going out to eat, not many places we can go and eat. You are just the type of people I worry about, when I have to send my child to school. Shame on you. That one percent of children you are talking about, is someone's child. He is my world, I would never be so careless to say I wouldn't do something because it supposedly doesn't affect me, I would never want to be the cause of someone else child possibly dying because I was careless and just didn't care. I hope you never have to experience something like this, because it is nervewracking, I worry constantly about his safety.

As the mother of a child with a life threatening peanut allergy, I took exception to the picture on the cover of the little girl wearing a gas mask. People with peanut allergies do not need to wear gas masks---however, nor would they hold a peanut butter sandwich with the pb almost touching their fingers as is the case on the cover. Children wtih these life threatening allergies already feel odd enough ----whether sitting at a special table in the cafeteria or having your parent accompany you to birthday parties or having to carry a fanny pack filled with medication everywhere you go ...the list goes on and on. Images like the girl with the gas mask may provide the shock value neccessary to sell magazines but they do nothing to help the allergic population. Such an image just furthers the notion that allergic people are peculiar and need to resort to extreme measures such as gas masks. My 8 year old saw the magazine and asked if he was going to have to wear "one of those things." Your pictures should convey reality--ditch the gas mask and also ditch the supposedly allergic child cavalierly holding the very foods that could kill her.

I have seafood allergies as well as a rather severe penicillin allergy. That said, I do NOT have 1/10 the number nor the severity of allergies that my father had. Ignoring my father???s litany, I firmly believe that genetics, hygiene/environmental factors, and changes to diet/chemicals all play a significant role. I grew up in a rural/suburban environment under a ???benign neglect??? policy. A mother who firmly believed little children should get outside, get dirty and have pets probably helped both my sister and I to reduce the genetic impact from my father. What is clear, though, is that dangerous allergies are rising at a very rapid rate in the US population and what must be a variety of causes has yet to be property explored. The fact that this is NOT happening in all other countries is very telling. Where I live overseas having any food allergy at all is quite uncommon, just like it was the US when I was young.

Food allergies, your own or loved ones???, are a terrible trial. Perhaps taking a look at what has changed so much in our country as opposed to others might shed some light and why these life-threatening problems are rising so quickly.

"Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding in the first three months
of life appears to help shield children from developing food allergies.
That's just one of a number of findings on food allergies scheduled to be presen
ted this week at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma a
nd Immunology in Dallas."
This is just one more in a long stream of findings demonstrating
the immunological, nutritional, psychological and intellectual
deficits suffered by formula-fed babies. Yet there is no outcry,
no call for banning over-the-counter formula, no legislative push
for facilities to breast-feed and co-habitate in the workplace, no
program of press releases attempting to undo the effects of over a
century of medical trivialization and denigration of breast feeding.
And above all, no institutional introspection or apology on the
part of medicine. A dandy business model.

A very interesting article about food allergies. However, I think you missed a couple of ideas that are currently being explored: 1. whether antibiotics given during the first year of life disturb the immune system and increase the risk of allergies later on; and 2. whether probiotics given to the mother - and/or the newborn infant - may reduce the incidence of allergies and asthma in high risk kids by helping to develop a healthy immune system in the gut in early life. Both ideas are related to the hygiene hypothesis.

After reading this article I could see how I relate as I have food allergies too. I can also add that I am 25 years old and right now I can't eat avacados,kiwis and raisins of course up until I moved at age 22 I ate all of these foods regularly. Born in norther California now living in southern California I quickly learned that I can't eat these foods. I have to ask has anyone checked the anti-fungus/pesticides that they use on our food? I had others and a doctor confirm that this was the cause so to avoid getting sick I eat organic and no more problem. Why don't they look outside for the cause instead of inside they wont be so confused by the cause of allergies. I was also raised on a farm with animals and dirt and we grew a lot of food, now I eat from a store and have only recently developed allergies. thank you

My allergies/sensitivities to wheat, cashews, vinegar, black tea, coffee, chocolate, sugar, milk and mushrooms are all candida-related. As are my inhaled chemical sensitivities, e.g. to scented candles, natural gas, etc. My reactions rise and ebb with my candida or "yeast' burden. I wish mainstream Medical Doctors would believe me!! After 14 years of trial and error and fighting candida, I think I know what's going on with my own body. I also think candida is behind autism and some forms of mental impairment -- ever heard of "yeast head"? I get it from wheat, vinegar, etc. It's like being drunk. Terrible condition to have and I get no help from medical community towards curing it. Thanks for the irrelevant Epipen you gave me, allergy Dr.!!