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  • bethd821 Sep 2, 2010 @ 4:46 pm | delete
    Great job! Your suggestions for food substitutes are amazing. Thank you for sharing this information! Blessed!
  • ice Aug 27, 2010 @ 4:39 am | delete
    i get really bad allergies from eating shrimps and crabs since i was little..emergency to hospital 2x and been given shots by mom once it starts getting really bad..but never stopped me from eating them..they're good..cant help it..but i try to minimize it like eat just one crab or 3 or 4 shrimps..i guess i got immuned to it eventually..never had it in over a year now =) im eating a little more but not too much..certainly dont want it back
  • tssfacts May 13, 2010 @ 5:32 pm | delete
    Great Lens 5*. Coming from the medical profession I couldn't have said it better.
  • LotusPetalYoga Jul 20, 2009 @ 9:42 pm | delete
    great lens. I have a lot of food allergies myself - soy, cow dairy, gluten, shellfish and coffee. I keep my 3 year old off of all these things too. I cant imagine being allergic to all the things your son is! at least you know he is getting a super healthy diet now. I plan to take more allergy tests soon as its been a while. I agree that most illnesses, are food and allergy related. thanks for the info!
  • spirituality Apr 28, 2009 @ 1:44 pm | delete
    Great lens: blessed.
  • eclecticeducation Mar 26, 2009 @ 9:32 pm | delete
    Great article. I've been through food allergy testing twice, once as a kid and once as an adult. Unfortunately, I tend to "cheat" since I'm "mildly" allergic to milk, eggs and sugar. They are my weaknesses. I have fibromylgia, so it is probably agrivated by my "cheating". Thanks for the article. 5*
  • Tiddledeewinks Jan 15, 2009 @ 12:56 am | delete
    Very helpful lens. I've had chronic pain for years and suspected corn?
  • Cari_Kay Nov 14, 2008 @ 5:03 pm | delete
    Excellent Information. One of my children has food allergies and the other has a latex allergy which may later lead to certain food allergies. I am saving this information. Thank you!
  • Webcodes Oct 31, 2008 @ 2:51 pm | delete
    This is a fantastic lens. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I recently put my son who has been having behavioral problems on a glutein free casein free diet and he seems to be reacting much better. I have an intermittent itch and I never considered that allergies may be a problem. I will definitely go to an allergist now. Five stars and a favorite... by the way thank you for visiting my Buenos Aires lens.
  • Irenemaria Oct 29, 2008 @ 12:31 pm | delete
    Allergy is a mysterium to me. Thank you for your lens with information. I have lensrolled it to my Nickel Allergy lens. It is a curse.....really
  • dc64 Oct 22, 2008 @ 5:51 pm | delete
    Wow, what can your son eat? I can't eat soy, and that alone is bothersome. I can't imagine being allergic to everything your son is. BTW, this is an AWESOME lens!
  • FabulousAbstinence Sep 2, 2008 @ 4:43 pm | delete
    This is a very thorough lens. I'd recommend it to anyone with food allergies. Great work!
  • aquariann Aug 30, 2008 @ 10:00 pm | delete
    Wow, I had no idea food allergies could cause so many seemingly unrelated symptoms! Thank you for sharing your story.
  • The_Party_Animal Aug 29, 2008 @ 9:23 pm | delete
    I am so glad I do not have food allergies, but I do seem to have an intolerance to heavy Gluten products in my old age. Great info - I give you 5 very allergic stars
  • LucyVet Aug 29, 2008 @ 5:41 pm | delete
    Great info. You obviously worked really hard on this lens!
  • saraht43 Aug 29, 2008 @ 10:47 am | delete
    Wow, thanks for all the great information. I agree with dreamsgate above, I think my daughter and I should be tested.
  • sbucciarel Aug 29, 2008 @ 8:40 am | delete
    Great lense. Nice to see you participating in the Squid Storm at firestormforum.com
  • a_willow Aug 29, 2008 @ 12:24 am | delete
    My husband is allergic to many things - grass, dust, dog hair, etc. Now we noticed that my baby girl has skin problems and that she reacts on tomatos... She turned one but we still haven't gave her egg-white and cow milk since her doctor says that she has predispositions for having allergies... :-(
  • Freebirth Aug 29, 2008 @ 12:05 am | delete
    Great work on this lens! I'll definitely send anyone that I know with food allergies here!
  • ArtByLinda Aug 28, 2008 @ 11:41 pm | delete
    Wow, my sister has fibromyalgia, I think I'm going to suggest she go and get tested. Thanks for sharing such a personal story with everyone, and for caring enough to do so!

    Linda
  • dreamsgate Aug 28, 2008 @ 3:31 pm | delete
    Ah nuts, Now I have to go get tested!
  • flighty02 Aug 28, 2008 @ 9:28 am | delete
    What a great lens! Packed full of useful information, thanks for this.
  • James20 Aug 28, 2008 @ 7:37 am | delete
    I have learn some new things here. 5***** I am going to look more into this. Thanks.

    James
  • DividingLine Aug 28, 2008 @ 4:57 am | delete
    As a sufferer of various allergies, this made for interesting reading. Thanks for putting together such a useful lens.
  • Kaela Aug 27, 2008 @ 8:46 pm | delete
    This is a great lens! Everything is so well put-together, with a lot of useful information. It's also not boring at all (I'll admit I thought it would be when I saw the title, but when I read it, it was interesting because you write so well!) Nice job!
  • sisterra Aug 27, 2008 @ 6:44 pm | delete
    Excellent lens - it must have taken you awhile to put this together. Great and very useful info!
  • lakeerieartists Aug 27, 2008 @ 5:05 pm | delete
    This is an amazing lens. No food allergies in my immediate family, but I know lots of people that have them including my brother-in-law. Just wanted to add that many grocery stores carry kosher meats.
  • Shreela Aug 26, 2008 @ 7:29 pm | delete
    I believe in the "weakened immune system causing illness elsewhere in the body' theory.

    My younger brother had all sorts of allergies, and was a little puny; he had the tests you wrote about, so they were confirmed allergies.

    A few years later, he many bouts of severe pain, but was still young enough he couldn't explain it well. They finally did the right test, and found that one of his ureters was incomplete; he was born that way, and all these years, all those toxins that were supposed to leave his kidney remained in that kidney. Urinalysis didn't catch it, because it only came out from the patent ureter.

    They removed his rotting kidney pretty quickly after figuring it out. Once he recovered from the surgery, little by little, his allergies cleared up, and he became a thriving athlete.

    Now he's past 40, and has inherited our Grandfather's gout -- with only one kidney. He's very adamant about following a proper gout diet.

    But he doesn't have allergies to this day.
  • WritingforYourWealth Aug 24, 2008 @ 4:56 pm | delete
    Nice lens--I'm one of the folks who didn't learn until adulthood that i had food allergies--I had a lot of those seemingly unrelated symptoms and was getting diagnosed for stupid things and fed drugs that did nothing to help. Food allergy testing is so simple--everyone with anything wrong with them should check this first!
  • Diane Scott Aug 10, 2008 @ 2:09 pm | delete
    This could explain my husband's snoring which is SOOOOOO loud that more often than not he's sleeping in a separate room.

    Out of self-defense my son runs a loud desk fan, and so do I just to cover the noise.

    Hmmm... definitely food for thought (pun intended!)
  • LucyVet Aug 10, 2008 @ 1:59 pm | delete
    Great lens! My stepson is very allergic to multiple foods, so this was really useful.
  • Aug 10, 2008 @ 1:40 pm | delete
    Informative and well written Lens! Well done.
  • Joan4 Jul 24, 2008 @ 1:55 pm | delete
    Great lens. Very informative. I never believed people who claimed to have allergies, but when I saw our granddaughter gasping for air after eating a tiny pinch of a chocolate chip cookie (no nuts- just pecan juice in the bowl used for cooking obviously), I learned my lesson. We are very very careful about what she eats, and at age 6, now she will ask "does that have nuts in it?" Scary, scary stuff!
  • youhavegottobekidding Jul 12, 2008 @ 10:21 am | delete
    Wow I have really learned a lot from this Lens.

    I had also some allergies with shrimps man i could really be sick it i could accidentally ate just two pieces.

    Thanks for this Great Lens.
  • debnet Jul 8, 2008 @ 9:28 am | delete
    How interesting. I have multiple allergies but I THOUGHT they were all airbourne. Now I'm re thinking. Great informative Lens 5*
  • CounselMom Jul 7, 2008 @ 10:13 am | delete
    Great lens! Lots of information for me to "digest". :)
  • milsaps Jul 7, 2008 @ 9:48 am | delete
    great stuff
  • Rayhawk Jul 7, 2008 @ 2:09 am | delete
    I have a serious allergy to Yellow #5 (Tartrazine) which is made from coal tar derivitive. I cannot injest or absorb this dye through my skin. I had unexplained seizures, migraines, skin ailments, kidney infections, chronic fatigue. After a serious allergic episode that closed up my throat and required emergency treatment they found the vitamin I took containing tartrazine was the culprit. Cutting every bit of yellow dye from my life has cured me of seizures and migraines as well as a host of other minor ailments that were always misdiagnosed.
  • Jon Jul 4, 2008 @ 2:08 pm | delete
    Just found out I was allergic to soy, great page, thanks.
  • spirituality Jul 3, 2008 @ 1:27 am | delete
    Congrats on making giant squid! so did I!
  • poddys Jul 2, 2008 @ 7:30 pm | delete
    A very nice informative lens, you did a great job. Love the peapod too. 5*****
  • richgerman Jul 1, 2008 @ 12:20 am | delete
    my pleasure to see your lens here! this will great help for us eliminating poison as much as possible. keep it uP!

    5 *****
  • beeobrien Jun 27, 2008 @ 12:03 pm | delete
    Interesting information. I have wondered about food intolerances. Maybe it's time to ask the doctor.
  • JAV010 Jun 27, 2008 @ 1:35 am | delete
    Thanks for visiting my naruto lens :) this lens is realy cool i found here a lot of interesting and good information thanks again :P
  • K_Linda Jun 25, 2008 @ 10:08 am | delete
    Excellent information. My husband and I both have a lot of the symptoms you describe. Guess we better get tested. Definitely 5* lens.
  • spirituality Jun 23, 2008 @ 2:44 am | delete
    Stumbled, favored for later use and 5 stars. I am wondering now if my breathing issues don't have a food allergy behind them (was tested for the usual air born allergens). Thanks a lot.
  • KimGiancaterino Jun 19, 2008 @ 11:41 am | delete
    You've done a fantastic job with this lens. I'm totally with you on the corn syrup issue. Poisonous stuff! Welcome to Culinary Favorites From A to Z.
  • AnnaleeBlysse Jun 8, 2008 @ 5:45 am | delete
    Great info here. When I was young people didn't think about allergies as being a problem ... and I have them. My reactions were always labeled as the flu or cold symptoms and that I had low immunity. When my mother asked the doctor about allergies, they said she'd be wasting money to test me. I suppose being completely miserable is what they meant by fine. After I self-diagnosed that soy is an allergen for me, my life changed.

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