2. Primary Allergens
As described above, the primary allergens usually go unnoticed, and
the dietary allergy nearly always expresses itself by means of other
symptoms (see inset).
1. Symptoms of Dietary Allergy in Infants,
Children and Adults
A primary allergy to dietary elements usually develops during infancy,
when the infant is fed foreign animal protein which its intestinal mucous
membrane system cannot yet process. Bovine milk proteins, for example,
are thus taken into the body in an insufficiently processed form, where
they function as foreign protein allergens and induce an immune response
in the Peyer's plaques of the immune system, which lies alongside the
intestines. If cow's milk is then later ingested, the organism reacts
with a continuous immune response, which can lead to exhaustion of the
immune system and the characteristic susceptibility to infection and
other sequelae (see inset).
It is therefore of utmost importance not to give infants, up to an
age of about 12 months, any dairy products, eggs or nuts, which all
function as allergens in infants. It is regrettable that most of the
powdered baby formula mixes are made with cow's milk and thus represent,
for predisposed children, a high allergen risk. Therefore, children
up to the age of 1 year should only be given mother's milk or soy-substitute
formulas.
2. The Significance of Infestation by Molds
and Candida
The significance of mold infestation (Aspergillus niger and
Mucor racemosus and their respective predecessor stages) has been described
above. Most allergy patients also suffer from mold infestation. Unfortunately,
orthodox medicine does not yet recognize this fact, although it turns
up nearly every time under fine-materials testing. The presence of this
infestation is also explained by the patient's impaired metabolic milieu
-- so common among allergy sufferers -- which provides a very favorable
environment for the upward development of the fungal stages. Thus, in
advanced cases, antibodies to fungi and various allergens can frequently
be found. The treatment (see below) must therefore always include measures
against the organismic stress of fungal precursor stages.
Candida is a particularly current theme. Candida (yeast) is often named
as the cause of allergic diseases or (in alternative-medicine circles)
brought into close association with allergies. Candida colonization
is often found in allergy patients, both through blood antibody determination
as well as through stool cultures.
However, based on our own investigations, candida is not the cause
of the allergy, but rather the expression of a maladapted milieu
-- and also quite frequently of heavy-metal intoxication. Thus, a holistic
allergy treatment quite often improves the candida situation at the
same time. On the other hand, an antimycotic/antibiotic candida treatment
will do even more damage to the intestinal flora, thus further worsening
the intestinal milieu and promoting allergic reactions even more.
Disturbance foci: Especially in allergic adults, disturbance
foci are almost always found, the elimination of which can often improve
allergic tendencies considerably.
Primary disturbance foci:
Under certain circumstances, disturbance fields can trigger allergies.
The commonest forms are:
- Dead and ingrown teeth, dental root granulomas, periodontosis;
- Chronic tonsillitis (often with encapsulated pus foci), paranasal
sinus inflammations;
- Gallbladder diseases (with or without gallstones), chronic appendicitis;
- Chronic inflammations in the region of the female sexual organs
and -- much less commonly -- the male sexual organs;
- Chronic small and large intestinal inflammations;
- Scars of various kinds.
Disturbance fields are chronic subsymptomatic inflammations which exhibit
remote action, partly by informational fine-materials means, partly
via leukocyte activation. They affect the immune system by imposing
a burden on the leukocyte/lymphocyte system.
Seeking out and eliminating disturbance foci can significantly improve
the immune reaction, and thus the anti-allergic capability of the entire
organism. The better the lymphocyte system reacts -- including Peyer's
plaques, the primary lymphocyte organs -- the less the body needs to
use the histamine/mast cell reaction as a defensive mechanism.
The main disturbance foci in children are, first, intestinal disorders
and, second, chronically inflamed tonsils. However, these are usually
compensation reactions following long-lasting overburdening of Peyer's
plaques through poor nutrition in early infancy.
For adults, disturbance foci in the mandibular region (dead, root-treated
and ingrown teeth, dental root granulomas) are the most common. Thorough
holistic dental clarification, including the elimination of all dental
disturbance foci -- which usually includes extracting all dead teeth
-- is thus an important component of any allergy therapy.
3. Test methods
It is clear from the above that testing for specific allergens can
only reveal the least part of the allergy problem and is thus seldom
necessary. We frequently see patients come to us with long lists of
alleged allergens, who have been tested by the most diverse methods.
Yet, these are mostly secondary allergies, which lose their allergic
ability when either the basic allergens of dietary proteins are avoided
or the trace element and bacterial milieu is improved. It thus makes
no sense to attempt desensitization or "bio-resonance extinction"
of individual allergens, whose effectiveness will be short-term at best.
For allergy testing, one must therefore investigate along a
broader front:
- Skin tests for allergens: Most skin tests are not relevant,
since they often yield false negatives and since the skin often exhibits
reactions to substances which have no allergic significance for the
organism as a whole. Besides which, the skin is, as an ectodermal
tissue, a totally different reaction system than the mucous membranes,
which usually generate the disturbing symptoms of allergies as part
of their attempts at detoxification.
- Fine-materials testing / Energetic testing: These include
electroacupuncture, Biotensor, pendulums, Bioresonance testing, kinesic
pulse testing (RAC) and kinesiology. All these tests are similar and
all are based on the idea of the tester coming into resonance with
the test subject. The tester must thus be highly sensitive, must be
very good at maintaining a neutral state and must be able to register
the vibrational changes of the test person. All of these tests have
a highly subjective component, require a great deal of experience
and are hardly ever reproducible, which means that they are not recognized
by science and orthodox medicine.
They do, however, have the advantage of high sensitivity and can thus
be used as diagnostic hints. However, we always combine these methods
with other test methods to arrive at a therapeutic indication.
It should also be kept in mind that fine-materials testing cannot be
performed on many people, since they have masking disorders such as
amalgam intoxication, dental foci or toxic blockages. For the same reason,
these patients cannot usually be treated homeopathically; their blockades
have to be broken up and detoxified first.
Professor Rost's Thermoregulation Diagnostics
This diagnostic -- which is, unfortunately, practiced at only a very
few places in Switzerland -- focuses on the patient's diet and the resultant
disturbance of the intestinal milieu, but also of the lymphatic
system. However, this cannot indicate the primary allergen, but merely
the allergic hyperregulatory reaction to it. Nevertheless, this diagnostic
is very important to us in allergy clarification, since with it the
question of foodstuff allergy can be settled -- and the same diagnostic
can also determine disturbance foci in the organism, such as old blockages
and foci in the paranasal sinus region, tonsil region or the lower body
(for females), all of which are frequent causes of chronic ailments.
The disadvantage to Thermoregulation Diagnostics is the difficulty
in evaluating the results, as well as the high price of the diagnostic
apparatus.
Hair mineral analyses: This is a quite valuable diagnostic which
returns results concerning trace elements, as well as heavy-metal intoxication.
Allergy sufferers often exhibit low levels of zinc, selenium deficiency
-- but also high levels of phosphorus, magnesium and calcium (as a consequence
of hyperacidity). High levels of aluminum are common in allergy patients.
Lead and mercury intoxications block the white blood cells and thus
impair immune reactions. Hair mineral tests are thus a good way to investigate
the milieu.
Mercury tests: Mercury, originating in nearly all cases from
amalgam fillings, can so alter the body's reactions as to trigger allergies.
These are cases of mercury poisoning, which favors allergic reactions.
Thus, we often can only heal neurodermitis, skin eczemas, asthma and
repeated maxillary sinusitis, as well as recurring bladder inflammations,
by eliminating the mercury from the body of the patient.
Therefore, it is necessary to have a reliable mercury test method.
At the Paracelsus Clinic in Lustmühle, we use fine-materials testing
and the Dimaval test. One needs direct material proof of mercury deposits
in the body, and of the ability to eliminate them. If the values are
elevated, then the mercury must always be eliminated from the body of
the allergy patient -- but the amalgam filling source must also be removed.
In the DMPS test, the overall mercury burden is evaluated -- but also
the patient's tendency to bind mercury (low initial value/higher 2nd
value = strongly binding and high total amount).
The heavy-metal urine test (from Harmonology) is a simple screening
test which is based on color reactions to heavy metals. It has the advantage
of yielding results simply and inexpensively, but gives no quantitative
answers.
Darkfield investigation of vital blood: As mentioned above,
this is a very valuable investigative method, yielding information on
the body's milieu, the acid-base balance, infestation with fungal precursors,
as well as information about toxic burdens of the leukocytes, i.e. reduction
of immune ability.
All the above-named test methods make possible a broad-based and differentiated
conclusion concerning the necessary therapies for allergy cases, which
then in the vast majority of cases have a successful conclusion.
Hay fever, allergic asthma, food allergies, to some extent chronic
skin allergies, can thus in most cases be cured with long-term therapy
lasting H to 2 years.
