Moni_Gail said:
My mom is allergic to corn. It's been hard on her because just about everything contains some derivitive of corn, such as corn syrup as a sweetner because it's cheaper. For the longest time doctors kept telling her that she was bipolar. She went to a chiropractor that specializes in homeopathic remedies and such. He was the first to bring up the possibility of a food allergy. He had her lie down, he then took glass capsules which had different products such as milk, corn, or dander in powder form and placed them on certain areas of her body. They are similar to pressure points, and then asked her to push against his hand. When she was allergic to something she had zero strength in that arm to push against him. It was wild and she was of course quite skeptical. But she went along with it, cut corn out of her diet entirely and was happy with a level mood for the first time in her life. Again, she's had to go to natural food stores for her grocery shopping, but it's been a plus and changed her life for the better. It's definitely worth looking into.
Another thing, he initially thought of corn because those who are allergic to it tend to have emotional symptoms.
Moni, this is precisely how I found out about my allergies to corn, and dairy (cow and goat).
Have you been tested yourself? Because guess what -- if you mom is allergic to corn -- so are you. You might just be in the "sensitive" stage at your age, but it will hit you like a brick wall at some point. Sometimes the boys dodge the corn allergy, but the girls...sorry, nope. Both my kids are allergic to dairy, and my daughter to corn just like me.
The good news is, if you're off the stuff when you're having kids, YOUR kids won't have these allergies. Yay!
It may seem like voodoo medicine, but in other countries (Germany especially), applied kinesiology (AK) is considered standard medical practice, and it's MDs who are doing it. It's a powerful diagnostic tool, with basis in traditional ayurvedic healing techniques, Chinese medicine (acupuncture) and Western science mixed in.
The beauty of kinesiology is, you can learn to do it fairly well yourself, at least for the basics.
There are nearly no medicines I can take at the drug store any more. The few that *might* be left, they label with "food starch." Yeah, well I *might* be able to take it, if the "starch" they felt like using that day wasn't corn.
Without kinesiology, I would just have to put it back on the shelf. I just have my husband, one of the kids, or my friend test me out, and sometimes I find out that, at least for that batch they made that day, I can take the medicine.
The only OTC medicines I know of that are corn free are:
Sudafed
Benedryl
Excedrin
That be it. No cold remedies or anything like that.
I did find one kind of Midol my daughter can take but again, the next batch maybe she can't. So instead I make sure she takes her minerals (certified allergen free from our chiropractor) and use peppermint spirits the way my grandmother used to.
It took my doc a while to find the corn, because the dairy was interfereing more. Once I got off that, we could start looking for the next layer, and found corn. The migraines *mostly* cleared up when I went off diary, but now they're just gone.
I don't know that I had emotional symptoms, but now that you mention it, for the past several years my brain has been just a lot fuzzier, and I've never had that problem before. Most people treat middle-aged women like their ditsy broads anyway, so you kind of go through this thing accepting it as "normal" and maybe just something that comes with having kids.
Ah, the brain seems to be coming back -- I'm reading things and picking up the info more like I used to.
