SarahVaughter
February 2nd, 2010, 06:58 AM
>For several years various Chiropractic nutritionists have been recommending
>remedy after remedy for dealing with the results from damage to the intestines
>from years of undetected gluten and dairy intolerance.
>The last few years eczema has invaded my legs with itching, flaking and welts,
>and for the last month an open lesion, fairly deep, about the size of a dime has
>been 'raging' on one ankle in the area of varicose vein bubbles, and nothing that
>is known to them has made any progress.
>The Dr. I am now seeing recommended your site to check out lufenuron.
>I would be glad to purchase it if you think this open, painful lesion is a result of
>the advanced eczema.
>Since my tongue is always coated, and my intestinal/bowel system doesn't work
>on its own without fairly large amounts of whole leaf aloe vera juice or flax seed
>oil or a Standard Process product called Multizyme, and I have eaten no gluten,
>dairy, yeast, sugar (including fruits except for blueberries and strawberries), red
>meat, spices, and numerous vegetables and other things that blood tests and
>applied kinesiology have indicated that cause allergic reactions, for years (wow,
>that is one big run-on sentence).
>Anyway, I'm wondering if lufenuron would be helpful, or if you have another
>suggestion.
Here are my thoughts:
1. It is IMO unlikely that your intestines take so long to recover from damage done by gluten. The intestinal lining is one of the fastest-growing tissues in the body and fully recovers from even the worst (life-threateningly severe) damage in at most 3 - 6 months.
2. The eczema and other problems with your legs sound more like Diabetes. Are you overweight? What is your age? Do you suffer from any other medical ailments, diagnosed by medical professionals?
3. I am not a doctor and I think it doubtful that Lufenuron will help your particular case. Only when you can easily spare the money, I would advise you to try it. There is no real evidence that your eczema is of fungal origin.
4. I strongly recommend you to discontinue ALL supplements. Aloe Vera juice, flax seed oil, Multizyme, all these products are NOT part of a healthy diet and may well have detrimental long-term effects. Instead, concentrate on a low-carb diet, eating few calories and get most of your energy from SATURATED fats. You should eat so few calories that you are slowly losing weight on a mostly (fat) meat/fish diet supplemented with large, varied leafy salads and nuts (cashew, pistachio, almond etc.). No gluten, no diary. Try how that goes for a couple of months. As long as you are losing weight on that diet, it does not pose an increased risk to the cardiovascular system - on the contrary.
5. It is not required to avoid any kind of yeast-related products. You can read more in my article here:
http://www.owndoc.com/candida-albicans/mushrooms-fungi-molds-candida/ (http://www.owndoc.com/candida-albicans/mushrooms-fungi-molds-candida/)
6. I hope I am not offending any of your doctors, but in my opinion, Chiropractic and Kinesiology are not hard sciences.
So I am forced by my "scientific thinking" to be sceptical towards some of the advice they give. I am sure that many practitioners are in fact very knowledgeable and capable, and your doctor seems to be OK, otherwise he/she would not find solutions for you on the Internet. In fact, nobody - also not I - really know much about the cause and cure of most diseases, so they are doing their best, as well as we (John and I) do.
7. From your description of your diet, you may suffer from a severe lack of essential nutrients. You have severely limited your intake of many kinds of vitamins and minerals. Somehow you have to force yourself, in spite of the "withdrawal symptoms", to go back to a healthy diet without the use of any supplements. I suggest a weightloss diet based on meat/fish/poultry, nuts (peanuts are beans, not nuts) and leafy salads. This diet is relatively expensive, but can be funded by stopping the supplements. Of course, when you're seriously allergic to nuts, do not eat them.
8. A coated tongue is in fact quite normal, many people have it without suffering in the least of Candida infection. As long as you can't scrape off a thick layer of yeast, it should be OK.
Sorry I can't be of more help, and I apologize if I have offended anyone's sensitivities :-)
>Thank you so much for your prompt response!
>I could probably write a book about the scores of medical and alternative doctors >and treatments over the years, but my most important asset is that God is in >total control, knows all circumstances, allows some for the perfecting process >and others because of our poor choices, but provided His own perfect Son to take >all the punishment we
>deserve and give new life to those who believe, including a perfect body for all >eternity when this life is over.
>I am 68, 5'8", weigh 110 lbs., have been checked for diabetes, have 0 >cholesterol, have an off-the-chart alkaline
>system, and generally feel good when not eating foods that trigger horrendous >nausea, migraines, fatigue, irritability, intense muscle pain in neck and >shoulders, diarrhea, constipation, sinus irritation >etc. etc. etc.
>Again, thank you for your wisdom and suggestions.
>If there is a particular blood test or other way of finding out what my system is >lacking/needing, I would be so appreciative for the recommendation.
It must be frustrating..
You probably still have damage to your intestinal lining (permeability), and have developed an allergy for certain proteins or other substances that reach your bloodstream.
You may suffer from something similar to Crohn's disease. It is controversial, but Crohn's disease can be helped by taking Doxycycline.
You seem to be sick enough that it affects your quality of life very substantially.
I believe that most chronic disease is caused by bacteria (hardly a revolutionary statement..) I can back this up with years of research.
So if you can persuade your family doc to prescribe you 200 mg doxy for a couple of months (avoid UV exposure - the skin becomes sensitive to light!) it would be very interesting to see whether that would help.
After having taken the course of Doxycycline, make sure to replenish the killed-off gut bacteria with living kefir, yogurt and/or a probiotic supplement. I do not advise ThreeLac - they are over-priced. Doxycycline alone will not likely cause Candida overgrowth but caution is advised - when you notice oral or vaginal yeast problems you should immediately discontinue and start an agressive probiotic regimen, coupled with meticulous hygiene. Strict intimate- and oral hygiene is a must, when on antibiotics. During socialism, Russian ID specialists used to always prescribe an antifungal as well, when prescribing an antibiotic. Due to the prohibitive cost (antifungals are roughly four times as expensive as antibiotics), that is hardly ever done nowadays, at least in the West, where capitalist principles determin the prices of things ("What the market will bear"). The reason that antifungals are four times as expensive as antibiotics is, in my opinion, due to the fact that very generally speaking, on average, a serious fungal infection has roughly a four-fold mortality rate compared to a serious bacterial infection. It's all about market mechanisms, not about cost of R&D and production.
>remedy after remedy for dealing with the results from damage to the intestines
>from years of undetected gluten and dairy intolerance.
>The last few years eczema has invaded my legs with itching, flaking and welts,
>and for the last month an open lesion, fairly deep, about the size of a dime has
>been 'raging' on one ankle in the area of varicose vein bubbles, and nothing that
>is known to them has made any progress.
>The Dr. I am now seeing recommended your site to check out lufenuron.
>I would be glad to purchase it if you think this open, painful lesion is a result of
>the advanced eczema.
>Since my tongue is always coated, and my intestinal/bowel system doesn't work
>on its own without fairly large amounts of whole leaf aloe vera juice or flax seed
>oil or a Standard Process product called Multizyme, and I have eaten no gluten,
>dairy, yeast, sugar (including fruits except for blueberries and strawberries), red
>meat, spices, and numerous vegetables and other things that blood tests and
>applied kinesiology have indicated that cause allergic reactions, for years (wow,
>that is one big run-on sentence).
>Anyway, I'm wondering if lufenuron would be helpful, or if you have another
>suggestion.
Here are my thoughts:
1. It is IMO unlikely that your intestines take so long to recover from damage done by gluten. The intestinal lining is one of the fastest-growing tissues in the body and fully recovers from even the worst (life-threateningly severe) damage in at most 3 - 6 months.
2. The eczema and other problems with your legs sound more like Diabetes. Are you overweight? What is your age? Do you suffer from any other medical ailments, diagnosed by medical professionals?
3. I am not a doctor and I think it doubtful that Lufenuron will help your particular case. Only when you can easily spare the money, I would advise you to try it. There is no real evidence that your eczema is of fungal origin.
4. I strongly recommend you to discontinue ALL supplements. Aloe Vera juice, flax seed oil, Multizyme, all these products are NOT part of a healthy diet and may well have detrimental long-term effects. Instead, concentrate on a low-carb diet, eating few calories and get most of your energy from SATURATED fats. You should eat so few calories that you are slowly losing weight on a mostly (fat) meat/fish diet supplemented with large, varied leafy salads and nuts (cashew, pistachio, almond etc.). No gluten, no diary. Try how that goes for a couple of months. As long as you are losing weight on that diet, it does not pose an increased risk to the cardiovascular system - on the contrary.
5. It is not required to avoid any kind of yeast-related products. You can read more in my article here:
http://www.owndoc.com/candida-albicans/mushrooms-fungi-molds-candida/ (http://www.owndoc.com/candida-albicans/mushrooms-fungi-molds-candida/)
6. I hope I am not offending any of your doctors, but in my opinion, Chiropractic and Kinesiology are not hard sciences.
So I am forced by my "scientific thinking" to be sceptical towards some of the advice they give. I am sure that many practitioners are in fact very knowledgeable and capable, and your doctor seems to be OK, otherwise he/she would not find solutions for you on the Internet. In fact, nobody - also not I - really know much about the cause and cure of most diseases, so they are doing their best, as well as we (John and I) do.
7. From your description of your diet, you may suffer from a severe lack of essential nutrients. You have severely limited your intake of many kinds of vitamins and minerals. Somehow you have to force yourself, in spite of the "withdrawal symptoms", to go back to a healthy diet without the use of any supplements. I suggest a weightloss diet based on meat/fish/poultry, nuts (peanuts are beans, not nuts) and leafy salads. This diet is relatively expensive, but can be funded by stopping the supplements. Of course, when you're seriously allergic to nuts, do not eat them.
8. A coated tongue is in fact quite normal, many people have it without suffering in the least of Candida infection. As long as you can't scrape off a thick layer of yeast, it should be OK.
Sorry I can't be of more help, and I apologize if I have offended anyone's sensitivities :-)
>Thank you so much for your prompt response!
>I could probably write a book about the scores of medical and alternative doctors >and treatments over the years, but my most important asset is that God is in >total control, knows all circumstances, allows some for the perfecting process >and others because of our poor choices, but provided His own perfect Son to take >all the punishment we
>deserve and give new life to those who believe, including a perfect body for all >eternity when this life is over.
>I am 68, 5'8", weigh 110 lbs., have been checked for diabetes, have 0 >cholesterol, have an off-the-chart alkaline
>system, and generally feel good when not eating foods that trigger horrendous >nausea, migraines, fatigue, irritability, intense muscle pain in neck and >shoulders, diarrhea, constipation, sinus irritation >etc. etc. etc.
>Again, thank you for your wisdom and suggestions.
>If there is a particular blood test or other way of finding out what my system is >lacking/needing, I would be so appreciative for the recommendation.
It must be frustrating..
You probably still have damage to your intestinal lining (permeability), and have developed an allergy for certain proteins or other substances that reach your bloodstream.
You may suffer from something similar to Crohn's disease. It is controversial, but Crohn's disease can be helped by taking Doxycycline.
You seem to be sick enough that it affects your quality of life very substantially.
I believe that most chronic disease is caused by bacteria (hardly a revolutionary statement..) I can back this up with years of research.
So if you can persuade your family doc to prescribe you 200 mg doxy for a couple of months (avoid UV exposure - the skin becomes sensitive to light!) it would be very interesting to see whether that would help.
After having taken the course of Doxycycline, make sure to replenish the killed-off gut bacteria with living kefir, yogurt and/or a probiotic supplement. I do not advise ThreeLac - they are over-priced. Doxycycline alone will not likely cause Candida overgrowth but caution is advised - when you notice oral or vaginal yeast problems you should immediately discontinue and start an agressive probiotic regimen, coupled with meticulous hygiene. Strict intimate- and oral hygiene is a must, when on antibiotics. During socialism, Russian ID specialists used to always prescribe an antifungal as well, when prescribing an antibiotic. Due to the prohibitive cost (antifungals are roughly four times as expensive as antibiotics), that is hardly ever done nowadays, at least in the West, where capitalist principles determin the prices of things ("What the market will bear"). The reason that antifungals are four times as expensive as antibiotics is, in my opinion, due to the fact that very generally speaking, on average, a serious fungal infection has roughly a four-fold mortality rate compared to a serious bacterial infection. It's all about market mechanisms, not about cost of R&D and production.