ALLERGIES: PREDISPOSITION TO ALLERGY
The tendency to react allergically is passed on in the genes from parent to child. In some children this tendency is obvious right from birth. These kids are born with such typical allergy symptoms as asthma, allergic rhinitis, colic, hayfever, hives, rosacea, infantile eczema, runny nose or glue ear.
In others the tendency remains dormant only to be activated some time in childhood or adult life due to:
• the over-consumption of refined junk food, such as lollies, cakes, tinned foods, ice-cream, soft drinks, biscuits, white bread, chocolates, alcohol, etc.;
• stress—the major one being a deficiency in the essential nutrients;
• the consumption of solid foods before the age of ten months;
• Candida albicans yeast infection;
• over-exposure to environmental factors—mainly pollutants.
Because you probably won’t know whether you have a genetic predisposition to allergy it won’t pay to press your luck by eating junk foods. Junk foods are themselves a major stress to the body and also feed Candida yeast infections. Junk food consumption should be kept to a minimum, no more than 3-5 per cent of the total food intake.
A complete multi-vitamin and mineral supplement (one which contains the six essential minerals—calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, manganese and zinc, plus hydrochloric acid to facilitate absorption) should be taken once per day before the main meal to ensure optimum nutrition.
There are those people who eat a lot of junk food all their lives, don’t supplement their diet with vitamins and minerals and yet don’t develop allergies. These individuals don’t carry the predisposition to allergy in their genes. They are usually symptom free (thought often tired and lethargic) until later in life, when such c li generative diseases as heart attacks, ME, multiple sclerosis and cancer catch up with them. In a way, the allergy sufferers are luckier as they get early warning symptoms that something is wrong and have the chance to balance their metabolism before a serious disease develops.
Finally there is no such thing as a specific allergen always causing a specific reaction. For example, strawberries causing hives only or eggs causing migraines only.
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