Re: Moducare:

[Guest guest]

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I was wondering if you could talk more about how Moducare has helped you with

chemical sensitivities - or has it just helped with more standard allergies

like hayfever, dust, mold, etc., etc.? I have increasingly severe MCS along

with CFIDS and react much more to plastics, scents, ink, exhaust, etc., even

though I also have standard allergies, but my reactions in the two cases are

different. So I'm curious if Moducare helped with chemical sensitivity

reactions.

Peggy

[Guest guest]

I'd have to say yes. For example, formaldehyde, although I don't have an

allergic reaction to it with hives or asthma, at times has caused severe

dizziness in me. Going into a furniture store, for example, would make me

real with dizziness, and for years I've had to avoid furniture stores, and

as a result, for years I had very little furniture in my living room, and

was unable to shop for more. Made me feel like I was living on the wrong

planet. I was embarrassed to have people come to visit my home, because I

had no place for them to sit. But a couple months ago my husband and I were

able to shop for living room furniture, and we went to a dozen different

furniture stores, and I managed to not get dizzy in any of them, and my

living room actually looks like a normal living room now. I can't guarantee

that it was the Moducare that has helped, because I use so many other

things. But to site one example, I recently ran out of the Moducare for a

couple weeks, and during those couple weeks I discovered that I couldn't

handle my mail till it had aired out for a day, among other things. It would

make me feel really brain fogged, and dizzy. When I started back on the

Moducare, that problem disappeared.

But as for why it helped, I'm not sure, because my understanding of some of

the sensitivity in MCS is that the body just isn't able to manage to detox

very well, so any little exposure to anything toxic (even something as

innocuous as hair spray or bar soap) can tip the toxicity level too much and

cause symptoms. And that seems to be apart from the immune system

functioning. So MCS encompasses more than just immune system allergic

reactions.

Then again, I suppose I can follow a chain of logic to explain it, although

I can't guarantee that it is the right answer. Since Moducare helps to

modulate the immune system, and since there are often infections going on

that increase toxicity levels, and contribute to altering nitric oxide

levels, anything that can decrease the infection load can contribute to

improving MCS symptoms. Moducare may improve the immune function for

fighting those infections, and thus, in a round-about way, help to lower

nitric oxide levels, and other toxic levels, etc., that might be

contributing to the MCS. Just a guess. I think that Pall's ideas

about nitric oxide levels have as much to do with MCS as they do to CFS.

The catch is whether you can tolerate Moducare, or the capsules that it is

encapsulated in, or the packaging that it is packaged in, etc. (It comes in

a plastic bottle, and the label is printed with ink, etc.) I've tried a

number of other things that are supposed to improve MCS, and found that I

reacted to those things. I've had to do a lot of experimenting to find

things that I can tolerate. Or maybe it is just a matter of getting past the

initial period of using a product till it takes effect. I'm not sure.

I'm getting a little side tracked in answering your question here.

lindaj@...

Re: Moducare:

> ,

>

> I was wondering if you could talk more about how Moducare has helped you

with

> chemical sensitivities - or has it just helped with more standard

allergies

> like hayfever, dust, mold, etc., etc.? I have increasingly severe MCS

along

> with CFIDS and react much more to plastics, scents, ink, exhaust, etc.,

even

> though I also have standard allergies, but my reactions in the two cases

are

> different. So I'm curious if Moducare helped with chemical sensitivity

> reactions.

>

> Peggy