Interested in other people's experiences at Dr. Rea's Dallas Clinic

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HI,

I'm in Dallas w/my sick son, have seen Dr. Rea and run a lot of tests which

confirm in different ways than prior tests how sick he is, probably from mold

and other environmental triggers. We are staying in their " environmental

housing " and my son is blowing his nose measurably less which is the first small

improvement in 4 years, albeit a small one. I feel like we are getting close to

the end of the line, we have to find a way to start turning this illness around

or the inflammation will continue to degrade body, mind and vital organs, I have

been holding Dr. Rea out as one of the last options and one that might really

help, and this is all costing a small fortune.

Here's the problem though. My son is afraid to do the treatments. It all

started because he asked and found out the allergy skin testers don't change

gloves between patients. Dr. Rea & staff assure us that they are following

proper infection control procedures, have done 30,000+ patients this way with no

problems. But now my son is afraid to do the allergy skin testing and

treatment. Then he finds out that there may be other patients in the sauna at

the same time he is in the sauna and he wonders whether he might inhale or

in-sweat the toxins they are excreting so he is refusing sauna therapy at this

point.

Hopefully he will be willing to do the oxygen therapy....

Does anyone know anything about the safety of doing group sauna with people who

have high body burdens of toxins? Is this how it is done in other clinics.

Does anyone know anything about allergy skin testing, infection control, etc.

Did anyone else who has been a patient at Dr. Rea's feel uncomfortable with the

non-changing of gloves, using the same pen to write on multiple patients arms,

etc...

Can people tell me either on or off line about their experiences at Dr. Rea's

clinic, good or bad. sue@...

Can people who've had allergy skin tests done in other doctor's offices tell me

if it's done the same way, with the tester testing lots of patients at once

(which makes sense because you get an antigen injected into your arm and then

sit for 10 minutes before next injection), not changing gloves, using same pen

on all patients arms, dipping cotton balls to wipe patients' arms (and sometimes

the tester's glove fingertips along with), dipping tops of antigen bottles into

this same disinfectant solution, and sometimes dipping the pen into the same

disinfectant solution....After my son became uncomfortable with the idea of not

changing gloves, he started looking at the whole process, imagining the worst,

and wonders if trace blood (sometimes the allergen skin pricks draw trace blood

to the skin) from multiple patients ends up in the disinfectant solution that

the antigen vials are dipped into to disinfect them before drawing the antigen

for injection. We are not infection control experts, I believe that Dr. Rea has

figured out a safe approach and knows more about it than we do, but once your

mind starts running wild there is no end to the worrying and wondering, my son's

other doctor believes the risks are very remote but he isn't seeing the method

in person so can't say for sure.... My son will now not do this part of the

treatment. One of the Clinic staff members told me that we are not the first

ones to be uncomfortable with the communal pen... I believe the name of the

disinfectant is zephrin or something, would it kill anything it came in contact

with.

If any of you know anything about this stuff and can arm me with info that might

get my son back into a comfort zone about doing these treatments this way would

be helpful.

Or, if you find these things problematic, would like to know that too.

thanks for your help and support. I am kind of at wits end!

Sue V.