Re: Food Challenges/HHV6 numbers

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One thing mentioned to us by a microbiologist once....

viruses mutate and can mutate in such a fashion as to no longer be

detected by the HHV6 test. So a negative HHv6 test may or may not

be accurate. (I know this sounds so negative!)

I think about this often because my sons HHv6 number has been great

for over a year, but I wonder if it really is...not to be a

pessimist, I guess I just worry too much!

>

>

> >Thank you so much, everyone, for your insight and advice. Do

most of you

> >follow Dr. Goldberg's food plan? That is the one he is

recommending we go

> >to. I didn't realize that reactions could take so long to show

up. I

> >always scrutinize every little thing my girl does right after we

have a

> >med change, I am going to drive everyone crazy this summer with

our food

> >challenges. Some changes are so subtle, I am afraid I will miss

them

> >until they are so bad.

>

> On a separate note, we had blood taken 2 weeks ago and her numbers

look

> good but her HHV6 is higher than before. Laurie is sending us the

blood

> work so I don't know how high the numbers are but what would cause

an

> increase in this? We changed from Valtrex to Famcyclovir at the

end of

> January, and from Nyzerol to Fluconozole at the beginning of

March. Would

> this have anything to do with it?

>

> Thanks so much for all the info.

>

>

>

> > Re: Food Challenges

> >

> > When we started the protocol just over three years ago,

Dr. G

> >and I

> > discussed enzymes as well. He said that you need to be

extremely

> >cautious with

> > which brand/type you use. He actually said it was ok to

continue the

> >brand we

> > were using because it was one of the purer brands without a lot

of

> >extras that

> > could cause issues but perhaps we should do a trial off them to

see

> >if it

> > would improve the allergy situation.

> >

> > We took them out then and didn't think we saw much difference

either

> >way so

> > just left them out. However, my son didn't gain much weight

during

> >the time he

> > was off them and in hindsight, I think his allergies were a bit

> >worse. We

> > added them back in several months ago and have found that

overall

> >reaction to

> > foods has lessened and he's gaining weight again.

Unfortunately, the

> >company

> > that made the enzymes merged with another and now doesn't make

that

> >particular

> > kind. We've switched to one that looked about as pure and

plain --

> >Source

> > Natural's Essential Enzymes -- and haven't seen any allergy

signs.

> >Since my son's

> > local doctor is monitoring his protocol now instead of Dr. G, I

> >haven't been

> > able to ask his opinion about this brand. If any of you are

> >considering using

> > enzymes and you ask him about this brand, I'd be curious to

know his

> >opinion.

> >

> > My son tried Houston's enzymes twice in the years prior to us

> >starting .

> > He was never able to tolerate them so we never even got to the

point of

> > trying to go off the gfcf diet with them. He's sensative to

papaya

> >though so that

> > limits the kinds of enzymes he can tolerate.

> > Gaylen

> >

> >

> >