Auto-immune diseases & antibiotics & sinus problems

[Guest guest]

Maia,

I have had these same exact symptoms my entire life! I

basically had a chronic sinus infection for my entire

childhood. The dark circles under my eyes were pretty

constant -- they got better when I let my mother's

house at 18 (I was allergic to her cats) and stopped

eating wheat and dairy.

Now I eat some dairy (but not a lot), take allergy

meds if I know I'll be around a cat, and (obviously)

stay away from wheat. It's gotten better -- now I only

occasionally have sinus infections.

The other thing that has helped a lot is getting

acupuncture on the sinus point.

(Acupressure/self-massage works too -- it's just a

little bit above your nostrils on your cheeks. You'll

know when you've hit it.) That does amazing things to

clear out my sinuses.

Does anyone know if there's been any medical research

showing a correlation between CD and sinus problems?

Or is more of a general correlation between

auto-immune diseases and sinus problems?

Aidan

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Re: Auto-immune diseases & antibiotics & sinus

problems

Posted by: " Maia Alpern " maiaalpern@...

food4maia

Wed Mar 5, 2008 11:01 am (PST)

I have had sinus problems my whole life. I can't ever

remember being

able to fully breathe from both nostrils at the same

time. I think in

hindsight my cd triggered before 5 or 6 but I wasn't

diagnosed until

50. How about dark under eye circles? I have had them

since

childhood too. Anyone else?

Maia

[Guest guest]

I have recently started using a Xylitol nose spray (XClear is

the one I use; I checked and it is GF, although they probably all are).  It

seems to help me ward off colds if I use it early on, and it helps if I am

stuffy.

My son has had constant sinus problems (never quite an

infection); this has always been part of his reaction to gluten (both boys have

the stuffy-nose-turning-to-cold response to gluten), but I think he has other

allergies to things we can’t control that cause ongoing sinus irritation that

I haven’t been able to solve.  We just started using it recently, and he

hasn’t used it enough to tell if it’s working yet for him.

Pam

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Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:18 AM

Subject: [ ] Re: Auto-immune diseases & antibiotics

& sinus problems

I was on Tetracycline too, in my teenage years, and I have

often wondered if they have played a part. Right now I'm actually on my second

round of antibiotics (Biaxin) in two months for a sinus infection. I hate to

take them, but I can't seem to get this infection to go away -- the neti pot,

etc. helps, but hasn't been enough. (I take a ton of probiotics every day year

round to counteract the antibiotics.)

Speaking of which: How many people out there suffer from

sinus problems? I was almost constantly congested when I was in the throes of

celiac disease. It's much more manageable now that I'm on a gf diet, but,

still, I have problems. My ear nose and throat doc has recommended sinus

surgery. I do have several structural problems.

L²

 

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