Re: starting enzymes for food allergies

[Guest guest]

Sounds like us here.... I feel your pain. We just started enzymes today. Just

started slow with them. 1/2 cap just lunch and dinner today. We rotate too, as

much as you humanly can. It does make it soooo hard to go anywhere like a

vacation. Can we just say it sucks!! Lets just hope it has to get better!!!!

Hanging there with you!!

Tamara Kuhn <tkuhn1@...> wrote: Ok, started my nt 5 year old on

enzymes and then stopped for Great Plains

testing. Will start up again. I saw no difference but we didn’t get that

far either.

I’m going to start with Zyme. Next progression I would say is the AFP but

he isn’t doing any dairy, soy or wheat so will do No-Fenol. Agree?? He’s

got major fruit issues!

He’s basically allergic to almost everything. Milk, soy, wheat, gluten,

oats, peanuts, peas, all legumes, eggs, bananas, strawberries, peaches,

apples. I’m guessing almost any fruit. We eat them in rotation. He also

just tested positive to rice, but he still wants his rice milk and his wheat

free staples is rice based, been that way for the past 4 ½ years so…..I’m

doing to keep going! Also pork, which he only eats now and again. His skin

looks great, no asthma issues so I’m going on health. This has been his

healthiest year, knock on wood!!!! I’ve started kirkman Vit C and their

multi vitamin and he does take singular and flovent. I don’t want to take

him off meds because I do think it “controls” any small allergic symptoms.

Basically there isn’t much he doesn’t test allergic too and I’m sure there

is more if we just testing, like potatoes, which he loves. So I’m going to

bury my head in the sand now! I’ve started him on a probiotic too and

anxiously await our results from GP.

So basically it is all autoimmune system problem with foods but thankfully

he is now a pretty healthy kid. I guess I’m going to do enzymes and

probiotics and see if we can get some other foods into him.

My first test will be dairy. He’s class 1 to dairy, he’s drinking rice now

and class 2, so what the heck!

Guys, I’ve lived like this for 5 years, I’m so sick of it! Not feeding him

is allergens and figuring him out since this all hit a 9 months of age,

well, I’ll start my own little science experiment and see if this works.

Kindergarten starts for him next fall and would really like a family

vacation where my entire thoughts don’t encompass the thoughts full time of

meals and preparation 24/7!!!!

Thanks

Tammy

[Guest guest]

Oh Tammy,

I'm cheering you and your son on over here! I hope he can get over some of these

allergies

as well. We live in a prison of food " allergies " , it's exhausting and really

makes socializing

difficult. The no fenol helps some what with fruit at our house, our son can

actually

tolerate a green apple now and then. Whoo Hoo??!! (sorry, my attitude is not the

best some

days) Why not do all 3 houston enzymes, they still help with over all digestion

even if your

on a restricted diet.

Since your 5 year old is NT, let us know what he tells you on how he is feeling

with the

enzymes, if he has a tummy ache or feels great, ect.. My friend felt great on

Houstons for

weeks until she started having heartburn and stomach aches, so she stopped. I

don't want

my two year old to be feeling that way but it still seems enzymes help him a

lot, so I'd be

curious to know how your son feels, I hope it will make him feel great as well.

Good luck!

Dani

>

> Ok, started my nt 5 year old on enzymes and then stopped for Great Plains

> testing. Will start up again. I saw no difference but we didn't get that

> far either.

>

>

>

> I'm going to start with Zyme. Next progression I would say is the AFP but

> he isn't doing any dairy, soy or wheat so will do No-Fenol. Agree?? He's

> got major fruit issues!

>

>

>

> He's basically allergic to almost everything. Milk, soy, wheat, gluten,

> oats, peanuts, peas, all legumes, eggs, bananas, strawberries, peaches,

> apples. I'm guessing almost any fruit. We eat them in rotation. He also

> just tested positive to rice, but he still wants his rice milk and his wheat

> free staples is rice based, been that way for the past 4 ½ years so…..I'm

> doing to keep going! Also pork, which he only eats now and again. His skin

> looks great, no asthma issues so I'm going on health. This has been his

> healthiest year, knock on wood!!!! I've started kirkman Vit C and their

> multi vitamin and he does take singular and flovent. I don't want to take

> him off meds because I do think it " controls " any small allergic symptoms.

> Basically there isn't much he doesn't test allergic too and I'm sure there

> is more if we just testing, like potatoes, which he loves. So I'm going to

> bury my head in the sand now! I've started him on a probiotic too and

> anxiously await our results from GP.

>

>

>

> So basically it is all autoimmune system problem with foods but thankfully

> he is now a pretty healthy kid. I guess I'm going to do enzymes and

> probiotics and see if we can get some other foods into him.

>

>

>

> My first test will be dairy. He's class 1 to dairy, he's drinking rice now

> and class 2, so what the heck!

>

>

>

> Guys, I've lived like this for 5 years, I'm so sick of it! Not feeding him

> is allergens and figuring him out since this all hit a 9 months of age,

> well, I'll start my own little science experiment and see if this works.

> Kindergarten starts for him next fall and would really like a family

> vacation where my entire thoughts don't encompass the thoughts full time of

> meals and preparation 24/7!!!!

>

>

>

> Thanks

>

>

>

> Tammy

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I may be off on a tangent here but this is in response to your friend's child

whose stomach hurt on the enzymes.

I started my whole family on the trio of enzymes this past year. My son was 3

and my daughter 7. We are all celiac and the kids have mild learning/behavior

issues. My daughter would complain of heartburn and stomaches and even have acid

reflux bad enough she would throw up and have so sleep propped up. (I read later

that the enzymes will " process " the damage dead layers of the stomach and the

new healthy tissue is sensitive at first.)

Our solution that worked for us was to have her drink a Braggs apple cider

vinegar, honey and water mix with each meal (small amount) -- she immediately

quit having the really bad acid reflux. Also she has told me if she takes her

enzymes and then can't eat immediately, she gets a stomach ache. So we avoid

those situations. Occasionally she still needs a few days of the apple cider

vinegar mix to tame her reflux (which she has had since birth.)

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[Guest guest]

What a little love bug!! That's a great story; if the world seems stange to us,

imagine how it

seems to them!

Hey, I'm not sure if you live in Wisconsin (I know someone in the group does)

but if you do

I was wondering if you heared of The Allergy Associates, in LaCrosse, Wi. People

keep

bringing them up to us, they have really helped a few of our friends. They are a

clinic that

does allergy desensitazation (giving small FDA approved drops of what your

allergic to, to

build up your immunity and decrease allergy symptoms) . We have an appointment

with

them this month ( I guess we don't feel like we're broke enough yet:) )

Our DAN! thinks we should go but I have my doubts. I worry that it may be too

premature

and that we need to heal his gut first to eliminate allergies. Our doc says

basically: the

" allergies to food " have already set in and when we heal the gut that prevents

new

allergies. AARRGG! I've never been too " smitten " with DAN! docs so I'm not sure

what we'll

do. I really feel like de-toxing may be the way to go. Anyway, thought I'd throw

it out

there.

Take care,

Dani

-- In , " Tamara Kuhn " <tkuhn1@...> wrote:

>

> Dani – Yeah, it totally sucks! My attitude is not the best either! I hear

> ya!

>

>

>

> I do plan on doing all three. I think I'll just add the AFP last, start

> with zyme then no-fenol? He's such a trooper. He'll swallow a capsule, no

> problem. My 8 year old PDD-NOS still insists on chewables.

> Gurrrrrrr…….just tries to chew on capsules! So feel like I pay out the nose

> for the Houston chewables. At least my 5 year old can take the capsules I

> purchased and won't be money wasted.

>

>

>

> I had him on the Zyme for a couple weeks and I don't think he felt any

> different. He didn't comment anyway. My 8 year old PDD-NOS will tell you

> he feels better on enzymes but also whines to stop because he feels better.

>

>

>

>

> Funny story. I told you he had a nasty yeast/bacteria in his tummy, hence

> the probiotic and staying with enzymes and probiotic was something we needed

> to do to continue to feel good and get better. Then told him we had to get

> rid of those nasty bugs. He looked at me so sweetly and asked " I have bugs

> in my stomach? " We both laughed so hard. Was way cute, you had to be there

> to see his face too!

>

>

>

> Tammy

>

>

>

>

>

> Re: starting enzymes for food allergies

>

>

>

> Oh Tammy,

> I'm cheering you and your son on over here! I hope he can get over some of

> these allergies

> as well. We live in a prison of food " allergies " , it's exhausting and really

> makes socializing

> difficult. The no fenol helps some what with fruit at our house, our son can

> actually

> tolerate a green apple now and then. Whoo Hoo??!! (sorry, my attitude is not

> the best some

> days) Why not do all 3 houston enzymes, they still help with over all

> digestion even if your

> on a restricted diet.

> Since your 5 year old is NT, let us know what he tells you on how he is

> feeling with the

> enzymes, if he has a tummy ache or feels great, ect.. My friend felt great

> on Houstons for

> weeks until she started having heartburn and stomach aches, so she stopped.

> I don't want

> my two year old to be feeling that way but it still seems enzymes help him a

> lot, so I'd be

> curious to know how your son feels, I hope it will make him feel great as

> well.

> Good luck!

> Dani

>

>

> >

> > Ok, started my nt 5 year old on enzymes and then stopped for Great Plains

> > testing. Will start up again. I saw no difference but we didn't get that

> > far either.

> >

> >

> >

> > I'm going to start with Zyme. Next progression I would say is the AFP but

> > he isn't doing any dairy, soy or wheat so will do No-Fenol. Agree?? He's

> > got major fruit issues!

> >

> >

> >

> > He's basically allergic to almost everything. Milk, soy, wheat, gluten,

> > oats, peanuts, peas, all legumes, eggs, bananas, strawberries, peaches,

> > apples. I'm guessing almost any fruit. We eat them in rotation. He also

> > just tested positive to rice, but he still wants his rice milk and his

> wheat

> > free staples is rice based, been that way for the past 4 ½ years so…..I'm

> > doing to keep going! Also pork, which he only eats now and again. His skin

> > looks great, no asthma issues so I'm going on health. This has been his

> > healthiest year, knock on wood!!!! I've started kirkman Vit C and their

> > multi vitamin and he does take singular and flovent. I don't want to take

> > him off meds because I do think it " controls " any small allergic symptoms.

> > Basically there isn't much he doesn't test allergic too and I'm sure there

> > is more if we just testing, like potatoes, which he loves. So I'm going to

> > bury my head in the sand now! I've started him on a probiotic too and

> > anxiously await our results from GP.

> >

> >

> >

> > So basically it is all autoimmune system problem with foods but thankfully

> > he is now a pretty healthy kid. I guess I'm going to do enzymes and

> > probiotics and see if we can get some other foods into him.

> >

> >

> >

> > My first test will be dairy. He's class 1 to dairy, he's drinking rice now

> > and class 2, so what the heck!

> >

> >

> >

> > Guys, I've lived like this for 5 years, I'm so sick of it! Not feeding him

> > is allergens and figuring him out since this all hit a 9 months of age,

> > well, I'll start my own little science experiment and see if this works.

> > Kindergarten starts for him next fall and would really like a family

> > vacation where my entire thoughts don't encompass the thoughts full time

> of

> > meals and preparation 24/7!!!!

> >

> >

> >

> > Thanks

> >

> >

> >

> > Tammy

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Good for you , that's so great to hear. You must feel free as a bird

with enzymes.

Did you know you we're allergic to all those things?

Welcome to the group and thanks for the inspiration.

Dani

-- In , " Hanisco " <chanisco@...>

wrote:

>

> This is my first post, but I wanted to chime in and tell you that you're not

> alone in this food allergy/intolerance thing! My husband and I, and our two

> sons (5 and 2) are all on enzymes. My husband just takes Digest Gold by

> Enzymedica. I take Digest Gold as well, but I add in a Peptizyde if I'm

> eating gluten/casein/eggs. For my boys I make a mixture of DG and Peptizyde

> in barely-melted Enjoy Life soy-free chocolate chips and make little

> chocolate enzyme wafers, which they LOVE. I keep them in the freezer. We all

> started the enzymes a few weeks ago. A little before that we got our IgG

> test results back. My husband is just allergic to blueberries and pineapple.

> My 5-y-o is blueberry, pineapple, sesame, soy and kidney bean. My 2-y-o is

> just soy and peanuts.

>

>

>

> Now here's the biggie - I am allergic to dairy/casein/whey, yeast, sugar

> cane, eggs, garlic, sesame, most beans (not soy or peanuts thankfully),

> pineapple, blueberries, white potatoes, amaranth, and a couple more things

> that escape me. Gluten/wheat was negative, but I've bneen GF for 4 years and

> it probably didn't come up because of that. I know I'm sensitive to gluten

> as well. I tested positive for leaky gut syndrome, so my naturopath (who has

> celiac and is very knowledgeable) has me on supplements to help that and I

> was avoiding my bad foods completely for a couple of months. Now I take

> enzymes and I don't seem to have any problems as long as I don't eat my bad

> foods too often. I expect this to get better and better. One thing I can say

> is that my hair is no longer falling out, and a psoriasis-like rash on my

> scalp is going away, as is the eczema behind my ears. I am also no longer

> anemic. My strength is coming back, and I feel pretty good!

>

>

>

> My husband has IBS and the enzymes have helped him immensely. (His boss is

> even on enzymes now because of us!) He hates taking things, but he takes

> enzymes religiously because they help him so much.

>

>

>

> My 5-y-o was borderline PDD when he was 2. I put him on the GFCF diet back

> then and he did very well. He actually was never diagnosed with PDD because

> it disappeared just by remoiving gluten. I also have an ASD sister and niece

> (her daughter) so these issues seem to run in my family. I also believe that

> my dad had ASD as well. I just have/had a slight case of ADD. Getting back

> to my 5-y-o - he's doing very well! He's in mainstream kindergarten. He has

> an IEP and gets speech and OT 2x a week, but that's it. I've noticed that

> fish oil supplements seem to be helping him too. My 2-y-o was in EI for

> delays, but was released after a year. He has been GFCF his whole life until

> recently. I let him eat regular food now (except for soy and peanuts) with

> enzymes. Bothboys now eat all foods other thanthose that they are allergic

> to, since it's fairly easy to just avoid those 6 foods anyway.

>

>

>

> I can honestly say that we are really surprised at how well we are doing on

> enzymes. I am new to them and am very happy at our success. I wish you luck!

>

>

>

> in NH

>

>

>

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