Allergy On The Increase

As the payback for our lifestyles

Allergies are one of the most prolific problems in the world today and are expected to reach epidemic proportions during the 21st century. Allergies can be grouped into 9 broad categories but virtually any symptom can be a result of an allergy problem. Here we try to understand why this trend is increasing, why we appear unable to stop it and a possible solution for allergy distress.

Allergy and Intolerance – an Increasing Trend

Allergies in the UK are strongly on the increase. According to the BBC:-

• Allergic conditions have increased fourfold in the UK over the last 20 years
• One in three people has an allergy related problem
• Four out of ten school children have at least one allergy
• One in five children have asthma
• An estimated six million people have eczema
• Over nine million people have hay fever

Part of the challenge with allergies or intolerances is recognising they are a cause of the problems being experienced, as symptoms can manifest themselves in many different ways. Energy Medicine categorises allergic symptoms into 12 groups and if any of these symptoms are experienced, there is a good chance the cause may be an allergy or intolerance:-

ANAPHYLAXSIS ASTHMA Persistent Cough Short of breath Tight chest Wheezing BEHAVIOUR/LEARNING Acting withdrawn Anxiety Depression Disturbed sleep Dizziness Erratic Learning Fatigue Hyperactivity Memory problems Mood swings Sadness Tantrums Tiredness ECZEMA DERMATITIS Acne Dry scaly skin Itchy skin Rashes Red skin Small blisters

DIGESTIVE Abdominal pain Constipation Diarrhoea Gut spasms Infant Colitis Indigestion Irritable bowel Nausea Piles Vomiting Wind Bladder & urine HEAD Conjunctivitis Ear infection Glue ear Headache Itchy / red eyes Migraine Mouth ulcers Sore throat Tinnitus

HAY FEVER Blocked nose Catarrh Runny nose Sneezing HEART Circulatory reactions Blood pressure changes Cold hands and feet JOINTS & MUSCLES Joint pains Muscle aches Muscle spasm OEDEMA Bloating Swollen tissues Water retention Weight gain SINUSITIS Blocked sinuses Hoarseness Inflamed sinuses URTICARIA Hives

 

Research carried out in 1997 (by Resource Marketing Research) with a sample of 824 adults, has shown that a high proportion of the UK population is affected by allergies/intolerances and that lack of guidance as to the causes of their problems results in unnecessarily long periods of distress. Problems are then extended, as even when diagnosed, the traditional methods of treatment for allergies focuses on easing the symptoms, not on eliminating the causes.

The Research found that over 25% of adults recognise they have problems caused by particular foods (and when considering all possible causes of allergies, informed expert opinion suggests nearer 50% of the population actually suffer). In addition to the adults surveyed, an increasing number of children each year suffer from allergic illnesses. The lack of effective solutions for allergies by orthodox medicine means that over 70% of people with allergies or intolerances consider they have had them for over 7 years. 50% of those adults recognised the causes of their allergic symptoms within 5 years but a further 22% suffer for more than 15 years before discovering the causes. These findings are disappointing, when we realise that for 82% of sufferers allergies adversely affect their lifestyle.

According to research from Canton hospital in Zurich, the proportion of the population with allergies increased throughout the 20th century from 1% in 1920 to nearly 50% by the year 2000. During the 21st century allergies are expected to become the epidemic of civilisation (Reinhold Will, Bioresonance Therapy, ISBN 3-89698-114-5).

Lifestyles Drive The Allergy Trend

A question at this point is why now, why us, why are there such dramatic increases in allergic problems? There are 9 broad causes that we can list as foods, non-food allergens such as dust or pollen, toxic stresses, hormonal imbalance, miasms (inherited diseases and a family predisposition towards allergy), parasites, micro organisms such as Candida, vitamin and mineral balance, and environmental factors.

However, it may be easier to summarise these by considering that allergic symptoms are the price we pay for our lifestyle as we surround ourselves with materials and foods that are potentially harmful. Here we will summarise just a few of the more common lifestyle implications.

• The foundation of most allergic problems, which we refer to as the central allergens, are based on those allergens that we most commonly come into contact with, namely cows milk and /or wheat.
• According to the Chemical Abstract service, some 600,000 chemical compounds had been synthesised by 1954. Fifty years later that figure had increased to over 12 million and the number (together with the potential problems for humans), continues to rise. Environmental pollution, pharmaceutical drugs and food additives all stress our immune systems.
• Our homes are now double-glazed and centrally heated, providing well-sealed environments that encourage major allergens such as house dust mites. It is not the mites themselves but their faecal particles that act as allergens and cause allergies.
  

Therefore, if you have allergic parents, are a cigarette smoker, dog-owner, whose birth coincides with the pollen season, who lives in a well-insulated double-glazed house, and whose early life diet contains high levels of dairy and wheat products – you have a very high risk of developing allergies.

Beating the Allergy

The body’s natural defence system, the immune system, is made up of a number of different cell types and proteins that work together to enable us to distinguish our own cells from harmful cells and then destroy abnormal or invading cells.

If you develop an allergy it is because, even though your immune system works perfectly well against the antigens associated with viruses, bacteria and parasites, it also reacts to other antigens that should be completely harmless. These antigens are known as allergens. These are incorrectly seen as being dangerous by your immune system, which mounts an immune response against them. This response is called an allergic reaction, and you will have developed an allergy. So allergic reactions occur when the immune system incorrectly assumes a substance entering your body is harmful. This results in your immune system over-reacting causing a biochemical allergen - antibody reaction.

To be more precise; When an allergen encounters cells capable of antibody formation, they form lgE antibodies that bind to the surface of other cells, called mast cells and basophils. In response to the attachment those cells release chemicals called mediators of anaphylaxis, among them histamine. It is these chemicals that cause allergic reactions.

Once you have developed an allergy, your body will always produce an allergic reaction whenever it meets this allergen again.

Although accepted orthodox medicine is happy with this explanation, it does not help orthodox medicine to eliminate the cause of allergic problems. Practitioners can prevent the appearance of allergic reactions by avoiding the allergens and a rotation diet (eating each food every 4 or 5 days), but they cannot remove the sensitivity to specific allergens. If exposed to the allergen, in most cases the allergic symptom will come back, even after many years of abstinence.

To eliminate the problem we have to go one stage further and understand that although an allergen reaction occurs at a biochemical level, they are initiated by the biophysical (electromagnetic) information from the causing allergen. It is now evident that it is the physical vibration or electromagnetic properties of matter rather than their chemical properties that trigger allergic responses (Reinhold Will, Bioresonance Therapy, ISBN 3-89698-114-5). To eliminate the allergen/intolerance it is necessary to cancel out its electromagnetic charge. The micro electronic equipment required to cancel the charges is sensitive due to the low frequencies of the allergens. The frequency range at which the allergic reaction to foods seems to take place in most cases is around 52 kHz; this drops to 24 kHz for pollens, mould, dust, etc. and to 11 kHz for synthetic substances