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Beyond dust mites

In Food Allergy and Intolerance (Bloomsbury1989), Jonathan Brostoff says that you should look to many other causes besides dust and mites. These include infections (as many as 40 per cent of cases can be caused by them); indeed, many children can be allergic to the viruses, as well as infected by them. (Pattemore et al in Clinical Exper Allergy 1992: 22:325-336). Another aggravating factor is too much salt in the diet and monosodium glutamate, mainly found in tinned and packet soups, Chinese food and other convenience foods. A New England Journal of Medicine study (April 25 1991) demonstrated that parental smoking can contribute to elevated levels of airway responsiveness (ie, bronchial constriction) early in life. Don't discount food as a potential trigger. Dr Freed finds that many patients with asthma are intolerant of dairy products.

Indeed, allergy specialist Dr Keith Mumby (see p 7 ) finds that food is often a more potent trigger than are environmental factors. Chicken and wheat were the frontrunners in provoking symptoms in a random sampling of 16 patients in Dr Mumby's practice.

Ventolin - Help of hinderence for bronchial constriction? - I am back from a scary visit to my daughter. She suffers from bronchial mucus with colds or if she eats gluten, but she has never had bronchial constr...

Glutamate in the brain is not caused by the glutamate we eat - Re a letter in your July issue concerning a possible link between monosodium glutamate (MSG) and excitotoxins:

Pure, white and brain deadly - Monosodium glutamate has been blamed for a huge range of non life threatening but disturbing effects, from dizziness, light headedness, mental confusi...

Candida: the missing links - A noted allergy specialist questions many of the most common assumptions about candida overgrowth. ... ...

There’s no evidence that msg can trigger a migraine attack - Re prevention of migraine (WDDTY vol 14 no 5, p 10), we are concerned that the references linking monosodium glutamate [MSG] to headaches may cause un...

News - * A recent report suggests that monosodium glutamate (MSG) may be a trigger for the chronic pain syndrome fibromyalgia.

Biological pollutants - ' - Another category of major household pollutants is the naturally occurring insect and microbial life that chooses to share our homes with us principall...

Food allergy and asthma - Although allergies have been identified as an asthma trigger, they won’t cause asthma on their own. In fact, not all allergic people have asthma, and...

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