Asthma & Allergy
Asthma is very often an allergic condition.
To suffer from allergies is a hereditary condition – if your
mother or father has allergies, you are born with the
disposition to develop an allergy, although you may not show
any reactions as a newborn infant or child. They are normally
triggered by a “shock” to the system – stress, operation, virus
infection, grief, vaccination, giving birth and so on.
As you can see under “Symptoms”, an allergy can show itself
in many different ways. This is why you are not considered to
have an allergy if, for example, you have a problem with your
stomach. Your doctor may tell you that you have an irritable
colon, which is very likely a correct diagnosis, but the
symptoms may have been caused by an allergic reaction.
Many of the symptoms listed can be a sign of other illnesses
as well as an allergy; this is why you should always see
your doctor fi rst to rule out any serious illness. The number
of people with allergies is increasing with worrying speed. If
this continues at the current rate, all of the Western world will
suffer from some form of allergy by 2014. So far, the orthodox
medical community has not been able to fi nd the solution to
break this trend. Asthma is today the most common reason
for absence from school among children.
Symptoms
Eyes & Skin:
Red, itchy, running eyes/areas around the eyes,
eczema, nettle rash, itchy, dry skin.
Bones & Joints
Pain in your joints without any previous damage,
symptoms of rheumatism.
Respiratory passages & Ears
Runny or blocked nose, adenoids, loss of taste and
smell, allergic sinusitis, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, in-
fl ammation of the middle ear, pressure in the ear,
bad hearing, dizziness.
Muscles
Pain in the muscles
Digestion
Recurring inflammation of the mouth, indigestion,
stomach pains, inflammation of stomach and bowel/intestine,
vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation, infant colic,
irritable colon.
Kidneys & Bladder
“Leaking kidneys”, frequent / unintentional urination,
bedwetting with children, frequent cystitis, incontinence.
Nerve system & Brain
Aggressiveness, bad concentration, headache, migraine,
severe tiredness, depression, anxiety, bad memory,
hyperactivity, epileptic seizure.
Allergy, which translated means “wrong reaction”, is the
result of a dysfunctional immune system which mistakenly
perceives a normally harmless substance, for example
dust or pollen, as a threat to the organism.
If one of your parents has allergic tendencies, you will have
been born with the disposition to develop an allergy at some
point or another.
As you can see, an allergic reaction can occur almost
anywhere in and on the body, and causes many different
symptoms. On the surface these symptoms are very different,
but they result from the same defect in the immune system,
which means that harmless things like dust, pollen, nickel
and so on are being attacked. They are being confused with
hostile parasites, and it is actually the immune system’s own
antibodies that damage the surrounding tissues where the
reactions occur. If this affects the skin, you will get eczema;
if it affects the lungs you will get asthma, and so on.
The allergy will be most apparent in one or several organs in
the body, where the reaction will be particularly strong. If your
lungs /respiratory system are the affected organs, you will
almost certainly not also experience a reaction on the skin.
Usually, however, an allergy test consists of a spot-test on
the skin. So, while you may have had a spot-test on the skin
that fails to indicate positive results for allergy, you still have
asthma. This is why many asthmatics and medical experts
believe that asthma is not an allergic reaction, but in most
cases it is. A small percentage of sufferers will have “real
asthma” or “old-man’s-asthma”. This affects people who
have worked with solvents and/or are smokers, leading to
permanent damage to their lungs and respiratory system.
