Environmental medicine

We ended up taking our younger daughter to an Environmental Medicine doctor.  Our traditional pediatrician recommended corticosteroids.  Our good friend provided a recommendation to Julius Roth Eczema Therapy, and we seriously considered this treatment, but we decided we wanted a local doctor rather than one in the UK.  Another friend of my older daughter's from dance class used an Environmental Medicine doctor, and this worked.  The girl is cured!

 

So, we're trying this out, and we had our first appointment.  The doctor said that eczema is caused by three things - nutritional deficiencies, food allergies, and problems in the gut.  The program we are undergoing now is threefold:

• Supplementation with flaxseed oil, a multivitam, and a zinc supplement.
• Stool testing - this is a do-at-home test through the mail with a lab in Kent, WA.
• Allergy testing.  The allergy testing will be for four separate 2 1/2 hour sessions.

Let's see how it goes for her.

 

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More significantly for me, the doctor also suggested something interesting related to diabetes.  He indicated that allergies often don't actually go into remission but actually move to different organs,  The pancreas is one organ that is known to inherit these allergic responses.  He's noticed that blood sugars can go up as an allergic reaction.

 

This has made me wonder whether my high blood sugar is in part caused by environmental allergies I have to substances native to the Pacific Northwest.  After all, as a child, I had debilitating allergies.  This would also explain why my blood sugar appears to be so much better when I'm on vacation.  While I thougth it might be a "destress" program, it might just be an "away from allergens" problem.

 

I made my own appointment to see the environmental medicine doctor.