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severe pet allergies?
Has anyone with severe pet allergies (specifically dog allergies, if that matters) found any supplements (etc) that help? He takes allergy meds and has seen specialists, etc just wondering if anyone knew of anything additional to reduce them.
Re: severe pet allergies?
NAET
I had it done for some of my food and environmental allergies. Things like plums and avocados would make my lips swell up when I'd eat them. I did NAET with them (and other things I'm allergic to) and I can eat them now. I don't eat them, because I'm still skeptical about NAET actually fixing the allergies that can be life threatening. But my allergies this whole year have been a thousand times better than they've ever been.
I haven't done it with the pets yet, because I have to stay away from them for 25 hours. But, I'm going to have them done soon. I just realized we're going to visit Jeff's brother in early June, so I can have Mitzie taken care of then. And I can get Summit done in August when we go on our cruise. And Nandi the next time we go someplace. I can let you know how they work if you want.
Ooh I was hearing about NAET before, and wanting to find someone who'd done it! So really, what do they do??
25 hours isn't a problem (its not me, the person doesn't live with pets).
How many sessions does it usually take?
It's really bizarre and painless. My chiropractor does my treatments.
When I started mine, she started me off with common allergens. She had a case full of little vials containing the allergen. She'd have me hold one in my left hand, and then stretch my arm out at a 90* angle to the floor. Then she'd try to push my arm down. If you're not allergic to the item, you'll be able to resist the push. If you're allergic to the item, it will be pretty easy to push the arm down. I'm not sure if you have to have the common ones cleared first, or if you can just start off wherever you'd like.
The treatment gets weirder. She would rub my back over and over again, and occasionally have me pant or breathe differently. When she was done, she'd hand me the vial again and we'd see if my arm would go down when she'd push on it. And it never did.
Then she'd give me a list of things to avoid while my body (meridians maybe?) reset, which takes 24 hours. But, they say to avoid the allergen for 25 hours. So, if you're allergic to mold and get treated for it there's no eating wine, cheese, nuts, or leftovers (and you should probably not get treated on a wet, rainy, mold growth promoting day). She'd test me a couple days later with the arm thing again, and if it was still good we'd move on to the next allergen.
I was only allergic to a few of the things in vials, so it took me 3 treatments to get done with those. And then we moved on to my food allergies. My last trip in was to finish up mold treatment, and to see if I'm allergic to cats. I brushed the cats before I left and took in a little ball of their fur. When she tested me with Summit's fur she had to work a bit to get my arm to go down. When she tested me with Mitzie's fur, she barely touched my arm and it went down. It was so weird.
You can probably see while I'm still skeptical about it.
But at least I don't have to be hyper vigilant about eating out anymore. I think the real test will be with the cats.
Haha, totally, and that's why I wanted to talk to people who'd actually had it done! Bonus that its someone I know and consider sane!!
It does sound totally hokey (and I'd heard the general jist of it already) but then, so does homeopathy and that totally works.
The trick is convincing someone else that its not hokey.
I know he'd take just about any supplement I'd slip him, but going for weird visits to have your arms pushed on while you hold allergens may be more of a challenge!
Awwww, you think I'm sane! That's so sweet!
I know what you mean, though. I never would have gone if my nail lady hadn't suggested it. She used to have anaphylactic reactions to just about everything that's hard to avoid - corn, wheat, soy, nuts, you name it. And now she eats them all. Convincing is the hard part. Heck, I've done it and I'm still not convinced. 
Maybe they should make it feel more clinical or something to get people on board.
LOL! I'm not sure how much you can hide the hokeyness in something that involves testing whether or not you can hold your arm firm while holding the potential irritant. I know his allergies bother him a lot (and they are a bit of an issue) so maybe he'll try it. I know his mom made him go through all sorts of allergy treatments as a kid so he's a little wary since that!
And you are totally sane!
Haha, yes, same boy.
He's been working in California but his job is almost up and he'll be back in about a month so I'm thinking ahead.
If it weren't for his deathly allergic to my dogs issue, and his desire to make babies someday, he'd be perfect.
*sigh*
All the neighbor ladies are going to be so excited. I think he made their summer last year.
Spill it Ali, is he the triathlete?
Haha, yes Cutes!
*blushes*
Yes, that he has, among other great attributes.
AND he's into healthy eating. lol
I wouldn't recommend this, but I listened to a "This American Life" podcast a few weeks ago in which a guy actually infected himself with hookworm to deal with his debilitating allergies. It worked so well that he now "harvests" the worms from himself and sells them on the internet. I don't know that I'll ever get that desperate, but I've come close lately.
I've recently started Quercetin Bromelain on recommendation of a fellow allergy sufferer. It's working better for me than any OTC med has so far.
lmao @ the hook worm solution! Wow...
thanks for the recc on the quercetin bromelain, we'll give it a shot!
I heard that as well!
The idea was his body's immune system is so busy dealing with the hookworm that it doesn't have the energy to attack itself.
Crazy sh|t.
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OMG that totally fits what a friend was saying the other night, how he heard that food allergies are really a 'luxury', starving people don't have them since their immune systems are too weak or know better than to reject nutrition.
Starve yourself and get hookworm, you'll have no allergies!