Adam, your post demonstrates
profoundly, DANGEROUSLY ignorant beliefs regarding IgE-mediated food allergy and anaphylaxis. I do not want ANYONE to think that this is a reasonable response to the symptoms of anaphylaxis. Please educate yourself so that you have some idea what kind of danger you are toying with. Much of the "information" on the web related to food allergy is
not about food allergy at all, and even less of it is what I'd call "good" advice.
"and know that not everything you read on the internet is even remotely based on science or anything related to reality, for that matter" Wow. Talk about being ignorant.
Anyway, yes, I am in Sweden, but allergies are universal. So who cares?
My regular diet, just like most peoples regular diet is inflammatory and useless. Understand that there are better ways of eating that you might not yet want to learn about.
After the first swelling I eliminated the grain/grass-fed butter, and now I have to eliminate everything because this happens several time per day, I have taken myself to the ER a dozen times, and fortunately it has never been anything serious but frightening nonetheless.
The diet you attack consists of 50% healthy fats, 25% vegetables and the rest animal protein.
I wanted to know if there is a common denominator because even if I "switch" to my regular diet I will feel sick from the starches and nutrition-low food, just like everybody does, I will have the same symptoms.
Thats where the breathing techniques came in handy because there is a connection between stress and allergic reactions.
Peace
I'm not one bit surprised that you're winding up in the ER multiple times given how you've chosen to manage your situation.
Eventually, you can expect to die from this kind of management.
That's not me being mean, by the way-- that's simply the fact that reality doesn't care how calm you feel while your oxygen saturation drops to nothing and your heart stops from a catastrophic crash in your blood pressure.
Relaxation and deep breathing is not life-saving to someone experiencing anaphylaxis.I'm sorry, I'm not usually so very blunt:
Either you actually HAVE a medical problem which is IgE-mediated
or--
you DO NOT have that as a problem, in which case, you're offering dangerous, ignorant advice to people (here) who can actually DIE from what they put in their mouths. You would be better off finding out what IS going on.
I don't really care whether you find some particular dietary philosophy helpful or not. That's not the point. You didn't ask me what I thought of your diet, so I didn't say. Would you like me to render an opinion?
Understand that there are better ways of managing a
food allergy.
Then understand that pretty much EVERY other concern about food has to serve the prime directive of avoiding what you're allergic to.
Or you're courting death. It's fine if you believe so strongly in your dietary philosophy that the sacrifice is worth it. But you asked for insights from a food allergy support group, and a fairly well-educated one that keeps current on research practices and best-practices for diagnosis and treatment.
There IS no way to eat a food allergen safely as part of your diet. Anything else is not really fact-based. Rotation diets, 'clearing' allergies with energy, 'reducing inflammatory responses,' or supplementation with vitamins, avoidance of foods which are not allergens, are all, in that context-- complete and total garbage. Those things are scientifically invalid from start to finish as a means of managing food allergy.
You've stated that NO MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL HAS FOUND ANYTHING WRONG WITH YOU. Is this correct? If so, be aware that it is possible that your symptoms are not related to what you are eating in any way, but might be panic attacks instead.