: I am going crazy.

June 15, 2000

Hi ,

I am going to give you the short answer today........I'm feeling under the

weather as it were............we have had record heat and I seemed to have

gotten sinus infection..........yuk!! So, I am running a fever and I don't

think very well when that is going on. Later, when I am feeling better I

will bombard you with info!! Lucky you!! :-)

The food and drug colorings are called tartrazines, the preservatives are

benzoates and aminobenzoic acid and Butylate hydroxytoluene (BHT), found in

chewing gum, potato chips, peanuts, and cake mix. Finally there is

nutrasweet which is aspartame..........all have been known to cause

urticaria and all fall into the group of what is termed excitotoxins. I

would recommend the book, Excitotoxins : The Taste That Kills -- L.

Blaylock, MD ; he is a neurologist. It is available at www.amazon.com

I have heard this gentleman speak on this subject..........talk about scary.

My own personal experience with nutrasweet was enoguh to make me a believer.

These are quite different from salicylates which are natural occurring in

most fruits and vegetables to lesser or greater extent. The salicylates are

also in many cleaning and household products as well as in aspirin and

NSAID's. Many people who are salicylate sensative can have Sal products if

they don't overload in one day.

I have posted one source you can check about salicylates.......Barbara from

Oz has posted some info recently.......maybe someone can pull that back up

for you. Here is a site you can check out and when I am feeling better

I'll send you others.

your son on the H1's perhaps H2's until you reach an understanding of what

he is reacting to.......then you can reduce meds slowly over time. You

don't want to be boucing back and forth on his diet.............what he

cannot tolerate now, maybe he can tolerate when he is much older. My

sister had children who were extremely reactive to all fruits and vegetables

and milk products. They lived on lamb and banana the first 5 years of their

life. It's a very looooooooooooong story. One kid also lived at UCSF for

about a year.

They were thought to be very unusal, today we know that they were salicylate

sensative as well as they had milk allergies. Anyway they are much older

and except for some fruits, they can eat anything. So don't worry if his

diet has to be very restrictive for now. Hugs, Myra

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