SV: questions for the recently confused

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Dato: 12. desember 2000 20:03

Emne: questions for the recently confused

>..........My daughter also has a reaction to yellow corn

>and to chocolate and to certain stuff like raisins and ginger, but does

>not seem to have a reaction to stuff like apples and bananas (not sure

>about tomatoes). When she does get something like raisins or ginger

>she gets very hyper and sort of aggressive and really begins demanding

>large quantities of the substance. ......

>............ If she has yellow corn like in Fritos or Corn Pops she gets very

>stimmy, aggressive, hyper, violent, won't sleep much, and totally

>craves more and won't eat much else for about a week. Haven't really

>noticed this with things like iodized salt or corn syrup.

>

>My questions are:

>Do these foods have the same reason for the reaction or is it something

>else? I mean is it a problem breaking down the proteins and having

>some sort of drug leaching into their system like the gladiomorphine

>and caseiomorphine?

Probably not. These things do not contain specific amino acid sequences that

are suspected of having opiate properties. The theory that is currently most

popular, is that the reaction to such other substances is probably more closely

linked to allergy than to intolerance, and that the problem could be caused both

by the protein AND by - for instance - pigments. However, there is a

theoretical and very remote possibility that the children that react to these

foods, are actually able to re-combine amino acids or short peptides from these

proteins into longer molecules like endorphins, that have opiate activity.

>Could this be a regular histamine reaction?

>With regular histamine reactions, depending on the reaction, the foods

>can be tolerated in small amounts as long as they are not ingested very

>often. Is that the case here? Example is she cannot tolerate having a

>couple of glasses of chocolate milk without getting very hyper, but

>having a small 8oz carton once a week does not seem to affect her at

>all.

You could be right. Dr. hp Egger (Kinderklinik, Universität München) has

done excellent research on food-induced hyperactivity. His focus was not only

on gluten and caseine, but on all other kinds of foods that could cause

hyperactivity. He has demonstrated very clearly that such problems do exist.

His experiments are fun to read about: He actually managed to get the Heinz

baby food company to cooperate, and their cooks produced dozens of identical

tins without labels: The taste and everything was the same, but the contents

varied. He then did relatively large double blind crossover studies, and

monitored a large number of responses in the patients and control groups, using

the best techniques available. It's extremely convincing!

Dr. Egger found that a number of these patients were helped by standard

de-sensitivisation techniques used in the treatment of allergies. He considers

that there is a whole spectrum of reactions, ranging from pure allergy at the

one end, to pure pharmacology / poison effects at the other end. The

gluten/milk peptide problem is, according to him, more or less pure

pharmacology.

I'm not able to answer your other questions, but would be very interested to

know if your research leads you on to something interesting.

Yours

n Klaveness

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