Smells---Chemical Sensitivity

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Re: One of the things that I learned is that smelling is worse than

inhalation with regards to chemical sensitivity. When you smell a

toxic substance in through your nose, it crosses the blood/brain

barrier which is why we will often get a headache to noxious fumes.

When you inhale a toxic substance, the bodies natural filtration

system kicks in and you are not as adversely affected; the blood

brain barrier is not crossed. This is why the 'smell' of household

cleaners and such is often very hard on our children. It goes

straight to their head!

This post fascinates me. One of the many things we have had on our

hourney of addressing diet is the following:

Certain allowable foods were rejected outright. As you know I hid

them. I watched as I rotated them through and some things (rice,

tomato in and orange and lemon in ) caused allergic

reactions when all other ingredients in the hidden food combo had

been eaten before without issue. Makes you wonder why our kids crave

things that are bad for them and often are allergens. Perhaps hunger

itself is the issue or other ingredients that are not outright

allergens, like sugar, attract them more. Perhaps this is the theory

of whole foods in the first place I suppose. What is promising is

that formerly rejected foods (like meat for ) are being

consumed willingly.

One depressing thought is that I have a keen sense of smell. God only

knows what has crossed my blood brain barrier over time!