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To: metmom

Hi... I have prayed for healing. Your problem seems so enormous,but I know you are a woman of faith, which is sometimes all we have to rely on in such times.

Let us know how you are. I read a book on allergies many years ago. I have an auto-immune disease (actually three - lovely, huh?). Allergies are considered low scale auto-immune diseases - of course, yours is much more serious than the usual ragwood allergy or allergy to eggs, nuts, etc. Anyway, for whatever it’s worth, the book was excellent (wish I could recall it). The author wrote about how sometime around 1907, a doctor started experiencing various symptoms (symptoms anyone of us would easily recognize today) and he tried to find others with the same symptoms. He was having a very hard time finding people. Can you imagine walking into any group of people nowadays and having a problem finding people with allergies? Crazy.

It had a lot more but the gist was that auto-immune disorders are a relatively new problem. I really wonder a lot.

Anyway, may God give you a safe trip to Boston, a doctor who is committed to your issue, and some answers and hope.

Blessings.


434 posted on 10/04/2010 8:40:50 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Paved Paradise

There are two factors that I think account for that.

One is that anyone with bad enough allergies generally died from them.

The other is that early, continual exposure to dirt and germs, strengthens the disease fighting arm of the immune system so that it works properly instead of over reacting in the allergic way.

In those days, people lived with dirt, didn’t shower every day, drank well water, raw milk, mucked the stalls, etc.

Their immune systems got a workout and worked properly.


447 posted on 10/04/2010 11:08:52 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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