What causes the development of multiple allergies?

[AllyRae]

Is there something out there that seems to be linked to the development of multiple IgE allergies in people? We finally have most of the RAST allergy tests back (we're still waiting on a few from Brandon and a few from me), but so far, this is what's come back:

Brandon (5 years old, bio child):
-Peanuts
-Milk
-Tree Nuts
-Almonds
-Kidney beans
-Dog
-Cat
-Mold
-Dust

Jocelyn (2 years old, adopted from Vietnam):
-Dairy
-Wheat
-Egg
-Almond
-Tree nut
-Potato
-Tangerine
-Strawberry
-Blueberry
-Cockroaches

Me:
-Gluten
-Dairy
-Latex
-Mold
-Dust
-Pollen

Amelia (4 1/2 months old, bio child):
-Dairy
-Latex (or something that's in regular disposable diapers)
-Multiple severe vaccine reactions

What's funny is that we were in the ped's office to get Brandon's test results back and Amelia starts developing a huge red welty rash all over her thighs where her dry Pampers diaper is--this is the first time since she was born that she's been in disposable diapers for entire days at a time. The ped looks at it and says that she is allergic to the DIAPER! Either the latex or some component of it.

So, what on earth is causing all of these reactions? I mean, we don't do a lot of unhealthy stuff that I would think would lower their immune systems, and Brandon & Amelia were breastfed (Amelia hasn't even started solids yet). What on earth would cause people to develop allergies to almost everything around them?!

[GnomeyNewt]

I'm curious for others opinions on this too. We just got back results for my DS and he is allergic to most vegetables and fruits ... funny huh? So we are feeding our kid what we are suppose to and now we have to stop! Only Broccoli, mushrooms, spinach, olives and legumes for our little guy. No citrus or appears to be orange colored fruits. Didn't do any tests on mold/dust, but I'm curious now.

[Chinese Pistache]

Originally Posted by GnomeyNewt

I'm curious for others opinions on this too. We just got back results for my DS and he is allergic to most vegetables and fruits ... funny huh? So we are feeding our kid what we are suppose to and now we have to stop! Only Broccoli, mushrooms, spinach, olives and legumes for our little guy. No citrus or appears to be orange colored fruits. Didn't do any tests on mold/dust, but I'm curious now.

What kind of testing did you have done?

OP, this is the big question. No one really knows why people become allergic to single foods, much less multiple. I think it's a combination of things, ranging from long-standing maternal nutrient deficiencies to gut damage (incl. abx, yeast overgrowth, etc.), to the way food is grown and prepared, to environmental toxins. I think the genetic component is actually the smallest factor of all, but environmental forces may cause mutations that are themselves passed along.

I think it's interesting that your young one is from Vietnaman and has multiple allergies. Allergies are predominantly a Western phenomenon and people who eat traditional diets are less likely to have them. Westerners are more likely to have received abx (either the child themselves or the mother and grandmother, passing increasingly poor gut bacteria down the line), for example. Western mothers are more likely to have leaky guts, from (imo) NSAIDS, abx, processed food, Diet Coke (I'm not even kidding, diet drinks can dissolve the grime in a toilet bowl, they can surely attack the lining of our stomachs), etc.

I know that breastmilk is supposed to be protective, however, the big swell of allergies over the past ten years correlates with a similar increase in breastfeeding. Women have damaged and leaky guts that are allowing undigested food proteins to get into their milk and into their babies. We wouldn't dream of feeding our newborns cow's milk and wheat, but that's what they get with their breastmilk. I think this may be a large reason for the increase in allergies and multiple allergies; not that it explains WHY more women have damaged guts, but it does explain how younger and yonger babies are having issues from day one.

[GnomeyNewt]

We had just a Standard Food Panel IgG done by our Naturapath (through US BioTek). We have gone to him for about 4 years for me and finally my DH has gone in and is having his issues resolved. I don't personally have a leaky gut or any food allergies, but have been fighting sugar addiction doing much better than 4 years ago. Oddly though, my sugar addiction is fruits and bread -- didn't eat candy or sodas or any of that -- just always wanted my carbs!

My oldest DD does not have any food allergies as my DS does. She does react with sugarary foods, food dyes, HFCS, etc though, which we already avoid.

DH and his mother do have issues with food, his mother goes to the same Naturapath which makes everything pretty convenient when getting to the top of things :c) since he knows the issues in DH's mother. DH and his mother do have issues with some food, but not the same ones (which we were avoiding) as my DS tests.

We do mostly eat whole foods and try to follow a traditional diet, organic, etc since before DS was born. I knew that he was allergic to some food which we avoided like milk and peanuts (DH & MIL have allergic reactions to these), but didn't suspect it would be fruit or veggies. There is a good chance that if we avoid them now, he won't have to avoid them for the rest of his life. We are also doing a gut test on him, but that won't be till later this month because the recommended specialized tester is so busy that she couldn't give us an appointment for 2 months!

[Therese's Mommy]

Originally Posted by Chinese Pistache

Diet Coke (I'm not even kidding, diet drinks can dissolve the grime in a toilet bowl, they can surely attack the lining of our stomachs),

Yeah, that stuff is totally nasty. I had power windows that wouldn't work. DH spilled a huge diet soda on the controls (accidently of course) and miraculously they started working again. The guy who looked at it said that connections must have been bad and that the soda had eaten off the grime...blech!

[kjbrown92]

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[AllyRae]

Originally Posted by Chinese Pistache

I think it's interesting that your young one is from Vietnaman and has multiple allergies. Allergies are predominantly a Western phenomenon and people who eat traditional diets are less likely to have them. Westerners are more likely to have received abx (either the child themselves or the mother and grandmother, passing increasingly poor gut bacteria down the line), for example. Western mothers are more likely to have leaky guts, from (imo) NSAIDS, abx, processed food, Diet Coke (I'm not even kidding, diet drinks can dissolve the grime in a toilet bowl, they can surely attack the lining of our stomachs), etc.

She was adopted at 4 months old, and in the US at 5 months old, so her diet was a Western diet (I joke now that she's allergic to the western diet, because if you look at her list, it's primarily stuff she would not have gotten in Northern Vietnam where she was from). She also had severe reflux when we got her and was completely allergic to the formula the orphanage was giving her (dairy based).

And diet coke scares me. All pop does (except root beer...the only kind I've had in my life because I can't stand the taste of any other pop. : )

[kjbrown92]

I met with a bunch of women who'd adopted babies from China. And one of them was milk allergy (IgE, I believe). My nephew (adopted from China) I'm sure has food intolerances but my brother denies it. He's 8yo and still wets the bed almost every night, has massive mood swings, and hyper as anything (even completely off sugar). So it can't be all Western. Especially because hardly anywhere is insulated anymore from all the crap food we've put out there (as Western society).