Success with NAET treatment, but still have questions

[MamaMamaMama!]

So I took my ds to the chiropractor for a NAET test for allergies and he tested slight positive for dairy and their grain mix. We did two days of treatments and went from Post Nasal Drip Hell ("Mama Hanky!" every.two.minutes.all.day.long) to maybe five or six tissues a day. This is an enormous improvement from where we have been for the entire past year and I was really relieved--at first.

I'm feeling uncomfortable now, a week later, mostly because I just don't understand how some simple chiropractic adjustments could "cure" him of a food sensitivity. I'm wondering why I didn't just eliminate dairy altogether instead of relying on a miracle cure. How do I know that this sensitivity is really cured--couldn't it just be internalized somehow so that the consequences of eating something that doesn't agree with him aren't readily visible? In some ways the snot was useful--it was sending us a message that something was wrong. Now that message has been eliminated.

Has anyone else tried these treatments and harbored doubts later? Or am I just being ungrateful?

[mkat]

Interesting question... is this something the chiro could explain for you? We are considering NAET for DS's allergies and I'd be curious to know the answer, myself.
Has your son continued to improve?

[MamaMamaMama!]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply...you are right, I should talk to the chiropractor again. My ds didn't change much for the week after his treatment but now he has a cold with a cough and runny nose so it's hard to tell. I guess I'll wait and see once he's well again. One way or another, though, I think we are going to avoid dairy altogether in my family, "cured" or not...I'm sure it couldn't hurt. Maybe one day in the future I'll try to reintroduce it and see what happens.

[mkat]

Another way to look at things is that you still have symptoms that tell you something is amiss; what's different now is that the allergy isn't as severe and so the symptoms are not as severe. I do think with *any* symptoms at all, avoidance of the problem food is a good thing. What you have now is some peace of mind that in the case of accidental dairy exposure, the damage/reaction may not be as great.
Hope your guy feels better soon.

[jayell79]

I dearly wanted NAET to work for me, but sadly it didn't. I heard about it from a lifelong family friend who was completely cured of his food allergies (dairy and banana.) I saw two different practitioners and had several treatments. I finally passed their muscle test and was "cured." Sadly, I had a very painful reaction on my first real test after eating a small amount of wheat. I know it works for some people, but I ended up feeling very gypped out of my money.