as per our tibetan doctor, dd (3) does not eat any sugar, except of honey and mapble syrop -- a little of each. she is not into sweets.
but she takes her tibetan herb powder with honey, every morning. it has helped her asthma a lot -- no symptoms at all since the tibetan treatment, and we actually doubt the diagnosis now.
a friend of mine mentioned that honey is highly allergenic, and if she regularly eats honey, she will end up sensitised to it and subsequently allergic. is this true?
also, i give her garlic and onion with honey when she has a cold.
now i am worried about allergies.
currently she does not have any allergies, and was diagnosed with mild viral asthma 1 y 4 months ago.
I have not heard that honey is allergenic at all. (Could be wrong ... if so, please correct me
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We are beekeepers and I know from the publications that we receive and the beekeeping classes that we have attended that honey (and beeswax), especially raw honey (not heated, not processed), possess a slight risk for botulism. Honey can contain bacterial spores that cause Infant Botulism-a rare but very serious disease affecting the nervous system that only babies can get. There is a bit of differing opinion as to what age is OK to give a child honey - 1 year, 2 years and 3 years. Maybe someone else here has the current standard or can quote a study -- I think the AAP currently says 2 years??
but my Dr. Sears' book says 1 year. In any case, you are safe.
As far as I know it isn't. A good remedy for local allergies is local raw honey...seems odd that taking honey would help allergies...and then be an allergen itself.
Originally Posted by AdinaL
As far as I know it isn't. A good remedy for local allergies is local raw honey...seems odd that taking honey would help allergies...and then be an allergen itself.
But I don't know.
We just learned this on our field trip to an apiary yesterday- fascinating stuff (and we now have 2 pounds of yummy local raw honey!)
I think your friend is confusing the danger of botulism spores and infants with allergies!
Everything I have read suggests that local honey (past teh age of one year of course) actually HELPS with airborne environmental allergies.
Allergies are reactions to the PROTEINS in a substance. What I have seen is that if a person is pretty allergic to a specific pollen, that can come across as an allergy to honey, given that the honey contains said pollen.
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