Contrary to what your folks usually think, and from what you may have heard while growing up, aspirin sensitivity is not an allergy. Though, the effects and symptoms of the case can be somehow depicting and similar to those of allergies, aspirin sensitivity is not and will never be a true allergy.

Though, aspirin sensitivity may result in adverse and similar to allergy type of reactions in affected persons.

Usually, reported cases of aspirin sensitivity are linked to those who contract moderate to almost severe form of asthma and also to chronic sinusitis.

Severity of asthma raises the susceptibility of one person to the disease. Advancing age or simply put, aging, also is a great factor that leads to aspirin sensitivity.

Take note that according to a modern study in the medicine discipline, nine out of ten, or 90%, of people who are diagnosed or described as aspirin sensitive are at the same time sensitive or manifest adverse reaction to allergy-causing drugs, foods and inhalants.

A brief history of aspirin sensitivity

Aspirin is one of the most common over-the-counter drug that is taken by people with mild fever, body aches and other mild ailments. Nowadays, aspirin tablets are also taken as a preventive drug against heart attacks or strokes.

But did you know that aspirin simultaneously originated from Egypt, Assyria and Greece. In those ancient civilizations, aspirin was in the form of a white willow bark that was then used to treat fever and pain.

The ancient Greeks, Assyrians and Egyptians also used that white willow bark, now identified as aspirin, to treat sore muscles, chills, rheumatism and headaches. The native American tribes also had the knowledge of such practices.

In 1828, salicin which was an active and stand out ingredient or chemical from the willow bark was isolated. Ten years after, in 1838, salicylic acid was first produced from hydrolysis and oxidation of salicin. In 1893, the first modern form of aspirin was produced.

The drug company Bayer secured the rights to the aspirin official trade mark and name on March 6, 1899. The rest, as they say, is a common and prolonged history.

Symptoms and Treatment

Because aspirin is so widely used today, it is somehow surprising that the drug produces sensitivity to certain people. Aspirin sensitivity almost always show up or manifest as rhinitis or what we call nasal congestion.

Aspirin sensitivity can also be mistaken for asthma or hives because the symptoms and signs of ailment are almost the same.

Through several experiments, you can determine if you are sensitive to aspirin. Take the following steps. First, take a very small dose of aspirin. Be very particular, small dose, or you might end up somewhere very unlikely if ever you are sensitive to aspirin.

After taking the small dosage, observe yourself for any sign of cough or wheezing. There will come out itchy rashes around the mouth area and watery eyes and nasal congestion is evident.

In some rare conditions, aspirin sensitivity can also cause the development of anaphylaxis or breathing difficulty, which is an allergic reaction common to bee stings. There will also be severe decline in the patient’s blood pressure.

If you are diagnosed with aspirin sensitivity, desensitization can be done under intense and monitored medical supervision. This can be funny, but such desensitization will involve taking in very little dosages of aspirin everyday until the sensitivity is gone.

If an aspirin sensitivity attack is taking place, it is best to seek immediate medical help and attention. No drugs should be taken without the doctor’s prescription or administration, because adverse reaction to other drugs can lead to fatality.

To prevent aspirin sensitivity attacks, it is advise that you avoid taking in, of course, aspirin or other anti-inflammatory medicines or NSAIDs like naproxen and ibuprofen.

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For answers to All your frequently asked questions about aspirin sensitivity, please go to: http://aspirin-sensitivity.allergyanswers.net/

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Although having a diaper rash is part and parcel of being a baby, when your baby starts solids, the combination of baby food and diaper rash can go hand in hand, as a result of food allergies. But there are things you can do to avoid food allergies.

First, start by introducing a new food to your baby by applying a little bit of the food to her cheek, and wait 20 minutes. If there is no reaction, give 1 teaspoon of the new food and wait four hours. The reaction you are looking for (and hopefully not getting!) is red cheeks, irritability, runny nose, colic, constipation or diarrhea, gas, insomnia or other skin reactions.

Whenever I gave egg to my daughter Hana, her cheeks would go red immediately. As she got older, that went away.

Citrus fruits are very acidic and should also be avoided until your baby is 12-18 months. Other highly allergenic foods are strawberries, peanut butter, cow’s milk, eggs, shellfish and soy.

It is important to keep track when you introduce a new baby food and diaper rash can then be observed and connected to the new food that was introduced. You do not need to limit that food forever, just wait six months or so and then try again.

Some of the least allergenic foods for baby are: carrot, broccoli, asparagus, squash, zucchini, sweet potato, turnip, beets, dark leafy greens, pear, peaches, blueberries, blackberries, currents and breastmilk. These are what your baby should eat until 9 months of age.

Suzanne Doyle-Ingram is the creator of the Pregnancy Leads to New Babies.com website, an informative site for pregnant women and new moms, which provides information on pregnancy, labor, and how to take care of your new baby.

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Allergies and Immune System Disorders: Part 2

The first article of this four part series describes the vast
array of immune system diseases which are a growing pandemic
in our society today. It also outlines three potential causes
for this pandemic within our civilization. Within these next
articles each cause will be explored in depth, and strategies
of treatment using modern hypnotherapy techniques will be
described. This article will describe the way our bodies
often over-react to chemicals in our environment and in our
food, and how hypnosis can be used to change these reactions.

There can be little doubt that our bodies are assaulted every
day with a wide variety of chemicals that have not existed at
all for the last million years of our evolution as a species.
Chemical pesticides, fertilizers, genetically engineered DNA,
antibiotics and hormones fed to industrially raised animals
are present in nearly all the foods we eat. In addition,
processed foods contain such toxic additives as refined
sugar, artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives.

Try as we may to eat organic it is very difficult to protect
ourselves completely against these additives. Even the way we
process and store food introduces toxic chemicals and alters
the vitamins and proteins in food. Frying in hot oils and the
use of transfatty acids in processed foods like margarine are
just a couple of examples of this. Likewise, the air we
breathe and the water we drink are contaminated with
innumerable chemical agents. Quite apart from human activity,
the natural world is filled with molds, mildews, bacteria,
and other substances which have toxic properties. I certainly
recommend that we do our best to eliminate these elements
from our lives. But often our body’s reaction to these
chemicals is far out of proportion to the real dangers they
represent. When this happens doctors would say that we are
“allergic” to these substances. These allergic reactions may
incapacitate us with far greater efficiency than these
chemicals on their own could ever do in the tiny doses to
which we are exposed.

An obvious example is the bee sting. While a bee sting’s
venom is a serious toxin, fatal to anyone in large enough
doses, most of us experience a sting as a brief, if painful,
nuisance. But to some individuals, this sting is a death
sentence without radical medical intervention. The immune
system goes into full Battle mode against this perceived
threat, which can cause death by asphyxiation in a few
minutes in a response called “anaphylactic shock“. To a much
lesser extent our immune system can cause ugly symptoms in
response to such mild toxins as the smell of gasoline, dust,
molds, animal dander, and the proteins in such foods as corn
and wheat. I myself once reacted very strongly to all of the
above mentioned toxins in a debilitating condition called
“environmental sensitivity”, a condition which led to
frequent bouts of chronic fatigue, as well as sinus
congestion, headaches and asthma.

So how do hypnotic techniques help us combat these
conditions? First, we must understand that the source of
these reactions is within the subconscious mind. It is NOT
the chemicals themselves that are doing this to us. It is the
immune system’s response that is the problem. After all (I
used to grumble to myself) many people can live in moldy
houses or smell gasoline without being affected in any way.
Once this is accepted we can see that hypnosis, the primary
strategy for accessing subconscious programming, MUST be a
part of any long term solution to this condition. The
alternative is symptom suppression with drugs. We must
convince the client’s subconscious mind in hypnosis that this
particular toxin is simply not a threat to the body in the
tiny doses that the body is experiencing. We do this by
building positive associations in subconscious memory to the
smell or taste of these substances, because it is the taste
and smell of these things, even subconsciously perceived,
which triggers these reactions.

Let me illustrate this with an example. A client was
experiencing an unexpectedly severe asthmatic reaction to the
smell of a new carpet in his home, a carpet which was out
gassing industrial solvents including formaldehyde. In a
hypnotic state I had him access the peculiar smell with his
hypnotically enhanced imagination, a process referred to as
“olfactory hallucination”. This process must be accompanied
by reassurances that the client’s body will not react to this
smell in any way. Otherwise, this hallucination has been
known to trigger an allergic response in the hypnotized
subject. We failed to find any negative memory associated
with this smell. Apparently the body just, understandably,
found it toxic. I then spoke to his subconscious mind. I told
it that this smell was quite safe, that from now on this
smell would always remind him of the beauty and pleasure of
his beautiful new home, of which he was quite proud, and the
new loving wife who shared that home with him. I built up
these joyous feelings while he continued at my instruction to
breathe in the smell of new carpets, which is now, I
suggested, the smell of happiness and romance and a safe
home. In one session, his allergic reaction was gone.

Another client who loved cats found herself allergic to them,
with strong sinus congestion, burning and sneezing. We
discovered in trance that her subconscious mind associated
the cat odor, a smell which she was consciously unaware of,
with traumatic events from her childhood, connected to a
critical mother, in a house with cats. First, we used
olfactory hallucination to follow this scent back to what it
was “…your nose remembers about this smell that you have
forgotten.” After rescuing her inner child from these
memories of abuse, she found a new home in her imagination
with a very safe and loving and affectionate new mother - who
had cats, of course. I then encouraged her to breathe in this
wonderful smell of cats in the context of this safety and
love.

“Now breathe into every part of your body this
wonderful smell of love. Notice how good it feels.” Then I
anchored this new response to the client’s daily experience
of cats in this way: “Now, every time your subconscious mind
smells the wonderful aroma of cats, your body remembers this
wonderful new mother, and how much love and safety she
offers.” After one session she found herself able to
eliminate these allergic responses simply by remembering to
call in this vision of her inner mother every time she felt
her symptoms begin.

Usually one session with a responsive subject is enough to
deal effectively with one specific allergen, especially if
the client is willing to practice feeling these new feelings
and recalling these new memories on their own. (Alas,
patients with mental disorders or organic brain disease make
poor subjects for this type of work.) Multiple sessions are
of course required for a large number of allergies. For food
allergies we can follow the taste, hypnotically induced and
magnified into a “gustatory hallucination” into the time when
this taste brought with it something unpleasant. While the
conscious mind has no recollection of these “triggering
events”, the subconscious mind can recall them readily in a
good subject. This process often requires the transformation
of memories through the rescue and nurturing of the inner
child in order to find resolution.

For more information about
these hypnotherapy techniques, see Emotional Clearing
Therapy. http://www.alchemyinstitute.com/withhyp.htm

Article 4 part series available in full online at:
http://alchemyinstitute.com/Allergies-Immune-System/

About Alchemy Institute of Hypnosis: America’s oldest
spiritually oriented hypnotherapy training program has
trained over 2000 hypnotherapists since 1983. The Alchemy
Institute is approved by the state of California Bureau of
Private Postsecondary Education (BPPVE) and American Council
of Hypnotists Examiners. Our website offers an extensive
library on hypnosis. http://alchemyinstitute.com/articles.htm
Alchemy Institute Founder David Quigley now offers home
hypnotherapy in special hypnosis by phone sessions
call the Alchemy office at 1-800-950-4984 to inquire

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