http://voiceofrussia.com/uk/news/2014_06_04/Antibiotics-could-be-at-the-root-of-allergies-autism-and-eczema-2563/ Allergies, autism, eczema and even obesity may be linked to the widespread use and abuse of antibiotics, according to Professor Martin Blaser, the Director of the Human Microbe Biome Programme at New York University, in his new book, Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues. VoR’s Tim Ecott spoke to him in New York. Prof Blaser explained his hypothesis to VoR: “My basic idea is that most of the cells in the human body are microbes. Thes ...
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You wrote: ”2. There is some sort of autoimmune response to food, which caused the lips to peel. Once not eating, the autoimmune response stop being triggered.” You are right about this. But, most likely, it is not just autoimmune response to all the food you ate. Usually, people react to just a very few food items, like milk, gluten, soy, corn, wheat, peanuts, strawberries, tomatoes, shrimps, etc. Research the Elimination-Rotation diet . What you did was just a first part of that diet, total elimination of all foods. When your symptoms disappear while eating no food, it ...
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## Short Story Hi Guys. My lips severely reduced peeling, to the point where it was essentially no longer an issue twice. Once, I took probiotics which returned my digestion back to normal, and caused my dandruff and peeling lips to essentially go away. (I experince loose stools due to antiobitic induced IBS). Unfortunately my digestion went back to being bad after more antiobiotics. Due to the tummy pain, I drank only water for 2 weeks and my lips stopped peeling. Once I returned to eating, my lips began to peel again. At the moment my lips are experiencing moderate peelin ...
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I am writing this story for the Peeling Lips forum and the Oral Allergy Syndrome Forum, and the Eczema Forum, but I will cross post it also into other relevant forums. I spend at least 30-60 min every day reading about Eczema, Seb-derm, Allergies, Asthma, EC, on different web forums, medical journals, etc. That is at least 360 hours per year, probably 3 times as much. Each success story I read is just one dot, not always clearly connected to some other stories- some other dots. But sometimes, there are so many dots very close to each other that you can’t avoid connecting clusters ...
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hi I need to know if i have EC! I had peeling lower lip and swollen upper lip for 8 years. They do get white when wet but lip balms make the chapping go away but make the swelling worse. Every thing i try makes the swelling worse. But water always help or helped befor and once reverse osmosis water cured them for a day! Does this happen to any of you. After using many lip balms and steroids for about 2 months off and on my lips are sooo sensitive. They have change compleatly in shape! Will they come back to normal? Do I have EC? My main problem is the swelling on my upper lip b/c it is cha ...
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Since the dermatologist said I had an allergy to rubber, I had the allergist test me for latex. I was never tested for latex before. Although certain items might not show latex as an ingredient, it can be a hidden ingredient. I would not think that latex is in some foods, water bottles you drink out of, freezer bags/cling wrap you store food in, chewing gum, or toothpaste. ”There is strong evidence of the cross-reaction between latex and foods that naturally contain high amounts of chitinase enzymes. If you have a latex allergy, you may very likely be allergic to these foods as well. P ...
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Sorry but you’re bringing nothing to the table at this point. My EC was caused by an allergy to my toothpaste. If allergies are in fact a cause, then eliminating the allergen for an extended period of time would be a viable solution, and it is in cases of contact dermatitis like mine. You discredit one theory which actually has evidence to support it just to pitch some broad idea that you can’t give any specifics about. I don’t think saying it’s an internal problem that only affects the lips which doctors can’t even diagnose is gonna cut it.   [End]
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Hey, I listed the foods I cut out already for the most part. Mainly: -Gluten containing grains. Primarily wheat, spelt, rye etc. -Dairy -Eggs -Soy (and other beans as well) -Other random stuff like cranberries and cherries, almonds as well were a high reaction on the test. From what I understand these are food intolerances (possibly brought on by stress and genetics combination), as opposed to allergies. SO as opposed to having an allergic response my stomach lacks what it needs to digest them and bloating, tiredness occurs. Along with poor health and nutritional absorption. The ...
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Looks like seborrheic dermatitis with peeling lips, common combination. Seborrheic dermatitis is caused by a damage to your intestinal and skin microbiota and to your liver. What have you done in your past that may have caused that damage? Used any antibiotics? Any other medications? Taken vaccines. Started with hormonal birth control? Have been drinking a lot of alcohol? Started smoking marijuana or tobacco? Got food poisoning? Got intestinal virus? Got any dental work done? Root canal? Amalgam? Tooth extraction? Got poisoned by something else? Moved to a new house? ...
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Angular Cheilitis: A deficiency of B2, Riboflavin. Very common on a modern Western diet. Don’t be a vegetarian! Don’t drink any kind of soda, cola, fizzy pop drink. Take 1 x B2 and 1x multi-B tablet for a week, then once a week thereafter. Source: Experience, Merck’s manual, Upjohn’s vitamin manual, the vitamin bible. Newton’s pharmacy. Drinking alcohol uses up vitamin B real fast!   [End]
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ANGULAR CHEILIITIS: A deficiency of B2, Riboflavin. Very common on a modern Western diet. Don’t be a vegetarian! Don’t drink any kind of soda, cola, fizzy pop drinks. Take 1 x B2 + 1x multi-B tablet for a week, (!00 to 200mg) Recommended dose i s 1.5 to 2 mg, this is much too low for young people. 100mg once a week thereafter or 10mg daily. Source: Experience, Merck’s manual, Upjohn’s vitamin manual, the Nurient bible by Henry Osiecki. Newton’s pharmacy. NHMRC riboflavin recommendations for Australian adults: – RDI men: 1.3 mg/day – RDIwomen:1.1mg/day “The m ...
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I’m not missing the point at all here. I never used chapsticks or lipbalms either. People can have allergy to a food they eat everyday without knowing they have an allergy to it. I recently wrote a post about allergy to protein. There are different kinds of protein. Some people are just allergic to milk protein, while other might just be allergic to meat protein, and others might be allergic to lots of types of protein. From what I know about allergies is they come and go or stay forever. Sometimes, kids’ immune systems change as they get older so they lose an allergy. My nephew used to be ...
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So, you admit it! There was something else you did besides only leave your lips alone. You had an allergy to a toothpaste, which you stopped using. This post of yours does not make sense. My post you replied to was about allergies being a possible cause, but you just wrote I didn’t think it could be allergies.   [End]
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