What REALLY Causes Allergies?

The vast majority, 90% or better, of what most people call "allergies" are NOT the classic, acute, immediate, IgE, immune system-mediated, biochemical, hypersensitivity reactions. These are the anaphylactic reactions we think of when someone who is allergic to strawberries butters their biscuit with a knife that someone else used on a strawberry jam sandwich and, subsequently, ends up in the ER on life-support.

Medical diagnosis and treatment of allergies often involves drawing blood to identify levels and types of antibodies in the system. Once the allergenic substances are identified, the patient is treated with injections of mild solutions of the actual substances that seem to be producing the antibodies. These injections, in addition to being painful, are an actual exposure to the offending substance, which occasionally produces acute allergic reactions, for which the patient may need immediate emergency treatment, e.g., epinephrine, oxygen, and massive doses of antihistamines. I know from personal experience, because it once happened to me.

Another common medical approach to diagnosis is to scratch or prick the patient with needles or applicators treated with, or, again, giving small injections just under the skin of the suspected substances. These can also possibly lead to an acute reaction and the need for the same immediate emergency treatment mentioned above. Follow up treatment is the same as mentioned above, with the same potential outcomes. The results of either of these processes is usually temporary, sometimes lasting only weeks to months, and sometimes requiring ongoing treatment for indefinite periods of time.
I know one lady who has been getting allergy injection therapy weekly for several years.

Laguna Hills allergies sufferers have another option. Thirty-plus years of research and clinical experience have led to the development of a system that has demonstrated that most "allergies" are the end result of acquired neurological sensitivities. Real world practical example: when I was 7 years old, I ate a hotdog at a church picnic, and it immediately came right back up. I don't know why, and I was too young to really investigate all the details around the incident, but I know that, ever since then, just the smell of a hotdog makes me a little queasy. I have since discovered that I am not "allergic" to hotdogs. But my neurological system IS "programmed" for a negative response to even the smell of a hotdog. This is a very basic example of an acquired neurological sensitivity.

This same process of neurological association is taking place, constantly, to varying degrees and at different levels of consciousness in all of us, everyday. The body's systems are, for one reason or another - or for LOTS of reasons -, under stress, while, at the same time, being exposed to a variety of different substances, either internally or externally. As this happens, the brain, consciously or unconsciously, begins to associate these substances with stress; some more than others, depending upon the level of momentary stress, the associated degree of exposure, and the frequency of repeated exposure. All of these associations put the neurological system itself under a cumulative stress load that predisposes the system to over-react, setting off a false alarm - an actual immune system response -- to something that is not really, in and of itself, a threat.

If the molecules of these exposure substances are small and simple in structure, they will simply continue, on repeated exposures, to be recognized by the neurological system as being associated with stress. This may, eventually, produce symptomatic reactions, though not of a truly acute immune system response. IF, however, the molecules of the offending substance are large enough to produce a true immune system biochemical cascade, it can, upon subsequent exposures, actually produce a truly acute hypersensitivity reaction - a classic "Allergy". Even more problematic is the probability that repeated exposures will increase the reaction, possibly even to the point of life-threatening anaphylaxis.

Neurological testing, using computerized biofeedback analysis to screen for autonomic neurological sensitivity, can be accomplished withOUT needles of any kind and without direct exposure to the actual substances involved - which means no "side effects" (that's a subject for another article) and no trips to the ER. The identified sensitivities can then be isolated into a digital treatment database that can then be used to neurologically desensitize the patient with a combination of laser- and/or mechanically-mediated endorphin stimulation, effectively re-associating the offending substances with a more positive physiological response, withOUT the use of any needles of any kind.. By identifying and reducing the underlying neurological sensitivities, many allergic reactions can be completely resolved. All of this is accomplished without drugs, inhalers, or negative side-effects -

And did I mention NO NEEDLES?