Allergy Testing Cardiff
Food sensitivities and allergies can cause:
- Eczema
- Asthma
- Hayfever, rhinitis, sinusitis, catarrh
- Urticaria, rashes, heat bumps
- Irritable bowel, indigestion, vomiting
- Headaches, migraines
- And many other symptoms
- There may also be other causes of all these problems.
Allergy testing is quick, painless and accurate. Desentisation is available and safe. Sensitivity to foods and chemicals is the cause of much ill health today but often goes unrecognised. It can give rise to a variety of symptoms which are apparently unrelated to the cause, from asthma and eczema to irritable bowel and depression, though it is not the only cause of these problems.
Cause and effect may be direct and obvious: Washing powder may cause a contact dermatitis; strawberries may cause vomiting. Masked food allergy is more complicated and may be missed. In this case the body reacts directly to a common foodstuff on first contact (parents may not notice that the baby has more wind than usual or a headache), and then adapts to it with no further problems. Symptoms may show years later when saturation point is reached and the body stops adapting. Symptoms may be anywhere in the body and of any type.
Modern medicine tends to treat only the symptoms, which may drive the problem deeper so that, in time, other symptoms will arise elsewhere in the body. Natural medicine stimulates the cleansing process and heals the tissues but may sometimes only be partially successful if the cause of the symptoms is not removed.
The tendency to allergies may be inherited and, for instance, asthma and eczema often run in families. In susceptible people allergies may also develop in times of stress and with repeated exposure to certain things. They are entirely individual.
There are several methods of allergy testing. Hospitals use patch skin tests or blood tests but may only test for a few allergens.
Rosemary uses a method called Kinesiology which tests muscle tone. It is quick, painless and accurate and can be used on people of all ages, including babies. She generally asks people to bring in samples of foods they eat regularly and chemicals used in their own houses and workplaces, so lessening the risk of missing important triggers.
It also means that people start to think about what they are eating and the number of chemicals they are exposed to. She does keep a small selection of substances which are difficult to isolate or carry such as petrol fumes, house dust mite and some food additives.
Advice is given on nutrition and diet so that people who have a number of sensitivities still get all the nutrients they need. Usually people who avoid or reduce the triggers causing the problem find that their symptoms disappear and their general health improves enormously. If desired, it is easy and cheap to remove sensitivities using specially prepared homeopathic desensitising drops.
In some cases a course of herbal medicine is also advisable to repair the damage caused by the sensitivity. Testing takes about an hour and is available in each of the clinics where Rosemary works.
E-mail:allergy@therapycardiff.com
