My 4 year old dd has had a mild hive reaction on her face from having peanut butter twice and cashew cookies. I haven't had her tested for anything yet but want to know if anyone has heard of successfully helping people with these allergies.
Thanks

There ARE remedies to overcome the problem your child is facing and many others wth it, if there be any.

Homoeopathy always helps. Carrying out tests is not necessary.

Present your child to a learned, experienced homoeopath and he will help.

It is normal for kids to show disagreeable symptoms due to new foods, in the begining. Sometimes children of parents brought up on foods of animal origin show disagreeable symptoms due to etables of plant origin.

Mercurius, Causticum, Nux Vomica (and many others) are known to help in cases where "oily food disagrees". But the best judge will be your nearest Homoeopath.

Regarding food allergies or rather sensitivities. Yes it is possible to treat the allergies with homeopathy successfully.
In classical homeopathy the allergy is considered as a possible symptom but what it produces in the way of symptoms is more important.
I say this because it may not be the food itself but the pesticides or preservatives that are on the food causing the problem. With peanuts it could even be mould or fungus residue on the nuts. Sometimes roasting of nuts produces a problem or MSG on the nuts in place of salt could be the cause of symptoms. Or the nuts might be rancid causing the problem.

To give relief in an acute case the symptoms are the key. For example if the rash is pink a certain remedy may be given or if the rash is red a different remedy is given. Time of day of the rash is considered to make the remedy chosen more specific or a closer match. The closer the match to the symptoms the better the results.

Today we live in a “chemical soup” and in this situation homeopathy is very helpful because it depends on symptoms to treat and not a diagnosis.
Take care,
Carole

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Why is peanut allergy becoming so prevalent?

One reason could be that baby formulas have peanut oil, Arachis Hypogeae in them to help the infants body produce growth hormone. It is possible that the baby gets too much peanut oil in relationship to it's body weight and repeated feeding of the peanut oil could produce a peanut allergy. A similar thing happens when people get a wheat allergy or specifically a gluten allergy.

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Thanks for your responses. She was given formula in the hospital at birth and also supplemented for a few weeks at home but was breastfeed for 2 years. She's only had one vaccine hepB in the hospital. I don't recall ever eating peanut butter or peanuts while pregnant or nursing (maybe once but I don't recall). Noone else in her family that we know of is allergic to peanuts. We usually eat organic food and are anti-junk food. It is kind of a mystery to me. She used to be allergic to dairy and strawberries when very young but she has outgrown all other allergies.

Word allregy has been attributed entirely different meaning here.

Exagerated sensitivity is the real meaning.

Actually 'allergy' and 'exaggerated or (hyper) sensitivity' are two different things.

An allergy cannot be reversed but sensitivities can be and this is an area that homeopathy works very well, as it can in the case above. Real allergies are serious and life threatening and require a patient to carry specific homeopathic remedies with them at all times in case of exposure to the substance, food, chemical or bee sting etc.

Sensitivities, exaggerated sensitivity or hyper sensitivities come and go according to the season or stress levels or various other circumstances. For example a peanut sensitively may not give a reaction at times, but at other times it will. This will depend on the stress level in the individual. If one eats several foods in a day that they are sensitive to them they will have a more significant reaction that day to the specific sensitivities. To use the above example: If the cashews were in a cookie and there was also milk in the cookie and a sensitivity to milk has been noted. Perhaps eggs were in the cookie too with a complicated kind of fat. The three things together could cause a visible reaction or the skin rash on the face. Separately the body may be able to handle these three things but not together without being stressed and hence giving some visible symptoms of the body being stressed, like the face rash. If the body is slow to cope with the stress it might take several hours for the rash to resolve, but if the ingredients keep being reintroduced in the diet then it may become a permanent rash.

A sensitivity may not even be an allergy at all. The reaction of the sensitive person could be even considered a 'normal reaction' to pollution for example.
It depends on one's tolerance level.

Again for example with the child above: If this child was exposed to the peanut oil in the formulae when too immature digestively as when the child was still in the hospital as a newborn. Then it maybe be an inability to digest fats in the diet, or certain fats only, like what is in nuts. Then this would be a digestive problem. Peanut oil is used in the body to synthesize other essential fatty acids. The digestion of a infant does not mature to digest fats until the child is two years old. Mothers breast milk has only simple fats in it. It does not have the complex ones like peanut oil.

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Allergy :
Various conditions caused by inappropriate or exaggerated reactions of the immune system to a wide variety of substances.

I checked the ingredients in the formula she drank and it doesn't have any peanut/arachis ingredients. Also, the cookie which had the cashew was a raw food cookie and didn't have any dairy or eggs. She did have an anaphylaxic reaction (albeit mild) when she ate the tiny bit of peanut butter and cookie conataining cashews so I believe she has a real allergy. I have researched and come across an article which states that the mold on peanuts does not cause anaphylaxis, only liver damage and jaundice. I am not classifying her peanut allergy with her other food sensitvities she had when young which have gone away. Since it is a very serious allergy which can cause death I have to be prepared at all times. And since there are no cures for this, the only path I have is homeopathy which is tricky because the symptoms must be correctly diagnosed which isn't always successful.

Homoeopathy is not TRICKY.

The symptoms have to be correctly stated or recorded not DIAGNOSED.