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Post by iwannabeamomx5 on May 5, 2010 10:17:28 GMT -5
I'm also allergic to latex condoms and my mouth feels funny when I blow up balloons, but I don't have any issues wearing latex gloves. lol I'm sorry but when I read when you said you were allergic to latex condoms and then followed it up with "and my mouth feels funny when I blow....," hahahaha it made me giggle for a second until I realized you were talking about blowing up balloons. LOL, I didn't even think about how that would sound as people were reading along, too funny!!! ;D
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Post by jaye on Aug 22, 2011 11:03:44 GMT -5
Autoimmune diseases run in my family but I'm still waiting on my thyroid test results to see if I am hypothyroid, too. I get the news on Wednesday! Yeah! Anyway, when I first started reading about the autoimmune disease connection with endo, I had already heard about helminthic therapy and so I started to think that's what I would do to cure my endo. Now I feel like I might be beating my endo so maybe don't need to resort to Helminthic Therapy, but I'm still holding it out as a last resort. No one has mentioned HT here so I thought I would share. There is a little ick factor but it's been getting dramatic results in people with allergies, Crohn's, and psoriasis. I know some of the companies want to try it for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and are offering to provide HT free to willing patients. Anyway it's an extension of the hygiene hypothesis. Basically, western culture is too clean so our immune systems don't get enough practice/ exposure. I think of it like our immune systems are bored. I've read that developing countries don't have anywhere close to the autoimmune diseases that we developed countries have. Some researchers noticed that and started to look at human parasites, mainly hookworm and whipworm and found that there is actually a symbiotic relationship between humans and these gut parasites. In exchange for nutrition, they tame down a part of our immune system, the part that attacks our own bodies. I think a dose of Hookworm lasts 3-5 years and then you have to be reinfected because they aren't contagious - unless you are walking around in your own feces Anyway, thought I'd share. So many of us are suffering so much.
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Post by JC on Aug 22, 2011 13:12:26 GMT -5
Totally gave me the ew factor but it's interesting!
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