The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-11

came out in splotches whenever
they ate sea food from oysters to
Holsters and crabs.
These well known experiences
We're never dignifed by getting
into the medical textbooks until
the new science Of allergy or atopy
was taken Up by the laboratories
early in this century. Since then
this group Of symptoms has been
:tudied very intensively and very
scientifically. 1t is now known that
quite a broad group Of functional
bodily disorders including asthma,
allergic headache, rhinitis, sinus
and chronic nasal trouble, diges-
tive upsets, as well as skin erup-
tions, such as hives and eczema,
may be due TO sensitigeness to
foods, or TO dignity it with the
scientific name used above-food
allergy.
1t. was early recognized in the
history of these researches that
some standards would have to be
set up TO determine whether a
given set Of symptoms was due to
food allergy. 1t would not do SIM
ply to rely on the old post hoe,
propter hoe argument and say you
had headache and it was caused
by eating lamb chops and let it go
at that. The so called Cookies pos
tulates were set up to govern any
given case and they demanded for
proof that the suspected food must
give an inflammatory reaction
when used as a skin test and be-
sides when eaten it must produce
the symptom ascribed to it. or
course, as a third postulate, it was
demanded that when the original
headache or other symptom was
complained of the individual had
eaten some of the food under sus-
picion. These pootulates still hold,
but they are subject to some modi-
fication. Many reports prove, for
instance, that a certain food may
produce a symptom only once out
Of eating it fifteen or twenty
times. Nobody has ever explained
that once.
In the case Of some foods, heat
destroys the allergenic factor.
Some patients can tolerate evap-
Grated milk, but not raw milk. A
hard boiled egg is sometimes tol-
Grated in an egg sensitive person.
Well cooked meats or cereals may
be non-allergic while meat cooked
medium rare will cause symptoms.
The speed of absorption of the
sensitive qualities of certain aller-
gic foods varies and may be the
cause of much puzzlement. In a
sensitive subject it has been found
that a peanut can produce symp-
toms in "a minutes after being
swallowed, but Is minutes if given
by a stomach tube. But some de-
layed absorption foods may not
produce their allergic symptoms
for "a hours or more, leading, as
/ say, to puzzlement because by
that time it is hard to trace the
connection
Skin Reactions
Besides the skin reactions vary
ing all the way from hives to &C.
zema, the most common symptoms
of sllergy produced by foods are
asthma, rhinitis ard dyspeptic up
sets. The rhinitis exactly resem-
bling in the appearance of the
Doggy mucous membrane Of the
inside Of the nose, the condition
found in hay fever in the height
of the season.
The digestive symptoms include
attacks Of nausea, or indigestion,
or intestinal upsets Of all kinds.
In order to find the food culprit
II may be necessary to go on q
series Of elimination diets.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
J. A. F.:-You undoubtedly have
heard Of persons with the heart
on the right side, but have you
ever heard Of a person with all
their organs reversed? I am such
a person. am 65 years old and did
not find out about it until | was
30. An Xray shows my stomach,