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Allergies
Allergies and sensitivities are the body’s alarm system, alerting you to the fact that something in the environment is harming your body or that your body is ill-equipped to handle certain environmental stressors.
Allergies Articles
Ear Infections and Autism
Kelly Dorfman MS LND discusses the relationship between ear infections and autism in this post. Many years ago, a group of parents and professionals discussed concerns about the emergence of a regressive autistic-like syndrome, later named Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), ... Read More
NAET for ADHD and Autism
by Devi S. Nambudripad, DC, LAc, RN, PhD Alexander has dark circles under his eyes and a constant "cold." After finishing off macaroni and cheese, he throws a temper tantrum when asked to hang up his jacket. He wants ice ... Read More
IgG Allergies in Autism, ADHD, Asthma, Autoimmune and More
In this blog post, Kelly Dorfman, MS, LN discusses the role of IgG allergies and symptoms of autism, ADHD, asthma, autoimmune disorders and more. Intolerance to certain foods, especially gluten (wheat related grains) and casein (milk protein), is a common ... Read More
Announcing the Documenting Hope Project
What Is the Documenting Hope Project? The Documenting Hope Project is a multi-year research and media initiative to scientifically demonstrate that children can get better from chronic conditions including autism, ADHD, allergies, asthma, autoimmune disease and many more conditions currently ... Read More
Teacher Says: Help Kids Become Food Allergy Detectives
By Evelyn Porreca Vuko Science teachers and parents can turn kids from elementary to high school age into food allergy detectives. Teach them to investigate their own bodies and to determine whether they have food allergies that affect their behavior ... Read More
What Is Wrong With Milk?
"Drink your milk so that you will grow up big and strong." How many of us heard those words as young children and still heed them? This wisdom is being renewed by advertisements showing our favorite stars with milk mustaches ... Read More
How to Heal a Child from Autism, ADHD, Asthma and More
In this blog post, Executive Director Beth Lambert has a big idea for helping children heal from autism, ADHD, asthma and more. I have an idea about how we can heal our children. It's a great idea. No, it's a ... Read More
Asthma and Dairy
In this blog post, Maria Rickert Hong explains the link between asthma and dairy, and how removing dairy helped her sons heal from asthma and acid reflux. My older son got sick a lot, especially after he started preschool when ... Read More
Allergies Stories
Diana: Mold Toxicity
It Took Years to Realize It Was Mold Toxicity Over the last three years, the brain fog gradually worsened, as did the fatigue. With it came weight gain, dramatic increases in food and chemical sensitivities and dreadful insomnia, with months ... Read More
Noah: Autism and Mold Toxicity
Looking back at our journey, it is difficult to wrap my mind around where we started and how far we have come since my son was diagnosed with autism seven years ago and how mold toxicity was such a huge ... Read More
Kyle: Sensory Processing Disorder and ADHD
Where do I begin? Should I start with my being pregnant and working at a stressful job in New York City? Maybe I should first write about my family history of celiac and not knowing that having undiagnosed celiac/gluten intolerance ... Read More