Posted by Larry Hoover on March 2, 2005, at 16:11:35
In reply to Re: question on fish oil and allergies. Please help., posted by jeffreyms on February 14, 2005, at 17:15:53
> Hi Lar,
> thanks for the response.
> My allergist wrote several books on was one of the doctors that discovered the type 2 delayed food allergy. Not all allergies are the immidiate type 1 where you immidietely get hives or a headach or whatever. Te patch test is were they put a part of the substance that they are testing you for on part of your body(usually arm or back) along with a liquid that helps the some of the substance disolve into your arm and then you leave it for about 3 days and see if you develop a whelt or blister. I was eating tuna every day and developed the biggest blister to it. I'm not sure if you could define this a a true allergy or just food intolerance or bad reaction to food as i don't think it goes through the same ige channels as a immidiate reaction.It's hard to get a clear picture of the type 2 reaction. It's still a very controversial diagnosis, and thought to be experimental by some.
It's not an IgE reaction. It may be IgM, or T-cell mediated. It's got me curious, though.
> At first delayed "allergies" were controversial but now its becoming more and more accepted and many doctors are coming around to the fact that they exist. I know they do for me. If i have a big cup of coffee for instance, i won't have a immidate reaction but for the next couple of days i will be very tired, depressed and achy. I noticed this and also my mother did and she also noticed that after ingesting something i was allergic to i would become much more iriatable and my skin would be very sensitive. she even noticed that when she scratched my back it would leave red marks for a few minutes if i was having a delayed reaction. we both noticed these reaction before i went to the doctor and even heard of delayed reactions so that would pretty much rule out it being psychosomatic. I wish it was so easy as fish oil doesn't contain proteins so i couldn't get allergic to it but as sensitive as i am to everything i would be very much surprised if i didn't.
I would have to read something more authoritative about mechanisms. You said your doctor wrote a book? What's it called?
> I do understand your skeptisism and if i hadn't lived this myself I might not be sure if i believed in it or not as well.
I honestly thought you were going to describe what is known as electrodermal testing. That is totally quackery.
> Thank you very much for your response and please forgive all my typos. Jeff
Do you know of a website or something that describes this phenomenon?
Lar
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