Allergies & Sensitivities:  An Alternate Approach

 

Chiropractic and Acupuncture knowledge can be used together to lower people’s sensitivity to foods, chemicals and airborne allergens.

 

Acupuncture gives us the meridian system, and Chiropractic gives us a way to stimulate the meridians without needles.  Acupuncturists have long known that allergies & sensitivities can decrease with treatment. 

 

The technique is simple:  While holding the substance that triggers their reaction, the patient receives stimulation to meridians along the spine, using an instrument that delivers a mechanical impulse.  It is painless and non-invasive.

 

Often people know what triggers their reactions, such as breaking out in hives if they eat strawberries, or nursing babies who break out whenever their mother eats strawberries!  In other cases, people know they are reacting to something, but they don’t know what.  They just know they are miserable with symptoms such as burning, red eyes, runny nose, headache, joint pain or skin symptoms.  They may be tired, or note irritability after eating.

 

Not to worry.  A person’s history gives important clues as to what kind of irritant we are looking for, such as foods, detergents, or pollens.  My favorite illustration case was a woman who was to be married in 2 weeks, but who started sneezing and getting clogged sinuses whenever she was around her fiancée.  Questioning revealed that she had no symptoms when her fiancée was gone for a week, and she had no history of such before they were together.  It was worst when she saw him as he was returning from work.  Turns out her fiancée ran a rock-crushing machine at work, and was covered with fine rock dust particles at the end of the day.  I treated her for silica, a mineral found in the rocks he was crushing, and her symptoms went away.  They are happily married.

 

After your history has narrowed down the list of possible irritating items, we hone in on the most important one with muscle testing.  Many of you have experienced muscle testing at your chiropractor’s office.  Simply, your muscle strength is gauged both holding the possible irritating substances and without holding anything.  If you are noticeably weaker while holding a substance, that is your body’s way of communicating that it weakens you, and we treat for it.

 

In addition to the meridian treatment, you can improve your immune system strength with herbs and supplements, and most any type of detox regimen.  If you go this extra step, you will see the most improvement in your overall health.  Let me know if you are willing, and I will guide you on basic diet improvement and selection of herbal and other supplements.  It is really exciting to me to see people become more comfortable and relaxed as their health improves.

 

I have had patients opt for this type of treatment before traveling, when they would have little control over what foods they would be eating, and for their children to decrease known sensitivity to foods that they might unknowingly eat while at school or other places away from home.  

 

Each person responds differently.  Some people will noticed an immediate decrease in a specific symptom, such as their mouth breaking out when they eat citrus.  Other people won’t notice a thing until we do several treatments, then they will note a change.  Still others respond with a slight lessening of all symptoms, getting gradually better and better with each visit.  Or the first thing they notice will have nothing at all to do with their complaint, rather they will tell me that they are sleeping better and have more energy.

 

While success is not guaranteed, for this treatment or any other, I have had many successes in lowering people’s reactions to a wide variety of irritants. PMS and Menopausal symptoms often respond also.

 

If you wish to try an alternate treatment for your allergy and sensitivity symptoms, give me a call. 

 

NOTE:  This is not an emergency treatment for anaphylactic shock or severe allergic reactions.  Those events require emergency room treatment, and you should not delay in seeking emergency medical treatment under those circumstances.  People with severe reactions should not “test” the effectiveness of treatment by eating substances that are known to cause severe reactions for them.  If you wish to test the level of effectiveness before and after, an allergist can perform “scratch testing” for you.



Sandra Ashbrook D.C.
Anna Maria Chiropractic

(941) 962  7785
annamariachiropractic@gmail.com

Anna Maria Chiropractic Sandra Ashbrook's approach to patient care.