Are you or your child restless? Nose drippy? Or is there some other irritating health or behavior problem?
What did you eat, drink or touch? I've been receiving calls about food and other allergies and how they may affect behavior -- a problem that medications just won't help. Some medical doctors think food allergies are a bunch of hooey and won't order a blood test for the potential problem.
Dr. Doris Rapp is dedicated to sharing important information about harmful environmental factors that can affect how children and adults feel, think and act in our high-tech, high-stress, high-profit world. The "progress at any cost" mentality is rapidly overwhelming our bodies as we attempt to cope with our increasingly polluted environment.
In her breakthrough best-selling book "Is This Your Child?" Dr. Rapp identifies the major symptoms of potentially unrecognized allergies in children and adults, suggesting possible sensitivities to dust, mold, pollen, foods or chemicals. Allergies are much more than high fever, asthma and itchy skin. It is possible to identify allergies by simply looking at someone. At times it is surprisingly easy to find and eliminate the cause.
The typical clues of allergies and environmental illness can include any combination of the following: rubbing nose upwards -- to wipe drippy nose -- eye wrinkles, dark eye circles, sudden aggression, scarlet earlobes, a spacey look, extreme activity changes, wiggly legs, red cheeks and a mottled tongue.
Here's a well-viewed video with Dr. Doris Rapp, who is talking about children's allergies to food and environment. The show aired in 1989 on television's popular Phil Donahue Show:
