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In reply to the discussion: Switzerland to recognise homeopathy as legitimate medicine [View all]womanofthehills
(8,584 posts)Uneducated city sprayers sprayed our neighborhood for mosquitoes 4 nights in a row from trucks. It came through my screen door while I was sleeping. The whole neighborhood was ill - all the little kids got asthma & big digestive problems including my grand daughter . I got reactive airway disease. The ambulance was always on our block - taking all the little kids to the emergency room. I could not stop salivating 24/7 and could not even enter my house without swaying. In checking the city records, the city had been spraying my neighborhood with various pesticides for yrs, but this was their biggest mistake and the first time they used Malathion. I would awake in the night unable to breathe and when I checked their spraying records - the days always coincided with my trips to the emergency room. The docs at the hospital told me they had so many people come to the hospital with breathing problems when the city was spraying. I actually called the Albuquerque newspaper and my neighborhood story covered almost the entire front page. When I spoke with the men who did the spraying, they said it was some old malathion they found in the shed that they were using. Malathion gets way more toxic when it's old and warm.
After that I could not leave my house for a year or barely eat - I became extremely allergic or intolerant to everything -Bronchospasm is scary because you always think you are about to die. I was diagnosed with environmental illness caused by pesticide exposure and had to go on disability. I would get bronchospasm from car exhaust, smoke, paint fumes, sulfur vegetables just cooking on the stove, perfume, etc. I could not even read the newspaper because the ink bothered me. The docs at the local hospital recommended a dr in Los Alamos, NM who was a childrens allergy specialist and also had success with adults diagnosed with environmental illness. She helped me big time and part of her treatment was testing me for all the chemicals and foods I was reacting to and treating me with desensitizing homeopathic allergy drops.
I now live in a very rural area which I think really helped me too - no car exhaust, industry, farming. I would say I am about 95% recovered but still avoid certain foods and smelly items. My boyfriend helped me build an environmentally friendly house .
I know there is a difference between food allergy and food intolerance. I know I had a food allergy to nuts and shrimp but a food intolerance to other foods. For one year I only ate bananas, oranges and yogurt. If I ate anything else I would cough for a hour or two or my throat would start closing. Now I can eat most anything but I only eat fresh organic food. I can go into most stores but if I start smelling something, I know to leave immediately.
I am Facebook friends with some of the kids who had asthma in my old neighborhood and three of them still have occasional problems with asthma. It was a small dead end block with only 8 houses so the percent of people who became ill was high. The problem was that our block dead ended by the ditch and river and the city heavily sprayed that area without reporting they were going to spray.