Can Lyme/Bart Cause/Enhance Food Allergies?

I have been so incredibly busy it's insane, and I have all of these worries in the back of my head. My husband is about to take my lyme book away bc he wants me to stop "thinking" so much

I am doing great, still fighting Candida, but functioning at 100%

My kids are what I am still worried about

They are doing great too, and alot of people would give anything to trade places with me bc the issues my kids have are very very minimal.

As many of you know, I treated all of them back in 2014 and am still watching closely to make sure that lyme has been eradicated, or at least put in remission - I haven't been confident of this just yet. I am avoiding vaccinations and I am treating my 2 girls with some Buhner Herbs.

I will put a separate question on my youngest - but right now I am concentrating on my oldest.

Out of no where she started refluxing anything related to dairy. But when I say reflux, I don't mean just heartburn, it comes all of the way up and out of her mouth. I know it's gross, and she isn't throwing up, but it is like her stomach is rejecting the food and just "spitting it out".

This started a few weeks ago when I reintroduced cat's claw and Japanese knotweed. I started these up again bc she was getting really really moody and fatigued. So now that she has been on them for a few weeks, she is in much better spirits and her fatigue is less. This is all we are dealing with here, it is very minimal, but now this projectile reaction to dairy has me extremely concerned.

Is there a direct link with lyme or bartonella and dairy (or any type of) allergies per say? Or Could it just be that she is going thru another "change" with her hormones which is just simply heightening her allergies? I just feel bad bc she has a ton of parties coming up, including her own graduation, and she is afraid to eat icecream, for example, which she loves, and ziti or french onion soup....the list goes on.

I am baffled here. When she was first tested for lyme, her Dr tested her for food sensitivites and Casien was very high back then, but she wasn't showing any signs of it.

georgiahunter and i discussed at length about how lyme can affect our stomach flora, bc I now have issues with Gluten, but i just wanted to get this specific issue with dairy addressed, but based on what georgiahunter has said, I am assuming I am correct with this whole assumption.

Thoughts? Should I stop the herbs? But then her mood will change again..... Thank you!!

Post Edited (Chapelle) : 5/28/2017 6:41:48 AM (GMT-6)

It is possible, but will be very difficult. She doesn't want dairy now bc of what it's doing to her, so that's the easy part. The hard part is when she goes on trips and is going away for camp and stuff, the options are limited.

Wow, so I am right? How could the herbs be working if they are causing a dairy allergy? I just don't understand all of this!!!

I don't know if this is related but here goes.

The year before my son got very sick with the usual Lyme like symptoms, his allergies went crazy. We went to an allergist that fall and he started sublingual immunotherapy. Two months later my son's lyme started.

One of the few things that were irregular on his labs when the doctors were trying to figure out what was wrong with him was elevated IgE. It was 8600 and normal is >420.

Then we finally figured out he had Lyme and then we come to about a month ago. The llnd says to have his IgE rechecked -it's now 4900 and start taking cromolyn sodium, ranitidine, Quercitin and loratadine for one month and recheck IgE. (May 4)

It seems he is treating him for something like mast cell activation probably caused by Lyme.

My son has had no allergy sx and something seems slightly better.

I will be curious to see his IgE after one month of tx.

It's not likely the herbs. The herbs are 'bringing out' something that is going on though. If you take a look at the Lyme forums, people are asking about Lyme bringing about sudden food allergies. This is usually caused by gut dysbosis, according to Dr. A.C. in this article:
www.betterhealthguy.com/lymedisease-org-conference

"Gut Dysbiosis is common in Lyme patients.
Altered terrain is generally present with mucosal biofilms, impaired redox potential, dysbiotic overgrowth, and parasitic infections.
In chronic Lyme, there is often an upregulated Th2 immune response; with or without Th1 abnormalities.
In people with Lyme, there are often shifting food allergies. Gluten, cow dairy, and egg intolerances are among the more common.
Leaky gut syndrome is often present with altered basement membrane permeability.
Infections are suspected of being present in the mucosal, muscular, and serosal surfaces of the bowel wall.
There can be vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels) of the blood supply in the gut.
There can be infections of the nervous tissue which controls the gut function; from the brain to the autonomic ganglia.
Alterations in gut motility can be present; such as Bell’s Palsy of the gut or gastroparesis."

Agree w/ Traveler - the herbs are hitting something, causing a neurotransmitter imbalance, maybe a GI imbalance causing the neurotransmitter imbalance. And the die off from the antimicrobials might be causing the GI imbalance.

bacterial die off --> GI toxins --> neurotransmitter imbalance --> mood swings

"food allergies" are a bit different than food sensitivities, which are directly associated with leaky gut, mold/yeast/fungal overgrowth in gut, bacterial infection in gut. Some of this dysbiosis can be there and you can be asymptomatic... until the immune system gets overloaded, or a new infection comes along. Or, you start stirring the pot with antimicrobials.

Also - dairy is probably the most reactive food. It has sugar and casein, it has mold, it has abx and tons of chemicals (unless it's organic and whatever she's eating that you're not carefully choosing off the grocery store shelf is not going to be organic).

-p

just wanted to bump this to see what anyone might suggest. thanks!

YES, I developed MCAs mast cell activation syndrome. Its where the basophil white cell continually excretes histamine... i FIRST tested intplerant to all animal proteins. This is the RESULT of a cytokine(blood cells) firestorm> which is result of improper or rather LACK thereof proper detoxing. Theres such an abundance of dieoff when taking Abx, that the body CANNOT dump out all that biotoxin quick enough so you recycle it.

Activated charcoal combined w/slippery elm bark, red clay, & chlorella AND cholestryamine to bind all that biotoxin!!!