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your toxic foods - dr. steve nenninger nd,nmd,cdn

Introduction -

If you dont know me, my name is Steve Nenninger and I am a naturopathic doctor. Being anaturopathic doctor means that I have gone to a medical school that teaches both the basicsconventional, Western medicine and also teaches a natural medicine approach. There weretwo of these schools when I went years ago, and not there a few more.

Before becoming a naturopathic doctor I was a person that was sick. My own diagnosis wasulcerative colitis, a frustrating and embarrassing condition. It was this condition that motivatme to go to naturopathic medicinal school. It was my own frustration with the lack of optionsoffered to me by conventional medicine that started my own search for alternative perspectivand explanations for why I was suffering so much with my own condition.

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Naturopathic medical school gave me many tools to start solving my own problems. Eventhough my naturopathic skills helped me recover, it was not until I tested for my own IgGallergens just a few years ago that I really began to remember what it was like to feel well.Not only that but it was after testing my siblings that our health issues began to make senseMy older brother had thyroid disease by 18 years old, I had colitis, my other brother hadCrohns, my other had diabetes and my sister had multiple sclerosis.

When I tested all of us for IgG food allergens the patterns of the foods that we were all hadundiagnosed food allergens. I will do more in the book to help you understand how a simplefood allergy could make us all so sick. These kind of pattern of sickness are not unusually inhighly allergic families.

So here you see the three different ways we can react to foods. There is the immediatereaction by an antibody called Immunoglobulin E (IgE), this is like the type of peanut allergyyou hear about children having.

The next is the IgA. This is the medium term antibody reaction. IgA antibodies are mostabundant in our intestines and lungs and tears.

The next is the IgG antibody response. This response in the body takes place over a month

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In practice we try and focus on the most important information in the case. IgG and IgA foodallergens are buckets. If you dont know them then there is little chance of getting better.

I honestly dont know why we have these three different systems. If we look at an infection lthe flu we can make some guesses. First remember that when we make antibodies to a foowe are doing that because the body is making a mistake. When you have a food allergy thebody is treating the food like a bug. The body is treating the food like a bacteria or virus.

So if we use the flu as an example then we can get an idea of what the body is trying to dowith these three reactions. The body cant just make the first response because that is a veintense response that can be destructive or even cause death itself. So the body can just usa massive IgE response to protect itself.

We also know that some people can get pneumonia after the flu. This is a secondary infectithat can occur weeks after the flu. So the body is trying to protect against those long termconsequences also.

So this is a very intelligent system that is completely defeated when the body gets exposed the infection frequently. Remember in the case of food allergy the infection is the food.

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Very often people blame themselves for being sick. Very often others blame us for being sicor for the behaviors that are really resulting from and underlying imbalance.

Some people believe they can correct their illness with a positive attitude. Though there is

nothing wrong with a positive attitude, what this kind of thinking often turns into is a belief thayou or a loved one is sick because of their attitude. It just becomes a way of blaming yourseor others for illness.

I definitely blamed myself for my own illness. I figured it must have come through some defein mental, emotional or physical character. It is only by watching other sick people blamethemselves that it became clear how pointless this kind of thinking was. I decided to focus aof my efforts on getting better.

If you end up being exposed to a bacteria that ends up triggering an immune reaction to youthyroid, adrenal glands or intestines, how is that your fault? The one thing that you are

perhaps responsible for is being willing to ask for and to receive help and answers. Maybethat is what brings you to this book.

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Food Infection

This is why I describe hidden food allergies as food infections. Your body is responding tothese foods in exactly the same way it would if there was an infection by bacteria or virus inyour body. This means that every day you eat that food you are fighting an infection. Overweeks, months and years this will create chronic symptoms and wear your body down.

I have to admit one of the greatest pleasure I find is when the incurable case gets better, owhen the lazy kid gets straight As, or when a heavy person loses 50 or 60 pounds. Basicwhen those people that were being blamed for factors outside there control, get better andchange their health and their life. One of the of the stresses on your body that you may not aware of is IgG allergens.

Only one approach that has really helped me get better, and helped me heal other people asnaturopathic doctor. That approach is to constantly ask myself what I dont know about thecase that I need to know. Testing for hidden food allergens has been such a huge part of thanswer for me and for my patients.

To get a person over their illness, I need to learn facts that I didnt know before, and then apthem to the case. Asking the right question and getting our answers through testing is the bway to get the facts we need.

I regret at all of the different ways I found to blame myself for being sick. I also look back atthe practitioners that I went to that seemed to believe that I was somehow choosing to be sic

A common theme is that we are sick because we are stressed. A lot of time this ends up jusbeing another way to say that it is our fault. The truth is that we should be able to take a littlor a lot of stress without going into the tailspin of disease. A car should be able to hit a bumin the road without the wheels falling off.

Often people are advised that stress is causing their symptoms and that they need to relax.The main problem is that in inflammatory disease or allergic reactions, the brain is also subjeto inflammation. This dysfunctional brain is the same brain that we are asking you to use tochange your stress levels.

I am all for positivity, but what I have come to understand is that a feeling of positivity resultsfrom balance brain chemistry. The brain is affected by the illness process and inflammationprocess of sickness as much as any other organ, if not more. The inflammatory processseverely disrupts the signaling system that the brain uses to function properly.

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It was not philosophy or theory that helped me to make the changes that allowed my body toheal. I think this is one of the reasons that I choose to look at all medicines as naturopathicmedicines." Artificial lines drawn between the different approaches to medicine based onphilosophy are great for argument sake but not much else.

Methods of healing which are based on one theory of medicine being better than another, donot make a difference to the patient that is suffering. These arguments, debates anddiscussions also dont help cases improve more quickly, this is why I never waste time talkinabout which approach is better for a condition. The right approach is the one that works.

This does not mean that all medicines are equal. We always want to use the approach withthe least chance of side effects first. That should just be common sense. As a naturopathicdoctor I know that I have learned a few very effective approaches that do not have side effec

Another reason that I like being a naturopathic doctor is that we have these safer options asalternatives. Naturopathic education includes not only natural medicine, but conventional

Western medicine, and also includes the interaction between these two approaches to heali

So the first step in improving health is to fine out which IgG and IgA food allergens you haveWe do not usually test IgE because these short lived, intense reactions usually makethemselves clear by symptoms.

Hidden Food Allergy Testing

Hidden food allergy testing is a great way to get solid facts about a case that can make adifference. There is no way in my experience to get this information without testing.

After being unwell throughout my twenties, I went to my local library and looked up an articleon naturopathic doctors. The article described naturopathic doctors and their education.Naturopathic doctors go to a four-year medical school and learn both Western conventionamedicine and all forms of natural medicine.

I figured I had nothing to lose, and I went to a naturopathic doctor. Because my case wascomplicated, we did not make much progress other than being able to function withoutprescription drugs. The modest improvements in my symptoms still felt like a major victory.

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There was something more important that the doctor offered. The naturopathic doctor trulyand sincerely believed in my ability to heal.

This was the first doctor that I had been to in all of my years of illness that believed that I costill heal after all that I had been through. Because of this experience I decided to become anaturopathic doctor myself. In the years of practice and research as a naturopathic doctor Ihave a level of health far beyond what I thought would ever be possible. After all that I had

been through with illness I would have just been happy to take one day without pain as asuccess.

Some cases are cured by a single herb, a single nutrient, single diet change, or a homeopatmedicine. Over the years I have had many of those cases in the office. Those cases are futo treat for both me and the patient.

I wasnt one of those patients that experienced an easy cure, so I understand how frustratincan be when answers dont come right away or even after a long wait. I needed to keeplooking for answers, not give up, and keep working at it. That is the same strategy that I usethe cases that I work with now.

To heal it is important to figure out what is making you sick and keeping you sick. We knowthat the body is always trying to restore balance. The efforts to restore balance we experienas symptoms. One thing that I have learned is that if you dont know your food infections it cbe like trying to guess the combinations on a combination lock. It can take a very long time.

The IgA and IgG are hidden food reactions.

Remember, the most important thing about hidden food allergies (IgG and IgA food allergensis that they are a delayed reaction to foods. It is very often impossible to connect the allergeto the symptoms you are experiencing.

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Hidden food allergies (IgG allergens) can bubble below the surface for many years, drainingthe body. They create an inflammatory process that must be managed by the body, which itdoes until it just runs out of the reserves that it needs.If you are into math or science at all yowill see that the area under the hidden food allergy (IgG) curve is much greater than that unthe immediate reaction (IgE) curve.

Having an IgG and IgA food allergy is a constant drain to your system. It is like leaving yourcar lights on by mistake. If you leave for an hour and come back the car may still start. If yoleave the lights on for 10 hours however it may be a different story and the car may not start

How many times have we heard about a person being the picture or health before thesurprise illness got them. Fill in surprise illness with the disease of your choice: cancer,heart attack, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, colitis, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, etc.

The surface area under the red IgG allergen is much greater than than under the IgE areaunder the IgE. What this means is that the G allergies will have a much greater effect on theallergens.

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As long as the line of health remains above the IgG or IgA allergen curve than you will not ssymptoms from the reaction. When the line of health drops you will start seeing symptoms bit is very hard to recognize a symptom that you are experiencing on a Friday from a food thayou ate on a Monday.

How food allergens affect the intestines.

The body prefers to have the intestines with what are called tight junctions." Having theintestinal cells in a tight junction configuration means that nothing can sneak around the celland that everything has to go through the cell first. This approval process allows for the bodto determine what can go directly into the blood stream and what needs to be changed first.

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When the body allows the cells of the intestine to separate from each other then the cellularbarrier is compromised and many other allergens can get into the body. When we see this wsee a patient that comes back with an allergy test where everything is high.

Primary v Secondary Food Allergens.

In this case it is important to recognize the difference between primary and secondaryallergens. Primary allergens are the one that cause the tight junctions to open, secondary

allergens are the proteins that get though the already open junctions and create a reaction.

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Hidden (IgG and IgA) Food Allergens create a chronic drain.

IgG food allergens are the type of problem in practice that I call bucket holes." We think of good level of health as a full bucket of water. Because people sense that they are not full orrunning on empty, then they come in looking for a fill-up." When patients come in complainabout how many doctors they have been to, then I know this is what has been going on.

So if a person has low energy they may come into the office asking for something that will gthem energy. It is a more important question to figure out why a person has low energy.People come in with requests or desires for a treatment that are what I call, Fill my bucket."They want something to feel better, to fill them up.

It is easy to give a quick fix, and fill the bucket temporarily. However that person will soonreturn with the same illness if not a new and sometimes worse condition. A much more

effective use of time, effort and money is to fix the problems first. Cork the holes before filinthe bucket.

Figure 3: IgG allergens as a hole in the bucket.

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Gluten and Modern as a Food Allergen

Gluten and wheat allergens that creates the most problems for the body. One of the firstthings to realize is that according to researchers that I have heard speak about gluten it is thonly protein that that human body can not completely break down. This leaves a foreign

protein that the body may attack as a foreign invader.

Look at the images comparing the size and shape of gluten molecules and bacteria. Glutenshares a size and shape similar to bacteria. We know that the syphilis and Lyme disease ar

very destructive to all the bodys tissues. These form of bacteria are perceived by the body tremendous threats. We do not know why these bacteria create such an immune reaction.

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The images in this graphic are designed to show you how these three substance can createsimilar problems. The graphic represents the size and shape of the gluten molecule that isfound in the grains that we call wheat, rye and barley, and compares it to other molecularshapes that our bodies are exposed to.

When the body senses the infection it doesnt just attack the virus, bacteria or other microbeThe full immune response is against the microbe and all tissue associated with the infectionincluding the bodys own tissues. The bodys immune strategy is to destroy everything and the damage after. Of course the main goal is to clear the invader, so as not to miss theinfection.

After the infection is cleared then the body can go about its work of repairing and regeneratithe tissues. Again, the problem with allergens is that the exposure never stops, and therefothe immune response never stops either.

Gluten is a problem because it looks like the syphilis bacteria and therefore can create thesame immune response. It is not just that gluten can create problems in the intestines eitheIgG allergens can effect the entire body. Keep in mind there are many different tissues in thintestines. Those other tissues are part of the endomysium also.

Endomysium

(shown in red) is

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Figure 5: Allergic response creates a whole body reaction.

If you are having an immune reaction in the intestine then it can show up anywhere else in tbody. When the body creates immune reactions it can fight against its own tissue.

Figure 7: The grain family gluten containing grains.

Gluten is found in any food that contains the grains wheat, rye or barely. Because it is such effective thickener it is also used in many foods that that you would not suspect. Truly avoidgluten takes much work!

The amount of gluten free alternatives is fantastic now in comparison to ten or even five yeaago is the awareness that exists in the culture for people that have gluten sensitivity. TheGrain Family graphic shows the relationships of grains.

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The Whole Body Allergy Connection

Because the thread of the endomysium is like a net that holds our body together it runsthroughout the body, the local affects of the allergy can become systemic. An additional poinabout intestinal allergies is that they can have a special affect on the tissue of the body thatstarts out from the same place as the intestinal tissue in the embryo.

The body forms in three different layers, the endoderm, the mesoderm and the ectoderm.These layers are the inside, the middle and the outside of their body.

The endoderm forms the guts, but some other tissue is also formed from this inner layer. Sowhen the baby is developing in the womb then the inner tube forms the intestines. A part ofthis inner tube also goes up into our abdomen and becomes the pancreas.

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Another part travels all the way up to the throat and becomes the thyroid. So you can see than immune reaction that affects endodermal tissue like the intestines will also create a problin the pancreas and thyroid, tissues far away from where they began when the body was firsdeveloping.

Different tissues can be affected by an IgG allergy.

Why We Crave our Food Allergens

Part of the addictive effect of our food allergens is because eating our allergens can cause tsame effects in our body as taking drugs like morphine. Another way of looking at theaddiction to food allergens is that it is more like an addiction to amphetamines. Thisstimulation provided to the body by consuming an allergen is like a shock to the system, butstimulating shock. Some people may experience feeling very well the day before they come

down with an illness or a return of their symptoms. This is the same effect as when we eat oallergens and feel well at first.

One of the best things that I can hear from a patient when I tell them that they need to give ua food allergen is that, It is going to be so hard because I love bagels, or I love eggs, or I cado without my milk. These words tell me that the person has an addictive attachment to thefood.

One of the worst thing we can hear when we go through the trouble of testing for allergens isthat the person doesnt eat the food that came back high or eats it rarely.

When I hear a person become frustrated, or confused or even angry about giving up a food,then I know that removing that food will be a big help for that patient.

Summarizing IgG and IgA Food Allergens

Lets summarize why IgG allergy testing is so important for any inflammatory disease.

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1. IgG and IgA allergies, because they take so long to develop, are considered hiddenallergies.

2. These allergies can persist for many years or even decades, They can exist since earlchildhood.

3. Just like you dont know a battery is drained until the lights go out, you may notexperience the symptoms of the allergy until your body is no longer able to suppress thinflammation that is created.

4. Even though the inflammation that is created can occur locally in the intestines, theeffects, symptoms and/or damage can be systemic.

Testing for Hidden (IgG and IgA) Food Allergies

We are lucky in practice now that testing for IgG and IgA allergies is so much easier than itwas previously. They are tested with a single finger stick and two dime size drops of blood.

The testing samples are then exposed to a process called florescent immune assay. Thismeans that the sample is exposed to the antigen (allergen) and if the body is makingantibodies (fighting) to that substance then a very sensitive detector will pick up a dischargelight. This process is not only able to tell you if you are allergic but how allergic you are.

Keep in mind in an allergy the body is fighting the allergen as if it were a bacteria or a virus.When the body is fighting a bacteria or a virus that is the number one priority for the body. Tbody is even will to sacrifice its own tissue is order to get rid of this infection.

When the infection is actually an allergy then the body is constantly being exposed to the sathreat. Even though this allergen is not really a threat your body does not know this and it w

keep unloading a destructive force on your own body.Following is an actual test results for IgG allergens on a patients. This is just to give you anoverall view of what the first page of the test looks like. After that I will show you the threemain allergens that I see as problems in practice.

Figure 10: Whole page sample of IgG food allergens.

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The Most Harmful Food Allergens

These three are the most harmful allergens because they are animal proteins, or in the case

gluten, they look like bacteria. Those proteins that are in the animal family have the greatesability to signal our bodies self defense red alert system.

When our body sees these proteins it thinks there is a bacterial infection in our intestine.Because of this it changes the structure of our intestines, literally opening holes, turning tighjunctions into loose junctions."

What I have see is that mild allergies have been causing most emotional problems, eggs beassociated with cancer and arthritis and gluten containing grains with most other inflammatioThat being said these observations are really in the initial stages and I am constantly beingsurprised by another food.

Egg Allergens and Cancer

One allergen that I have found to be very dangerous is eggs. An allergy to eggs seems tomake the patients I have seen more susceptible to cancer. Many of the cancer patients I haseen have this egg allergen. Eggs are made of tissue that will become other tissue. If we loat cancer cells they are cells that have lost the ability to know which tissue they are.

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Figure 15: Egg allergy as a precursor to cancer.

Is the testing accurate and consistent?

Sometimes I am asked about the accuracy and consistency of the testing that we do. We aalways looking for both in every test that we do. The ultimate test of accuracy is whetheravoiding the food allergens improves the symptoms. This is the ultimate test of the results.

Sometimes people are concerned that they may have just eaten something they are allergicand that this may through off the results. On the other hand we have people that worry thatthey have been avoiding an allergen and that for this reason it wont show on the test.

These hidden food allergen take a long time to develop and a long time to decrease. This isone of the reasons that these allergens are so damaging. It is probably better to think of the

more like a freight train than a sports car as far the time it takes for the antibody levels toincrease and decrease.

Because I have seen many of these results I can say that I am constantly amazed by theconsistency of the results. It is not very often that we have testing on the same patient withishort period of time, but it does happen some times, and I will show some of the results hereHere are just a few examples of test that reinforce my confidence in the testing.

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Two Tests: Same Mom Tested six months apart and avoiding her allergens.

Notice the same allergen, just a decreased level based on her avoidance of the allergens.This is an amazing example of the consistency of the IgG testing.

One of the things that we do in our testing is that we test for both the allergies to cooked andraw foods. This is so important it would be hare for me to emphasize enough. Every otherallergy test only tests the raw version of the food.

There are big difference between the cooked and raw versions of foods. Everything that yoperceive in the difference between a cracked egg in a bowl and a plate of scrambled eggs isdifference in the shape of the proteins.

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It is these same proteins that our immune system is reacting to when we have an hidden (Igfood allergy. The reason that cooked eggs look different than raw eggs is that the proteinshave different shapes.

I have done many of these tests in practice. I have seen amazing consistency in the resultsEven when we do test in practice such as sending duplicate tests under different names theresults are consistent. We do this with the support of the lab as they are the most diligentabout the consistency of their results.

There are some patients, such as a patient that has been diagnosed with cancer, that maychoose to get tested every few months. So although most patients may only get a single tesdo get to see patients were many tests are done. The results are exactly as you would expewith remarkable consistency.

Ok, thats all I have to say about IgG and IgA testing. Below is a letter from a wonderful momthat will help you understand why I am so passionate about this testing. There are are otheletters and some articles that I have badly written on my website.

Website: www.SteveNenninger.com

Office email: SteveNenninger@gmail.com

Office cell: (631) 235-2111

A PARENTS NIGHTMARE

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Six months ago, my three year old son was diagnosed with Molluscum Contagiosum

viral skin infection that causes wart like lesions on the skin. The firm bumps (papules) are

painless, but if scratched, the infection can spread to the surrounding skin and other people

am writing this in hopes that the research, mistakes and lessons I learned over the past six

months could possibly help to prevent a child from going though the pain and suffering that m

son and family has recently gone though. And so I will start at the very beginning

In September of 2011, I noticed after giving my son a bath that there were

approximately 4 little bumps on his chest. The bumps were small, clear, and hardly noticeab

and because he has always had eczema (rough dry patches and little red bumps on his skin

didnt think much of it. I decided to put some of the steroid cream that the pediatrician had

prescribed him since the day he was born on the bumps. I had used it religiously to keep hi

eczema under control. A few weeks went by and I noticed that the bumps remained on his

chest, so I casually mentioned it to the pediatrician.

I was asked to bring him in, and once examined, it was confirmed that although he di

still have eczema, the bumps were Molluscum Contagiosum. The pediatrician then proceedto inform me that it is not a serious skin disease, but it is highly contagious and since it is vi

there is no cure and it will eventually go away on its own within 1-3 years. That just didnt si

right with me, how could it take 3 years for these little bumps to go away? So I decided to

take my son to a pediatric dermatologist. By the time I was able to get an appointment with

dermatologist (one month later), my son had 15 bumps on his chest. The dermatologist

confirmed that it was Molluscum Contagiosum and told me that there were several treatmen

for the skin disease.

Treatments included either freezing the lesions off, removing them with a curette,removal by laser, or the use of certain chemicals to burn them off. And since all of these

options leave the possibility of scarring, and none kill the virus, his advice was to ignore it an

let it go away on its own. Again he reiterated that it could take a year or it could take three

years depending on when my sons body decided to recognize and fight the virus. He also

prescribed a stronger steroid cream for my son since eczema aggravates the condition.

Two months later I noticed the bumps spreading on to my sons genitals. I immediate

and frantically called the dermatologist and was told to just leave them alone and they will g

awayeventually. So I did what I was told to do since the doctors are the experts right?

Three months later my son had approximately 50 warts all over his body. They were

his chest, arms, legs, and genitals. The day I saw one come out on his forehead I immediat

made an appointment with another dermatologist for a second opinion. Something had to b

done, what will he look like a year from now, or worse three years from now? Plus, for fear o

passing it on to another child I keep him out of preschool, did not allow him to have play date

with other children and keep him away from all family members. The second dermatologist

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examined my son and asked why he was not treated three months ago. She told me that th

virus would continue to spread and that she normally treats it right away. Little did I know at

that point what hell I was about to endure in the days to come and the pain and suffering tha

my son was going to go through.

The first procedure she decided to do was to cut the bumps off using a curette which

extremely sharp. The physician assistant put numbing cream on the little bumps and my thr

year old son was asked to sit naked for 30 minutes for the cream to take effect. Not only did

he have to sit he had to sit still and not scratch the bumps that were now itching due to the

numbing cream. Did I mention that he was three? Then my husband, the nurse and I had t

hold him down while the physician assistant cut each bump off, one by one. The blood

curdling screams were unbearable, but all I keep thinking was ok, maybe the disease will sto

spreading so fast if we get them off. After a 15 minute procedure, about 25 bumps were

removed and I was told to come back in two weeks to remove the rest. However, in the

meantime they prescribed Aldara, a genital wart cream. I was told to put the cream on the

remaining bumps every night. The cream was supposed to stimulate his immune system to

start fighting the virus.

So, again, I did what I was told to do and listened to the doctor. Well, within one wee

all of the bumps that were cut off came back, and about 20 more appeared on my sons body

His body had horrific scarring and the Aldara cream upset his eczema so much that his who

body felt like sand paper. I immediately called to make another appointment with the

dermatologist. Surly, this was not normal! When she saw me back so soon, she seemed

annoyed and asked me what the problem was. I explained what had happen to his skin and

how the bumps were spreading like crazy. She proceeded to examine my son, tell her

assistant to use a Catherine treatment on the warts and walked out of the room. Apparentlythe Catherine treatment was supposed to make the little bumps blister and then pop, thus

removing the virus filled papules. The assistant then proceeded to dot each bump, even the

bumps on his genitals with a strong smelling liquid; I found out later (from the internet) that it

was poisonous juice derived from a beetle. I was told to wash the treatment off in three hou

Wow, I thought to myself, no tears this is a much better option than holding my son down an

cutting them off. I did as I was told and washed the treatment off in the bath exactly three

hours later. Approximately 4 hours after the treatment was washed off my son woke up at

10:00 pm screaming and crying.

He was inconsolable. My husband and I tried to calm him down and ask what was

wrong and he kept screaming, help mommy, it hurts please help me and make the hurt go

away. We stripped his pajamas off of him and our jaws dropped. There were about 30

blisters ranging from the size of a grape to the size of a ping pong ball all over his body. I

immediately called the dermatologists emergency line. Fortunately, the doctor on call was t

dermatologist that ordered the procedure and she told me to give him Tylenol and pop the

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blisters with a pin. So there we were, 11:00 at night trying to pop huge blisters on my three

year old as he screamed, please stop hurting me, please, please let me go, please dont

touch me. There was so much fear in his eyes, and what hurt the most was that he feared

parents, the very parents that wanted the best for him, that wanted him to get better.

The next day my son woke up with a 103.5 fever. He had it for three days. He would

let us go near him and flinched every time we came close to him. His body was scarred from

the cuts and now burnt from the Catherine treatment. Honestly, he looked like a burn victim

His skin was raw, red and ripped apart. And, the wartswell they were still there!

A week went by and his skin did not heal from the burns. I made an appointment to s

the dermatologist once again. I wanted her to see how badly his burns were and hoped she

could prescribe something to help him heal. After the examination, she asked her assistant

prescribe Mupirocin for the burns and Protopic (a non-steroid cream) for the eczema and

walked out of the room. She did mention before she walked out that I was no longer allowe

to bring my 4 year old daughter (who was sitting quietly on the chair in the office) to these

appointments and to please get a babysitter next visit. That day I left that doctors officedefeated and in tears. What did I do to my son? At that point he had over 75 warts all over

body and his beautiful baby skin was now destroyed.

That night I decided to do research. I didnt trust the doctors anymore, so I researche

all of the medicated creams that I was putting on my son. Every cream had horrific side

effects. The worse side effect was from the most recent prescription, Protopic, it could

eventually cause skin cancer. That cream cost me $150.00, I threw it in the garbage. I

continued to research. I researched every website, every blog and every forum that was

written about molluscum. I researched for the next week, every chance I could get, I musthave spent 5 hours a day researching. And what I noticed was that there were many

naturopathic remedies to get rid of the symptoms but nothing to get rid of the virus. Since

conventional medicine did not help the problem, and only made it worse, I decided that I wa

going to take my son to see a Naturopathic doctor. My sisters very good friend recommend

Dr. Nenninger. She spoke very highly of Dr. Nenninger and was so grateful that he was able

heal her son naturally, when conventional doctors told her he needed tubes in his ears. Tod

her son is happy, healthy and has not had an ear infection since seeing Dr. Nenninger!

After doing some research I found out that Dr. Nenninger was a well known, well

respected, extremely knowledgeable Naturopathic doctor. Maybe there was hope, maybe m

son could heal! I emailed Dr. Nenninger and he personally responded to me within hours an

was given an appointment immediately. Wow! My husband, my daughter and my son all we

to the visit. He was kind and friendly, and offered my children paper, crayons and corn chips

while letting them play with his two adorable dogs. My kids were happy and comfortable in h

presence. My son, who was now conditioned to fear doctors, didnt fear him.

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The doctor observed my son and then we went over his medical history. Dr. Nenning

explained to my husband and me that my sons immune system was distracted and that was

why his body was not fighting the molluscum virus. He suspected food allergies. He explain

that skin disorders such as eczema, rashes and warts are created because the bodys immu

system is too busy making antibodies to fight food proteins, when it should be creating

antibodies to fight viruses and bacteria. He pricked my sons finger, put a few drops of blood

on a piece of paper and said that he would be in touch as soon as the results came it. Thatwas the last little bit of pain my son has every felt. Within one week the test results came in

Dr. Nenninger sat with both my husband and me, while the kids played in his office an

explained that my son should avoid dairy, gluten and eggs. Apparently, his body was so bus

creating antibodies to fight these food proteins, and was so distracted that it was never going

to ever be able to fight the molluscum virus. I have to be honest, this was tough to hear;

everything my son ate contained dairy, wheat and eggs! In fact, his favorite foods were

cheese, yogurt, pasta and cereal! But, we wanted my son to heal and Dr. Nenninger promis

me he would. That was the first thing he said to me, Dont worry mom, he will heal. Most

importantly, Dr. Nenninger promised to find out the underlying cause of the virus, not just hid

cover up, or in my sons case, cut or burn off the symptoms!

My husband and I went home that day and threw out everything in the house that

contained gluten, dairy and eggs. We drove to Whole Foods and found alternatives for

everything my son enjoyed the most without the ingredients he was allergic to. We explaine

to him that he would have to eat new and special food to help the bumps go away. When I

asked Dr. Nenninger how long it would take to see results, he told me to give it a month or tw

and the bumps would just fall off. He also reminded me that it was more than just molluscum

that we were healing; we were healing my sons immune system which is far more importanthan the bumps which were just symptoms. I asked if there was anything else that could he

to speed up the process, so he also gave my son an immune boosting supplement and Thuj

for the warts. For the first time in six months we all had hope, we were actually smiling not

crying and best of all we were not hurting our son, we had nothing to lose!

Within the first week of the diet, my sons skin started to look smoother and brighter a

the bumps stopped spreading. Within two weeks of the diet his eczema was gone for the fir

time since he was born. Within three weeks of the diet, the bumps started to fall off. Within

four weeks of the diet, all 75 bumps fell off and not one has returned! My sons skin started heal. He still has some discoloration and some scarring from the burns and scrapping, but h

soft baby skin is back. He beat the molluscum! A skin virus my son had for six months, hea

within one month of avoiding the foods he was allergic to. His body is stronger and will now

able to better fight viruses and bacteria.

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I am eternally grateful for Dr. Nenninger and so thankful that there are doctors out the

that truly do care to find the real cause of a problem, not just cover it up or cut it off. I hope

that this story will encourage parents to try alternative medicine, question conventional

medicine and know that healing is possible!