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atopic individual
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An atopic individual is one who inherits a tendency to one or more of the following: skin problems (especially eczema and psoriasis); allergies; and asthma. Often the patient gets quite sick with one or more of those conditions at a young age (infants may actually be born with eczema or get asthma when 2 months old). As the children age they typically fit a certain physical appearance:
Chronic stuffed nose: has to mouth-breathe and mouth may become deformed from that.
Child does an "allergic salute" which means he is constantly wiping his nose in an upward motion.
Puffy eyes that have dark circles underneath them ("allergic shiners").
May have dullish expression to face.
Generally full of mucus.
These children are very sensitive to the environment and have a hypersensitive immune system that reacts to various stimuli: animals, foods, plant pollens. As a group, they seem to be much better from avoiding dairy products. There is almost always a strong history of many colds and ear infections. The child will have an extensive history of drug use if conventional treatment was sought for medical help. Many alternative practitioners feel that the triad of childhood illnesses: skin rash, ear infection, asthma: is an iatrogenic state. That is, they feel that the child was born with an imbalance that came out as skin rash and/or colds. This was treated with drugs (cortisone or antibiotics) to suppress the symptom of the imbalance. The vitality of the child was thus weakened and the disease was driven deeper into the ears, which then began being chronically infected. When antibiotics were again used, the imbalance was then driven deeper into the lungs and asthma developed. It is fascinating to note that in treating some children for asthma with homeopathic medicines, it is not surprising to see the original skin rash return once the asthma is cured. The skin condition is then treated without suppression, allowing the child to heal into health rather than suppress into deeper sickness.
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