Nickel Allergies and Dental Health
Christy Cushing
Our oral health is the gateway to overall health and well being. There’s nothing worse than having a tooth ache!
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Learning more about my unique nickel food allergy allow me to better understand and cope with it.
What about wheat on the low nickel diet?
Do you love bread, crackers and pasta? I sure do and I wasn’t about to give them up…
The Truth about Magnesium & Nickel Allergies
Many of us learn of our systemic nickel allergies because we eat or ate an abundance of oatmeal,…
Book Review: The Eczema Diet
Author and nutritionist Karen Fischer created “the eczema diet” to address her own daughter’s severe eczema. Though she doesn’t discuss systemic nickel allergy syndrome (SNAS), she provides all kinds of useful information for treating eczema.
What about Coconut and Nickel?
Often I’m asked what about coconut in relationship to nickel? In researching about coconut, surprisingly it tends to…
Book Review: Food Allergies: A Complete Guide When Your Life Depends on It
Living with a food allergy can be overwhelming, especially when your first diagnosed. One of the best comprehensive books on…
Nickel as a Catalyst for Soy Lecithin
One of the worst nickel food allergy offenders is soy. Nearly all processed foods include soy or soy…
Why I Drink Coffee
Do you drink coffee? If so, beware of hidden nickel in coffee makers or stainless steel to-go mugs. Check out what I use to enjoy my coffee daily.
Nature of A Nickel Food Allergy
Nickel proteins and haptens. Learn more about the nature of a nickel food allergy.
Avoiding Nickel Toxicity with Fiber
Do you get enough fiber? Most of us don’t and it’s even harder for us on the low nickel diet. Drinking enough water is also critical. Learn the various low nickel foods that are also high in either soluble and insoluble fiber.
Book Review: 7 Day Allergy Makeover
Picking up the 7 Day Allergy Makeover, I questioned whether allergies could be entirely eliminated. Understanding that my nickel food allergy is a chronic condition, my interest in reading the book was to examine other areas in my life I could modify for the better.
The statistics of nickel allergies…
Recently I was asked about the statistics of nickel food allergies…The number of people newly diagnosed with my same nickel food allergy surprises me. I don’t know how many people participate in the low nickel diet. Since the late 1970s, articles have noted the effectiveness of the low nickel diet as an effective treatment for those with severe eczema and nickel food allergies. There is scientific data all over about people allergic to foods that contain high concentrations of nickel. Countries include Sweden, India, UK, Denmark, Iceland, the US and others.
