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Allergies
Allergies are a very specific reaction of the body to proteins in the body, which the body "believes" shouldn't be there. (NOTE: Most people don't realize that the inside of the gastrointestinal tract are NOT inside the body environment!)
Not all negative reactions to a material are allergic reactions. For instance, the writer has suffered strong headaches from exposure to man-made chemicals. That is not an allergic reaction. It is a toxic reaction.
Food Allergies
Candida albicans can induce food allergies. It is believed this is what happens:
When yeast which is growing in the intestines is placed under stress of anti-yeast drugs, anti-yeast foods, or the immune system, the yeast changes into the mycelial (fungus) form. In that form it starts to burrow into the walls of the intestines in order to escape the stress. (It also can enter cells to escape even the immune system!)
Yeast penetrating the intestinal wall produces micro-channels into the blood stream. Food molecules (proteins) can pass through those channels, into the blood. Because these are foreign molecules, the immune system creates antibodies to mark them for destruction, and that occurs. It also sets up the body for allergic reactions when that food is eaten again.
Even if the holes through the intestinal walls are healed, food sensitivity tests administered by an allergist will still produce a positive response --- "Mr. Andrews, you are allergic to eggs ---" However, if the food is eaten there is no reaction because the molecules the body has learned to be allergic to are not able to enter the blood, so there is no reaction.
Internally Generated Allergens
For many years this writer suffered from what were CLEARLY allergic symptoms. Much effort was expended on medical tests, trial and error in modifying the environment, and test diets and rotation diets. All of this proved worthless.
Then, in his research in the National Library of Medicine, he learned that acetaldehyde combines with many molecules in the body. These new molecules are called adducts. Many of these adducts are allergenic (they produce allergic symptoms). They have half-lives ranging up to 21 days. (Half-life is the time required for half of them to disappear.)
The writer suffered from very strong nasal and sinus allergic symptoms. They were not caused by anything he inhaled. They were caused by adducts being produced by acetaldehyde which was liberated in the mucosa of those locations.
