SweetJade1980

I like your style. Nice work.     Because for most people the acne is hormonal (genetics, age and life stage, sex, health problems such as PCOS) and environmental (stress, weather, impro...

A while back someone commented on eating at the Fajitas at Chilis. I asked if he orderd the corn or (wheat) "flour" tortillas and he didn't know the answer to that (there is a texture, taste and usua...

How to Make Your Diet Gluten Free by MIHealthCoach Introduction What gluten is, why people should avoid it, and how to avoid it. Instructions Difficulty: Easy Things You'll Need a list of glu...

Long since wanted a pinned thread of this sort. Of course it only works when we add in the links to other threads AND we post new one's in this one!

QUOTE (baby pink @ Jun 10 2008, 07:53 PM) QUOTE (SweetJade1980 @ Jun 10 2008, 06:21 PM) QUOTE (baby pink @ Jun 10 2008, 03:54 PM) my allergist wrote me back, when i asked about these tests "...

QUOTE (baby pink @ Jun 10 2008, 03:54 PM) my allergist wrote me back, when i asked about these tests "Your IgE tests are equivalent to ELISA. I don't recommend ALCAT." well.. not sure what to th...

oh, well, BIG SHOCK lol, i tested negative for wheat/soy/chocolate IgE allergies. that doesn't surprise me because.. I don't have the IgE symptoms! I really hope they'll do and ELISA or ALCAT or somet...

After reading the study, I'm confused at the original post. The study does say that B cells do not respond in normal acne cases, only during severe acne. We also know that B cells are responsible for ...

This might help:     Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi. 2004 Apr-Jun;108(2):319-24.   [Immunohistochemical evidence of chronic inflammation in acne vulgaris][Article in Romanian]   &n...

Then I take it back. What's the specific role of T cells in P.acne response and where can I read the related literature/studies?

Another study:     Hautarzt. 2008 May 18. [Epub ahead of print] Links [Acne : Current pathophysiologic considerations.][Article in German]     Degitz K, Ochsendorf F. Dermatologis...

Psst...I updated the prior post.   OK, now second line of thought....what's up with grains, especially Wheat?   If you've read what I've posted in topics relating to Insulin Resistance, Diab...

Since inflammatory mediators cause the symptoms, an anti-inflammatory diet is the best mode of action, is it not?. Intolerances manifest themselves because the body's defense system is unable to cl...

Are intolerances still characterized by a degranulation of mast cells, leading to the release of histamine? If that were teh case, maybe anti-histamines will have an affect on acne. We can also sea...

instead of making life hard for yourself by not eating anything, why not EAT everything and build up a tolerance to the allergens?

instead of making life hard for yourself by not eating anything, why not EAT everything and build up a tolerance to the allergens?

Sweetjade -   What kind of acne do you get if you eat bananas and pineapples, and let's say you ate those, how much time does it take after you eat them to eliminate the inflammation response? &...

Most Common Allergens   Cow's Milk:   Two out of a hundred infants under one year old suffer from cow's milk allergy, making it the most common food allergy of childhood. In general childr...

Hey Sweet Jade, what elicits DTH response in the first place? I think that's an important question to ask. What is the antigen that leads to the activation of Thelper cells? The Th cells will then a...

There is already a sticky pertaining to this topic. I listed Leaky Gut Syndrome as LGS in a thread I created, however I went ahead and spelled it out and am merging the two threads.   All abou...

shite are u still here sweetjade? (aka longjade) I've conquered acne with NOD (Natural & Organic Diet) = No Acne, simple. NOD Rules! NOD NOD NOD LOL, yeah, but I'm not needed as much anymor...

Spottedone,   I can't give much of reply today, but I wanted you to look at this thread here. Toward the bottom I listed some specialists that one should see and when you've got acne for as long...

Germaine,   I certainly didn't mean to freak you out about the birth control. However it's something I wanted to point out because it may be the drug itself or it may be due to the fact that th...

Hey Sweetjade, I was diagnosed with PCOS on Thursday... I've been on Spiro for two months and I'm back on Diane (I've tried for a long time to avoid this but now that I found out I have PCOS, I know...