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Caffeine Allergy: A Hidden Allergy and Toxic Dementia

by Ruth Whalen, MLT (ASCP)

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Dear Caffeine Consumers,

When I was in elementary school and junior high, students were grouped according to their level of intellect. I was in the A group. By the time I was graduating high school, my grades had slipped and I was associating with C people.

An emergency room physician and caffeine, a legalized psychoactive drug, are to blame. One day during my senior year, I broke out in hives. Believing I was allergic to clams, because I had eaten them earlier in the week, a doctor injected me with epinephrine (adrenaline), putting me into acute psychosis. Mental deterioration became chronic and progressed. I was not allergic to clams. I am allergic to caffeine. The reaction occurred from drinking Coca-Cola.

Not knowing of my allergy, for the next 25 years I continued ingesting caffeinated products. Physical and mental health deteriorated. Desperately I sought adequate medical care. Contagiously undereducated in chemistry, doctors failed me.

As a medical lab technician with a BA in writing, and having worked in a general hospital's laboratory for 14 years, I am knowledgeable in chemistry and immunology. A good health care worker knows that an abnormal laboratory value coincides with an in vivo abnormality, meaning that something is wrong in the body. I was physically ill and knew it.

These facts did not come into play when, in 1999, I was committed to a locked ward, where doctors and nurses attempted correlating my abnormal symptoms and lab tests with personality disorder and bipolar disorder, because the very abnormalities affect persons diagnosed with a mental disorder. I suggest we try again.

A good doctor diagnosed my allergy. I utilized my recovery well.

Ongoing caffeine anaphylaxis is a masked cerebral allergy that targets organs, including vulnerable brain tissue, and alters biochemical reactions. Chronic allergic response progresses: Vascular walls break down, and toxins invade organs, including the brain. Hence, the glassy-eyed look of caffeine-consuming patients diagnosed with bipolar and schizophrenic psychosis. Mental symptoms include attention deficits, loss of insight, focus, judgment and values, delusions, procrastination, anger and a sense of self-loss. Unable to correlate the symptoms with a textbook disorder, doctors diagnose ADHD and/or another mental disorder.

Now healthy, I believe I am at the A group level again. I'm working on a book titled: Welcome to the Dance-Caffeine Allergy, a Masked Cerebral Allergy and Progressive Toxic Dementia. It details my needless transcendental journey, my attempts to get medical help, and the chemical imbalances of mental disorders. A. Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP (C), President, International Schizophrenia Foundation wrote the foreword. (Now in print - 2005), and is available from Amazon.com for $32.95.

Visit the author's homepage: http://www.welcometothedancecaffeineallergy.com

Ethically yours, Ruth Whalen, MLT (ASCP)
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