Salicylates found in food can create #behavioral symptoms. Dr. Ben F. Feingold’s book, Why Your Child Is Hyperactive, includes a long list of foods and products with additives, color additives (red 40), and foods containing natural salicylates that can cause hyperactive behavior and attention deficit issues in children if they’re sensitive or allergic to the substances. Managing food sensitivities can be a challenge, especially since some of them fail to show up on blood tests. One such sensitivity is salicylates, a subgroup of phenols. These are naturally occurring chemicals in many plants, acting as natural pesticides, protecting them against diseases, fungi, and bacterial infections. There are also synthetic chemicals that mimic natural salicylates in food dyes, preservatives, and medications like aspirin, acne products, detergent, lotion, skin cleansers, hair products, shampoo, mint flavored toothpaste, gum, makeup, sunscreen, and foods containing artificial color/flavoring. Toxic to everyone in large doses, salicylates cause sensitive people to experience toxic symptoms when they eat even a small amount. Some symptoms include gastrointestinal distress, asthma, fatigue, nasal congestion, memory loss, inattention, ADHD, depression, anxiety, inappropriate laughter, extra self-stimulatory behaviors, waking up during the night, and dark circles under the eyes. amazon/Healing-without-Hurting-Effectively-Medications/dp/0989452980/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:39:18 +0000
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