| Many illnesses are the result of reactions
to a variety of substances found in the home or workplace, including naturally occurring
and synthetic toxic chemicals. the sensitive patient may notice adverse
reactions to almost anything in their environment. Therefore, minimizing
exposure and reducing total body load is a vital part of treatment success.
Day 2 should find you
settled in
less-toxic housing.
You may have already purchased organically grown food and glass bottled
water. The Foundation Store carries bottled water and limited organic food
products . Your clinic schedule on Day 2 might include:
- Follow-up appointment
with the physician
- Establish and
communicate your treatment goals. Treatment goals are necessary to focus
on areas of importance for testing and treatment.
- Additional investigative
procedures maybe ordered by the physician to help establish areas of
treatment focus such as:.
- Thermography which
uses heat sensors to locate possible disease processes in organ
tissue.
- Additional
laboratory evaluations.
- Skin Testing
The first skin testing usually begins with finding your histamine and
serotonin levels. These substances are tested first because they are used to
stop reactions and to clear your symptoms as you go through the testing
process. Remember to
record any reaction or response that you have during testing on your testing
summary sheet.
Begin testing of basic foods.
What are basic foods? They are the foods most noted for allergenic
potential. They included Baker's yeast, Brewers yeast, corn, eggs, cow's
mild, cane sugar and wheat.
Skin Testing usually takes several days to weeks to complete
and depends on the
number of items you need to test and how long it takes you to test for each specific substance. One substance,
for example banana, can take from ten minutes to over
an hour to neutralize depending on the your sensitivity to that substance. In certain
instances testing can be shortened, by testing for fewer substances.
Testing hours are
from 9:00 AM - 11:30, 1:00 - 4:30PM M-F, Sat. AM. 9-11:30, Tues PM. 7-8:30.
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Personal items, purses, bags
etc., are left outside the testing rooms. There are lockers near
the testing room where you may store your personal items.
Remember to shut down all cell phones.
There are two testing rooms available, rooms A
and B.
Room B is for severely sensitive patients. |
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A part of
testing involves writing down your symptoms on your testing summary sheet after each injection. Awareness
of your body's response to a substance is important in your testing and
treatment. |
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Testing Room B |
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The first skin testing usually begins with finding your histamine and
serotonin levels. After those results, testing continues with common
foods, which are often problematic for the environmentally sensitive patient. Eight to twenty commonly
eaten foods are recommended for basic testing. Remember testing can
take a few days or up to several weeks depending on your body's response to the testing. |
Day 2
draws to a close and may find you are a little overwhelmed. "This is tougher
than I thought. And testing is full of surprises." Rest and relax
for day three is just a few hours away!
On to Day 3.
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