Caffeine Allergy: A Hidden Allergy and Toxic Dementia

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Caffeine Allergy: A Hidden Allergy and Toxic Dementia

 

by Ruth Whalen, MLT (ASCP)

 

 

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 ©, President, International

Schizophrenia Foundation wrote the foreword. It should be in

print in 2005, and available from Amazon.com.

 

 

 

You may want to start your online reading here:

http://members.localnet.com/~redrum/

 

Ethically yours, Ruth Whalen, MLT (ASCP)

 

        All truth passes through three stages;

           First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is

             violently opposed. Third, it is accepted

                as being self-evident

                  Arthur Schopenhauer

 

 

 

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Ongoing Caffeine Anaphylaxis, A Progressive Toxic Dementia

                                           Known as " Mental Illness "

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   Can you remember your first sip of cola, first chocolate cookie,

or first bite of chocolate?

   If you're like the millions of other caffeine consumers, chances

are, you can't. What about

   birthday parties, Easters, and Valentine's Day? Do you recall

nibbling on chocolate treats?

   Pastries and candy? And Halloween? Wasn't it fun hanging the

neighborhood with your

   chums, collecting chocolate goodies, and washing them down

with cola? 

 

   Well, the truth is sometimes hard to comprehend, especially

as you age, step up your caffeine

   intake and suffer symptoms of what doctors call " ADHD. "  

Memories become a little foggy,

   and focus disappears. 

 

    You seek medical help for deteriorating mental skills and

leave the doctor's office with a

    prescription for ritalin or another drug, which  you think will

help you focus. But the

    doctor forgot to tell you that if you use a stimulant with caffeine

you will develop psychosis:

    delirium, delusions, mania, and loss of insight, judgment and

values. The doctor neglected

    to ask about your caffeine intake and mention that caffeine in

chronic (daily) amounts will

    cause restlessness and a mental fog, " ADHD. "

..

    Have you kept inner demons to yourself and tried skipping

over the " ADHD " stage? After

    all, if you tell anyone how crummy you feel and that you think

you're losing your mind,

    people will think you are mentally ill. So, you drink your

morning cola or coffee and hope

    to get through another day. But the mental symptoms are still

there and you believe you are

    going crazy. You don't feel like you anymore.

 

   " Someone has got to help me, " you naively  think. Yet, no

matter how many times you speak

    with a doctor, any doctor, every doctor,  the best in the field, the

worst in the field, it seems

    that doctors don't  understand. In fact, you think they believe

you're a hypochondriac, making

    up symptoms, because you have too much  time on your

hands in your " anxious " and " panic "

    ridden state. For anxiety, you are given tranquilizers. And you

take the medication with a

    glass of cola. Later, you reach for your tea and chocolate

dessert. Days and months pass. Still

    feeling lousy, not at all like the old you, you keep seeking

medical help for odd physical and

    mental symptoms. And still receive no relief.

 

    Eventually you feel a little better, not as confused, not as

anxious. You can stay up longer,

    perform tasks longer, and with mixed confidence, after

changing your mind a few times, and

    probably a few more, you make decisions. You believe

yourself so good at decision making

    that you help others with their problems, which, by the way, are

none of your business. Some

    may accuse you of being " codependent, " when the truth is, in

your caffeine psychosis you

    need to talk. And when speaking, you must change subjects

before the next thought rushes into

    your head in the " flight of  ideas " notion of things. Why are you

so talkative, so friendly?

    You never used to be like this. " Oh well, " you think. " It will

pass. " And you sip a little cola. 

 

    With symptoms progressing, eventually you can't sense that

anything is different. That's

    what happens when the brain is poisoned. 

     Chronic caffeine intake led to organ poisoning and

malfunction, including brain malfunction. 

 

    As symptoms progress, with you laughing one day, or minute,

and crying the next, and with the mind

    spinning, rattling, obsessing, unable to completely focus or

rationalize, medical persons diagnose

    " OCD, " " bipolar disorder, " and/or " schizophrenia. " Humbug!

 

    According to the FDA, caffeine is a GRAS (generally regarded

as safe) agent. But according to

    chemical manufacturers, caffeine is toxic when swallowed and

harmful when inhaled. (You will

    find manufacturers' safety and data sheets (MSDS) on the

web. You'll have to look.)

 

    So, if you use caffeine in any form, there's a high probability

that you DON'T  suffer from

    a made-up disorder: ADHD, anxiety, panic, OCD, bipolar

disorder or schizophrenia.  Due to

    daily drug intake, perhaps you developed a drug allergy--an

allergy to caffeine, and are suffering

    from ongoing caffeine anaphylaxis, a progressively

deteriorating preventable allergic condition

    and toxic dementia.

 

   " But the doctors claim mental illness is genetic, " you say. Then

listen to them. Take the lithium, the

    phenothiazines, the benzodiazepines, neurontin...clonapin....

Take them all. And ingest caffeine, every

    day, like you have since childhood. Why not give it to your

children? Pack their lunch boxes with the

    stimulant. Feed a few chocolate snaps to the dog. You may

find relief but will never be cured.

 

    Organs will fail. Still, sit with a therapist. Chatter away and pay

the listener who is undereducated or

    not at all in chemistry. You've a better chance that your auto

mechanic knows more about the intricacies

    of the brain. In 1948, it was known that anyone talking about

private matters is organically ill. Has

    the therapist ever mentioned that? Nope. After all, you're

paying the therapist's mortgage. And you're

    paying some hefty life dues. Your personal, educational, work

and social life are in ruins. And you

    don't feel well. 

 

    Have doctors given you a logical reason for those abnormal

lab tests? Of course not. They assume

    that  mentally ill people are supposed to have abnormal lab

results, yet don't know why. However,

    according to lab standards, every abnormal test is indicative of

a physical disorder. That's why lab tests

    are performed.

 

    You trust doctors to find a genetic cause of mental illness?

They've had more than a century to do it.

    Time's up. Let's thank them for playing, because you likely

suffer from a simple condition, an allergy

    to caffeine. Doctors lacked the common sense to figure that

out, so, really, there's no time left for

    the dilly dally. Caffeine allergic persons have lost enough time,

money and energy. 

 

    Educated in chemistry and immunology, I'm a truth teller, like 

A. Hoffer M.D., Ph.D., Andrew Saul,

    Ph.D., the staff at Safe Harbor, Medical Veritas' staff, and the

handful of others you may stumble

    across on the web. Truth is good. It helps people.

 

    Do you remember parking your stingray bicycle, sitting on the

curb with your friend, eating a

    chocolate covered ice cream treat, and then pedaling off with

the wind? How about drinking a half

    a half pint of chocolate milk at lunch, and then attending

class? Unable to concentrate, you may have

    wanted to be anywhere but in English or math class, as you

wiggled in your seat. Ongoing allergic

    response to caffeine begins with symptoms known as

" attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. "

    All those times you thought you were hyperactive, or jumpy, you

were being " stung, " similar to

    the reaction a person allergic to bees experiences after being

stung by a bee. Just like a person

    allergic to peanuts experiences after eating a peanut.

Anaphylaxis makes you feel like you are on

    edge,  or ready to jump out of your skin. It causes the " fight or

flight " response, mistaken for panic and

    anxiety. Yet, eventually you can't tell. Caffeine tolerance

disguises this.

 

    Allergic effects of caffeine increase with age as you step up

your caffeine intake. As ongoing

    caffeine anaphylaxis progresses, it generates anxiety, OCD,

BPD and schizophrenia. Symptoms

    of anxiety decrease as the brain becomes more poisoned.

Caffeine tolerance builds and you keep getting

    sicker and higher.  And yet, you never know. Your friend and

enemy, adrenaline, is there to help.

    Adrenaline increases when you use caffeine. Adrenaline is the

hallmark drug  for anaphylaxis. It

    minimizes the allergic reaction at the brain's expense. When

you remain unaware of your allergic

    response to caffeine and continue ingesting caffeine,

adrenaline and other toxins soak into your cells,

    including your brain cells. That's why you've felt a little puffy. 

 

    Yes, caffeine decreases allergic symptoms. But the very

substance that reduces allergic symptoms

    makes a person allergic to it. Doctors haven't figured this out.

They've been busy drinking coffee and

    playing Santa Claus, shaking hands with pharmaceutical staff

and handing out psychiatric pills.

    Contagiously undereducated in chemistry, doctors didn't

spend the time or put in the effort to help you.

    It was easier for them to diagnose a mental disorder.

 

    In 1936, Dr. McManamy and Dr. Schube treated a young

caffeine allergic woman thought to be a

    manic-depressant with anxiety. The good doctors predicted

that in the future doctors would overlook

    physical symptoms because they are perplexed. Instead, a

caffeine allergic person suffers from " ADHD "

    and becomes " mentally ill. " Here we are: the future, where

80-90% of the world's population uses

    caffeine, 25% of the population is diagnosed with a mental

disorder, and at any one time 25% of

    hospital beds are taken by persons diagnosed with

schizophrenia.

 

    Are you ready to recover? For starters on your journey back to

your natural state, remove all caffeine

    from your diet, cut back on sugar, exercise, force yourself to

drink water,  listen to yourself, and say,

   " I remember feeling good, relaxed, without a care in the world. I

slept well and knew what I wanted. "

    Think: " I know what my problem is. I am caffeine allergic. "

Repeat it. Trust yourself. 

 

    Request your medical records, including your lab tests. Go

way back, if you can. Contact hospitals and

    clinics that you were seen at when you were a child. Although

the records are yours, you might be

    charged up to a quarter a page because medicine is a money

making industry. Ask in a brief and polite

    letter. When you're having a stress free day, review the

records. Look at the lab tests. If any lab test is

    elevated or has been elevated in the past without a specific

physical cause, you are physically ill. The

    physical illness led to mental illness.

 

    The next time you see your doctor or therapist, ask  for an

explanation of  the chemical imbalance (s)

    you are being treated for. Request the information in writing. If

you are in the mood to annoy and, let's

    face it, we all have our days, especially persons recovering

from an illness they never knew they had,

    ask for a diagram of your faulty chemical pathways. Chances

are, you won't get a straight answer.

    Persons treating you use caffeine on a daily basis. Cesare

Lombroso claimed the less intelligent are

    treating persons of  higher intelligence, who have unfortunately

become psychotic and suffer intellectual

    decline. And now we know why. 

 

    After removing caffeine from your diet, you'll recover, like the

eighty-plus caffeine allergic persons

    around the world, so far, that I know of, after losing months,

years, and decades to caffeine allergy and

    misdiagnoses are recovering. It will take time. When you

recover, your trust in health care workers will

    never be the same. And that's okay. Because once again, you

will trust and depend on you.

 

    Don't blame yourself or your parents. It never mattered if you

ate one chocolate chip or drank ten cups

    of  coffee a day. You developed an allergy, a chemical

sensitivity, which usually occurs in childhood

    or young adulthood, after having ingested a substance on a

regular basis. Your body couldn't get rid

    of caffeine, so it stayed in your cells and sensitized you. Brain

function progressively deteriorated.

 

    I am caffeine allergic. Genetics gifted me with above average

intelligence and a quiet state. I was very

    sick for a very long time, more than half of my lifetime. Pushing

psychiatric drugs through the years,

    doctors toyed with my body and mind as they tried belittling my

intellect. " No thanks, " I said, knowing

    I was physically ill. A good physician made an accurate

diagnosis, but didn't know the chemical imbalances

    or how to treat me. I knew what to look for. I researched and

recovered. I'm all better. I will never ingest

    caffeine again. But life is good. Health is good. Focus is a

blessing.

 

    I can put the chemical imbalances of ongoing caffeine

anaphylaxis and all of its " mental disorders " in

    writing and explain what happens in the body and why. And I

did. I wrote a book on it. A. Hoffer M.D., Ph.D.

    wrote the foreword. The information is a century overdue.

 

    In closing, I thank doctors, researchers, psychologists,

therapists, and pharmaceutical staff undereducated

    in chemistry for playing. Try again.

 

    A psychiatrist and several general practicioners congratulated

me for discovering a new condition. But another

    psychiatrist suggested that I tone down my attitude. Having

lost 27 years to medical ignorance, I won't do that.

    Besides,  I learned a long time ago that when it's raining it is

not snowing and that you cannot please everyone

    all the time. However, I apologize if I offend anyone. My

objective isn't to offend but to educate.

 

    Do you remember childhood? Can you recall swapping your

bag of chips for Randy Murray's hee-haw

    chocolate cakes, or Susie Simon's chocolate bar? Did your

first date buy you chocolate ice cream?

    What about Girl Scout cookie sales? How did you spend your

paper route money? Do you drink coffee at

    breakfast? What about in traffic? Did someone give you

psychiatric pills? What did you buy at the grocery

    store?**

 

                                                                              

Ruth Whalen, MLT

(ASCP) 

 

                                                                ** I am not a

doctor and this

information is not a substitute for health care or medication.

                                                                       It is

always a good idea

to contact a doctor before starting a new medical routine.

 

 

 

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            A century

overdue!

  Welcome to the Dance: Caffeine allergy: a masked cerebral

allergy and progressive toxic dementia,442 pages, 6 x9.

  Author: Ruth Whalen. Foreword by A. Hoffer M.D., Ph.D. To

order: follow this link:

http://www.trafford.com/4dcgi/next-prev?rbDirection=Previous & Fi

eld=Subject & item=8202 & 55194619-16945aaa

 Or, to order a signed copy: Send $31.95 + $2.50  postage (US

orders) to: Welcome to the Dance, PO 2284, Teaticket, MA.

02536.

 Canadian orders $36.95

 

 

                                                  Please join me for a global

radio

broadcast about caffeine allergy and toxicity.

                                                  Place:

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                                                  July 11, 2005

                                                  Time: 6 PM  EST.

                                                  Cost: Free

 

 

         Suggested Reading:

1. Whalen R. Ongoing caffeine anaphylaxis: a differential for

mental illness. Medical Veritas 2004; 1(2): 252-260.

2. Elkins F, Farver D, Rolim IL, Janisch G. Forum: caffeine

allergy. Medical Veritas 2004; 1(2): 315-322.

3. Whalen R. Caffeine allergy: a hidden allergy and toxic

dementia. Successful Schizophrenia. 2005.

http://www.successfulschizophrenia.com/stories/whalen01.html

4.Whalen R. Caffeine allergy and premenstrual symptoms.

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients. Nov. 2004; 87-88.

5. Whalen R. Caffeine anaphylaxis and anorexia nervosa: a case

report. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. May 2004; 92-96.

6. Whalen  R.Caffeine anaphylaxis: stage II: Obsessive

compulsive disorder. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients.

May 2004.

7. Whalen R. Caffeine allergy, masked cerebral allergy, a case

report. Positive Health Magazine. March 2004. **Unable to link:

cut and

paste the following address to read the

article:http://www.positivehealth.com/test/articles.asp?i=1533 & b

=1

8.  Whalen R. Caffeine anaphylaxis, a progressive toxic

dementia. Journal of OrthomolecularMedicine 2003; 18; 25-28.

Link:

9. A similar version online at

Doctoryourself.com: http://www.doctoryourself.com/caffeine2.htm

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10.Whalen R. Caffeine anaphylaxis, TMJ and Bruxism.

Townsend Letter  for Doctors and Patients. January 2003.

11.Whalen R. Caffeine Allergy: Past Disorder or Present

Epidemic? Doctoryourself.com. July

2003.http://www.doctoryourself.com/caffeine_allergy.html

12. Browne G. (AKA Whalen Ruth.) Past Disorder or Present

Epidemic?http://mentalhealth.about.com/library/yourturn/uc0614

01.htm

 

 

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      Testimonials:

            " It is now nearly six months since I read your article and

stopped using caffeine. I also stopped

             using Neurontin and  Effexor for bipolar disorder and was

doubly pleased to be able to stop

             using Desyrel to sleep through the night … "

            " Thank you. I was delighted to find the connection

between my problems and caffeine allergy. "

            " I appreciate this article and cannot believe that more is

not being said about this... I have suffered

            for the last two years with caffeine induced mental

disorders. I am relieved that I am not crazy and

            will not ever take another cup of  coffee or coke again.

Thanks again "

            " I'm on day 132. You're right. The only way to get free of

caffeine is to drink lots of water, do

             something pleasurable and exercise… I KNOW there is

angels in this world. And these special

             people is always kept in our hearts. I thank you SO

MUCH, as your research is the ONLY I've

             found on the entire net. You've put a rope for me to get out

of this abyss and we must be proud

             of a natural life. " "

             " Thank You for the web page about caffeine. I believe that

I have suffered for at least the past 10

             years. I have been diagnosed adhd and bp etc. I am only

2 days into complete caffeine abstinence

             after multiple attempts at stopping…. I really want the old

self back. After so much wasted on

             doctors, I feel as if I have been raped. "

             " Thank you for your writing on caffeine. I gave up coffee

the next morning. "

             " Oh my God! Thank you, thank you! When I get better, I will

tell everyone about this and distribute

             your articles... "

             " Thank you very much. You saved my 9 year old

daughter. "  

 

                                                            " Proof, " he

whispered, and

began to scratch the bug bites on his arms.

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                 G. Browne.

" The Couch "

 

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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

 

 

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      " But I don't want

to go among mad people, " Alice remarked.

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      " Oh, you can't

help that, " said the Cat: " We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're

mad. "

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      " How do you

know I'm mad? " asked Alice.

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      " You must be, "

said the Cat, " or you wouldn't have come here. " Lewis Carroll

 

 

 

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