GLUE EAR: PETER’S STORY

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Peter’s case is particularly interesting as it illustrates what a sudden and dramatic effect allergy can have on brain and mind function.

Peter’s before and after psychological assessments revealed him to be of above average intelligence. He was assessed with the

Webster Adult Intelligence Scale—Revised—Short Form, the ACER Higher Test (WQ) (Mathematical Reasoning) and the APU Arithmetic Test.

Peter’s problem was that his performance at school and his test results waxed and waned erratically. Because of this he was labelled as ‘having ability but lazy and erratic’ by his teachers. This wasn’t a surprising assessment as he could get 90 per cent in a maths test one day and 20 per cent the next. He could write a lucid and imaginative essay one day and nonsense the next. His maths tutor eventually told his mother (Jan) that she didn’t believe he’d ever learn and that it was a waste of money having him coached as she just couldn’t get through to him.

Jan was unconvinced, for her own observations had revealed a direct correlation between Peter’s performance and food. Each night after the evening meal Peter’s father would sit down to help him with his physics and maths and sure enough one night Peter could do the problems and another he couldn’t. What was most exasperating for his father was that on an ‘off night he couldn’t do the problems he was able to solve earlier on an ‘on’ night. Jan noticed that his ‘off nights coincided with the eating of spaghetti bolognese for the evening meal. She applied to enter Peter in the program and was accepted.

Peter’s history revealed a lifetime of allergies. Asthma since age two. Glue ear, ear, nose and throat and adenoid infections, which required antibiotics, every six months. He’d been on antihistamine for his almost continuous stuffy nose.

As Peter had been on multi-vitamins for quite a while prior to seeing me, and as the case was so pressing, I sent him for allergy tests immediately. Sure enough he showed up allergic to beef, tomatoes, malt, milk, cocoa, mould, house dust, dust mites, mosquitoes and mixed grasses. Beef and tomatoes are the major ingredients of spaghetti bolognese and malt and milk were to be found in the particular pasta Jan used.

On the Anti-Candida/Anti-Allergy Program and Formula Six results came quickly. His energy levels rose, the acne on his skin began to clear, he felt he had greater clarity of thought and he was more relaxed before tests. After one month Nystatin powder was added and he made a further leap forward from that point going from 23 per cent for physics in his HSC trials to 54 per cent in the final exams. Such an improvement on Nystatin indicated a Candida infection had resulted from his childhood and that this infection aggravated his allergies.

After ninety days Peter was allowed to break the program. This coincided with the Christmas holidays. In the new year Peter sat an entrance exam to engineering school and scored 94 per cent in technical drawing, which included mathematics and 82 per cent for physics, which also included maths.

The fact that Peter was able to score such a hitherto unobtainable result after three months’ holiday, during which time he did not study, is exciting. It shows that ninety days on the program enabled him to completely desensitise himself to the foods he was previously allergic to and that his Candida infection had remained under control.

Although Peter’s allergies didn’t affect (inflame) that part of his brain that alters mood he was still labelled unco-operative by his schoolteachers and tutors who interpreted his inability to maintain a consistent work performance as rebelliousness. Peter’s nature, even during the height of his allergies, was easygoing and congenial, though at times he exhibited frustration at his inability to maintain an even work standard. Had he not received treatment he would have struggled through life as an intelligent yet frustrated under-achiever. A lack of self-confidence and poor self-esteem would have dogged him for the duration of an unfulfilling life.

Time and space does not permit a detailing of all the young people on the program. The testing procedures, treatment regimes and step-by-step progress reports of the students will be detailed in another publication some time in the future.

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