Allergies – A Growing Modern Epidemic

The UK has the highest prevalence of allergic conditions in the world, with numbers rising sharply over the last two decades. In 2004, around 20% of the population lived with one or more allergic conditions; by 2010 this had escalated to 44%. Today, 1 in 4 adults and 1 in 8 children are affected by allergic rhinitis.  Allergy UK calls this a “modern epidemic”.

Food allergies are particularly concerning, affecting 5–8% of children. Symptoms often begin with skin rashes, eczema, or digestive distress in early life. While diet changes and functional medicine can bring relief, deeper root causes are often overlooked. Joy’s millennian quest found many causes, unique to individual.

Why is it that some of us have a strong digestive system and others live with various issues? Joy’s extensive knowledge and experience found extraordinary answers. If our parents, even grandparents, have digestive, eczema and allergic disorders, logically future generations are more prone to same disorders. Essentially, we can be living previous generations gut weakness. Transgenerational low function or weak system impacts continue on in future generations. Not just the digestive system, involved in eczema, allergies, mind-emotion health issues.  Transgenerational weakness becomes a dominance passed on in Utero and formation.  A body-mind-emotion transference, weaved into us from womb.

Research infancy highlights the role of birth type and maternal health. Individually we can add to the generational issue via type of birth.  When born in a natural vaginal birth, infant undergoes certain processes as they move through the birth canal. Birth processes essential for strong immunity and healthy digestion. Beneficial bacteria is passed on; muscles squeezes excess fluid from the baby’s lungs.

Babies born by C-section may miss these important benefits, increasing risks of breathing issues and asthma (Aberdeen University, 2015). Mothers maternal base gut health also plays a critical role. Is mothers immunity or good bacteria strong enough or weak. A factor for infant, either way, passed on. Inherited poor digestive function, weak beneficial bacteria? Poor or weak bacteria will lead to internal vulnerability, lower gut function. Signs and symptoms include colic, allergies, weak immunity. Infant starts on back foot from the get-go.

Causes & Influences - Birth Type Matters in allergies:

A Vaginal birth is where nature provides. Virginal or natural birth gives infant the opportunity to pick up good bacteria from mother, via birth canal. An inherited protective bacteria of immunity with digestive system impacts. Birth canal clears fluid from the baby’s lungs, squeezing out excess fluids as birth process, progression happen through natural birth.

However, C-section babies, surgical through the sun roof process.  Infants born through C section miss out birth canal processes.  The alternative way of picking up good bacteria and immunity from mother is from breast feeding.  If the infant misses out on both processes it leaves infant on back foot with less natural immunity, higher risks of asthma and breathing issues (Aberdeen University, 2015).

More women are choosing elected C-Section births than ever before, and data shows up to 48% in the western world continue to choose to birth this way.  Unfortunately, without knowing full facts of risks or contraindicators. OR risks being formed to allergies digestive issues that may go on to affect their children!

Certainly, increase in allergies have kept pace with decades since C-Section deliveries, climbing to staggering proportions and UK is labelled with the highest instances.  Today it is normal to have a child with allergies. Allergies often continue and/or returns in adulthood. 

Logically, without good bacteria and inheritance of immunity from mother infants are more prone to allergies.

Eczema, throat infections, tonsilitis and digestive issues may follow.  It is amazing this knowledge is not universally accepted or recognised. Fact is, no safeguarding exists, no early intervention to correct or support infant and/or parent.  When correction can be made in a matter of weeks. Ignorance acerbates the situation. 

Type of birth process is acerbating and growing the epidemic! Logically there are solutions and answers to quickly correct the situation and Joy (Founder of JWT) has tirelessly worked and implemented functional medicine methods, new approach holistic strategies with professionals and individuals, infants and babies on this very subject.

More information and case study outcomes in Joy’s book Pregnancy & Birth a New Generation.  Look out for allergy chapter download on website.

Maternal Gut Health:

Logically, children can only pick up what mothers have to give from her microbe systems and bacteria quality. Very often this is not on a parents radar while pregnant or giving birth. No one mentions this aspect to parents. Little is generally known of maternal gut health. If parents don’t have good digestive function or liberal amounts of good bacteria to give. There is little to pick up.

One reason ‘Why’ we need to get fit for pregnancy and birth. Formation sets the parameters; birth additions instigates infant bacteria levels. Infant inherits their mother’s good or weak bacteria levels and her emotional state, affecting infants hormonal and digestive function.

Inherited Weaknesses:

Logically, poor gut health, malabsorption, or low bacteria in mothers can pass vulnerabilities to infants. Dad also passes on his immunity through DNA. The transfer is dominant in the new infant. Good, bad or indifferent is inherited. We can be living a mix of grandparents, parents and birth issues dictating our immunity and digestive bacteria.

Ø  Digestive and immune dysfunctions can be handed down through generations*.

Ø  Digestive system is a mechanical process with many parts; malabsorption happens when system breakdown kicks in.  

Ø  Malabsorption: Small intestine processes the goodness we eat and distributes for uptake. Malfunction here is where we lose the goodness and mineral benefits from food. Mineral deficiencies are found with malabsorption. We can be eating the very best of organic diet yet won’t get the benefits due to mechanical dysfunction within.

*Note mothers can improve their good bacteria, digestive and gut function pre-natal, in pregnancy and post-partum.  Any time helps.  No time like the present. Don’t wait. Sooner the better to improve your own and infants quality of life. Gut function changes continually due to stress and adverse trauma. Hence investing to correct with a JWT professional is well worth the effort.

At JWT, we take an integrated approach, combining functional medicine, body-mind therapy, and parental education. Early intervention supports both mother and infant, helping correct imbalances, strengthen immunity, reducing the lifelong burden of allergic disease. And it can start improving any time, pre and post-natal.

Impact on Children & Families

Early signs of weak bacteria and digestive poor function will include colic, rashes, eczema, poor digestion, food aversions, bloating, flatulence and breathing issues.

Allergies create internal distress, strain on systems from intolerances, sleep disruption, and emotional strain across the whole family.

Constipation, diarrhoea, wheat, diary, lactose intolerance, Crohns disease etc. may follow.

Solutions exist: Allergies don’t have to define your or your child’s life, with direct action, balance can be restored at any age.

Malabsorption – digestive issues – constipation.

Many factors are involved with chronic and severe conditions. And may be long standing for adult parent, teen, child.  At JWT we are amazed to find, observe the digestive conditions lived without correction often from childhood.  Solutions exist, correction can happen, through functional medicine, testing, hair analysis and stool testing, plus a combination of approaches as described.

Malabsorption is a small intestine issue. Common in infants and adults. Meaning good nutrition, vitamin, mineral, intake minimalised. The body’s natural building systems stopped; nutrients no longer being absorbed. Cause and effect weaken digestive systems, becoming under par, for infant/adult. System decline. Infant symptoms include colic and/or poor excretion,  systems going out of sync.

Various symptoms appear from the digestive malfunction.  Bringing misery for toddler, infant, any age!  Stress and anxiety make the condition worse. Causing further issues and physical disorders.

1)  Allergies due to poor digestion.

2)  Aversion around certain foods.

3)  Poor appetite.

4)  Headaches

5)  Dehydration 

6)  Eczema, skin rashes

Logically, mother’s low bacteria can be improved before birth therefore giving infant the opportunity of improving natural bacteria levels automatically. Poor digestive disorders can be remedied while pregnant with functional medicine, without any harm to infant.

Malabsorption and digestive issues correction health plans for infant, toddler or adult, integrated with combination approach with D.A.R.E Therapy and functional medicine.

1. Functional Medicine & Nutrition, correcting malabsorption and digestive imbalances with 1-2-1 consultation, testing, lifestyle tweaks, vitamin and mineral improvements with supplementation corrections.

2. D.A.R.E Body-Mind Integrated Therapy addresses underlying stress, trauma, and inherited system influences.

3.  Parental Education: Empowering families to break the allergy cycle. Parents can make changes to improve too! 

JWT approach helps to correct digestive dysfunctions, malabsorption the real underlying causes of allergies.  Often correcting what infant or adult missed out on in formation etc.  

Joy advocates ‘Dith it Don’t live it’

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