Digest Number 852

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

Hi Shannon

One of the first set of questions that arose in me were:
how did she react to her mum's milk?
What was the pregnancy like?
What was the birth like?
When did this problem first noticed
Is this a lactose problem?

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Mechanically I used the rubrics desire and agg with milk
reserved
loquacity
Defiant

and ended up with just two remedies:
Nux V and Sulphur.

An interesting case especially the addictive angles to it!!

Good luck
Soroush

Message: 1
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:37:15 -0600
From: Robert&Shannon Nelson
Subject: An Unusual Milk Allergy

Hi All,

Wondering if anyone has any insights on this one, as I'm feeling really at a
loss. It's a bit long, sorry...

This is a 13-year-old girl, who's been a homeopathic patient almost since
birth (not my patient until recently), with significant improvement, but
problems still remaining. Feeling pretty lost, but I'm wondering how or
whether I can use this one unusual aspect.

She has always had allergy to milk (both cow and goat), and also has always
craved it strongly. As a toddler, her reaction to even tiny amounts of milk
was always the same: In the following hours she would become irritable and
"touchy", then angry and combative (she was prone to this anyway, but it was
*much* worse after milk!). During the night she would have one or more
night terrors -- would suddenly begin screaming, flailing, panicked, trying
to escape, without ever really waking up. By the following day, she would
have come out in either one or two boils (apparently depending on how much
milk she had drunk), and her behavior would be back to normal. (She was not
given milk at home, but would sometimes get it at day care, by accident.)

As she's gotten older, the reaction is slower and less dramatic. At various
times the family thought she had "grown out of it", but eventually realized
that she has not. But now, instead of an immediate and dramatic effect, the
bad effect now can take weeks (or months?) to build up, during which time
her mood and behavior have deterioriated, until they finally realize that
it's "the milk speaking". When milk is eliminated (very difficult, because
she craves it, so at times keeping her away from milk has meant simply
keeping her home or supervised for weeks at a time!), it takes several days
before her mood begins to clear. Her "milk mood" is extremely angry,
defiant, looking for trouble, oversensitive to "everything"; making nasty
remarks, picking fights with brother, yelling and slamming doors, "You can't
make me"....

What seems strange to me:
1) I've never heard of this type of milk reaction before -- the boils, and
the behaviors (that that is perhaps a "brain allergy", similar to some
people's autistic response to certain foods???); and

2) She reacts to milk *exactly* as tho it were a highly addictive drug. In
the past she would beg and cry for it, and even now, it simply can't be in
the house, because if she sees it, she will drink it, even tho she has
finally begun to acknowledge the bad effects it has on her. Like any
addict, she is full of reasons why "this time" she should have it, and how
"starting tomorrow" she won't any more.

Does this seem like anything I can use as a clue to the remedy?
I have looked at milk remedies (and will look more), and she did respond
well to lac-c in the past (for specific lac-c M/E issues).

Her M/E's in the present are not so easy to get, as she withdraws when she
feels "on-the-spot", and has never been emotionally introspective nor
emotionally open. She will "chatter", can be friendly and charming, but
does not easily talk about her feelings or thoughts, and has always been
that way. I do have some information about issues there, but will leave it
at this, for now.

Ideas, or similar experiences???

Thanks for all thoughts!!!
Shannon