Fresh Fruit Triggers Allergic Reaction in Children
By Barbara Lockwood 

I have just read on the ABC Health report that children are complaining of tingling in the mouth when eating apples, feeling “funny” when eating bananas and generally voicing a dislike of fruit. 

Is it really so surprising?

The report stated that doctors and immunologists were aware of the problem but could not give any explanation as to why this is occurring.

As a person who lived for one year on an apple orchard I can give my opinion on the reasons why, though you need not necessarily agree with it.

Just as an aside we used to pick mushrooms in that orchard the size of serving platters.
I have since learned that mushrooms are wonderful toxin absorbers and detox the soil and surrounding area and that they also absorb chemicals like a sponge. Unfortunately we did not know this at the time and ate the giant mushrooms with great relish. After all you can’t taste half of what kills you and these types of toxins are known as “Invisible Killers”.  www.invisiblekillers.com

We lived in a depression in the land about 500 meters from the packing shed and were surrounded on three sides by the orchard. During that year we had more toxic spray floating over us than I care to remember. Understand that we had moved from Sunshine in Melbourne where the air was thick enough to cut, the smells were vile and when the sun actually shone it was seen through a yellow haze from the munitions factory at Deer Park and the outpourings from the petrochemical plants at Altona and the abattoirs at Footscray.

There were more industrial poisons but that will do for starters. You can perhaps understand why the thought of being sprayed once or twice a week with what we took to be relatively harmless malathion was not that big a deal!

My husband who was part of the “gung ho” generation (as was the boss and his son) wore a simple rain coat and rain hat when spraying the fruit.

All of the trees were sprayed in rotation from the minute that the buds appeared until late in the season when picking started. The smell of the spray was evil and left all of us feeling sick and upset much of the time. Some of the sprays were worse than others but all of them were abundant in quantity, stank and were toxic.

My husband’s skin reeked of chemicals and the smell would not leave him in spite of vigorous showering or soaking in the bath. Our washing machine took on an odour that left me loath to wash the children’s clothes and had I known what I have learned since we would have been “out of there” much sooner.

I blame much of my ill health and my husband’s cancer on that year of living in a toxic hell hole, even worse than the one we left. I think at least in Melbourne our water was not totally poisoned, but who knows. It is certainly not that anymore, according to a meeting held in Tasmania some weeks ago, where Victoria and Tasmania were deemed to have the worst water in Australia.
Now that was a surpise. We have alwasy prided ourselves on our good water in Melbourne.

Invisible and Tasteless Killers?

Our water supply came from a concrete dam, smack bang in the middle of the orchard and was also used for trickle irrigation. A new innovation at the time, the tubes were very fine and kept blocking up with algae, which was treated by adding copper sulphate to the dam. Did we also use chlorine? I can’t honestly say I remember it.

Ignorance is NEVER bliss.

Ignorantly we also swam in the dam and the copper sulphate turned my children’s blond hair green. Was that harmful? I had no idea at the time and we did not really think that much about it.

Here is what I found in an agricultural site.

[Firstly, copper sulphate is not algal specific - in fact it can be quite toxic to other aquatic life, e.g., fish (what about swimmers in a small dam?) when used at high concentrations. Secondly, if the water contains a high concentration of carbonate ions, the copper ions will preferentially combine with the carbonate ions and form an insoluble precipitate of copper carbonate. This precipitate sinks to the bottom of the water body where it forms a toxic slime.

The formation of this precipitate also renders the copper essentially unavailable for the control of algae. To compensate, higher levels of copper sulphate are used which as stated above may seriously threaten other aquatic life. Finally, sulphate containing algicides also have the disadvantage that they combine with hydrogen ions in aqueous solution to form sulphuric acid which is highly corrosive.]

So not only did it not deal with the problem of algae but we were poisoned for nothing, as I well remember the ongoing blocking up of the trickle tubes and their eventual removal.

So, when I hear that children are developing a dislike of fruits and have strange tingling associated with eating the fruit (bananas were the most suspect) I think of the sprays that we were saturated with on a weekly basis. Malathion may be not as toxic as some of the pesticides used but, as the man said in the film  ”Bird on a Wire” –  ”This can’t be good for you”

Wikipeadia had this to say on the subject.

[Malathion itself is of low toxicity; however, absorption or ingestion into the human body readily results in its metabolism to malaoxon, which is substantially more toxic.  Chronic exposure to low levels of malathion have been hypothesized to impair memory, but this is disputed.

There is currently no reliable information on adverse health effects of chronic exposure to malathion.  Acute exposure to extremely high levels of malathion will cause body-wide symptoms whose intensity will be dependent on the severity of exposure. Possible symptoms include skin and eye irritation, cramps, nausea, diarrhoea, excessive sweating, seizures and even death.

Most symptoms tend to resolve within several weeks. Malathion present in untreated water is converted to malaoxon during the chlorination phase of water treatment, so malathion should not be used in waters that may be used as a source for drinking water, or any upstream waters] 

I can fully understand that there may NOT be any reliable facts to pin on malathion, I certainly never drew any parallels or connected our ill health to the pesticide . Yet looking back it seems that we had more than our share of unexplained health problems. 

Children are carrying two toxic loads.

It appears likely that these children, who are already be carrying not only their toxic load but also that inherited from their mother during gestation, are most likely tipping over the edge and IF this fact were fully recognized by the medical profession or even considered as a causative reaction to the sensitivity then we should have all our children detox ASAP with a gentle safe mineral detox product so that they will NOT develop any of these allergies through toxic build up.

All cases of sensitivity should be considered a reaction to (a) substances that may be present in the body as an overload. It makes perfect sense to me, but perhaps I need to be a doctor to see this as unreasonable. I would love to be able to trial these kids on Activated Liquid Zeolite and see if the removal of their toxic load would make them more tolerant of the toxicity in the fruit, for I  consider this a distinct possibility.

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The author of this article is Barbara Lockwood, a Bowen Therapies Practitioner and Holistic and Nutritional Supplements Advocate. Barbara has helped herself to escape the unpleasant prognosis of a wheel chair bound life to enjoy vibrant health end energy and likes helping others to have better health. To find out more regarding the Activated Liquid Zeolite or to order an alkaline/acid food chart or heavy metal test kit call 0402 204942 or got to www.barbshealthshop.com , Email: Zeolitequeen@optusnet.com.au