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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Alzheimer's / January 2006"Food Tastes Funny"?
My GMom doesn't want to eat she says Food Tastes Funny even water. She had a thing she called a drip before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She had gone to 20 Doctors about it none of them knew what it was or how to treat it. Now she doesn't want to eat because of it. Does anyone have a similar experience? > My GMom doesn't want to eat she says Food Tastes Funny even water. She had > a thing she called a drip before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She > had gone to 20 Doctors about it none of them knew what it was or how to > treat it. Now she doesn't want to eat because of it. Does anyone have a > similar experience? Could she have been referring to a post nasal drip? That comes from sinus infections, and yes, it can affect taste.  SignatureBest Regards, Evelyn (to reply to me personally, remove 'sox') That was my thought also. I have post nasal drip and it is not very nice to have. It is very irritating, and could easily affect the taste of food. See an ear, nose, throat doctor. Gwen >> My GMom doesn't want to eat she says Food Tastes Funny even water. She >> had a thing she called a drip before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. >> She had gone to 20 Doctors about it none of them knew what it was or how >> to treat it. Now she doesn't want to eat because of it. Does anyone have >> a similar experience? > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > (to reply to me personally, remove 'sox') We went to tons of different Doctors.Without any success. > That was my thought also. I have post nasal drip and it is not very nice > to [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> >> (to reply to me personally, remove 'sox') When your health is down you notice chemicals you would not otherwise. When your health is comprimised everything can taste wrong. Could be a instinctive responce to chlorine or something else in the water. Have you tried filters or bottled water? I found a filter helped alot. HAS she been to a Allergy doctor? It is quite common to either have a revulsion or a craving for a "food" that causes a allergic responce. Food can cause dramatic brain fog and alot worse. DOES HER DEMENTIA BECOME WORSE A HOUR OR SO AFTER EATING? It can take months to track dow all the foods that cause you to become delusional. However if it is sugar products I would bet on a yeast infection. I found I quit reacting to cokes after being treated for candita yeast. Has she been tested for metal poisoning? http://www.midnightcafe.com/alzh/ http://www.midnightcafe.com/alzh/diagnosis5.html#recovery Definatly concider "The cure for all disease" by Dr. Clark. Her study into enviromental poisoning is staggering. Her methods for dealing with it are great. If a bit overboard for everyone but the worst off. Concider "It's all in your head " by Hal Huggins Could be fillings or dentures are the problem and need to be changed. They can dramaticly affect the taste of food. READ READ READ The last thing any one needs on this newsgroup is another alternative medicine nut case. Please go away. > When your health is down you notice chemicals you would not otherwise. > When [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > READ READ READ > The last thing any one needs on this newsgroup is another alternative > medicine nut case. Please go away. Could you be specific as to where I was wrong? Did she not state "We went to tons of different Doctors.Without any success" in responce to your suggested sinus infection or condition? Since it is not infection where do you go? Food Allergies fit the listed symptoms. This is as mainstream as it gets. Has she been to a allergist? Metal poisoning also fit. Depending on how old the piping is she could have lead poisoning. This is not as common now as a century ago but it depends on where you live. She probably was not a welder but she may be downwind from a plant of some kind. There are plenty of movies made about lawsuits from people becoming sick near by manufacturing plants. Can we say Love Canal? http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/lovecanal/ Has the water been tested for metals or chemicals? Is she on well water? Have air samples from the house been tested? Has she moved and the problem followed? It is most likely it is a build up of several problems that overwhelmed her rather than another love cannal but there is not information to narrow it down. Everything tasting wrong and demensia are red flags that there are certain specialists she should see. Food allergies, metals, and or chemicals of some kind all can cause these symptoms. Has she been tested? A simple hair sample can eliminate or confirm many of the obvious. If you eliminate the obvious you usualy have cured the problem. >> The last thing any one needs on this newsgroup is another alternative >> medicine nut case. Please go away. > > Could you be specific as to where I was wrong? Take your snake oil elsewhere...... Inability to find error someones work usualy means the error is at your end. > >> The last thing any one needs on this newsgroup is another alternative > >> medicine nut case. Please go away. > > > > Could you be specific as to where I was wrong? > > Take your snake oil elsewhere...... > Inability to find error someones work usualy means the error is at your > end. ..or that she is speaking to a fruitcake. I'll go with the latter hypothesis. SignatureTumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com > ..or that she is speaking to a fruitcake. I'll go with the latter > hypothesis. I am a fruitcase for saying test for what causes the same symptoms as AD and can be tested for? Do you realise the US goverment says that a diagnosis of AD cannot be proven in the living and it takes a specilised center to aproach a 90% correct diagnosis? http://www.alzheimers.org/pubs/adfact.html Maybe I am wrong but I bet most of us never see the best of the best for diagnosis. So how good is your doctor at guessing? Not proving but guessing. I simply say test for what can be proven and treated. I hate settling for guesses when I can test for something that causes the same symptom with a 100% certainty for very little money. >> ..or that she is speaking to a fruitcake. I'll go with the latter >> hypothesis. > > I am a fruitcase for saying test for what causes the same symptoms as AD > and > can be tested for? I'll take it you meant 'Am I' or was that a Freudian slip? :-) You are a fruitcake for suggesting that you removed aluminium from your body by switching from canned beer to bottled beer for one week, and that cured your problem. If you had a problem due to aluminium in your body it wouldnt be removed after 1 week, certainly not removed just by not drinking from cans, and in any case there is plenty of alumunium in normal food and water so its not like removing one source (with absolutely minimal levels) would make such a radical difference...or in fact any difference. You are a fruitcake for seemingly suggesting in your initial posts that anyone who has AZ has some simple food intolerance or allergy or mecury poisoning or Al instead. I am a fruitcake for responding to you. SignatureTumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com > I'll take it you meant 'Am I' or was that a Freudian slip? :-) Bad english on my part. > You are a fruitcake for suggesting that you removed aluminium from your body > by switching from canned beer to bottled beer for one week, It was like waking up from a long drunk. I was messed up but sober enough to know it. Lowered the Load level by Limiting the intake and excreeted alot due to urination brought me above black out level. When you spend alot of time mindlessly staring with spit dripping off your chin small improvements catch your attention. It was the first time in years I felt better at the end of a week instead of worse. It took years. The biggest gains were in the 3rd to 8th months. The third because I getting able do what was needed to the eight because after that it was mainly healing. I will never fully recover though I could come close if I had the money. Disability does not leave enough and I have gotten complacent. > You are a fruitcake for seemingly suggesting in your initial posts that > anyone who has AZ has some simple food intolerance or allergy or mecury > poisoning or Al instead. How do they know it is AZ? There is no real test. The doctor guesses based on symptoms. It turns out mine guessed wrong. Given that AZ was a rare condition less than a century ago I am willing to bet there are alot of doctors making bad calls. My old doctor would probably be willing to admit I did not actualy have AZ since I got better. I haven't talked to that bastard in 15 years. Test for what can be proven to cause the same symptoms. A few hundred bucks spent on eliminating possible, curable, causes is reasonble when facing life as a pain ridden demented cripple as a alternative. I was down to thinking I needed to kill myself in the next week or two while I still had enough mental ability when I found my cure. > I am a fruitcake for responding to you. No Everyone wants to belive reason will prevale. The question is do you understand what the other person means which can be quite different from what he says. Evelyn, I have already "blocked sender!" Gwen > The last thing any one needs on this newsgroup is another alternative > medicine nut case. Please go away. [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] >> >> READ READ READ > Evelyn, I have already "blocked sender!" > Gwen Good idea... Ev >> The last thing any one needs on this newsgroup is another alternative >> medicine nut case. Please go away. [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] >>> >>> READ READ READ > The last thing any one needs on this newsgroup is another alternative > medicine nut case. Please go away. I think "So Tired" is getting carried away with alternative medicine but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Some dementias could have a base in food allergies or other health problems. When my mother-in-law was in the nursing home and she became confused and showed signs of worsening dementia, they immediately tested her for a bladder infection and they found out that she did indeed have one. Unfortunately when someone becomes obsessed with alternative medicine as the only answer, they tend to turn people off..........June >> The last thing any one needs on this newsgroup is another alternative >> medicine nut case. Please go away. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > someone becomes obsessed with alternative medicine as the only answer, > they tend to turn people off..........June Hi June, I know that, and I do use certain herbal remedies and supplements myself, as well as regular allopathic medicines and drugs. But like you say, this person is obviously obsessed. I just can't stand trolls, and "so tired" seems to be one. :-( Evelyn I found the name s/he chose interesting.... how could s/he possible be "so tired" after all them miracle cures? >>> The last thing any one needs on this newsgroup is another alternative >>> medicine nut case. Please go away. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Evelyn > Unfortunately when someone becomes > obsessed with alternative medicine as the only answer, they tend to turn > people off. when someone has THE answer to every mental problem, and there's only ONE answer, it's more than an obsession. usually, they're trying to sell you some kind of snake oil. none of these quacks are worth wasting time on (why am i writing this???). i just drop 'em in the killfile and ignore them. Thanks for the kind words. My point is not about curing alzheimer's. It is about misdiagnosis. Alot of things have the same symptoms. Alzhiemer's was a rare condition before aluminum was used for canning. Better diagnostics now or lack of testing for aluminum poisoning? For me it was the later. Yes I had high mercury levels too. Alzheimer's or allergies? For me the later. Alzheimers or parasites? For me the later. Not one of the doctors I saw suggested testing for what was causing my problems. I got it all from books out of libraries and health food stores. Makes me sick to think of. Not a single person going into a nursing home for Alzheimer's is worst off than I was. Getting cured was cheap. The doctors bankrupted me. Does your mother become brain fogged or feel bad after a bath? Don't suggest it to her. Just odserve and ask simple questions like "How are you feeling?" 20 years ago I lived in a house I would not drink the water in unless it was filtered. Had to use limeaway every so often on the tub to prevent stain build up. Lot of minerals in the water. |
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