kilikini wrote:
> Pennyaline wrote:
>> kilikini wrote:
>>> Mark Thorson wrote:
>>>> kilikini wrote:
>>>>> Goomba wrote:
>>>>>> Landers wrote:
>>>>>>> Is there any way that someone who is allergic to folic acid can
>>>>>>> dilute this acid additive?
>>>>>> LOL Who told you you were allergic to folic acid?
>>>>>> I once had a patient tell me they were allergic to potassium. How
>>>>>> people get these ideas, I dunno?
>>>>> I was told by the Mayo Clinic that I'm allergic to iron.
>>>> You're allergic to your own blood?
>>> Kind of, yes. Anything I ingest that contains iron gets stored in
>>> my liver as a toxin. It wasn't caught until I was almost 40, so I'm
>>> in the final stages of liver failure. Between my Hemochromatosis
>>> (the iron thing) and the tumor in my chest wall, I've been given
>>> less than 5 years to live. Meanwhile, I'm trying to cut out all iron
>>> from my diet, I'm taking milk thistle, I'm drinking herbal teas as
>>> well as brewing a special mushroom tea in the hopes that I'll get
>>> another year or two out of my prognosis. Wish me luck!
>> But you're not "allergic" to iron or to your own blood. You just
>> accumulate too much iron in your body. No allergic mechanism is
>> involved.
>
> True, it's just the easiest way to explain it. Not everyone knows what
> Hemochromatosis is.
>
> kili
>
>
Clearly nor do the people at Mayo. the "-osis" is a suffix that means a
chronic condition of the kind associated with the prefix and stem of the
word. They use it when they don't know what causes a condition but they
know there is such a condition. Sorry to hear about your condition. Live
life to the fullest until then.
FK