The most important of these is the removal of carpet from the bedroom. It is in the carpet where the house mites most often make their homes – it’s their nest. While removing bedroom carpet is a step many are reluctant to take, it is the best way to reduce mites. Many studies show the importance of carpet removal in limiting both your exposure to mites and the symptoms they cause. These same studies also suggest that if the carpet is not removed, your symptoms are likely to continue.
If removing your carpet is simply not an option, Acarosan powder can help. It is the droppings, not the mites themselves, to which mite-allergic people react. Acarosan powder kills house mites and clumps them together with their droppings, making removal by vacuuming effective. This product is expensive and requires application every two to three months, but it is very effective.
If you are allergic to several agents – pollens, mold spores, dogs or cats, and house mites for example – it is still best to remove the carpet. Acarosan will not help control the accumulation of pollen, dog or cat particles, or mold spores. Acarosan powder is available from your pharmacist without a prescription. A little kit for testing your dust for mites is also available so you can monitor how well your mite reduction efforts are working.
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If the food is avoided for a while, the cravings eventually disappear. But unfortunately, they reappear all too easily. Eating the same food on a regular basis again can quickly reestablish the ‘addiction’, and the downward spiral is particularly difficult to combat. Because eating the food initially gives great satisfaction and well-being to a person in this ‘addicted’ state, self-control is all the more difficult.

One would not want to take the analogy with drug addiction too far, but ‘food-junkies’ seem to suffer withdrawal symptoms when they give up their favourite food, just as heroin addicts and alcoholics do when forced to kick their habit. One of the problems of doing an elimination diet is that the first few days are often very unpleasant due to these withdrawal symptoms.

Although this aspect of food intolerance sounds very peculiar and unlikely to anyone new to the subject, none of the doctors working in this area are in any doubt about it – they have seen too many people with this same curious pattern of eating behaviour. There is now a tentative explanation for this strange phenomenon.

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