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Runny Nose

devittlesdevittles Raw Newbie

My boyfriend and I have been 100% raw for 7 weeks and everything has been going very well. We’re both cheerful, full of energy and enjoying all the benefits y’all already know about.

One unpleasant side effect he’s been experiencing has become more troubling as the weeks go on: first he was sneezing and feeling very allergic. he attributed it to loosing weight, saying that whenever he is a healthy weight his allergies get worse. But, now its gotten completely out of hand. His nose is running like crazy all day long. As in, he has to hold a tissue up to his nose constantly to make it stop. Then last night he had a rash on his stomach.

Can anyone share some insight or advice? Had a similar experience? Know of a good article?

Thanks!

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  • Sounds like detox to me, devittles. As our bodies clean themselves from the inside out, it shows up in all kinds of ways—excess mucous, sweating, body odor, rashes, you name it. Remember, the skin is our largest organ, and impurities are pushed out through it.

    Definitely don’t take something to stop the runny nose—his body wants to get rid of stuff. I had the same thing happen when I first went 100% raw. It’ll clear up soon, and he’ll probably notice a huge decrease in allergies. Mine are completely gone! :)

  • devittlesdevittles Raw Newbie

    Thanks RawVee. It’s easy for me to deal with my own detox, but it’s so hard to watch him suffer (I know, dramatic).

  • That’s funny, we’ve just gone through a two week raw detox/fast, and I ended up with a rash on my stomach as well. Weird. And yes, I just assume it’s a detox symptom, similar things have happened before, and go away when I’m done detoxing.

  • Hi. Though I think raw is a great path to follow I can’t help but be concerned by some symptoms that are brushed off as detox. Hopefully people are taking a vitamin supplement occasionally at least. I’d hate to see people getting unhealthy when they are trying to be healthy. Please take note of the following: vitamin and mineral deficiencies can also help launch dermatological tirades. Deplete your body of vitamin A, biotin or any of the other B vitamins, vitamin E or zinc, and it won’t be long before a skin rash appears.

    http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Bookshelf/B…

    also http://www.itg.be/itg/DistanceLearning/LectureN…

    Nutritional Yeast is a great way to go to supplement for b vitamins. Zinc is also very important for immunity. I hope you look into this further and try to supplement while cleansing just to make sure!

  • All good points, writeeternity, but I think we were all answering from a point of experience with detox after going all raw. When you’re eating a SAD diet, your body is a LOT more depleted and deficient of the minerals and vitamins it needs. So when you go all raw, you’re undoing a lot of damage to your body, and it comes out, quite naturally, in the form of rashes, mucous, et al. If there is a vitamin or mineral deficiency, it would show itself when you’re eating SAD, not just because you’ve gone raw. For example, if you spend years eating processed food, frozen entrées and meat and such, then suddenly go 100% raw, you’re giving your body MUCH more nutrition than you would in your former diet. I experienced rashes, flu-like symptoms, runny nose and headache when I went raw. They left the building soon after and I was left feeling healthier than I ever had been. Vitamin supplements are not something we need to rely on as much when eating a balanced, raw diet. Yay for raw!!! :)

  • spiritedmamaspiritedmama Raw Newbie

    Well put RawVee. I think the difference between detox symptoms and vit./min. def’s is that with detox, the symptoms quickly go away after the toxins have left the body. With vit/min def’s, the symptoms persist and/or get worse.

  • I was researching b12 again. I hadn’t done that in a long time but what I read wasn’t encouraging. It was a little scary because it is basically imposible to get in a strict vegan diet. That is the only thing I could find that had it that seemed vegan- the nutritional yeast. I can only see eating it a couple times a month because the taste is pretty strong to me but I don’t put it in the same catagory as a pig or chicken goes- that’s for sure! Let me know what the current thoughts are on the absense of b12 in a raw and vegan diet though since I haven’t been able to find anything.

  • spiritedmamaspiritedmama Raw Newbie

    Chris and Zoe have some good info. on their raw site regarding B12- purelyraw.com. For me, I just take one little B12 tablet once a week. There is also a string on the forums here that says that in one of the raw books it states you can get B12 from comfrey, I think, and also alfalfa. On that same string it talks about humans having B12 in our mouths and how to utilize that ( I am still researching this so don’t have more info.)

  • B12 is also found in wheatgrass, algea, and bee pollen. I read here somewhere that Gabriel Cousens says the amount of B12 in algea is not enough, but I added it up and one E3 AFA capsule has more than enough B12. The RDA is 6 micrograms, one gram E3 AFA (I stir it into green juice) contains 8 mcg B12, one capsule E3 AFA is 5.5 grams, so 44 mcg B12, more than 7x the daily requirement. Of course, algaes such as Spirulina contain less B12.

    I use E3 AFA as an example because I can’t find a measured nutritional profile for wheatgrass or bee pollen.

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