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| Alternative Therapies for Arthritis and Inflammatory Diseases |
| Environmental Allergies |
| Can arthritis and other rheumatic illnesses be caused by environmental allergies? The first physician to suggest a connection was Theron Randolph, M.D., the founder of environmental medicine. After testing over a thousand arthritics, Randolf found significant links between their arthritis and their reactions to foods, chemicals, perfumes, tobacco and other substances. According to Marshall Mandell, M.D., former director of the New England Foundation for Allergic and Environmental Diseases, "Allergies may or may not cause arthritis, but they definitely play a major role in a majority of cases because they often aggravate and perpetuate the condition." When allergenic substances are eliminated, avoided or contacted less frequently, the arthritis is usually relieved or eliminated. In tests of over 6,000 patients, Mandell found that foods, chemicals, grasses, pollen, molds and other airborne substances |
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