| I'm sure most reading this will have deduced as | | | | previous day. And maybe was the reason I was |
| Sherlock Holmes muttered when sorting out a | | | | feeling increasingly tired and listless wasn't due to |
| problem, that staying on top with an allergic body | | | | looking after my 4 year old grandson. |
| can present as big a quandry as the wiley | | | | No, horror of horrors! The culprit was found in the |
| detective ever had to sort out, way back at the | | | | sleeping pill. The really sad part is that it worked |
| turn of the twentieth century. Harder in fact, and | | | | as a sleeping pill. |
| when it does, it can come as a real leveller, like it | | | | Every down side has an upside I've discovered. |
| did for me on a couple of occasions. | | | | Because when my husband and I discovered why |
| It was worse really for people like myself, who | | | | I was feeling so ill (for no apparent reason) other |
| had willingly disengaged themselves from the main | | | | than the years rolling by mercilessly. An effective |
| stream medicos and their drugs. But I was lucky | | | | sleeping replacement was found. And came via a |
| because for years I've worked in and co-owned a | | | | mug of warm milk. I'm sure most know that L' |
| health food shop, so was up to date with the | | | | Tryptophan is an amino acid in milk and is |
| latest vitamins & supplements and was continually | | | | renowned for its calming affect and so works to |
| reading up on new alternative theraputics, as well | | | | sedate you. Naturally I'd known about the |
| as every day talking to a cross section of the | | | | wondrous L' Tryptophan, but stopped taking it |
| community about their health matters. And I was | | | | when it was withdrawn from sale over a |
| am also married to a Naturopath/Homeopath. | | | | contamination issue in one of its factories over |
| None of which had protected me enough from | | | | seas. I think up until that point of time thousands |
| falling into a gluten pit, so heaven helps those who | | | | depended on it for a good nights sleep. |
| don't carry such plusses (health wise I mean). | | | | If you are an asthmatic, ordinary milk can be a |
| The big allergy shock came when I discovered | | | | problem as its really phlem forming, and can, and |
| that a sleeping pill formula, one I'd bought from | | | | does cause asthma to allergic people. That is until |
| the supermarket contained gluten, via one of its | | | | this incredible milk came on to the market. Here in |
| ingredients which was oats. | | | | OZ It's called A2,and is magical in the way it |
| Really this was pay back time for me, because | | | | allows allergic people to once more drink milk (if |
| not entirely happy with a tincture prescribed by | | | | they need to). It's sourced from Jersey cows but |
| my husband I had deliberately (in a sneaky | | | | sadly (for me) it's not organic. BUT DOES CARRY |
| fashion) searched the supermarket shelves for a | | | | THE MAGIC SLEEPING DRAFT L'TRYPTOPHAN. |
| replacement. Without telling him! | | | | I urge anyone with sleeping problems to dispense |
| As oats are low in gluten it took some days to | | | | with chemical pills (or even natural ones) and |
| realise that the continuing unwell feeling I was | | | | simply warm a mug of milk prior to bed time. IT |
| actually waking up with, wasn't due to stress | | | | WORKS! Without allergic reactions. Great news |
| (whenever I'm really stressed I feel nauseous GI | | | | isn't it! |
| or not) or was due to something I'd eaten the | | | | |