Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Changing Medications

After visiting the allergist this week, we'll be trying out some new medications.  My kid currently takes a morning dose of Pulmicort .5 via the nebulizer for asthma control, and we're going to try Flovent 44 with the chamber.  We'll start with 2 puffs in the am and 2 puff in the pm for 3 weeks, and then hopefully drop the evening puffs. It will be so nice to be free of the nebbie!  The other thing we started on is Epi Ceram, which I'm real excited about.  It's a cremacide cream for eczema.  Although my kid's skin is pretty much under control the itch is still there.  There's a chance this stuff might help, although I'm not going to get my hopes up too much.  The doc said we'll know within 2 weeks if it will for for him.  Apparently there are 3 components that have to be aligned, something with the cremacide, the right cholesterol in the skin and one other thing that I can't recall.  So we shall see.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Body Temperature Regulation

For quite sometime I've suspected that my kid's body doesn't properly regulate his body temperature.  He's constantly hot and wants to be where it's cold, even in the winter.  I know infant's and children's' bodies can take some time to mature, for instance in the case of the digestive track and immune system, and I suspect that is the case for my kid when it comes to temperature regulation.  Other tell-tale signs are the hives/rashes he'll get on his face after running around, which is followed by extreme itchiness.


So suspecting all of that, we are now focusing on body temperature with NAET treatments.  Last week we treated for hypothalamus, which controls temperature, sleep, and appetite.  And yesterday we treated for heat.  As luck would have it, these treatments also coincide with cooler outdoor temperatures.  So I'm not sure if my kid's skin is looking better due to the treatments or a change in weather as summer was a bit rough for him.


What I can tell you is that my husband has just completed treatment number 22.  Since completing the basics he has treated for house dust, virus mix, lungs, weed mix, tree mix, me, and thyroid.  During that time he also started taking an allergy supplement called D-Hist.  His health has been noticeably improved (he travels a lot and has always been constantly sick), he told me his feeling of not able to get a deep breath has subsided, and he can tell something positive has happened to his body from within. Is it NAET or the D-hist?  He tends to think the D-Hist is making a big difference.  Now my kid was on the D-Hist jr. for quite sometime prior to NAET and I couldn't tell if it was helping at all, but our Ped told me that it was enough to cure one kid's terrible eczema.  Just happened to be what the kid's body needed.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Vitamin D--fights off the flu better than the vaccine!

Another reason to supplement with Vitamin D--it fends off the flu and asthma.

This Japanese study showed that children taking Vitamin D3 were 58 percent less likely to catch influenza A. That's a higher effectiveness than any flu vaccine can claim!


http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62I3MK20100319