RE: Re: call me crazy, but...

[Guest guest]

hmmm I've never heard of this-- but we typically won't use antibiotics for

our children, if we can possibly avoid it.

I know that my children have always fared better WITHOUT being on

antibiotics, generally speaking.

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[Guest guest]

Mark is who I think of when I look at my not sick kids. It makes me

think of two things...metal and celiac.

As for life sentences...don't get to gloomy over autoimmune disease.

Some say autoimmune disease causes metal and others say metal causes

autoimmune disease. Yeast aggravates both and can cause what looks

like autoimmune disease but is not. If it is the latter 2 things you

are already addressing it.

Honestly everyone here has already faced the hardest

challenge...watching their baby decline and feeling powerless. Not

everyone's solutions are the same but there are solutions. If

autoimmune disease is an issue for you and yours I have a solid list

of good mainstream docs who can help you greatly and they are not

that far. One day at a time. For now, celebrate the joy of the things

you have learned to help your child and know that there are many who

have learned from what surely has been a nightmare for you.

Hang tough!

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> ,

>

> Mark has that over-active immune system as well. This is a child

who had the chicken pox for 'one day' when he was a kid, gets a cold

in the morning but is better in the late afternoon and never sweats.

Recently he got a cold that lasted for 10 tens so I am hoping that

this area is perhaps healing? Funny that I would want my kid to get

sick!

>

> We finally went in on Friday for the blood work ie. test for auto-

immunity. I had the lab request for a month yet couldn't seem to get

it done..... maybe I just don't want to know?

>

> The idea that he may have auto-immune issues scares me to

death..... that's a lifetime thing, isn't it? Like insulin dependent

diabetis, crohns, rheumatoid arthiritis or HIV? I know that many of

the children are testing positive for auto-immune disease and take a

Mito Cocktail daily for it.

>

> This is an area that I am not too familiar with and I really don't

want to become familiar with it..... just want to bypass it. Thank

you very much.

>

> Janice

> Mother of Mark, 13

>

>

[Guest guest]

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Mark has that over-active immune system as well. This is a child who had the

chicken pox for 'one day' when he was a kid, gets a cold in the morning but is

better in the late afternoon and never sweats. Recently he got a cold that

lasted for 10 tens so I am hoping that this area is perhaps healing? Funny that

I would want my kid to get sick!

We finally went in on Friday for the blood work ie. test for auto-immunity. I

had the lab request for a month yet couldn't seem to get it done..... maybe I

just don't want to know?

The idea that he may have auto-immune issues scares me to death..... that's a

lifetime thing, isn't it? Like insulin dependent diabetis, crohns, rheumatoid

arthiritis or HIV? I know that many of the children are testing positive for

auto-immune disease and take a Mito Cocktail daily for it.

This is an area that I am not too familiar with and I really don't want to

become familiar with it..... just want to bypass it. Thank you very much.

Janice

Mother of Mark, 13

[sPAM][ ] Re: call me crazy, but...

I'm no expert on Lyme Disease, but I don't think garden-variety

antibiotics work on it. If that were true, it would be killed by one

of the other inevitable courses of antibiotics for other illnesses

that most children will end up taking. (All three of my boys have

taken antibiotics for something else at least once. has super

immunity and has never been sick enough to merit a trip to the

doctor!)

Lyme Disease is very hard to diagnose, yet doctors don't give a

course of antibiotics " just in case " for this particular illness,

despite its seriousness. This leads me to believe that this is

because it requires special and probably powerful antibiotics, or

maybe a longer course of antibiotics.

Lyme scares me, because we have way too many deer around us, and they

are bold little guys. They come right into the yards, and even cross

the street to get to other yards, and they eat almost everything,

including the allegedly deer-resistant plants and trees. My

husband's latest, successful strategy is to plant spiky trees that

are hard to eat. That said, they still cross through our yard during

the lean times, probably dropping their poison deer ticks along the

way.

Back to my freakishly healthy daughter, why would someone have an

over-active immune system, and why would we care? has zero

health issues (except dry skin, which my husband and I both have) and

is a gifted student. (She wants to take a crack at reading " Pride

and Prejudice " , and she's 8-1/2.)

in NJ

[Guest guest]

Pandas is an inflammation in the brain or a virus in the brain. Someone

correct me. It often affects sever ADHD. It is mentioned in Dr. Bocks Book,

Healing the New Childhood epidemics.

[ ] Re: call me crazy, but...

I was told to properly follow up on Lymes in a neurocompromised kid

one needs to get a 16 blot Western Bot test available typically at a

lymes specialist to know for sure if it is lymes or not. HTH

What is Pandas?

>

> My son has been on antibiotics twice in the last year and has gotten

> better BOTH times.

>

> He also has an iffy Lyme test result. I'm trying to follow up w/the

> doctor to see if prophylactic antibiotic treatment is something we

> should pursue.

>

> Just to muddy the waters a bit more, could response to antibiotics

> also indicate PANDAS? For kids who have rages, OCD, etc. I think a

> test of strep antibodies is something to look at at any rate.

>

> I dread the thought of longer term antibiotics because my kid also

> has elevated markers for intestinal dysbiosis (yeast) and has had

> bouts with both intestinal and urinary bacterial infection (that was

> one of the rounds of antibiotics he was on).

>

[Guest guest]

PANDAS is a Strep virus that has attacked the brain. It results in OCD

behaviours and vicious mood swings. That is pretty much all I know about it.

If you have a child with PANDAS, you will be dealing with some pretty severe

behaviour issues until it is dealt with.

Janice

[ ] Re: call me crazy, but...

I was told to properly follow up on Lymes in a neurocompromised kid

one needs to get a 16 blot Western Bot test available typically at a

lymes specialist to know for sure if it is lymes or not. HTH

What is Pandas?

>

> My son has been on antibiotics twice in the last year and has gotten

> better BOTH times.

>

> He also has an iffy Lyme test result. I'm trying to follow up w/the

> doctor to see if prophylactic antibiotic treatment is something we

> should pursue.

>

> Just to muddy the waters a bit more, could response to antibiotics

> also indicate PANDAS? For kids who have rages, OCD, etc. I think a

> test of strep antibodies is something to look at at any rate.

>

> I dread the thought of longer term antibiotics because my kid also

> has elevated markers for intestinal dysbiosis (yeast) and has had

> bouts with both intestinal and urinary bacterial infection (that was

> one of the rounds of antibiotics he was on).

>