, Bromelain????

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Your advice has been invaluable to me. My son has chronic viral

problems, PANDAS and can not tolerate most foods. He gets enzymes

3xs a day and w/ food.

The PANDAS started causing seizure last year when the antibiotics

stopped working and he was exposed to strep. I realize this now

because when I ended up in the hospital with Jack for seizures,

after leaving the hospital I had strep. Jack had been on

antibiotics for years to lower cytokines but bx would go through the

roof if I tried to take him off of the antibiotics. I guess they

can only work for so long. We now know the bx is caused by the

PANDAS.

I started using Virastop a month or so ago. When I was up to 20 a

day for about a week, Jack had a grand mal seizure. I am not sure

it was the virastop but I new I was pushing the envelope. I am not

sure if it was affecting the strep or the virus. Jack 's virus

caused a brain tumor when he was a bout 2 1/2 yrs old. He became

normal after surgery for about 6 weeks got an infection and then

lost eye contact and dropped all of his langauge.

Any way bx has been terrible since last year but he has responded bx

wise with the specific carbohydrate diet. Why would this be? Also

Cindi mentioned bromelain at high doses for inflammation of the

basal ganglia and years ago I use to do this and it seemed to help.

I would love your thoughts.

nne

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>>>> The PANDAS started causing seizure last year when the

antibiotics stopped working and he was exposed to strep.

did you see any improvement with ViraStop before you got to the 20

capsules a day? Seizures can be pretty serious and are still mystery

to some extent. Because of this, I'd hold off on anything that seemed

to trigger a seizure. You may not know if it actually did provoke a

seizure, or what aspect of the supplement or therapy may have been

the culprit. But seizures are serious enough not to muck around with

it unless a qualified doctor tells you it is okay for your particular

situation.

Just to make sure nothing is overlooked, I will ask the technical

experts at Enzymedica as well as the medical doctor doing lots of

enzyme research about it.

>>>Jack 's virus caused a brain tumor when he was a bout 2 1/2 yrs

old. He became normal after surgery for about 6 weeks got an

infection and then lost eye contact and dropped all of his langauge.

Was it any particular virus? What kind of surgery did he have? Poor

little guy. What a way to start off in life.

>>>he has responded bx wise with the specific carbohydrate diet. Why

would this be?

The specific carbohydrate diet is similar to a keto diet. The Keto

diet is long known to help control seizures, but researchers are not

exactly sure why. Here is short description of the keto diet and

seizures. A book called The Epilepsy Diet talks about this and is

referred to at this link:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/kuekids/home/jhkdfs.html

If bromelain helped, by all means, continue with it. Bromelain is

long known to help reduce inflammation. Its available at practically

any supplement provider. Bromelain along with papain are great

enzymes...as long as you don't have a problem with 'fruity' enzymes.

People have different triggers for seizures. My sister in law has

epilepsy. She said certain body movements used to trigger hers, such

as standing and swinging a hose back and forth as she watered the

lawn. She figured out not to do these types of movements to help

control her seizures. She also does a medication and avoids MSG.

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