Posts by deminc

Hi, has your child been tested for allergies? I would at least get a second opinion. Asthma can be linked to environmental allergies or food allergies. My nephews have dustmite-related asthma attacks, and used to go into hospital...

Physiogel? We used natural moisturisers before but ds2 seems to react to nut oils, and his skin doesn't absorb olive oil well. We have used QV, Cetaphil and Physiogel. I feel best about Physiogel cream which doesn't have...

You may want to consider The Mysterious Benedict Society - about four children, gifted in different ways, on a mission. It's a fun read, no sexual stuff, and the plot can be challenging. You can read it on different...

Hi, I really sympathise. This is so horrible for both child and parents. The pain, the sleepless nights, the crankiness...I can't help much in terms of prescriptions, but you may find some of the advice ds2's doctor gave us for...

We're off all these. The easiest for me was to scour the internet for recipes and buy a lot of whole food and alternative flours. We hardly have any processed food anymore because almost nothing fits. One resource would be...

The allergist did a skin test for ds2. It only told us that he is definitely highly allergic to dust mites, and inconclusive for a couple other things which the allergist told us to rely on observations. The pd wanted to do a blood...

Hi my ds1 is just like that too when it comes to spelling - reads from context and in fact, he reads scrambled words fine but can't put them in order. We suspected mild dyslexia and I began working through the Dolch List...

northern girl,   "she now as of this past week has eczema in her arm pit and the crease of her arm."   This may seem overly obvious and I apologise if it is. But just in case, the areas you describe are...

This sounds similar to ds1 a year ago. He's so much easier this year. He's 6 now. He is a chatterbox, wriggles, hard to fall asleep, gets totally hyper when there is a lot of sound and movements, frequent...

I don't know if this is too way out - but it's not fantasy, not scary, no animals etc, it's a semi-memoir translated from Japanese, about a little girl's experience in an alternative kindergarten that values individualism and...