I'm gearing up for an intensive healing phase for DS1 (almost 8) and would love input on where to focus my time, money, and attention since all is limited at the moment.
Background: As a baby he was refluxy, but a happy spitter once we started him on Pepcid. Kept him on Pepcid til 9 months, then pedi said he had outgrown it (I'm not sure how she knew that since we didn't think he had) so we took him off. BF and supplemented with regular milk-based formula until 9 months, then straight formula til 12 months, then cow's milk. Around 12 months developed keratosis pilaris on face and upper arms and still has this pretty severely. At 14 months developed first of many ear infections. Reacted with hives to amoxicillin given for first E.I. Around 18 months had 1st bout of croup. Between 18months and 3 1/2 had "recurrent spasmodic croup" with most colds, usually resulting in stridor with breathing and often taking us to the E.R. for prednisone and/ or breathing treatment of epinephrine. Saw the allergist at 3 1/2 and he tested negative to all allergens. As he grew E.I.'s became less prevalent but he still tends to have trouble clearing his sinuses after illness and I suspect gets sinus infections. Around age 5 began complaining of stomach aches periodically. These continue to this day. Sometimes he'll have several in a week. Sometimes weeks go by with none. Generally its after he has had a glass of milk to drink, but he drinks milk every day and most often does not have problems. In the past 12 months has re-developed the spasmodic croup, taking us twice to the ER this spring/ summer with very severe scary symptoms. He has been slow to recover from illness and has been taken down harder than other family members with viruses last school year. But most recently he was the only person in the family not to get the cold virus in August (which caused DD to have croup). Behavior wise, ages 3 and 4 were very challenging as he was a very emotional, explosive, and strong willed little guy. These days he is usually cheerful but can still be all of those things at times + whiny.
Recent testing: Allergist found normal pulmonary function and no environmental allergies. ENT plans to scope next week. Homeopath did IgG testing and found these results: http://mothering.com/discussions/sho....php?t=1261216
Piecing it together, I strongly suspect reflux as causing both the stomach aches and croup. We're planning to eliminate the 1+,2+, and 3+ foods after the scope, and start on gut healing. I'm looking for advise on what specific gut healing measures have been most well tolerated by your DC's of similar ages and also what things would you focus on? (gut healing, correcting nutrional deficits, clarifying triggers/ symptoms of foods, building immune system, etc)?
Background: As a baby he was refluxy, but a happy spitter once we started him on Pepcid. Kept him on Pepcid til 9 months, then pedi said he had outgrown it (I'm not sure how she knew that since we didn't think he had) so we took him off. BF and supplemented with regular milk-based formula until 9 months, then straight formula til 12 months, then cow's milk. Around 12 months developed keratosis pilaris on face and upper arms and still has this pretty severely. At 14 months developed first of many ear infections. Reacted with hives to amoxicillin given for first E.I. Around 18 months had 1st bout of croup. Between 18months and 3 1/2 had "recurrent spasmodic croup" with most colds, usually resulting in stridor with breathing and often taking us to the E.R. for prednisone and/ or breathing treatment of epinephrine. Saw the allergist at 3 1/2 and he tested negative to all allergens. As he grew E.I.'s became less prevalent but he still tends to have trouble clearing his sinuses after illness and I suspect gets sinus infections. Around age 5 began complaining of stomach aches periodically. These continue to this day. Sometimes he'll have several in a week. Sometimes weeks go by with none. Generally its after he has had a glass of milk to drink, but he drinks milk every day and most often does not have problems. In the past 12 months has re-developed the spasmodic croup, taking us twice to the ER this spring/ summer with very severe scary symptoms. He has been slow to recover from illness and has been taken down harder than other family members with viruses last school year. But most recently he was the only person in the family not to get the cold virus in August (which caused DD to have croup). Behavior wise, ages 3 and 4 were very challenging as he was a very emotional, explosive, and strong willed little guy. These days he is usually cheerful but can still be all of those things at times + whiny.
Recent testing: Allergist found normal pulmonary function and no environmental allergies. ENT plans to scope next week. Homeopath did IgG testing and found these results: http://mothering.com/discussions/sho....php?t=1261216
Piecing it together, I strongly suspect reflux as causing both the stomach aches and croup. We're planning to eliminate the 1+,2+, and 3+ foods after the scope, and start on gut healing. I'm looking for advise on what specific gut healing measures have been most well tolerated by your DC's of similar ages and also what things would you focus on? (gut healing, correcting nutrional deficits, clarifying triggers/ symptoms of foods, building immune system, etc)?
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). Generally a poor sense of his body in space. As a toddler he had an unusually high pain threshold. Emotionally, as I mentioned, he tends to be strong-willed, difficult to reason with, and intense in his emotions. He is extremely intelligent, but a black and white thinker. Very concerned with fairness. He loves to snuggle with people even when they don't want to be snuggled with (like his brother and sister) which I think demonstrates both his loveable side but also his need to push people's boundaries.
. and 2. When and how do you know that you are reacting to the supplement (and therefore need to find a different supp) vs. just adjusting to it (and therefore should stay the course)?
