Ok, so last nights reading kept me up until about 2am. Not just the
reading, but the section talking about maternal contributions to
children being born allergic. I ruminated to the point of neausea. In a
perfect world, where I have powers to see into the future, I would have
done:
1 – eaten way more omega-3s
2 – not remodeled, painted, laid new carpet… beautified my home with scents of disease
3 – most importantly, hauled my ass to a small farm and shoveled
shit, milked cows, cleaned after pigs & chickens, and frollicked in
bacteria and pollen proteins at least every weekend – for the mix of
bacteria to hopefully educate, through the placenta, my son’s immune
system.
Wow, it would be interesting to see if all this would have helped my
son be born less allergic, or dare I even say it, not allergic at
all!?!?!?!
So now what?
I’m not finished with the book – so I continue to hold out hopefully
for some clue as to my next steps. I am rather hung up on the m.vaccae –
and have already hatched a plan to redecorate my home with buckets of
various animal dung and slop. Seriously. The plan is to go out to some
Amish or organic farms and purchase their animal excrement. Not sure
after that. Do I look for microscopic images on the internet to try and
identify and hopefully harvest some beneficial fecal animal bacteria?
Do I just let us breath it in? Will this help, not help, or make things
worse? In the book, Mr Manoff mentions that for some the bacterial
exposure after the allergen sensitization has happened, can make things
worse – creating an onslaught of defensive alarms. How & what
should I do?
I know it sounds crazy – and not to go into too much detail – but it
is a bitter pill to swallow that I need to stand idly by and not try
anything.
My hatching plan in progress is evolving to include:
low dose chelation & supplementation to support such detox
exposure to educating bacterial (probiotics yes – but most strains I
can find with studies backing them are not available on the market.
Plus this very laser targeted exposure… not so sure it’s effective). Green acres is the place for me… Farm living is the life I need. Well OK an urban farm mashup focused on poop and mud. If you read the book you’ll see just how significant orofecal infections can be in generating a healthy, robust, and tolerant immune system.
fecal transplant (this is on the radar – not on action plan). We are
awaiting our kits from the human gut project – just informational at
this point. But definitely something to think on further.
helminths (this too on radar – but not action plan). I’m not sure if
this isn’t something that my son would need to decide for himself.
Plus if this did graduate to action plan – it is something I’d try for
myself first – having raynaud’s and joint issues – both of which point
to a whacked out immune system.
Hi, I am research-crazy mom to a severely allergic little guy. We do camel milk and many of the things you do as well. We started LDA immunotherapy about a year ago (doesn't lower IgE, just stops the reaction), and have done an herbal remedy that you may have heard of called "FAF2". It is a TCM blend of herbs that a doc back east is using to cure peanut anaphylaxsis. It is in phase two of clinical trials with good success...
ReplyDeleteYes, I have heard of the food allergy herb - we are working with the doctor who is the researcher behind it. How old is your little guy? What is he allergic to? Were you part of the study? Or do you see the doc also? I have many questions for you - what your experience was on FAHF-2? Is he still on it? Someone mentioned LDA to me, but I am not too excited about injections. How do you know the LDA lowered your son's reactions? Are you still doing LDA?
DeleteI am going to be starting Andy Cutler protocol for chelation with my son. I think for us, chelation could be a valuable addition to the arsenal. I have a theory that for my son - the allergies are partly something that have a genetic element (his father is allergic to cats), as well as I may have had inflammation during my pregnancy (I did have hpv at the time with mild cervical dysplasia), but those factors coupled with antibiotics on day 1, c-section, and then toxins (although I breast fed for nearly 2 years - not sure if that did more harm or good at this point) - turned one or two allergies into many many. I will now work to try to re-boot or repair some of those things with:
detox - via low dose ala, and possible dmsa
probiotics/non-pathogenic bacteria (I definitely have love/hate thing with these critters going on, especially after my run-in with MRSA) - but I will use probiotics - some that have been recommended to me as well as I am working to get some animal poop/mudd into our lives.
The other things on my radar are - fecal therapy & helminths - but those are more intensive commitments that I am not ready for yet.
My understanding with the herb is that we will need to be on it long term - we've already been on it nearly 2 years... So I am hoping with some gentle chelation, we can work towards detoxing in a way that we can eventually ween off the herb. I definitely see a difference with the herb - so we will continue.