I really feel for you and your child. And please watch the toddler whooping cough can have serious (very serious) complications in those under 2. With whooping cough by the time you get to the stage your son is at the cells containing cilia in the lungs have been damaged beyond repair. These cells are responsible for cleaning the lungs by waving the cilia and moving gunk up and out of the lungs. Your son will improve slowly as the cells are replaced by new undamaged ones. It can last 7 weeks and my mom and grandma called it the 100 day cough. I imagine there are quite a few websites that could help you understand the symptoms and what to watch out for. I wish your son a speedy and uneventful recovery and hope the toddler avoids contracting the disease.

Diet is the most important:
- No sugar, no milk products, no bread, no flour products, no baked foods, no fried foods, no industrially processed foods, no sweet foods, no artificial sweeteners.

Look for books on Macrobiotic diet, that is the right diet for Pertusis.

- raw fish (sushi) is a good remedy and food


Potent Remedies:

- Grapefruit Seed Extract (Brand called Citrosept produced by Cintamani)

- Enema (water colon irrigation) can help when having bad attacks

- Olive Leaf Tincture made on Alcohol-Water base

This will help a lot, and diet is especially important cause one bite of something with Sugar can cause a lot of pain.

Please let us know how is it going.

Spirit

In "The Baby Boook" by Martha and William Sears it says:
For home treatments: Push fluids; try cool mist, chest clapping, expectorant cough syrups.

Of Special Note: Most serious under 6 months; under toddlers and chldren usually do not suffer complications; contagious until treated for 5 days; coughing episodes may persist for weeks after treatment.

Please don't cause yourself stress by worrying about your son having pertussis - even if he was vaccinated he could still contract the disease. Simply put there are variations of the disease that the vaccine doesn't cover. I was vaccinated for pertussis as a child and still contracted the disease. Also, thank yourself that you didn't vaccinate your child. Because you didn't vaccinate your child, you can rest assured that his immune system isn't supressed and is working in proper order to fight this disease.

A close friend of mine dealt with her son having pertussis - it is a long battle, but it does end and there are things you can do to make it easier.

I suggest the following:

--> Warm steamy baths with eucalyptus oil dropped in the water (10 to 20 drops to a bath)

--> Mega vitamin C (up to bowel tolerance then just taper off a little)

--> Lobelia, a calming herb that calms the mind and body and also treats many respitory problems

--> Pleurisy Root, which is an effective an effective diaphoretic and anti-spasmodic it also assists in expetoration. It is used to treat various respitory problems.

--> I would also give either grapefruit seed extract or coloidal silver in theraputic doses three or four times daily.

--> Also give no sugar and no white flour food products! No processed pre-packaged foods. They just supress the immune system and that is not what you want at this time.

Make a soup.
Start with chicken broth (organic only) If you don't have an organic/free range chicken you can buy pure organic chicken broth at a grocery or health food store.

Once you have your broth add 2-3 cups into a 6 quart pot. Then add 2-3 cups of water. Add 4-5 onions, a whole bulb sectioned and pressed through a garlic press, one Celery heart and 5 carrots (chopped) simmer on the stove for two hours. To season use cayenne pepper (however much you think your son can handle) and cumin (just a dash) Sea Salt and ground. If you have whole wheat or spelt noodles you can add a few to give the soup some more texture. If you have poultry seasoning, add a dash to taste.

My secret is you just keep adding your ingredients until it tastes right and satisfies your palate. That is why my ingredient instructions are kind of loose.

Also, be sure your ingredients are pure and organic foods.

I want to thank all of you for your responses. We had a tough night. It seems he vomits more now than ever. The kicker is that he is very very hungry. He wants to eat things he's never wanted before. I don't want to give him a bunch to eat but, he says that he is starving.

I'm going to make the organic chicken soap but is there anything else? I see all the things I can't give him, but what CAN he eat? I've studied and researched so much that I am totally confused and exhausted.

Thank you all again for your help,

Eleisa

This page may be useful.
http://www.doctoryourself.com/whoop.html
I've heard that Homeopathy and Chiropractic help alot, but don't know anyone whos used it. Have you enquired at the yahoo vaccinations group AVN aswell?
I hope your son is better soon!!! I had Whooping Cough pretty badly a few years ago and it was awful, but my Mum and Son only had it mildly.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AVN/

vaccination is not the solution, it may be the culprit. Here's a link with all the information you need on how to treat whooping cough. Read from beginning to end.
Also forget about macrobiotic diet. That diet is full of grains which is highly acidic. He needs as much fresh vitamin C as possible.
The foods he should be eating, pineapples, grapefruit, camu camu powder has a lot of vitamin C
Absolutely no dairy products
And yes organic chicken soup or organic fish soup made with a whole fish.
put chopped garlic cloves, and green onions in his organic omega 3 eggs or pasture raised eggs. sprinkle kelp for Iodine on his eggs.
http://www.whale.to/a/The-Vitamin-C-Treatment-of-Whooping-Cough.pdf