Re: Child suffering serious digestive problems. Help!
Digestive issues: bloating and eczema are signs of gluten intolerance. Have you tried an
Elimination Diet to see if
food allergies are issue?
Humaworm has a
parasite cleanse for children. Humaworm has a forum here called Ask Humaworm. My daughter took it without issue when she was about 10. Paragone has a kid's kit too, you can get this one at most healthfood stores or online. She took that one too without issue at about 8. A
parasite cleanse would be a good idea.
Does your daughter like salads? You can do a mini-clease with a green salad (try to find chickory and dandelion or other bitter greens to mix in with a spring salad mix) add some granny smith apple slices, some radishes, carrot and crystalized ginger (the sweet will help off sit the sour). For a dressing mix equal portions of fresh lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil, wisk together for a vinaigrette, add salt and pepper to taste. The bitter greens, sour apple, lemon juice and olive oil will stimulate the gall bladder. If she won't eat all that on the salad, topping any salad she'll eat with the lemon/olive oil vinaigrette will help too. Maybe she'll eat a granny smith, carrot salad with crystalized ginger and the lemon juice and olive oil.
Planetary Formulas sells a product called "Stone Free", it helps break up gall stones.
http://www.herbsmd.com/specialstore/SFREE.htm
Unfiltered apple juice will do it too, but she'll have to drink it every day, a big glass if you can get her to do it or break it up at meals to get it all in her. Drinking unfiltered apple juice is recommended before doing a
Liver Flush to help break up stones.
Finally, a really good probiotic can help alot. I used the original Garden of Life's Primal Defense to much success in 2002 when I had some gut pain that a gastro-enterologist diagnosed as IBS. I had extreme tenderness on the right side of my abdomen and many foods caused me discomfort and stress caused my gut to hurt. I went on the Primal defense (6 tablets 3 times a day) for the recommended 3 months and it really helped. Taking the 6 tablets 3 times a day made me move my bowels at least 3 times a day. I also ate a large salad with chickory, dandelion, green apple, radish, crystalized ginger and topped with 1/4 cup each of lemon juice and olive oil and I passed gall stones. Since then, however, he's (Jordan Rubin) reformulated and taken out HSO probiotic that has the same ingredients as the original Primal Defense AND it's way more afordable.
http://www.swansonvitamins.com/SWU358/ItemDetail?n=2692
To break up intestinal plaque, there's a product that can help pull out the mucus from the small intestine: Okra Pepsin E3 by standard process.
http://www.whale.to/a/intestine.html
parasites can hide in mucus.
Finally, Uniquity, sells a line of herbal caps for constipation and bowel cleansing in storefront on her forum Natural healing here on curezone.
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