Does your child have "asthma"?!
Question: my son got terribly ill the autumn after his 3rd bday. and again during the spring after. went round and round with "specialists" all of whom wanted to prescribe different inhalers and meds. from the beginning our family doctor remained calm and suggested we treat him when he needs it only as many kids have asthma like symptoms that they later grow out of or find that there is something else triggering these episodes. other doctors and parents have ridiculed myself and the doctor for not taking asthma seriously and putting my son on a regime of drugs that he would take daily probably for the rest of his life. its been 8 years since then, my son does not take asthma medicine. he does not have asthma. he is however sensitive to high levels of mold in the air, and prone to bronchitis. millions of children are being treated for asthma. its called an epidemic. does your child have asthma? R U SURE?
Answers: my son got terribly ill the autumn after his 3rd bday. and again during the spring after. went round and round with "specialists" all of whom wanted to prescribe different inhalers and meds. from the beginning our family doctor remained calm and suggested we treat him when he needs it only as many kids have asthma like symptoms that they later grow out of or find that there is something else triggering these episodes. other doctors and parents have ridiculed myself and the doctor for not taking asthma seriously and putting my son on a regime of drugs that he would take daily probably for the rest of his life. its been 8 years since then, my son does not take asthma medicine. he does not have asthma. he is however sensitive to high levels of mold in the air, and prone to bronchitis. millions of children are being treated for asthma. its called an epidemic. does your child have asthma? R U SURE?
My husband used to get the same bollocks off the doctors in his area as a child. Prescriptions came and went and none of them did a bloody thing. He had one miserable summer that induced his parents to move up by the sea where the air was fresh, and boom! No more problems. In the end we can only guess what was in the air that affected his body like that, but it could have been anything from pollen to pollution.
Finding a good doctor is hard, and finding other parents to accept your method of thinking is even harder. You know your child better than anyone else, so don't let them influence you to the point you're second guessing yourself. They may be feeling sensitive because of what they would do, or what they THINK they would do if presented with the same situation. They may be relying on their own personal experience with their children, and taking that experience as a rule that all must live by. However it's not the same, all children are different and no two will have the same condition.
It makes you wonder about all the prescriptions out there that are being taken needlessly.
O RLY?
Yes, I'm sure. It's my friends son. Yes, she is 100% sure. Even with air purifiers, nebulizers, inhalers, etc, he still will get a trip to the ER about 4 times a year. He's always been that way. Without the treatment, he would die for sure.
I understand what you're saying, though. When we had that huge 7.5 earthquake in '92 here in California, I was 11 years old. All of a sudden, I was having asthma-like symptoms. My mother took me to the hospital and they said that it had been happening a lot lately due to the microbes the earth had shaken loose. A lot of babies were even dying. So, they put me on albuterol and told me to use it as needed. Eventually, I only used it once in a great while. Then I gave it up all together. To this day, I am severely allergic to any mold. I'm like a human mold detector. If I walked into your house, I can tell you almost immediately whether or not you have mold growing in your walls. I've saved many friends money with my handy little allergic reaction of constricted lungs and vomiting... lol!
I believe that only severe cases need to be treated with severe medicines. I also believe that western medicine should be used only AFTER all natural remedies have been tried. I mean, my pregnant sister had a condition that her doctor found where her amniotic fluid was really low. He wanted to put her on all sorts of drugs, so we took her to an herbologist. The herbologist told her to drink peach nectar. The next time she went to the doctor, he was amazed. The peach nectar worked. No side effects either, lol!
I've never taken an antibiotic in my life. I drink Grapefruit Seed Extract (GSE) instead. I have not been sick longer than 24 hours in 5 years since I discovered this stuff! Why take an antibiotic that can cause a yeast infection when I can drink a glass of OJ with some GSE oil in it? Crazy!
Well considering that we have seen 4 doctors that say that my son has asthma and one of them was a pulmonologist I would guess that my sons diagnosis of asthma is a sure thing.