Hello,
I am not really sure what I or my family are doing. Exhausted is a feeling that seems normal to us now and we just started researching about tics in December. We are in the process of doctors and diagnosis’ and I am reading the book “Natural Treatments for Tics and Tourette’s “ My son is 9 and started with tics in September of 2017, long story short he went from vocal to excessive eye blinking to stomach spasms to now he has days where he can’t sit up straight or walk without it happening. We are getting a referral to an infectious disease specialist to see if he might have PANDAS. While doing all this we have eliminated his artificial color and flavor, sugars, dairy, gluten. We aren’t perfect still learning the terminology to these items, but we are trying to find triggers. Are we removing too many things at once? What is a reasonable time frame Between taking things away and then reintroducing them? How long do you wait for a reaction? Will a reaction happen immediately or within a few hours? Do you have to test it out more than once to know for sure it’s a definite trigger?
I have ordered the Failsafe cookbook because we have no clue what to make that doesn’t have any of the afore items I just mentioned above. Please any advice is welcome or organization of what to take away or add, ideas for snacks...etc.
As to environmental, we have always used skin sensitive soap, Johnson’s baby shampoo, I did try a sensitive detergent but he broke out weird I know, but we went back to what we always used. We are going to borrow a friends steam cleaner for the furniture. Any other ideas?
I am only at chapter 8 of the book so if there is a chapter that has the answers to these questions please let me know.
Thank you so much for any help.