Hi Sheila and Chemar, Thank you very kindly for your thoughtful responses. Yes I do feel she’s improved a lot since we’ve been started that path I mentioned. Although since she’s started school again (3rd grade) her tics have greatly increased which I’m assuming is stress or anxiety. (Probably lots of toxins in the cleaning products used at school too) Most people would not know she has Tourette’s. We do notice she tics a lot when it’s time to sleep like when she’s in her bed and we’re reading her a story and singing her a song. So I do feel it’s when she’s tired. She also tics when reprimanded, so anxiety over that too. But now that school is back in she’s been ticing a lot more randomly throughout the day then when we typically notice her tic. Although she doesn’t tic after going into chlorinated pools, her nose is always sooo runny after and for a day or so after that I think she is definitely allergic to chlorine.
we are seeing an integrative doctor whom we are doing a gut zoomer test with to test her microbiome, But I was hoping to find integrative doctors and holistic practitioners that specialize or have helped children with tics/ Tourette’s before as our integrative doctor seems to know what she’s talking about but she doesn't specialize in helping tics/ Tourette’s.
Thank you Sheila, I would love to chat with you, if that’s your personal email you’ve emailed me with then we hopefully can continue our conversation there. As far as household products go, I’ve always used products in the home that have rated well in ewg skindeep or think dirty app because my husband is a cancer survivor and we try to avoid toxic products. Granted I still keep some bleach, stainless steel cleaner and grout and granite treatment on hand as once in a great while I need to use them but have not used them anytime recently. I did just realize the seventh generation laundry detergent I was using isn’t in the green, so I just switched to another brand. The last two years since reading different books on health and Tourette’s have really helped us clean up what we were eating so we are trying to have food now that are very simple ingredients that we recognize and know are healthy. Last week my husband got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis so we are even more motivated to make sure we were eating whole foods and organic which I’ve always bought. I think stress and him eating out too much on the road put him in the position that he is now unfortunately. But at home, I always made sure fruits and veggies are organic, but now we are also avoiding all the vegan cheeses with all the added oils and such. We do not have a whole house water filter system, so we do have chlorine in our water. Just thought of that on the subject if chlorine. I would like to find a doctor that would do a really good food sensitivity test with her, because I kind of feel that taking out all the things we have just perhaps isn’t enough, or finding out what is making her body tic with reactions to stress and tiredness. Definitely there is always room for improvement as some things we thought we clean/ healthy, weren’t as good as we thought. Just realized my husbands native deodorant isn’t as clean as we thought it was with added fragrance, so we can try switching that, I may have never looked that one up on skin deep come to think of it as it was recommended by a friend to be very clean and affordable. Anyway, sorry for such a long response, maybe there’s more I’m missing?
Thank you so much again for listening to us and making helpful suggestions. Always room for more, thank you!
