share some of my daughter's progresses

[firm believer]

Hi everybody,

 

First, please excused my poor English. English is not my native language. But I do want to share some of my thoughts with everybody here.

 

My daughter has tics for a little bit over 4 months now. She's going to be 6 next month. When I first found out she had tics. I'm so so so so deprressed, actually not because she has tics, because her pedittician, my husband, my parents, my husband's friends all think I am too crasy to beleive in those tests listed in this webpage. They laghed at me, critised me. But reading this forums help me cotinue to do what I think is important to my daughter.

 

Anyway, now the test results came out my daughter is sensitive to 27 out of 115 foods being test. And from her other test shows her body is extremly acid and her kidney is under lots of stress and have lots of other issues. Now my husband is fully convinced that the tests are well worth the money and even glad because of my daughter's tics, we know lots of her body's other issues and be able to help her.

 

From last week, my daughter started acupunture. Just after one treatment, her tics of clearing throat is completed gone. (SO FAR ) Then because her body is so acid, we start to feed her more green(of cause exactly follow the rotation diet as well) and drink lots of alkline water, to my husband and my surprised, her mood swing is decreased dramatically too. Although she still blink her eyes, but compare to she used to blinked her eye 10-20 times every minutes, now down to a couple of times every nimutes, it is a major improvement. Because I did not see anyother people mention about if the body's ph value will affect tics or not, so I want to share this to everybody, hopefully can be benefit to someone.

 

I'll continues to looking other aspects to find the triggers of my daughter's trics and mean while restore my duather's immune system.

[Chemar]

Hi firm believer, and thank you so much for giving your update on your daughter's progress!

 

I know this will be a tremendous encouragement to others out there who are seeking answers, and also to those who face criticism from physicians, family and friends when they venture into alternative areas.

 

Good for you that you studied, persevered and prevailed in the fact of opposition! I am so glad that your husband has also seen the results and can now work with you to make things better for your daughter!

 

thanks again for your encouraging post!

all the best

Cheri

[Claire]

Hi Firm Believer,

 

This is wonderful news!

 

What did you do to test her kidney function? I would like to do that one for my son and me.

 

My husband was a skeptic too until he saw results. The only thing anyone else believed was his allergies and his high mercury. My son (now 13) still doesn't believe in almost any of it. He is so close to normal now that he isn't motivated to do additional things.

 

I am especially happy that you are starting so EARLY. It is easiest to change habits when you start early.

 

Please keep us posted on your progress.

 

Claire

[kim]

This is a topic that interests me too.

 

Whenever my oldest son would have a headshaking flair up, he would complain of heart burn and a horrible acidy feeling. I thought that he was literally throwing acid up into a place it didn't belong, by the movement of the head shaking. But, I have wondered recently if the high acid level, had/has (much less frequent now)something to do with the onset of the head shaking.

 

I know with too little acid, you are unable to absorb nutrients (and supplements) properly. I believe a low acid environment is conducive to fungal overgrowth too. Those are the reasons, I have read, that it's important to stay off of drugs like Previcid and other antacids, at least long term.

 

This is an article I skimmed a while back.

 

http://blcwebcafe.org/urinaryph.asp

 

I actually had my son pee on a pool test strip. This was when he was, again, having a problem with stomach acid recently. It didn't show anything really high or low, but then again, these strips don't give a number. Just a high, normal and low range.

 

I don't know if it's in the article that I just posted or not, but the pool test strips were supposed to be ok. for testing.

 

I think we narrowed the problem down to the form of vitamin C that he was taking. He has not complained since he's been off of the ascorbic acid, but he wasn't taking that when he was younger and having all of the problems either.

 

BTW firm believer congrats on your mommy instincts and sticking to your guns against the usual way of thinking. As I have said before, who are we supposed to believe, the Dr.s or our own eyes?

[Guest]

Hi firm believer,

 

I just wanted to tell you congrats on your daughter's progress.

 

I understand what you go through about being criticized and am so glad you've hung in there to help your daughter. It's tough when your own family and friends criticize you for going the natural way. I think the worst comment I've been told was, "What are you going to do when you get Hepatitis B and die from it because you never got the shots?" Or some of my family members who acknowledge the changes, but criticize me because I refuse antibiotics, my special type of diet, etc. I try to ignore them because what matters the most is that I've continued to make big progress, but it is really hard for me to ignore things my own friends and family say.

 

Recently, I was frustrated with family members/friends comments and quan_daniel posted a comment that really made a difference to me:

Remember,

We are the NORMAL ones and they are the weird ones..

eating all those pre-packaged chemical filled foods.

 

Keep us posted on your daughter's progress.

 

Carolyn

[firm believer]

Hi Firm Believer,

 

This is wonderful news!

 

What did you do to test her kidney function? I would like to do that one for my son and me.

 

My husband was a skeptic too until he saw results. The only thing anyone else believed was his allergies and his high mercury. My son (now 13) still doesn't believe in almost any of it. He is so close to normal now that he isn't motivated to do additional things.

 

I am especially happy that you are starting so EARLY. It is easiest to change habits when you start early.

 

Please keep us posted on your progress.

 

Claire

The reason I want to check my daughter's kidney is acturally ever since she has tics, she went to bathroom so frequently and her teacher commented that my daughter went to bathroom at least 3 times more than other kids. I went to her peditrican, they did urniate test and pick up nothing. They just simply said she did not empty her bladder. They told us to do things like blowing the straw or letting her hold, nothing works. I asked them if they can test her kidney, because I'm a Chinese. In China, we have an old saying, urinate frequent is a sighn of weak kidney. And again her peditrian laughed at me and thought I'm showing off my own country's old, stupid idea in front of a M.D.

 

While I tried to decide which tests should I do for my daughter, I conculted a doctor from Direct Lab and ask if they have certain test. He said they do have such test. You can go to their webpage:http://www.directlabs.com/testtypes.php#cwp to see what's fits your situation. My daughter had urinate, hair and blood test(some for other purposes). Later on we conculted a doctor, he said more than 80% of my daughter's abnormal figures indicated her kidney is under lots of stress. Her strong body acid makes the things even worse. From all the books I read so far (I usually hate reading books in English, but now I read so fast), acid body, food allergy all can cause urinate frequentcy problem. Both of them put tremendous burden on kidney, then the other part of body will break down because of that too, for instance brain.

 

Summay up above that, I will continue to check every part of my dauther's body, eventually it can lead me to put all those puzzles together and find out all or most of the triggers.

 

Good luck to you. And thank you all for the supports from this group. I must proudly say because of tics, we know our children or ourselves a lot more thank those "normal peolple".

[quan_daniel]

Firm_believer,

Congrats!!.

I truly believe in PH of the body can heal if balance properly.

 

However I have never heard of alkaline water, what is it?

Can you give the brand name?

My son does throat clearing after eating then settles down.

 

This happens for 2 months now and right after his stomach virus.

 

Thanks

[firm believer]

Firm_believer,

Congrats!!.

I truly believe in PH of the body can heal if balance properly.

 

However I have never heard of alkaline water, what is it?

Can you give the brand name?

My son does throat clearing after eating then settles down.

 

This happens for 2 months now and right after his stomach virus.

 

Thanks

I bought a book called "The acid-alkaline diet" In that book it highly recommends drink alkaline water. You can either go to your local grocery store bottled water section and to check their PH value, or used the alkaline booster drop like I do. (beacuse my daughter's body is way too acid. It works just after a couple of days. So I now just put a little bit.) I used this product:

http://www.ph-ion.com/index.asp?PageAction...mp;Category=215

 

In this webpage you can also sign up for free 7-steps to PH balancing news letter which is very helpful for understanding the importance of keeping PH balance. But be aware, they do want to sell you expensive stuffs. I just used alkaline PH booster. It's enough for children. Although my daughter's body is very acid, I don't think she needs alkaline cleanze. I also made vegi juce for her in the morning.

 

Good luck.

[Claire]

How interesting. I remember running into this alkaline approach a while ago as a way to reduce yeast. Yet coincidentally this weekend I have been on a search for concentrated electrolyte solutions to add to our own filtered tap water, ie a cheaper, natural alternative to gatorade. With filtered water, I don't think we get enough electrolytes.

 

http://www.biopureus.com/docs/Matrix%20Enh...%20Solution.pdf

 

I wonder if they serve some of the same purpose?

 

By the way, we ran some standard test for my son's (and my) kidneys and liver, and they were fine. However, I may be looking into some alternative tests. With EDTA now, I worry about stressing the kidneys...

 

Claire

[patty]

You mentioned acupuncture eliminated your daughter's vocal tic. Do you know which what were these acupuncture points that were done to your daughter?

 

My son started with an acute head nodding tic about 6 months ago then later developed various vocal tics off & on. The vocal tic has been gone for about 2 months and it is back. We have tried acupuncture and it helped to reduce his motor tics, but did not seem to reduce his vocal tics. When he first started with his vocal, is pretty much all day, but most frequent while watching TV, eating and reading to him. Now the vocal tic returned and is mostly while he is eating. I do note that the vocal is less gradually, but i still would like to find out the cause of it.

 

You input is greatly appreciated.

 

BTW, I think you are doing a great job in finding out so much and it is helping your daughter. The thing I find most frustrating is that everyone seem to have different cause of symptoms. It takes time and patience to get to the root of the problem.

 

Do you give any supplement to your daughter? You mentioned you are Chinese, are you making any kind of tonic soup for her to strength her kidney? If you do, please give me info on it. Thx!

[Chemar]

Patty

 

our acupuncture therapist varies the needle placement according to the kind of tics........he also always does simultaneous reflexology.

I would think the reasoning is that as the tics vary, so the meridiens that need to be worked varies

[firm believer]

Dear Patty:

 

I have to agree with Chenma, eberybody is different. The main theory of accupuncture is unblock the blocked points, make the wind(or Chi) flow to improve organs' function. Even with the same disorders the blocking points can be differ. Also with so many points in the body and being so close, I really don't know the name of the points my daughter is treated, although I can ask the doctor next week. I did not let my daughter take any tonic soup, becuase she's sensative to so many foods, I don't want to put anything questionable to her body.

 

I know you might feel disappointed, however, I did find some very helpful information IF someone can help the translation.

http://www.pharmnet.com.cn/tcm/zjdq/zjzl/100039.html

Evrything written in Chinese. It discusses five different menthods of accupunctures to treat Tics and TS. It also includes detail points and other important informations. The best part of it is the healing rate is very excited. Although I'm a Chinese, but when come to medical terms, I don't even understand those terms in Chinese. So I could not help with the translation. I'm gloing to ask my daugher's doctor next week to see if he has some ideas to find a good, reliable translator, mean while I'm going to cantact some of my friends in China to see if they can help. I hope everybody in this forum can pass the message around, to see who can help the translation, it might help hundreds of people here.