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It's really hard to track the source sometimes. But in your case you believe the source was allergic reaction to the work done--is that right?
My son had a severe bout of eczema after an allergic reaction to oranges. It went on and on. I was doing benadryl and coconut oil and cod liver and on (none of that bad...) and he was dairy/wheat/all top eight allergens and corn free. Anyway, what helped him was Zyrtec. I think because it stayed in his system long enough to get the histamine under control.
I don't know if adding that will help you but it's certainly worth a try. Around here winter is a really hard to time to get eczema under control.
I found this link re: the steroids and glaucoma. It's a risk w/systematic too (which my son has had to do as have others) in those prone to. In reading it looks like it's not so simple as use cream around the eyes increase glaucoma risk. http://www.skincarephysicians.com/eczemanet/steroids.html
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I never wake my kids. One almost always sleeps about 12 hours. The other varies more but he gets up and does his own thing until his brother wakes and then I get up too.
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One of my kids (he's almost six) has some fine motor issues. I've been working on pencil grip and he's improving in terms of grasp quality as I've used a writing claw. But he's holding his pencil/crayon nearly straight up and down. That makes an awkward and difficult way to write and he can't see what he's doing so he's constantly lifting the crayon up to see.
I can't seem to get him to hold the pencil at an angle.
Any suggestions?
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Thank you so much for replying to me with your thoughts and ideas. I've been thinking about the replies and I think every single thing people have mentioned plays a part in this. So I've got several starting points for working to improve things. Thank you!
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I don't know if it's just an age thing or personality but I feel like we're failing as parents to my almost six year old son.
He used to be a calm and obedient kid. Over-all I think his ability to control his behavior and manage emotions is quite high for his age (at least compared to his sibling who has a lot of emotional regulation issues). But it feels like I'm in a constant battle of wills with him. He's bossy and demanding (and yells and seems angry). He often says things like "Mommy, you do X and then I'll do Y (Y being something like taking medication that isn't negotiable)." I don't bargain with him on this stuff but yet he keeps doing it. His tone is angry and I feel like he's chronically thwarted by me for lack of a better way to describe it. The atmosphere here is just yucky. I feel like he's frustrated and angry and I'm just plain angry.
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We just did skin testing which was discouraging too.
I really question the wisdom and usefulness of doing an oral challenge of the two negative nuts. My son is negative to only two nuts as well. But an allergy to one tree nut is an allergy to all because of cross-contamination. In fact my son's anaphylactic reaction was to one of two nuts he isn't allergic to (probably x'd with cashew).
Also, cashew and pistachio are the two most serious nut allergies in terms of severity of reaction. If he just sensitized to sweet potato and he is allergic to every other tree nut I can't imagine feeding him either of those nuts. Particularly since a negative food challenge when you're dealing with other tree nuts means basically nothing in terms of what he can eat. You couldn't pay me to oral challenge my son on his two "safe" nuts.
If you really want to know I'd do a RAST. Those numbers will show you something about sensitivity to the nuts without actually exposing him to them. He still couldn't eat them but you'd have the information anyway.
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Oh, I forgot to ask! If anyone else is still peeking in, should stay away from oats? I know the issue is cross-contamination there, but I don't know how widespread that is. Can anyone eat oats successfully? The gluten-free baking book I looked at online included an oatmeal raisin cookie recipe, which I'm just now realizing is odd.
Thanks!
I wouldn't do oats until you've been off gluten for a while and healed up. Then you can try gluten free oats and see how they go. But I wouldn't do it until I get my new normal and have a chance to have the body heal some. Not all celiacs can handle them and they are difficult to digest no matter the level of tolerance. There are so many other options for truly gluten free grains.
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Spelt is low gluten and so can be easier to digest. The taste is also different than wheat. It's not safe for celiac or those who need a gluten free diet though.
I think the best gluten free pasta by far is Tinkyada. Even the regularly consuming glutens among us like it and your family will likely be able to do it for dinner without a complaint. http://tinkyada.com/ You can make your own gluten free mac and cheese! This is a really tasty prepared gluten free mac and cheese dish. http://www.viewpoints.com/Amys-Rice-Macaroni-and-Cheese-review-20570
Baked potato makes a good gluten free carb fix. Rice dishes do too and we like buckwheat as an alternative (the whole forms can be cooked in dishes just like rice). All that you can find without going to places that carry gluten free.
I would stay away from baked goods until you adjust to being gluten free. Nothing feels right until you sort of forget about gluten to me. You'll get there.
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I second the Mike Mulligan suggestion.
My kids love anything Richard Scarry. The stories, characters, and pictures are silly and messy and all the things that appeal to kids!
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I taught in the public schools for 11 years. I have teachers all through my family.
I think any firm thought expressed on how teachers view homeschoolers must (necessarily) be as a big "broad brush" stereotype as any opinion of homeschoolers a teacher might hold.
My public school teaching friends are supportive. I got more concern from non teacher friends actually.
I will say that most of what public school teachers see of homeschoolers are the ones who are in serious discipline or attendance trouble and the parent pulls them out under the guise of homeschooling when everyone (parent/school/kid) knows nothing is going to happen educationally. That is mostly what I saw. But then no one I know would think this is what homeschooling looks like when it's really done.
I don't think most teachers believe what they do to be above the ability of an involved parent. This would be outside of specialized areas (high level math/science/some skills areas/etc.) where teachers might hold reservations if they didn't know the options out there in those areas.
I think most teachers know it's impossible to meet the needs of every single student in the class in any way that approaches ideal. I suspect most would be supportive if a parent is sincere about teaching their child. That's my broad brush stereotype anyway.
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Make sure you take enough to raise your levels. Most people 1000 IU of D3 per 25 pounds to maintain their current level. So you need to go above that to fix your level. I did 9,000 IU of D3 per day and that is safe for healthy adults regardless of current levels. You will correct faster if you take higher doses and at this time of year fast is good.
On the sun thing--not everyone makes vitamin D well through sun. I'd say most don't actually since most of the population is deficient. That's why it's good to know your level. Don't count on the sun as adequate.
Study of those with high levels of sun exposure in Hawaii showed that over 50% had vitamin D levels below 30. Almost none of them were 50 or above. Hawaii is significant because most areas of the world are not at the right latitude to make vitamin D from the sun for much of the year. The average was 22.4 hours a week of Hawaiian sun exposure without sunscreen. In addition, there were a variety of races and skin tones represented. It looks like a well designed study in all ways I can determine. http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/con...130&sendit=Get
Conclusions: These data suggest that variable responsiveness to UVB radiation is evident among individuals, causing some to have low vitamin D status despite abundant sun exposureStudy hypothesized why so many were low even though they had lots of sun exposure:
Possible explanations for this include inadequate cutaneous production of D3, enhanced cutaneous destruction of previtamin D3 or vitamin D3, down-regulation of cutaneous synthesis by sun-induced melanin production, or abnormalities of transport from the skin to the circulation. -
I can feel my neuroma as a bump inside the foot (vs. something on the skin surface/outside). Mine is not in that spot but it's not in the typical morton's neuroma spot either. Mine came up after a stint on crutches as well with a cut tendon in the opposite foot.
I hope it's a planter's wart instead. But I'd go to a podiatrist. I wish I hadn't waited so long as I don't think my foot will ever be 100%. But they can do a shot to give it a chance to heal and special shoe inserts to take the pressure off that area.
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For healthy adults (ie no parathyroid disease/kidney stones, no sarcoidosis) 9,000 IU per day should be perfectly safe. And for kids from ages 1 to 6 2000 IU per day (conservative level, very conservative) should be safe. If you're within those I'd keep doing it unless things get worse. I do use magnesium with vitamin D. You aren't raising levels that fast and you aren't giving enough to be too much. It is the best thing you can do for staying healthy. If it continues/worsens I guess you could do a break (or cut down to 5000) and see if things change. But I'd want to keep up the dosing if I could.
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Statistically leaving an unhappy marriage doesn't make people happier. That even includes those who divorce and remarry. They are just as unhappy five years later. And in fact I think many who stick out unhappiness at points will find themselves in a happier marriage in time. That's been true for us. I believe sticking with the commitment gives the best chance for eventual happiness of both people at least generally speaking.
Interesting research on this stuff:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/edi/edi_03divorcemarriage.htmlConducted by a team of leading family scholars headed by University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite, the study found no evidence that unhappily married adults who divorced were typically any happier than unhappily married people who stayed married. Even more dramatically, the researchers also found that two-thirds of unhappily married spouses who stayed married reported that their marriages were happy five years later. In addition, the most unhappy marriages reported the most dramatic turnarounds:The article also goes into what turned around personal happiness give years later in some of those most unhappy marriages.
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That happened to me once. I was signed up when I purchased something online (can't remember if it was flowers though/I don't think it was). If I remember right they refunded my money. I think they count on people not really looking their statements over.
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Hubby thought he had the flu on Wed. night. He had a sore throat, mild cough, mild to moderate aching of muscles, mild fatigue. No fever. When he didn't get worse I decided maybe it wasn't flu at all.
Then yesterday evening we got a call from the family he spent hours with Sunday night and all they had test/swab confirmed influenza by Tuesday. So I presume he was exposed to the flu.
He never did get a fever and never had any nasal involvement or feeling wiped out like I associate with the flu. He feels ok now two days later though his cough is a little more frequent and he still has some mild aches.
I think his vitamin D levels are good because he's been taking 10,000 IU for at least a month and 5,000 IU most days prior to that. He drinks a lot of green tea and takes probiotics regularly. I gave him extra vitamin D (60,000 IU), garlic, extra probiotics, colostrum, Quercetin, and vitamin C Wed. night and every day since. My point is his immune system may have been primed to suppress it.
Do you think h1n1 be that mild or do you think it was likely not it at all?
The family he got it from has a variety of symptoms but I think all infected are much sicker than my husband, except maybe one.
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We're one of those high risk families. One child has a neuromuscular metabolic condition and is immune compromised. The other has the same condition (though not presenting symptom wise) and has asthma. Every year per our geneticist we isolate the kids during flu season and hubby (main vector of infection as he works) gets the flu shot. I get the vax too. Except our area hasn't had any shots available.
And...my husband appears to possibly be coming down with the flu this evening. :( Well, he has a sore throat and aching/fatigue. Mild cough though perhaps related to the throat. I don't think he has a fever though-I can't find our thermometer-so maybe not the flu? Does it hit really dramatically with fever, chills, etc.
Anything I can do to try to keep the rest of us healthy?
We do have a standing script for Tamiflu for the kids. Would you do it if they start to seem sick?
I'd love any prayers that we have a mild trip through this and/or the kids and I aren't infected at all.
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The thing about Hershey's is they are good with labeling. So if you check a Hershey label and it doesn't have a nuts/peanuts (and I'd include manufactured with for sure when you're dealing with anaphylaxis) it really is nut free.
I don't know about the other products. And you need to be aware that companies aren't required to label cross-contamination. So something could be produced on a shared line with peanuts and not have a warning.
So I would ask mom for recommendations on the products she's comfortable with. If I were the mom I wouldn't want my child to have any honestly. I've had experiences with people I trusted who meant well but still made mistakes but I would appreciate it that you were thinking of my child's safety. And it would make me more comfortable to know that the products you're using don't have nuts even if my child isn't eating them.
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My kids are waking up at 6 am and I am so not a morning person. I did shift their bedtime forward as well. So I've got cranky early waking kids.
I live in Indiana and until recently our time stayed the same all year. Ah well..
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Wow. Living with a immune compromised (and metabolic neuromuscular condition to boot) child here. He doesn't mount an immune response to vaxes. We vax ourselves and isolate him. This is entirely crappy news.
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He's wheat allergic and not having issues with gluten? If so, I agree that spelt is terrific. It's not exactly the same but does have enough gluten to be ok. My nephews will eat it here and never seem to notice. We use Berlin Bakery.
There are lots of gluten free recipes online and in books and all those will, out of necessity, be wheat free. Wheat is a listed allergen ingredient too so label reading is easier than it is for some.
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I don't know if I am full-blown anaphylactic allergy, but a bite of kiwi caused my lips to swell and burn, mouth to feel "full", almost instantaneous nausea and vomiting, severe stomach pain, and a general sick feeling.
I'm not allergic to anything else that I know of.
Michelle T
That is anaphylaxis. Anaphylaxis is two body systems--so the swelling and GI together are anaphylactic. It's important because next time it could be shock or throat swelling. You need an Epi Pen.
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1000 IU per 25 pounds will maintain levels (so for you 30) in many people. So you need more than 1000 IU per 25 pounds to raise levels.
I took 9000 IU per day until my level was where we wanted it. Then I dropped to maintenance doses. An adult can safely take up to 9000 IU per day and given the season and your level that is what I would suggest to you. You want D3. If your doctor prescribes a supplement it is likely D2. Use D3 only. The vitaminD council has a lot of information on that so I realize you may already know.
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My dad has anaphylaxis to a couple of foods (and aspirin). He's 61.
Is coconut oil really good for you?
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I don't think it's as simple as people make it out to be.
It contains lots of good for you stuff--antioxidants, anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-yeast, anti-parasite properties. It's also largely made up of medium chain fats which are pretty rare in large quantities in our food supply. They are easier for the body to assimilate and use than other fat chains which must be converted in the mitochondria first. So all that is good.
It will raise cholesterol levels no matter what you read. I've done a lot of research on that because my coconut oil heavy son was so high in cholesterol. That's not unique to coconut oil--any saturated fat will do that. And brains need saturated fats too. They aren't all bad for us. Some argue high cholesterol isn't bad at all and is in fact good. Low certainly isn't good for a person..but I don't think based on my research high is great either (or watching--my grandmother lived on saturated fat like whole milk as did my grandfather and they both died of strokes). And sometimes you read that coconut oil won't raise cholesterol (by those promoting it) but I'm confident based on well designed research studies I've read on pubmed it will and does.
We still use a lot of coconut oil. I just think there is a lot of misinformation out there about it.