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Anyone have undetected food intolerances as a child?

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• Re: Anyone have undetected food intolerances as a child? (Archive in headaches.) Walt Stoll 08:34:01 10/24/01 (0)
• Re: Anyone have undetected food intolerances as a child? dmaryd 11:18:20 10/23/01 (1)
  • Thanks! Marie Alise 12:57:30 10/23/01 (0)

In Reply to: Anyone have undetected food intolerances as a child? posted by Marie Alise on October 23, 2001 at 09:02:10:

As someone who has a son that developed severe migraines at age 10, I can certainly sympathize. They need to take him to a clinical ecologist and have him evaluated. The stomache problems are probably "Stomache Migranes" which are apparently common in children that get Migraines. My son was on Imitrex as well as several other medications and they only helped a little bit. When they wanted to put him on beta blockers too, I said NO! AT that point I started doing alot of research. If you look at the side effects of Imitrex in their literature it is not something that you would want anybody to take. My son's path to wellness was a long one but we finally got there. One of the most important things besides finding a good Doctor/Practitioner is helping the child to understand and communicate. It is very hard at this age but it is very necessary for them to be able to explain their symptoms as well as understanding why they have to take a certain supplement or medication when they start having certain symptoms. This will help them deal with the process and makes them feel that they are really have some control over it. We had good results from cranial work, chiroparctic work and some supplements. The "cure" came from finding a good alternative medicine practitioner, in our case a clinical ecologist who ran the necessary tests and developed a plan. Believe me if you get the child's buy in to eliminating the offending foods and they get better, when they do cheat and get a severe reaction it will reinforce the program. Once they understand the cause and effect reaction (experience it for themselves) they will tend to stay on the program. It is also important the the parents let the child know that they are in it with him. In other words if the child cannot eat ice cream then mom and dad should not eat it either. Sorry for rambling but wanted to let you know that you can win this war. My child has been migraine free now for 2 1/2 years.

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• Thanks! Marie Alise 12:57:30 10/23/01 (0)

In Reply to: Re: Anyone have undetected food intolerances as a child? posted by dmaryd on October 23, 2001 at 11:18:20:

Thanks DMaryd-will print this out for them to read.
Love,
M.A.

In Reply to: Anyone have undetected food intolerances as a child? posted by Marie Alise on October 23, 2001 at 09:02:10:

Hi, M.A.

Of course ALL migraines have a number of causes, all of which, together, combine to finally cause the symptom. The idea is to eliminate the easiest one(s) and see if the bodymind will tolerate the rest.

Which do you think would be the easiest: Eliminating the stress of school OR changing the diet?

So far as diet is concerned, 95% of kids with this problem would no longer have any migraines within 2 weeks of total elimination of dairy and wheat. Then, when everyone knew how much that helped, everyone could decide if the effort was worth the result. For the other 5%, a clinical ecologist would have to be consulted.

All that, of course, would be without any psychological counseling at all even though that would also be helpful to reduce the school stress.

Seems to me that this family has a lot to learn. This is only going to get worse if they do not resolve it now.

Walt