February 6, 2013
Our Nani is sick again :(
Sore throat, bad cough, lots of congestion, small temperature...
I think we'll get through it though without and antibiotics.
Nani has been a trooper as we have tried to figure out why she gets sick so often and has chronic headaches, leg pain and stomach aches. Nov. 2011 we did a blood test and found that she had allergies to milk, eggs, all nuts, small reactions to wheat and corn, cats, dogs, all sorts of plants. Before the blood test, she had about 5 ear infections that year, always congested and her congestion would not clear up unless she had an antibiotic. She was on Singular, Flonase, and Zyrtec everyday but it wasn't helping. Sometimes she would get too congested that it would result in a breathing treatment. (Albuterol and the nebulizer)
She had tubes put in her ears and her adenoids removed, Nov 2011, but now we're certain that wasn't necessary. After the initial blood test we took her to an Allergist and did another allergy test, the one where they pricked your back and see how your skin reacts. It was rough for her. The little pricks didn't really bother her, but her skin reacted to just about everything they tested her for. Her skin swelled up, reddened and itched like crazy. She had to wait 15-20 minutes so the skin could react if it was going to and then they came back in and measured the results. She couldn't itch or touch it. She did so good, but it was hard.
After that test we were given more medication and cream for her skin.
About 5 months later we went for a check up with the allergist and came back with more meds and still the same problems, itchy aching legs, headaches, stomach aches, congestion, emotional, and fatigue.
We had taken her off milk, eggs, all nuts and limited her wheat intake. But it still wasn't enough.
For a few months before her check up, I stopped giving her her medicines everyday because they made her grumpy and didn't help.Then one night when we were in Dallas for a weekend trip, we laid down to go to sleep, and Nani tried to sleep but her legs just kept moving with restlessness and pain. Once I realized she was in pain, after 45min. of us telling her to go to sleep, we got up and we walked the hotel for about 2 hours until the pain subsided and she could fall asleep.
After that, we decided that we needed to figure something out!
We started reading a lot and talking to others. One day while searching the internet, we read about leaky gut syndrome and candida. Everybody has yeast in their bowels, but when there's an overgrowth of yeast, candida, it cause leaky gut syndrome, where you gut leaks particles from food into your blood stream prematurely and before they are completely broken down. And that leads to all sorts of problems since it's in your bloodstream. For Nani, it was causing respiratory problems, head aches, stomach aches and leg pain.
We read up on what causes the over growth of yeast...Sugar!! Yeast thrives on sugar!!
(to be continue...)
