Asthma
Asthma often results after the suppression of eczema with steroid creams. Removing all milk-based food (dairy) from the diet is key to reducing asthma symptoms, as is shoring up the immune system with supportive supplements and gut-healing therapeutic diets.
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Asthma Main Info Page
What Is Asthma? Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition that inflames and narrows the airways making it difficult for a child to breathe. It can cause shortness of breath and reoccurring periods of a musical high-pitched whistling sound as the ... Read More
Parasites Can Cause Seemingly Unrelated Symptoms
In this blog post, Patricia Lemer MEd relates her personal experiences in dealing with parasites. It took me years to understand how my seemingly unrelated symptoms of dental, digestive and respiratory issues as well as obesity were all due to ... Read More
Ear Infections and Autism
Kelly Dorfman MS LND discusses the relationship between ear infections and autism in this post. Many years ago, a group of parents and professionals discussed concerns about the emergence of a regressive autistic-like syndrome, later named Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), ... Read More
IgG Allergies in Autism, ADHD, Asthma, Autoimmune and More
In this blog post, Kelly Dorfman, MS, LN discusses the role of IgG allergies and symptoms of autism, ADHD, asthma, autoimmune disorders and more. Intolerance to certain foods, especially gluten (wheat related grains) and casein (milk protein), is a common ... Read More
Announcing the Documenting Hope Project
What Is the Documenting Hope Project? The Documenting Hope Project is a multi-year research and media initiative to scientifically demonstrate that children can get better from chronic conditions including autism, ADHD, allergies, asthma, autoimmune disease and many more conditions currently ... Read More
What Is Wrong With Milk?
"Drink your milk so that you will grow up big and strong." How many of us heard those words as young children and still heed them? This wisdom is being renewed by advertisements showing our favorite stars with milk mustaches ... Read More
Asthma Alternative Therapies
An Asthma Epidemic? Approximately five million children have asthma, and it is the number one reason for school absenteeism. Who Gets Asthma? Few babies are born with asthma. It is seldom serious in infants but tends to become more severe ... Read More
How to Heal a Child from Autism, ADHD, Asthma and More
In this blog post, Executive Director Beth Lambert has a big idea for helping children heal from autism, ADHD, asthma and more. I have an idea about how we can heal our children. It's a great idea. No, it's a ... Read More
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Asthma Stories
Marilee and Douglas: Overcoming Kidney Failure and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
This story is used with permission from Marilee Nelson, the founder of Branch Basics. Perspective and Awareness: What I Wish I Had Known Years Ago Perspective on any topic is based on an understanding of the available information that pertains ... Read More
Kyle: Sensory Processing Disorder and ADHD
Where do I begin? Should I start with my being pregnant and working at a stressful job in New York City? Maybe I should first write about my family history of celiac and not knowing that having undiagnosed celiac/gluten intolerance ... Read More
Leo: Autism
excerpted from A Compromised Generation: The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America’s Children Upon meeting Leo for the first time, it is difficult to grasp that this friendly, bright-eyed 10½ year old boy once had autism. There is nothing about ... Read More