Gesundheit!

I am happy to say that both boys have been healthy so far this winter season. Both in Nickys school and Philips kindergarten half the classes are missing b/c of flu, cold and even some scarlet fever. There are some rules in our house they seem to work :

• Always wash your hands right away when you come home. Wash them as long as you sing the ABC-song.
• If you are in a public area, like airport or train, take some desinfection wipes with you to use after washing your hands
  

• Drink your orange juice in the morning

• Take your gummy-bear vitamins (i don't have to push them to that rule :) )
  

• Eat your vegetables

• Wear a hat if temps drop under 45
  

• If you are cold, take a warm bath right away
  

With the first sign of a cough, sore throath or runny nose i try to get rid of it right away. Here are some first helpers with the sign of a cold:

Runny nose: Inhale steam; even better add a little menthol.
Drink hot elderberry juice for cough and sore throat.
Drink lots of fluids, f.e. teas to losen the mucus.
Take Vitamin C and Zink, even better, eat foods with this vitamins: Citrus fruits, red peppers, Kiwi, Sunflowerbread, Turkey, Cashews, Gouda-Cheese...

Bless You - Gesundheit!

Amazing healing

I have been reading a lot about homöopathic treatment and overall natural healing. I use it more and more with me and my family. Some things work, some not. If it comes to treating a cold, cough, sneezy nose and sore throath most of the treatments help.
For example for Philips cough (and he catches it like that) i use a home remmedy with onions. Just cut it in pieces, put it in a jar. Then 2-3 Tablespoons of honey over the onions, finished. Drink 1-2 teaspoons of the honey, you don't have to eat the onions :)
Actually Philip loves it, and he knows it helps him. It helps very good at night, when the cough sits deep. Try it, it's quickly made and inexpensive. And: No meds where you always feel a little guilty to give it.
I also read about the 27 different tissue salt, invented by Dr. Schüssler. He believed this natural salts are the only things we need . I bought them all (they are very inexpensive) and try them with the whole family. The great thing with this salts like all homöopathic treatments: There are no side effects, the doses are so little.
So i tried them with fever, cough, allergy. Last weekend i got a very bad lumbargo while i tried to lift Nicky in the Radio Flyer for Trick or Treating.
It was so bad i couldn't move at all and my husband had to lift me up from the couch saturday night.
I took three different salts, No. 3, 7 and 9. Every hour for 4 hours. When i got up the next morning from bed i already felt better, so i kept going with the salts and by afternoon i couldn't feel almost any pain any longer. It amazed me.
Usally if you have this kind of pain you get a shot or you take pain killers. I guess i found my remmedy for my back.
Try it, it's worth a shot!

LEAD and autism

I just got back Nickys last blood and urine lab results. Every half a year we usually test him for yeast and missing nutrials. It always gives us a view what his body can process and what's missing.
Usally the test comes up with lots of yeast problems, but also Nicky’s problems with getting rid of toxins.
When is saw our DAN two weeks ago i decided on making a heavy metal test, b/c i felt something else is going on with Nick and i wanted to find out.
So we made the test which means Nicky has to take a capsule of DMSA, that kind of sucks the toxins out of his body and shows it in an urin sample we collect for the rest of the day.
The test before we gave the capsule showed already lead levels twice as high as safe.
The result of the second test, where all urine gets collected after the capsule, showed (are you sitting?) 13 times higher than they say its safe.
WOW!
I am very proud and happy that after 5 years doing biomedical intervention i just know there is something going on with him.
BUT, I am sad that two years after doing chelation we are back on the heavy metal issue. Even I keep every possible toxins away from him, Nicky’s body has not the ability to detoxify himself. And let’s face it: It's everywhere, every day. Your air, your water, your food, the clothes you just wear.
For us moms with kids on the spectrum, we just have to detox them with meds and supplements and just hope the pollution of our world will get less.
Writing this my beautiful boy is sitting in the living room shaking his head, spinning wheels and screaming out of his lungs......
1 in 91 children is diagnosed with autism, 1 in 58 boys (!!!)......

Swine flu vaccination

Lately there have been a lot of people asking my opinion on the swine flu vaccination. Most of you know my standing on this controversy. It's a straigt NO. There are different reasons:

• One: I have a child who got probably autism by day one when he received his Hep.B. shot at the hospital


• Two: This swine flu vaccination has not been testet long enough in my opinion, if you read about cervical cancer vaccination there has been some discussion lately.


• Three( And this is the most important part of it!): Both companies who produce the serum for swine flu vaccination add a preservative called Thimerosal . Most of you never heared from it, but every mother with a child on the autism spectrum is at war with this preservative. It's simple said mercury.

Side effects of this vaccination are rarely known, b/c it's so new, no clinical studies have been made!

So see youself as a ginnie pig when you go get your shot. Your doctor will probably ask you to call in if you feel any side effects accouring. YOU are the STUDY!

Writing this makes me really mad, and i know how hard it is to watch the news in the United States and don't get sucked into the hype about vaccinations.

Think about it and decide wisly. Have a healty flu season!

Obama Announces Breaking News: $92 Million in Stimulus Funds for Autism Research

I am sitting in tears while i am writing this. Finally the government is doing more than looking the other way. I just hope they listen to us parents too in the future.

Please read along...

President Barack Obama announced a plan on Wednesday to spend $5 billion on medical and scientific research, medical supplies and upgrading laboratory capacity, as part of an overall $100 billion Recovery Act investment in science and technology. Importantly, Obama's announcement also included a commitment to funding $92 million into autism research. In his speech to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Obama said “And finally, we'll also provide the largest-ever infusion of funding into autism research. Across the country, grant recipients will have the opportunity to study genetic and environmental factors of a disease that now touches more than one in every 150 children. What we learn will hopefully lead to greater understanding, early interventions, more effective treatments and therapies to help these children live their lives and achieve their fullest potential, which is extraordinary.”

Autism Speaks played a vital role lobbying NIH for $100 million of the economic stimulus package.

View the full speech on the White House website.

Read a press release on the full stimulus package announced here

All natural food delivery and getting ready for fluseason

One of my favourite days of the weeks are absolutly tuesdays. Every week we get a box full with natural foods delivered by a natural food store. It's full with fresh veggies and fruits. Everything looks so yummy. Even Philip get's now all excited when the delivery man rings on the door. With fluseason just around the corner i want to "drug" my kids with as much possible vitamins as possible.

It starts in the morning with fresh squeezed orange juice. It goes trough the day with different fruits and veggies for supper. I mix some seabuck thorn juice in their applejuice to raise the vitamin C level in them.

I for myself drink a glass of vegetable juice very day. It's full with carrots, red beet, sauerkraut, spinach, bellpepper, cucumbers and more stuff. Sounds yummy, hum? I just put some salt and pepper ontop and it's not as bad as you think. It counts as a meal instead of lunch and fills me the whole afternoon.

I am not a fan of swineflu-vacinations, b/c i think it's a big hype and nobody knows of late side effects. So this is how we prepare for the winter. I also can see a huge difference in philip beeing more calm and concentrated.

Try it, it's fun and if your kids help you prepare fruit salad they like it even more.

First week without daddy

The first week without wolfgang comes to an end. It was ok, but we miss him dearly. Especially philip askes about him all the time. Yesterday he had his daddy on speakerphone and played in his room with Lego while talking to him. It was for him important to share everything what he was doing right there with wolfgang.
I was very busy this week: I checked out different schools around Basel. I also contacted a new organisation that helps parents of preschool-kids with autism to find the right schools and therapies.
People in switzerland seem very nice and helpful so far and i am looking forward to go with wolfgang sometimes within the next weeks.
And i started running again. It was a good feeling to "be back". I ran around our lake on tuesday, with is about 4K. Tonight i will run my first roadrace. It's in Wetzlar and called the bridge-race. I will run for Nickys school and it's going to be fun. Hopefully the rain will stop while i am on the road. Keep your fingers crossed that i will make it to finish-line before they all leave :)