I have a friend with a 4 year old son who has a severe peanut allergy. If he even smells peanuts he goes into an awful asthma attack. His sister once kissed his cheek after she ate a peanut butter sandwich and the cheek turned red and swelled. He has asthma regardless of the peanut exposure, and yes, I just found out he had eczema as a baby that was suppressed with creams.

He's been to the ER many times with the asthma, takes nebulizer treatments at home, each cold turns into wheezing and asthma attack.

I'm trying to convince her to try homeopathy for him, but she's concerned and would like to try it herself first before giving it to her son. Problem is, she really has no problems needing treatment other than she overextends herself, volunteers for everything at the schools for her kids, very concerned with appearance--won't go to the school bus stop without shower and makeup, can't say no to people who ask for her help, and with 5 children she's running and going all the time with no time for herself, gets everything done that she needs to even if she has to stay awake till 4 or 5 in the morning (she's of Chinese descent and was brought up this way, high achievement). The only thing she ever complains of is that she's stressed from all her activities with kids and husband (and he's very jealous and controlling). Physically she's fine but does get colds more frequently than I consider normal. She does have a family breast cancer history, mother and one sister, and she feels it's just a matter of time till she gets it too but doesn't care, she says.

A while ago I gave her Pulsatilla 30 for a cold she had so she could "try" homeopathy and she said she felt somewhat better, but decided later in the night to take one antibiotic pill and said she felt almost fine after that, so she attributes the getting well to the antibiotic....and we all know antibiotics don't do a thing for a cold.

So my questions are--1. Has anyone had success dealing with this peanut allergy that I could share with her for encouragement? and 2. Yes, she could take a remedy for her "mental state" such as it is, but with so few symptoms would she remotely see enough change to persuade her that this works?

Thanks,
Sunny

[This message has been edited by Sunny (edited 30 May 2000).]

Well Im a patient with 4 children and believe me I have more time to relax since starting homeopathy than ever before!! I used to run around like a chicken with its head cut off. My nerves were shot with doctors appts.wasting the whole day!! Lets see, Mon.-coughing appt. Tues.-migraine appt. Wed.-counseling-or psych. Thur.acne meds.appt. With 4 kids each one has a set of problems, maybe Fri. is a day off?Now MONDAY-FRIDAY-FREE AS A BIRD!! LindaM.

hahaha Linda, I can relate to all that running around, and I only have one kid, can't imagine with more!! I'm glad to see you're getting a much needed break.

I see that all of you are being treated, do you think that's what has relieved some of the burden? If so, believe me my friend's kids, other than the little one with asthma, won't be treated and the older ones, both teen girls, run her ragged, TELLING her when she's driving them places rather than asking her if she will...and she does it. They sign up for and join so many activities, and my friend then signs up to volunteer to help with these activities, has to go to the games, etc., (sheesh, the schools know how much they can count on her volunteering that they sign her up without asking!!), so my concern is that if they keep behaving the same, which they will, she won't stop, even if she wants to, so she'll see no difference in herself and will likely see no benefit to treating her son.

Oh well, I can only try, can't force her.

Hi, Maybe its how she grew up? We were the opposite I guess. When I was a kid my father worked all day and my mother didnt drive! So we always managed to find something to do!Parents didnt come to the school back then either. So nowadays we all go out together like the mall, beach,movie etc.When they learn how to drive they can go where they want.I take them more places now than I ever went in my life as a kid.I try to avoid going anywhere unless necessary as I cant handle a hectic chaotic life myself!Your friend should do HERSELF a favor for once and say NO sometime! Take care,LindaM.

Arsenicum album: This remedy is useful for people who are highly sensitive to many
foods and substances, and respond to them by feeling restless, ill, and exhausted.
Asthma and digestive disorders (such as vomiting and diarrhea) are common reactions.
Burning sensations relieved by warmth, and thirst for frequent small sips of water can
also suggest this remedy. A person who needs Arsenicum tends toward strong anxiety,
and may have excessive concern over neatness, details, and order.

Arsenicum? Doesn't care if she gets cancer???

It's no use prescrbing for people who don't want it - they don't acknowledge it was homoeoapthy even when they get better - a case in this quarter's journal described a patient who was amazed at how much better he felt for no longer using mint toothpaste - it wasn't the remedy of course...

Gary, are you saying Arsenicum for the mother? I don't see her that way at all. Excessive cleanliness for herself and her children, but her house quite often, well, no Arsenicum worth her salt would let the house get that way!! That's just one aspect, of course.

For the little boy, with a condition as serious as asthma I would never consider treating him secondhand, through me like this, especially since I'm not at all qualified.

But the latest is that the mother got another cold, and I gave her a dose of Pulsatilla (although it was too far into the cold to stop it in it's tracks) and she felt remarkably better, still some symptoms but felt better even with them, enough so that she went out and bought some and gave it to her husband who started to catch the same cold. His cold never materialized after the remedy, so she's quite impressed. I explained that Puls works well usually for HER colds, maybe not his, but she got lucky with this one.

I think she's more open to the idea of treating her son now, who has now also caught this cold and started with the asthma, was on the nebulizer all last night. So now to the original query, has anyone successfully treated a peanut or other severe and potentially life threatening food allergy? Nobody can guarantee it would help him, I understand that, but any positive (or negative if it's so) feedback on personal experiences would help her with the decision.

Thanks,
Sunny

two remedies is usefull here, nux v, and agaricus, and maybe phos, or ac phos.Check them out.

Thanks so much GM

Just to clarify, you are saying one of these remedies possibly for the mother, yes? Not the child, is that right? Or have I got things backwards again...which wouldn't surprise me a bit

Its for the peanut allergy, the boy. first to look at is Nux v, phosp, then ac p or agaricus, if its agaricus, then its allergy to phospates in food, found in emulsifiers, emulgators, this has to be removed from the food.