Hi there
I am looking for any help or advice you can offer my for my four year old son. We have been dealing with health problems with him for about a year now. He has been treated by a classical homeopath since feb, and I have come to believe in homeopathy, but he is still sick, just as sick as he was when we began (tho he has had ups in the course of the treatment)
For his first three years my son was the picture of health, extremely active, exuberant, intense, very happy, verbal, silly, loving, and quite the center of attention. Until his problems began I had no idea how sensitive and complicated he was as well.
The birth of my second child, just a few days before Joshua's third birthday seemed in retrospect to send him downhill fast. I believe he felt betrayed and abandoned both by the circumstances surrounding the birth and first month, as well as the mere existance of his sibling.
About 2 months after the birth we noticed he seemed to be crossing his eyes...we had noticed this every once in a while before the second baby, but it seemed to dramatically increase. Doc diagnosed him with strabismus (accomodative) , amblyopia in right eye, and extreme farsightedness. Glasses right away. This was a big shock to me. Then the same month we realized he had no appetite...was losing weight and looking skinny, pale and sickly. He went from 37 lbs, to 32 lbs. At this point he began to spit up on random occasions...walking through a book store, at night when falling asleep. On these occasions he would reflux up about a handful of vomit. Then we noticed he seemed to get these fits where he would be unable to stand straight...he would jacknife at the waist, or bend his neck to the front, side , bend over at the waist almost constantly. He developed fluid in his ears and a sinus infection, both of these for the first time ever. He had his first (and only ) dose of antibiotics. He began to have episodes where he would be overcome with excruciating pain...his body would stiffen, toes would curl, head thrown back, neck tendons jutting out, mouth agape, and he would just scream...usually for about 7 seconds, then his body would relax, almost limp or spent.
We took him to childrens hospital in january to see a pediatric gastroenterologist. He diagnosed him with reflux, and sandifer's syndrome (all the head tipping and bending over all the time) which is a nerological response to the acid on the esophagus for some children. He was put on zantac, prilosec, prevacid etc....nothing helped at all. He was given an endoscopy...the doc said it was one of the worst cases of esophagitis he had seen ..his esophagus was litterally bloody!!...yet my son had only been having the painful episodes for about 2-3 months at this point. the doc recommened surgery...fundoplication to create a new valve from his stomach. We said no(due to research we did on this surgery) and sought out alternative meds. He began NAET treatment...we began to see the symptoms had some connection to what he was eating...food allergy.(and lots of them)
Then we began homeopathy. The months from feb till now have been a roller coaster. His symptoms, emotions etc have changed so many times!!! But we are in a bad way now, and our homeopath is stummped.
Here are his current physical symptoms;
When he wakes in the morning he is fine, just like a healthy child. As soon as he eats his first food, or drinks water, the problems begin. He complains of stomach pain, or feeling naseous, or just begins to do the weird sandifer's posturing.If he eats a food he is allergic to , which is like 90% of foods, then he may get a painful screaming episode. We try to feed him only food that seems non allergenic to him , and in this way hope for just the milderr symptoms. He also gets physical symptoms almost every time he is buckled into his carseat, also when he hears his brother cry. He also gets symptoms when he has an emotional upset. He gets gradually worse and more reactive as the day goes on, so by evening he might react very badly to a food that eaten in morning would just make him feel yucky or naseous.
His personality has gone through a roller coaster....the last time he was joyful and exuberant was right before the birth a year ago. He has had periods of depression since then. The last few months his usual mood is serious, pessemistic, drawn, negative, somber....though he does display other more positive emotions, these ones are sort of a theme. He seems really sad. He sees himself as a sick child...he says so all the time. He sees himself as a victim. He has lost his confidence...before this, he had so much confidence in his body..he was a daredevil....now he is scared to try much of anything athletic.
There are so many other aspects to his picture I just dont know where to start...things change all the time. I will try to use the questionaire as a guide
Joshua is caucasian , blond hair, very blue eyes,slender build,very beautiful face
1) I think you got a picture of the physical problems...to add...his color is terrible....pale face with greenish yellow in the face and sometimes a blue look...esp forehead. strabismus due to farsightedness. Loss of appetite currently still at 32 lbs (I have done my best to give him max calories and food and he cannot gain a pound!!) bloodwork revealed iron deficiency anemia (hg aprox 10) stool revealed candida, clostridia, klebsiella...diminished pancreatic enzyme activity resulting in poor digestion.
His stool activity is good...he poops 1-3 times per day, perfectly formed, nice color, large amounts. He sometimes has to poop right after a particularly painful episode. HIs thirst was enormous before the birth last year, now he is almost never thirsty. He is irritable often, currently argumentative, distrustful of my "doing right by him" worried about germs, poorly affected by strong smells, loud noises, fireworks, thunder, and untill his latest remedy-water as in pools,showers, and washing his hair (that seems better now)
He doesnt like to wear clothes, always naked at home, sleeps naked and kicks covers off. Body feels normal temp ...he gets cold easily though but wont get dressed. Wants me to cuddle him to warm him.
2) I think the displacement caused by his brother (sibling jealousy) caused this. He and I and his father were extremely close..I thought this would give him a good "foundation" in life...but I think he got used to it and assumed that this was how life would always be.
3) aggravated by eating, emotional upsets, riding in carseat, towards end of day, ingesting allergic foods, baby crying, strong smells, and to some degree when he want attention
what makes better? anything that takes his mind off it...sweets, yummy food, spotting something interesting out car window...cuddling him...these dont work when he is in extreme pain, but during the naseous stage only.
4) worse starting in afternoon progressing till bedtime around 8-9pm
5)??
6)doesnt like super hot temps indoors, nor cold air conditioning blowing on him, doesnt like thunder/lightning...otherwise seems fine in most weather...we live in temperate ocean setting so not many other weather to observe him in...before problems just loved the ocean..mad for it really...now he is more indiferent.
7)bad position is buckled into carseat
8) I guess now he tends to feel cool on outside, tho when having a reaction to food his heat races and his body gets hot...He prefers to be naked all the time...sometimes he will get sweaty at night upon falling alseep...this seems to come and go depending on the remedy he is taking.

going straight to food
He loves loves loves sweets. His diet is so restricted that I truly dont know what he craves, but for sure he loves sugar, esp chocolate...carbs, bread, cake, cookies, jams etc.
likes butter, milk..ok with meat..ham, chicken, pork, loves loves bacon and sausage.
used to (before illness) love veggies and beans...now claims to not want. he will eat eggs and fruit.
doesnt drink much..prefers sweet drinks..lately been asking for ice in drinks, tho he also asks for tea (made with hot water and a pau d'arco capusle and a few drops of stevia)made warm.

sleep...He falls asleep quickly. No sandifers in sleep. on some occasions he refluxes or tummy make loud sounds. sometimes falls alseep in fetal position...I find him often flat on back with head jutting back (like cpr position) probably due to esophagus pain...sometimes on belly, sometimes on forehead and knees...I think he has lots of different sleeping positions.

he is currently taking no meds...he got first cold at 1 1/2, maybe 3 colds per year since then...in this last 8 months he has had one cold (he was hypersensative about it, but it was not severe)
he is not really vaccinated, tho he had 2 HIB shots at 4 mos and 6 mos, and one tetanus only shot (not DP) at age two to which he reacted very badly (emotionally freaked out and cried for a week till a NAET treatment for tetanus vaccine)
he is completely freaked out now over doctors, ivs, hospitals, blood draws etc
gets phlemmy during eating sometimes...this freaks him out...no discharges

seems very sensitive to homeopathic remedies.......

family hist...mom fine health, dad good health (melanoma age 26) m.grandmother poor health(lots of digestive problems...crohns, celiac, ibs , etc emotions are trigger for her stomach issues) history on maternal side of major cancer, on paternal side of cancer, alcohol, heart problems, back disc problems.

birth-now......pregnancy, not so stressful, but I was not the happiest of people. Birth ok, but shoulder dystocia so kinda scary there. Cried a fair amount as babe, seemed"high needs" then mellowed when I cut out dairy. Breastfed till 3 1/2 (down to one nursing at night only by age 3) potty trained day by 2 1/2, night by 3.
HIs relationship with his dad is easier than that with me...we are very close, but in the past he used to push my buttons and I would lose it and yell at him...his only spanking came in the month after the birth of the baby...he was hurting the baby seriously and constantly. Only other thing was that he was part of a playgroup of kids since birth, and although very well liked by other kids, often got the brunt of physical stuff, including severe bites from another boy on many occasions..this seemed to traumatize him so I broke with this group.

Ok now on to his remedies. Ok when he was about 1 1/2 he did see a different homeopath who gave him sulphur 200c ...this did not resolve his dairy allergy, so she tried something else (calc sulph or something like that) didnt work
now currently starting in feb here were his remedies (his homeopath thought after initial intake (3 hour appt) that he would need just one remedy before his constitutional remedy which she believed to be carcinosin)
so he took cina200c as that initial remedy in feb...noticed returning of old behaviors right away..lots of little changes...he began to prove the remedy though and insessantly drill and bore his nose and pick his lips raw (something he had never done before) i think he had one 200c dose, then a week later began a 4lm potency daily for about 2 weeks.
Then I think we tried sulphur 200c. Thats when the amazing poops started. Before then he would poop every other day, not 2-3x per day. not really other changes tho./
Then carcinosin 200c....no effect
then argentum nitr. 1LM this put him into a tailspin, but took about 2 weeks to figure out that it was the remedy to blame..I only gave about 5 doses...everything got so much worse, esp emotionally....he wanted me or my husband to hold him for hours at a time....so homeopath prescribed phosphorus..we had 30x on hand at home so we started right away ...Amazing!! within 3 doses not only had the weird state that came about after the argent.nitr. gone away, but for 2 days I had my real joshua back!!!!...his old personality was back so strong I couldnt believe it! Even the neighbors noticed it. His physical symptoms were better, but not gone. His homepath presricibed phosphorus 200c. This seemed to cause a progressively worsening aggrevation, after a week he was so bad that he couldnt even open presents at his birthday party (he got sick from raw carrots and the smell of someones bbq) So the homeopath said that if phos were the exact remedy he would be getting progressively better after an initial worsening, so maybe there was one other remedy he needed before phos...so she consulted with 2 other homeopaths at an event, and they all came up with hyoscyanthis. He took this , 30c two weeks ago. I gave him 3 doses over three days (she left the dosing up to my discretion with a few guidelines) he had returning of old symtoms...this was the exact day that his appetite dissapeared again (after about 4 months of normal appetite-tho no weight gain)along with his thirst (btw, after taking the phos 30x he got his old thirst back, only to lose it when he took the hyoscyanthis.)
so he had all these negative things again, including aggression towards his brother, and I was hopeful that this was a healing crises or something, but they just got steadily worse. He came up with something new...a worry about germs and a sort of increase in the suspicious nature.
After 12 days of this, homeopath said she was concerned about the not eating, and prescribed pulsatilla30c (she said partly to treat the current state which seemed like pulsatilla, and partly because it was in a group of remedies she had her eye on (phos, pulsatilla, hyscyanthis, ignacia, nat mur (I think I got this last one right, just from memeory maybe it was something else)
I know she is really looking under the angle 'illness caused by jealousy..emotional betrayal etc)
So he takes the Pulsatilla yesterday, one dose today as well. HIs thirst comes back , but he is in pain all afternoon, then tonight after dinner, gets violently ill and projectile vomits.

I am at such a loss. I had my hopes bouyed by how well and dramatically he reacted on an emotional level to the phosphorus, then I put my hopes on the hyoscyanthis...there is just so much in that remedy that fits (or seems to in the reading that I had access to )
Now I am feeling hopeless. My homeopath is too, and she feels she may need to refer his case on since she is sort of stumped now.
Could anyone offer me any ideas, anything to explore, try , think about etc...anything at all?
It breaks my heart to see the kind of pain my son has had to live with for this year.

Thank you so much in advance
Lisa

HEllo Rupunzel,

On a quick read through, I have one query. IF he responded so well following an aggravation with Arg Nit, why was the remedy changed again? I think there has been too quick a change of remedies, many of them partial. Arg Nit seemed the only proper one from the type of response that followed.

I'll take a look a little later and see if I can think of other remedies suitable for you poor little boy, from the info your've provided. Others may make a few suggestions too.

BUt the main thing, I feel is good management in this case. A good choice of remedy as well as patience to watch the action through. HE certainly seems sensitive to remedies and that souhld be kept in mind.

I'm sure homeopathy will help him out. Don't lose hope.

All the best,
doctorleela

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In my humble opinion, if Phos. 30X worked so well, why not go back to it? Hahnemann says that the right remedy in too high a potency can be a disaster.

Why not put the phos. 30X in a bottle of water, give a sip once a day, shake the bottle before each use, adjust the dose according to his reaction to it. Always go back to what worked; and it's shocking to me that when something works in low potency, inevitably the homeopath wants to raise it. Let's hope that the 200C won't
spoil the 30X from ever working again, but I would give it a try.

Snoopy

In my more humbler than snoopy opinion(as I know nothing)it sure looks on the surface like it was phospherous.

My first thought in cases where the birth of a sibling seems to be the cause is always PUlsatilla so I was pleased to see it mentioned.
There was an obvious reaction to it -How did your homeopath interpret this ???

A lot of the choices were reasonable; I thought of Hyos. myself and was glad to see it was tried, but when a remedy is given and acts beautifully but isn't stuck with or is abandoned because the practitioner prescribes by habit instead of by the patient's response, then it behooves us to go back to that remedy, pick up the thread where it was dropped, and continue on.

If this fails, then we can go back to the drawing board.

Snoopy

Hey BAch, DOn't worry. You're agreeing with me. So Snoopy won't mind too much

Thanks for the extra info.
Nice to see different opinions, after my first humblest one!! And even nicer to see someone agree with me.

And Carol IS getting witty.

Doctorleela

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It looks as if the tetanus vaccination, does play a role in this boy's history. Rapunzel what is the meaning of NEAT treatment, please?

Does the child still have the fits of straitening up with his head thrown back? what was he doing with the mouth?

I hope the more learned and expirienced homeopaths on this forum will take this into consideration, and come up with the right remaedy.

Good luck!

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SHOSHY

Hello,
Thanks so much to all of you for your input;it is really appreciated.
Drleela, I read with interest your thoughts on the Arg Nit remedy. He did seem to react right away to this remedy in the 1LM potency, and the negative reaction continued for about 10-14 days (I have not been keeping a journal of any of this, and sometimes the details just run together for me)
The main neg reaction that I recall to this remedy was a heightened sensitivity to food (meaning he would be more likely to react to foods than otherwise and his reactions would be more severe and painful) and a strong emotional reaction. He would not tolerate being left alone in a room, he insisted I remain by him in the same room at all times. He would ask every few minutes for me to "give him love" meaning to give him a cuddle. After a few days he began to interupt his meals and insist on getting cuddles between bites of food, saying that he felt as if he would throw up if not cuddled. (btw, he had never talked exactly like this-word choice- or really acted like this before...or since the Phos was given at the end of these 10-14 days on arg nit)The cuddles turned into him wanting to sit on or lay on me (or dh) then progressed into wanting both of us present and cuddling him. He would weep and say he was sick etc if denied. The first few days we indulged him...we thought it would pass, and it seemed not to be such a big deal. But after almost 2 weeks of this, where it only built up and got more crazy...I mean, he seemed to want me to do nothing all day but hold him, we finally began to get irritated with him, and then called the homeopath. She felt that he should have turned a corner before then, and that were the remedy the correct fit, the aggrevation should not last so long.
Is that statement her subjective view of aggrevations or do you all share her opinion to some degree? (that in general or in his case 10 days is too long for it to be an aggrevation caused by the correct remedy?)
What does one do in this situation? redose? give a lower potency? (in this case he took 4 or 5 doses of 1LM) give a higher or different potency?
Her decision was to give the Phos, possibly as an antidote (I think someone else, bwv111? mentioned that too). I believe she then looked away from arg nit and toward something else, using his reaction to Phos as her platform.
I think at this point I gave her more info about him that made her look for remedies that had 'illness from jealousy' as a point. I told her that Joshua had a profile of his brain waves done by a naturopath that indicated to her " a bent toward ADD, Obsessive Compulsive and with the latter, intense jealousy. It was this naturopath that first highlighted the idea that perhaps it wasnnt the details surrounding the birth and first few weeks that pushed him over the edge, but the very prescence of the baby itself, the rival for his center of attention that had been the catalyst. As I said, at this point my homeopath began to examen Phos and a few others (Hyo, Nux vom,Ignacia) .
Snoopy, thank you for your thoughts...I read with interest your quote dealing with the importance of getting the potency right. I wish that it was more clear not only what remedy he needs, but also which potency. I only was able to get back online late tonight...had I read what was written in response to my OP perhaps I would have altered something...in the end I gave Joshua one dose of Phos 30x. I have been unable to reach his homeopath all week. So I dont have the benefit of her input on what to make of the Pulsatilla.
Thanks happitt415 for your response. Yes, he did seem to have some type of response to Puls.
His thirst did come back for a day or two , and he did seem to aggrevate that night. However I cant say that I noticed much of anything the rest of this week. He is still eating poorly and not gaining weight, reacting to most of what he eats with pain and discomfort,ghostly pale and basically breaking my heart with how things just dont seem better that they were 8 months ago (different, but not really improved) His emotions are unchanged...variable, changeable, still fairly dour and pessamistic, timid in some ways...actually as if he were strained or winced in pain. I'm speaking of his personality here, like his whole character has been winced and drawn thin from suffering, so here and there a bubble of life emerges through, a smile or silly joke or a whoop of exitement. But then that emotion flickers away and he is back to his sort of 'weight of the world' projection.
So to answer your question more directly happitt415, his homeopath and I have been playing phone tag (she was on vacation) so I dont know what her reaction to the Puls would be.
Tonight I gave him the Phos because his apetite is so minimal and he got sick from everthing he ate today. My thought was, maybe he'll do great right afterwards like last time
I found your comments, bwv111, very interesting to read and ponder. Your thoughts on his inherent weaknesses being masked by some stronger aspects of his spirit were really perceptive I thought. It helps me see things from a different angle.
He had always been an intense child...intensely happy, almost giddy and unrestrained usually, but flashes of fury and infuriating behavior as well. It is easy to get caught up in how much he has changed for the worse, and forget that there were aspect of him before all this that would have benefited from some support or amelioration.
You raised some good questions about his food allergies and what he is fed, along with some excellent dietary recommendations.
His diet and allergy situation is so complex that it would take forever to lay it all out.
He basically had a really healthy diet his whole life...no candy,junk food, fast food, he was vegetarian for his first 2 years. He only began having dairy after the age of two, after NAET allergy treatments,and then only organic dairy most of the time.
During this year of him being sick, we have tried every dietary modification you can imagine,...strict anti candida diet, celiac diet etc...for the last few months he only eats organic, no sugar, and rarely any dairy (but he does eat lots of eggs)...nothing processed or packaged. I make all his food from scratch, including baking him wheat free bread or muffins each morning. When you ask why I would feed him something he is allergic to, well, at some point or another he has had his burning pain in the tummy and chest reaction to every single food, including pure water. Its just so unpredictable...some days he reacts to the food item in question, other days he doesnt. Some foods he reacts to so consistantly that I never bother (wheat, oats, rice.salmon..)other foods we cut out for a few months but at some point we have to give it a try. His diet is so restricted now that he refuses vegetables, doesnt care for meat, reacts to lots of friuts ....it doesnt leave much to work with . Add to this that I am suposed to be rotating his foods and not repeating anything for 4 days...aarrg! The fact that he lost so much weight and cant seem to gain it back worries me so much and prompts me to want to try feeding him things that he seems keen on.
I am intrigued by your advice to cut out eggs...anything specific or just that they can be such a strong allergen? He eats eggs almost daily.
Recently he has had cheese or yoghurt about 2x per week. He has been drinking distilled water for about 3 months now.
He has the strongest sweet tooth ever...he even wants stevia in his water. But his strongest craving is for chocolate. It rules him, It is the #1 love in his life, the driving force (can you blame him?LOL)
another oddity to mention...about 6 months ago a naturopath gave us a bottle of pure calcium made from crushed coral. This was to give him when he had an acid attack to neutralize the acid. Well he got addicted to the stuff like it was a drug, and not just for the neutralzing effect. It was the taste and smell (like dirt) he craved. All you had to do was put one grain in his mouth. He would beg and plead and even tantrum for this. We weaned him off the stuff earlier this summer, but as of about a month ago he is back on . He asks to smell his coral about 2-4 times and hour, if he gets a bad food reaction he wants some placed on his tongue. We cannot leave the house without the stuff. Since he thinks it smells like dirt, the other day he put some dirt in a baby food jar and carried that around , sniffing it and even tasting it (he said it was delicious). He says this makes him feel better.
I am very interested in your advice re: resuming the arg nit. Do you have any gut feeling or opinion on what potency you would lean towards? How long could an agravation last? Was some of the healing accomplished during the time he took it a few weeks ago? Do you think that it might take a short time (weeks) to achieve a cure with the correct remedy and potency/dosage or a long time (1-2 years)? I am curious to know your personal opinion (and others reading this as well) to this?
Please feel free to ask me anything else that could give you more info on this, I would be happy to answer any questions.
Thanks so much
Lisa

Dear Rapunzel, and everybody:

The idea that this 4 y.o. boy was “the picture of health” for his first three years is incorrect. Although he was vibrant and happy and has obviously suffered a severe setback in his well-being, nevertheless, many symptoms were present prior to the birth of his brother:

Crossing of eyes (once in a while)

Cried a fair amount as babe, seemed “high needs” then mellowed when I cut out dairy.

…we are very close, but in the past he used to push my buttons and I would lose it and yell at him…

…he was part of a playgroup of kids since birth, and although very well liked by other kids, often got the brunt of physical stuff, including severe bites from another boy…

…food allergies…

My guess is that more symptoms would be revealed by continued dialogue as mom has presented here in her excellent history, or by a detailed evaluation by a professional trained to observe behavioral, emotional, and—importantly—psychosomatic characteristics. Note that he pushed mom’s buttons and, apparently, also pushed the buttons of his peers, pointing to some social adjustment problems. I don’t mean to be alarmist in these statements, only to point to some areas of relative weakness in a strong-sounding personality. Questions of personality and emotional adjustment are especially sensitive topics, difficult to address in any case, but especially, I feel, in the so impersonal forum of the internet, but they bear examination as much as allergies and eyeglasses, and should be looked at with the same kind of “clinical” detachment, as much as possible.

This interpretation shifts the emphasis from the birth of a sibling toward evaluation of predisposing factors. The birth of the sibling may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back, but the real problem was that there were significant weaknesses in the camel’s back to begin with. This can be stated with great confidence, as we have benefit of hindsight here. Beforehand, this child’s numerous strengths would easily have masked his problems. My guess is that sooner or later, some problems would have emerged as new developmental challenges were faced, even had he not had such a reaction to the sibling birth.

As we are looking for correct “remedies,” I have to suggest that the first correct remedy in this case was the removal of dairy products during infancy. It is not unusual to see this pattern, that parents remove dairy products from their child’s diet, witness improvement, then later reintroduce the same products back into the child’s diet. Why would anyone do this? If we already know the substance was harmful to the child, that his adjustment and well-being improved when the substance was removed, why go back to it? The main reason, I think, is that it is a part of the “invisible” cultural set, the range of environmental artifacts the culture considers normal; to stick to a restricted diet like this is extremely difficult, requiring one to swim against the strong current of virtually unanimous popular and medical opinion.

Long and short: eliminate all dairy from his diet, meaning milk and eggs and everything made with them. At 4 years old, you will never have as easy a time accomplishing this feat, for when he’s older, he’ll resist and undermine. Beyond this, introduce fresh, uncooked, whole foods such as fruit, lots of it, and filtered water. A lot of people think of watermelon, for example, as a kind of dessert, to be indulged in only after the “heartier” fare. I’d drastically reverse this. Any time he wants it, give him whatever fruit he likes. Everything else, even a steak, is a processed food: cook it and it’s processed, bam.

Note that many symptoms pre- and post-sibling are of a psychosomatic nature, induced by stress, and related it seems to foods, mucousy (dairy) or otherwise: phlemmy during eating sometimes; poor digestion (is there something wrong with his body—disease?—or is his body trying to reject things that it finds noxious? I hold with the latter); poop after … painful episode; aggravated by eating, emotional upsets, riding in carseat (claustrophobia, feeling hemmed in or vulnerable or helpless?). Aggravated by eating allergic foods—again, why would you feed him foods to which you already know he’s allergic?

It is possible, perhaps even likely, that many of his problems will improve with the relatively simple modification of eliminating dairy products. Eliminate other allergic foods, and more progress will possibly follow. Then, eliminate sugar, food colorings, and the like, and start buying expensive organic foods, and still more progress will follow. Such is not always the case, but in your son’s situation, he seems already to be identified as someone who has reacted well to removal of a food group, so that suggests further efforts in that direction could be beneficial also. One can make a career of pursuing “healthful” alternatives in diet and lifestyle—do as much as is practically possible, or more than that if your child’s well-being demands it.

Remedy selection: Such changes have the added benefit of providing a cleaner field for the action of homeopathic remedies. I am not at a point of fully repertorizing homeopathic remedies, but I have to say that Arg Nit sounds good to me. I am guessing that his reaction to it in the first place was an aggravation of the similimum, and that the improvement that followed phos reflected the possibility that the phos antidoted the Arg N, bringing the aggravation to a close and leaving a healthy state, the amelioration produced by Arg n. The stress reactions, including the physical reactions of your son, point to Arg N, if I am reading the MM correctly.

Already I'm disagreeing with Snoopy. Suddenly my shirt collar feels like its tightening around my neck!

Bach

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