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Tuesday March 24, 2009

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 ASK LENA HEALTH Q & A EDITION!
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Today's question is one that happened regularly in the years I worked in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine offices, yet I haven't had the question presented in a few years. I suspect some would think it's a small thing and not one that holds an alternative treatment. Take time to read it and commit it to memory as it also applies to treating adult chronic diarrhea or preventing salmonella problems.

The answers to questions submitted to me each week come from my 20+ years as a Medical Office Nurse along with many years and ongoing education in nutritional and alternative treatment modes. Add that to many years of friendship with Dr. Wayne Garland, a very knowledgeable naturopath and herbologist, who many years ago, beat his cancer death sentence given by the traditional medical world, has helped along the alternatives path and hopefully help to give hope to those who need it... Also receiving a lot of study reports and try to ascertain if they are good or bad then report them to you, which has increased my knowledge along the way and I pass them on to you to use or not...

I am not a doctor or dentist and you should not think of me as one!! My years observing life and health of the many people/patients around me and the contradictions of the traditional medical world's idea of treating - prescription domino effect - while watching those same schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but creating far more health problems than they help. Those same medical professionals aren't telling people how to get healthy or how to prevent illness, which led me to look for something to change that premise for myself and those around me. In looking outside the Westernized medical profession I found and continue to find alternatives that really work to create health and longevity - when adhered to - beyond anything the traditional medical world can do...

Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but in  addition to... Even though I daily watch people become healthy with the information imparted here nothing works 100% of the time for 100% of people...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude as well! 

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Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena

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QUESTION:
 
Lena I'm hoping you have a solution for me! My 3 year old daughter had an ear infection a couple of months ago and was given antibiotics and the ear is fine now, but she has had runny diarrhea ever since and I've had her back to the doctor a few times. She put her on a BRAT diet weeks ago and she keeps insinuating that I am feeding her something to cause the diarrhea. I truly have stuck to the BRAT diet even though she cries and begs for other foods.  I am frantic what can I do to help her?
 
June
 
ANSWER:
 
I emailed this mother immediately, as I always do, and the problem was solved within hours. I think the answer needs to be published since this happens so often! Is also a question that hasn't been present to me for a few years but I know it happens regularly and think you might want to know how to combat chronic diarrhea!
 
For those who do not know what the BRAT diet is; name stands for the first initials of the foods to be eaten -- bananas, rice, applesauce or apple juice and toast.  This diet is dangerous if continued more than 24 hours and should never go on so long because it prevents the child's body from getting badly needed minerals and nutrients to strengthen the immune system and nourish the body, which only aggravates the problem!
 
Just pray she doesn't come down with something else as antibiotics kill the immune system while killing other bacteria and opens the body up for any other virus, bacteria or fungus that they come in contact with and until it is repaired leaves the body open to other illnesses.
 
This same problem is happening all over the country simply because pediatricians and General Practitioners do not know anything else to do. I ran across this same problem multiple times in the offices I worked in and gave the following information to the patients, hence the beginning of the nickname Dr. Lena by patients and parents.
 
First to understand why medication induced Diarrhea happens!
 
When ingesting an antibiotic the stomach and intestinal system's fighters were killed. By that I mean the natural (good) bacteria or flora that is absolutely necessary for health is decimated.  This creates chronic diarrhea as the stomach and intestines are unable to digest or handle anything put into it. Read Your Ecosystem Article to understand that. Chronic diarrhea can be corrected in most instances by simply repairing and replacing that stomach's Digestive Enzymes and the Intestines ecosystem good bacterial balance.  This decimated stomach and intestinal tract also allows candida/yeast to overgrow (good bacteria that is harder to kill than the other 399 good bacteria and bad if too much exists) and take over the digestive tract leading to severe and long term problems if ALL NATURAL FLORA/BACTERIA are not balanced out to kill the candida overgrowth.
 
Treating Your Daughter will require;

First, STOP the BRAT diet immediately! 
 
Second; give the child 8 ounces of Acidophilus Milk, found in the dairy section of most grocery stores - this milk is even tolerated by those with a lactose intolerance - or Chewable ProBiotic Tablets, some health food stores have chewable probiotic/digestive enzymes, if you are lucky. She will find relief within 2 to 24 hours and can eat what she would like but don't let her gorge herself or she will have a very painful stomach.

Third; First and second steps will not completely solve the problem as the digestive tract must be treated to repair the damage done from the long term diarrhea. When chronic diarrhea continues the lining of the stomach becomes inflamed and in some instances weakened to the point of leaking into the body. In order to repair that damage Dr. Garland has put together a chewable for kids that has the minerals, vitamins, digestive enzymes and probiotics that can be taken until the child is old enough to convert to adult doses of supplements, usually somewhere between ten to twelve years of age. He calls them Kids Mins. I have not seen anything like them at the health foods stores I've been in but you can check around and see if there is something equivalent to them.
 
Antibiotics should only be considered in the most dire situations. For my grandchildren's ear problems my daughters or daughters-in-law simply drop two or three drops of silver water in the affected ear three times for one day and give them 3 Teaspoons of ionic silver water twice a day for one day.  One of grandson's came to me for the summer with a severe ear infection and a bottle of medication and drops his doctor has prescribed. Of course I threw them away and got out the silver water and had him as good as new by the next day... Ionic Silver Water does not kill natural intestinal flora and actually strengthens the immune system. This has always taken care of their ear infections and does not effect their ecosystems!
 
Advice to be remembers as it happens so often!
Lena
 

The American Gastroenterological Association estimates- in 2008 - that well over 100,000 hospitalizations per year are attributed to adverse gastrointestinal events linked to long-term use of aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. About 15 percent of those patients die – approximately 16,500 deaths per year.

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MOTIVATOR
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LOVING LIFE AGAIN

Dave was struggling through a bus station with two huge and obviously heavy suitcases when a stranger walked up to him and asked, "Have you got the time?"

Dave sighed, put down the large and cumbersome suitcases and spoke to his wristwatch. "Time please."

"The time is five thirty," came a voice somewhere in the timepiece.

"Wow! What a watch!" exclaimed the stranger.

Dave brightened a little. "Yeah, it's not bad. Check this out. The time in Japanese, please." The watch responded in Japanese. Then Dave asked for German and Swahili and a realistic voice gave the time in those languages. And then, "What time is it in London," Dave asked, "with a British accent?" The device gave it to him.

The stranger was incredulous. "Watch this," said Dave. "Home monitor," he said to the wrist-watch. Immediately a 3-dimensional hologram projected in the space between the two men that perfectly displayed his living room. He could even see a half inch of coffee in the bottom of a cup he'd left on the table earlier in the day.

"Unbelievable!" said the stranger.

Then Dave spoke to the device. "Leave a voice message for Sharon that the bus is late and send flowers to my sister for her birthday. And give me the 5 O'clock news."

"Done, done and done," the voice confirmed. Suddenly a high-resolution hologram screen appeared in front of Dave. The two men felt as if they were sitting in the television studio watching the newscast.

The stranger was struck dumb with admiration. The display was of unbelievably high quality and the voice was simply astounding.

"Now, look at this -- `wedding photos'" Dave said the timepiece. Photos of his recent wedding appeared in front of them as if they were floating on air. "And play Bach," he said, and music filled the space as the wedding album scrolled.

"This timepiece is a super powerful voice-activated computer. In addition, it is in contact with most of the world's major satellites. And it is also a two-way radio that reaches halfway around the globe."

"I want to buy that watch!" said the stranger.

"Oh no, it's not ready for sale yet; I'm still working out the bugs," said Dave.

"I've got to have that watch!" said the stranger.

"No, you don't understand; it's not ready?."

"I'll give you $10,000 for it!" interrupted the stranger.

"Oh, no, I've already spent more than?."

"Then make it $20,000!" the stranger blurted. "Or just name your price."

"But it's just that?."

The stranger pulled out a fat wallet. "All right -- $50,000. I'll give you the cash now."

Dave blinked. He could always make another device and $50,000 would give him a nice profit.

The stranger thrust the money at Dave. "Here, take it! I have to catch my bus."

Dave made his decision. "Okay," he said, and took off the timepiece.

The stranger smiled and hurried away. "Hey, wait a minute!" called Dave.

The man turned back warily. Dave pointed to the two suitcases he'd been trying to wrestle through the bus station and said, "Don't forget your batteries."

I think life is like that for some people. What should be wonderful and exciting is complicated and burdensome. It is as if they are dragging heavy baggage wherever they go. They feel tied down (to a job? to a lifestyle? to a relationship?) and long for simpler times.

Many people wish their lives were less complicated. They remember a carefree time and dream of returning to a simpler day. They yearn for more freedom. Less worry and more laughter. If only they could trade some of today's complexity for yesterday's simplicity.

American essayist and novelist Charles Dudley Warner said, "Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."

Rudyard Kipling yearned for less when he said, "Teach us to delight in simple things."

Author Augustus Hare observed that "the greatest truths are the simplest -- and so are the greatest men."

Maybe it's time to make a decision for greatness; a decision for simplicity. Maybe it's time to let go of that which weighs you down and walk with a lighter step. Maybe it's time to love life again.

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Steve Goodier Publisher@LifeSupportSystem.com  is a professional speaker, consultant and author of numerous books. Visit his site for more information, or to sign up for his FREE newsletter of Life, Love and Laughter at http://LifeSupportSystem.com

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