Noah's Skin and the Benefits of Homeopathy
CAUTION!!!!! THIS BLOG POST CONTAINS GRAPHIC BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES OF NOAH'S SKIN. PLEASE DON'T LOOK AT THESE IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH. THEY ARE VERY GRAPHIC.
I've been debating about whether or not to do this blog post for some time now. Part of me thought what's the point? Showing all the pictures of how Noah's skin used to be? It's really graphic and I didn't want it to come across as too gratuitous.
The other part of me thought that maybe someone battling this would find this post and it might help them. But then they'd want me to explain homeopathy and how it works and I really don't do it justice. Everytime someone asks me about it I end up sounding like a bumbling idiot and people leave more skeptical than they were in the beginning. Also, I would hate to feel responsible if someone stopped using Western medicine just based on this post. And what if homeopathy didn't work for their child?
Was it the homeopathy that healed Noah's skin? Or was it God using homeopathy to heal Noah's skin? Will it work for everyone?
Here's the background. When we adopted Noah he had little raised bumps/lesions on his skin. Just a few. But his medicals from the orphanage showed a history of lesions and rashes all over his body. At 15 months of age, after Noah suffered a reaction to the DPT shot, the lesions went away. They stayed gone for nearly 3 years until we started doing natural chelation and a detox regime for Noah's autism.
Personally, I believe that Noah's immune system became suppressed and when we started chelating, all the whatever-it-was-that-caused-the-lesions-in-the-first-place came out in full force. I truly believe in the saying that there is no symptom without a cause. So something had caused those lesions and they went away after his DPT and came back when we started detoxing his body. This is not based on scientific medical fact, just my intuition as Noah's mom. And if you're a mom, then you know to trust your intuition because you're normally right. Right?
I must also mention that we had also just moved in with my parents, too, and they lived down the street from a large cement plant - one of the most toxic in the country. I mean, just google " Midlothian, TX and toxins" and you'll see what I mean. We were practically sitting in its backyard.
Anyway, he started developing lesions again and they spread like wildfire all over his body. It was horrible. He was in constant agony - and NOTHING seemed to help. We took him to several specialists who all just said it was ezcema and to use steroid cream on him. Of course, none of the specialists bothered to tell us that repeated use of the steroid cream would weaken his skin and cause more damage. No. It took a week's stay in the hospital to find that out.
The point is that we tried everything short of voodoo to get it under control and nothing worked. Eventually his entire body became infected with impetigo and the constant scratching resulted in boils forming on his body... which was later diagnosed as MRSA Staph.
About this time, we started trying homeopathy. I had learned about it ages ago, but thought it was hokey-pokey stuff and never tried it. At this point, though, Noah literally looked like a mummy. His school -rightfully so - refused to let him go unless his sores were bandaged. Well, when you have sores all over your body, you end up wrapped up in bandages. We had nothing to lose, so we turned to a homeopath that I had happened to sit next to on a bus trip a few years back.... and the rest is history.
Take a look at the before and afters and see the results for yourself....
This went on for 18 MONTHS! Finally, after 2 local quack homeopaths, I called Dr. Ullman (the one that I sat next to on a bus trip)in Washington State and he prescribed homeopathic sulphur for Noah. It took about 3 or 4 weeks for Noah's skin to get noticeably better and this is what his skin looks like today....
Isn't that amazing??!! Praise God!
We actually don't even use the sulphur much at all anymore. Maybe once or twice a month. We have to be really careful with his skin, so we rub him down with pure olive oil 2-3 times a day. Sometimes we alternate it with almond oil. Coconut oil would have been ideal because it also has antimicrobial properties but he seems to have a reaction to it and it makes him break out.
He's probably stinkier than most kids because we only bathe him once or twice a week. Actually, he takes showers and I get him in and out in about 2 minutes flat. We were using California Baby liquid soap, but now we just use the generic plain Johnson's Baby brand. A lot of the natural soaps contain coconut oil, so we have to be really careful.
Summers are the worst because he does swim lessons and it causes his skin to flare up. It's a choice we made, though, because swimming is his passion. We just make extra sure to give him his sulphur in the summertime.
As you can see in the after pics, he has a bit of scarring on the back of his knees. His knees still get rough - probably his knee and elbow are the areas we still battle. But instead of being a 10, it's more like a 2 now, you know?
Anyway, I'm not at all against Western medicine. In fact, I down so much Alleve for my period cramps that I'm surprised the company hasn't asked me to be their spokesperson...
And I still give the kids dye-free Motrin when they're sick. So I can't say that we're 100% homeopathy, but I've seen with my own eyes what it can do... and now you've seen it, too.
Since I won't do it any justice by trying to explain it, I'm just going to direct you to our homeopath's website. He's awesome!! He gives a lot of info on his site that would be good for people just starting out.
www.healtyhomeopathy.com
All three kids are on it - although each has a different remedy. Nandi hasn't used it in awhile, but it really did help with some of her more extreme behaviors after the adoption. It really helped Eli, too, but then I antidoted it by rubbing some peppermint oil on him. He just started taking it again last week after a 3 month abscence. It'll be interesting to find out if his behavior therapist notices a difference....
Of course I'm not going to tell her what it is. She already thinks I'm a bit nutso. LOL.
So anyway, I hope this helps some of you who are dealing with the same thing. Truly, I was such a skeptic in the beginning. In this case, I had to see it to believe it.
And I believe it.
I've been debating about whether or not to do this blog post for some time now. Part of me thought what's the point? Showing all the pictures of how Noah's skin used to be? It's really graphic and I didn't want it to come across as too gratuitous.
The other part of me thought that maybe someone battling this would find this post and it might help them. But then they'd want me to explain homeopathy and how it works and I really don't do it justice. Everytime someone asks me about it I end up sounding like a bumbling idiot and people leave more skeptical than they were in the beginning. Also, I would hate to feel responsible if someone stopped using Western medicine just based on this post. And what if homeopathy didn't work for their child?
Was it the homeopathy that healed Noah's skin? Or was it God using homeopathy to heal Noah's skin? Will it work for everyone?
Here's the background. When we adopted Noah he had little raised bumps/lesions on his skin. Just a few. But his medicals from the orphanage showed a history of lesions and rashes all over his body. At 15 months of age, after Noah suffered a reaction to the DPT shot, the lesions went away. They stayed gone for nearly 3 years until we started doing natural chelation and a detox regime for Noah's autism.
Personally, I believe that Noah's immune system became suppressed and when we started chelating, all the whatever-it-was-that-caused-the-lesions-in-the-first-place came out in full force. I truly believe in the saying that there is no symptom without a cause. So something had caused those lesions and they went away after his DPT and came back when we started detoxing his body. This is not based on scientific medical fact, just my intuition as Noah's mom. And if you're a mom, then you know to trust your intuition because you're normally right. Right?
I must also mention that we had also just moved in with my parents, too, and they lived down the street from a large cement plant - one of the most toxic in the country. I mean, just google " Midlothian, TX and toxins" and you'll see what I mean. We were practically sitting in its backyard.
Anyway, he started developing lesions again and they spread like wildfire all over his body. It was horrible. He was in constant agony - and NOTHING seemed to help. We took him to several specialists who all just said it was ezcema and to use steroid cream on him. Of course, none of the specialists bothered to tell us that repeated use of the steroid cream would weaken his skin and cause more damage. No. It took a week's stay in the hospital to find that out.
The point is that we tried everything short of voodoo to get it under control and nothing worked. Eventually his entire body became infected with impetigo and the constant scratching resulted in boils forming on his body... which was later diagnosed as MRSA Staph.
About this time, we started trying homeopathy. I had learned about it ages ago, but thought it was hokey-pokey stuff and never tried it. At this point, though, Noah literally looked like a mummy. His school -rightfully so - refused to let him go unless his sores were bandaged. Well, when you have sores all over your body, you end up wrapped up in bandages. We had nothing to lose, so we turned to a homeopath that I had happened to sit next to on a bus trip a few years back.... and the rest is history.
Take a look at the before and afters and see the results for yourself....
This went on for 18 MONTHS! Finally, after 2 local quack homeopaths, I called Dr. Ullman (the one that I sat next to on a bus trip)in Washington State and he prescribed homeopathic sulphur for Noah. It took about 3 or 4 weeks for Noah's skin to get noticeably better and this is what his skin looks like today....
Isn't that amazing??!! Praise God!
We actually don't even use the sulphur much at all anymore. Maybe once or twice a month. We have to be really careful with his skin, so we rub him down with pure olive oil 2-3 times a day. Sometimes we alternate it with almond oil. Coconut oil would have been ideal because it also has antimicrobial properties but he seems to have a reaction to it and it makes him break out.
He's probably stinkier than most kids because we only bathe him once or twice a week. Actually, he takes showers and I get him in and out in about 2 minutes flat. We were using California Baby liquid soap, but now we just use the generic plain Johnson's Baby brand. A lot of the natural soaps contain coconut oil, so we have to be really careful.
Summers are the worst because he does swim lessons and it causes his skin to flare up. It's a choice we made, though, because swimming is his passion. We just make extra sure to give him his sulphur in the summertime.
As you can see in the after pics, he has a bit of scarring on the back of his knees. His knees still get rough - probably his knee and elbow are the areas we still battle. But instead of being a 10, it's more like a 2 now, you know?
Anyway, I'm not at all against Western medicine. In fact, I down so much Alleve for my period cramps that I'm surprised the company hasn't asked me to be their spokesperson...
And I still give the kids dye-free Motrin when they're sick. So I can't say that we're 100% homeopathy, but I've seen with my own eyes what it can do... and now you've seen it, too.
Since I won't do it any justice by trying to explain it, I'm just going to direct you to our homeopath's website. He's awesome!! He gives a lot of info on his site that would be good for people just starting out.
www.healtyhomeopathy.com
All three kids are on it - although each has a different remedy. Nandi hasn't used it in awhile, but it really did help with some of her more extreme behaviors after the adoption. It really helped Eli, too, but then I antidoted it by rubbing some peppermint oil on him. He just started taking it again last week after a 3 month abscence. It'll be interesting to find out if his behavior therapist notices a difference....
Of course I'm not going to tell her what it is. She already thinks I'm a bit nutso. LOL.
So anyway, I hope this helps some of you who are dealing with the same thing. Truly, I was such a skeptic in the beginning. In this case, I had to see it to believe it.
And I believe it.
Comments
He must have been miserable.
Thanks for sharing. I'm sure it will help someone.
heh. The secret comment word is "treatoid" because you shared a treatment. heh.
Blessings,
Sandwich, who had a glass or two of wine and is staying up to late and so is really amused by the secret comment word. I'm sure it won't be funny in the daylight.
My two other kids are on constitutional remedies in pellet form and only take another dose when/if the original behaviors return.
Thanks for pointing that out!
Leslie
Melissa
Wow! That is amazing! I am so glad that you were able to find some relief for that sweet boy!Way to go with those Mama insticts.
Leveta