steroids Archives - Maria Rickert Hong

Maria Rickert Hong May 26, 2013

WHAT WORKS FOR POISON IVY?

I was outside gardening today, pulling out strings of poison ivy vines, and I thought about how I had a nasty rash of poison ivy a few years ago.

It was all over me, and it was spreading. I was also going through a very stressful time dealing with my son’s worsening Sensory Processing Disorder, and I believe the stress was making it worse. [Read more…]

Filed Under: GENERAL, HEALTH TOPICS, IMMUNE DYSREGULATION, RASHES, STRESS Tagged: homeopathy, poison ivy, rash, sensory processing disorder, steroids

Maria Rickert Hong May 6, 2013

HOW MY SON’S SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER CAUSED MY SEVERE HEALTH DECLINE

tired woman Having a son with a developmental delay was very hard on me. He didn’t walk until he was 20 months old.

This was extremely hard for me because he didn’t walk until 3 weeks before his little brother was born, and I was having to carry him everywhere.

I suppose the bright side is that he didn’t weigh a whole lot, given that he was also a failure-to-thrive baby. [Read more…]

Filed Under: ADRENAL FATIGUE, DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS, ENDOCRINE ISSUES, GENERAL, HEALTH TOPICS, HORMONAL ISSUES, IMMUNE DYSREGULATION, INFERTILITY, INSOMNIA, IRREGULAR CYCLES, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, OVARIAN CYSTS, RASHES, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SINUS INFECTIONS, STRESS, UTERINE FIBROIDS, YEAST INFECTIONS Tagged: "A Compromised Generation", Beth Lambert, Candida infections, developmental delay, failure to thrive, insomnia, menstrual cycles, middle of the night insomnia, ovarian cyst, perimenopause, sensory processing disorder, Shingles, sinus infections, steroids, uterine fibroid, yeast infection

Maria Rickert Hong May 3, 2013

REMOVAL OF ALLERGENIC FOODS HELPS ASTHMA AND ACID REFLUX

toddler with inhaler My older son got sick a lot, especially after he started preschool when he was 3.

He would go to preschool for a week then be out the whole next week because he was sick; the preschool didn’t want kids coming in who were sneezing and coughing.

Constant Sickness Turned to Asthma

When he was 4 years old, he had a severe asthmatic episode after we went to Los Angeles to visit my husband’s family. [Read more…]

Filed Under: ACID REFLUX (GERD), ADHD, ALLERGIES, ASTHMA, AUTISM / PDD-NOS, AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS, DIGESTIVE ISSUES, ECZEMA, HEALTH TOPICS, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS Tagged: acid reflux, ADHD, Albuterol, allopathic medicine, asthma, autism, B12 deficiency, dairy allergy, eczema, food allergies, food intolerances, food sensitivities, inflammation, nebulizer, neurological damage, pediatric allergist, prednisolone, Prevacid, proton pump inhibitor, skin prick test, steroids, Western medicine, Xoponex

Maria Rickert Hong March 18, 2013

HEALING ECZEMA WITH THE GAPS DIET

My sons have had eczema their whole lives. It has ranged from cradle cap (did you know that was a form of eczema?) to itchy bumps in the creases of the knees and elbows to full-blown bloody red rashes on the arms and legs.

Pediatricians, as usual (sorry!), were useless in treating eczema. Their standard advice was to “put a little cortisone cream on it”. I did try that a few times at first with my older son, but I quickly grew worried about the effects of it on his already-poor immune system. [Read more…]

Filed Under: ADHD, ALLERGIES, ASTHMA, AUTISM / PDD-NOS, AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS, CANDIDA, DEPRESSION, DIGESTIVE ISSUES, ECZEMA, FERMENTED FOODS, FOOD AND NUTRITION, GUT DYSBIOSIS, GUT-HEALING DIETS, HEALTH TOPICS, LYME DISEASE, LYME DISEASE, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, SCHIZOPHRENIA, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, TOXINS Tagged: acid reflux, ADHD, allergies, anxiety, asthma, autism, autoimmune diseases, Candida, chronic ear infections, clostridium, constipation, cradle cap, depression, diarrhea, eczema, GAPS, Lyme infections, OCD, other pathogenic bacteria, parasites, SCD, schizophrenia, sensory processing disorder, SPD, Specific Carbohydrate Diet, steroids, strep, viruses

Maria Rickert Hong November 11, 2012

HOW MY SON’S SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER LED TO MY SEVERE HEALTH DECLINE

Having a son with a developmental delay was very hard on me. He didn’t walk until he was 20 months old. This was extremely hard for me because he didn’t walk until 3 weeks before his little brother was born, and I was having to carry him everywhere.

I suppose the bright side is that he didn’t weigh a whole lot, given that he was also a failure-to-thrive baby.

His sensory processing disorder turned him into a barnacle. I felt as if he were permanently physically attached to me. It wasn’t so bad when he was younger, but after his brother was born, it was extremely difficult to deal with two small, crying children at the same time, who both wanted to be picked up and held at the same time.

And then when our nanny left to have her own baby when my older son had just turned 3, his sensory processing and anxiety went full tilt. He was used to having someone always there immediately to meet his needs; now he had to share me with his baby brother. [Read more…]

Filed Under: ADRENAL FATIGUE, ALLERGIES, ASTHMA, AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS, CANDIDA, DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS, DIGESTIVE ISSUES, EAR INFECTIONS, ECZEMA, ENDOCRINE ISSUES, FERMENTED FOODS, FOOD AND NUTRITION, GENERAL, GUT DYSBIOSIS, GUT-HEALING DIETS, HEALTH TOPICS, HORMONAL ISSUES, IMMUNE DYSREGULATION, INSOMNIA, IRREGULAR CYCLES, LEAKY GUT, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES, PHARMACEUTICALS, PROBIOTICS, RASHES, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SINUS INFECTIONS, TOXINS, YEAST INFECTIONS Tagged: "A Compromised Generation", adrenal fatigue, allergies, Ambien, Ann Louise Gittleman, asthma, Beth Lambert, bio-identical hormones, Body Ecology Diet, Candida, constant sickness, Donna Gates, Dr. Carolyn Dean, Dr. John Lee, Dr. William G. Crook, ear infections, eczema, Epidemic Answers, fermented foods, gut dysbiosis, gut-healing diets, homeopathy, hormonal issues, immune dysregulation, insomnia, irregular cycles, kefir, kimchi, kombucha, leaky gut, magnesium, naturopath, neti pot, nutritional deficiencies, perimenopause, poison ivy, probiotics, progesterone, rashes, sauerkraut, sensory processing disorder, Shingles, sinus infections, steroids, triclosan, yeast infections, yeast overgrowth, Zoloft

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