Children's Health & Inflammation Revealed: The Hidden Food Reactions that feed Childhood Inflammation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798188672997)

Some children are never quite well.

Not sick enough, most of the time, to frighten anyone. Just a child who always seems to have something. Skin that flares and settles and flares again. Stomach aches on school mornings. One ear infection after another. A nose that never fully clears. Poor sleep, and the short temper that follows.

You have been handed these problems one at a time. A cream for the skin, an antibiotic for the ear, a laxative for the constipation, a note home from school. Each was treated on its own. At no point did anyone stand back and ask whether they might be the same problem, showing up in different places.

This book is written on the idea that they often are.

Underneath a great many childhood conditions is a single process: inflammation. That much is not controversial, because the medicines used to treat them say so plainly. What is rarely asked is the next question. Inflammation is a response. Something sets it off. So what is your child reacting to?

There are only a few possible answers, and one of them can be found, removed, and tested: food. Not the only cause, and not the answer for every child. But for many children, a hidden, delayed food reaction feeds the inflammation behind their scattered conditions, and it is the one contributor a family can investigate directly, with the right guidance.

Inside, written for parents by a naturopathic doctor with more than twenty-five years in practice, you will find:

• Why the same class of anti-inflammatory medicine treats eczema, asthma, swollen adenoids, gut trouble and swollen joints, and what that tells you
• Why delayed food reactions are almost impossible to catch on your own, and why the culprit is so often a food everyone calls healthy
• Why cutting out dairy or gluten for two weeks often changes nothing, even when food is involved
• How the same reaction can appear as colic in infancy, eczema and ear infections in the toddler years, and stomach aches or poor sleep later on
• Why a blood test can point but never prove, and why removal and return is what actually answers the question

This is not a diet, a meal plan, or a set of rules. It is an explanation of why your child's troubles may be connected, and a clear-eyed account of how strong the evidence behind each claim really is, sorted so you can weigh it for yourself. Every claim that cuts against the argument is named, not hidden.

If you have ever felt that your child's separate diagnoses might be one story that nobody has connected, this book was written for you.

Dr. Scott Woodworth, BSc, ND - ImmuneND.com