How my day went...

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Hi Group,

I have a son who has asthma from mold exposure in our house. We went

to a doctor who used sporanox and was on it for six months and once

spring hit the asthma came back and we reluctantly went back on

steriods(pulmicort) and singulair. Around Thanksgiving when outdoor

spore counts dropped off we went off those drugs again and he is doing

very well, his eczema is even for the most part gone.

I had made an appointment with the Allergy Center in LaCrosse WI

because of a person I talked to near where I live who worked in a

moldy radio station and is reactive to many things and has asthma.

She said the antigen drops changed her life and highly recommended we

go too. I posted to the board here and had mixed replies. The most

positive reply sounded very much like the local person I spoke to,

most of the negative replies were about antigen shots that what is

done with drops in LaCrosse. The local person told me they put her on

sporanox and an antifungal nose spray. I made the appointment with

them, they are up front on costs and the costs are very reasonable

which also includes a lung capacity test which my son has not had in

almost two years(his first was above average for his age while on

Advair). If sporanox needs to be given more than six months to work,

they would be much closer to me and much much cheaper than where I

went before. I even downloaded the tests to take along from

moldwarriors.com to see if they are open to or familiar with

Dr.Schaller and Dr.Shoemaker's methods.

Every night my son gets Quercetin with psyllium husks(to act like

CSM?) and cod liver oil and a transfer factor children's multi-vitamin

with two meals. Our small school has had the flu big time, many kids

have been throwing up, but my three have avoided it so far. We do not

eat junk food at home. That is not to say they get plenty in school,

especially during this holiday season. My son alwayed seemed to get

sick around the holidays and I did convince my wife that maybe all the

sugar was somehow related, but I can not control the school very

much.

We were suppose to go to LaCrosse today but the school called and my

son did not feel good. This morning he had a few dots on his skin, I

thought it was molloscum back again(had it last year) and sent him.

We found out that a kid in my older son's grade is home sick with

chicken pox, I called LaCrosse and they do not want him to come with

chicken pox and when the school called I went to the local doctor and

sure enough that is what it was. I had to cancel.

I still am gun shy to spend the money on seeing Dr.Shoemaker. I see

on moldwarriors.com he says he has many doctors in the US that use his

methods of treatment. Last spring they would not give names out,

maybe that has changed I am going to call or write back. If I can get

the tests done closer to home, then go it would be a better route. I

also see he is about to publish a paper on pediatric mold illness with

inflammatory links to autoimmunity.

I would sign a waiver since they had problems with patient complaints

over some of his earlier doctors given. Just to get the tests done

and have Dr.Shoemaker read the results would see if this is what my

son needs.

My son's IgM IgG and IgA levels were very high and did go down after

the sporanox, but his reactivity to mold is still very high, maybe

antigen drops would help him. He seems to do well in winter when

spore counts are very low.

Maybe we could put Dr.Shoemaker protocol doctors in the database

here. Just sounding out ideas.

Thanks,

Fletch