Kim's list of foods

[Guest guest]

Kim,

Please copy me on your list of foods. I am not sure if the request

that I emailed earlier made it to you. I received a notice that my

email to you bounced. Thanks!!

Gale

> Digital clubbing (fingers and/or toes) can be a symptom of lung

> disease or liver disease.

>

> The screwy thing is, some people with CF who have really bad lungs,

> say they don't have finger clubbing. And some people with CF who

> appear much healthier, do have clubbing.

>

> My son's fingers started clubbing around second grade. His fingers

and

> toes are clubbed, but he's in good health.

>

> At the end of January 2002, he started taking MSM

> (methlysulphonylmethane) which is a pure grade sulfur source. In

less

> than two months, I noticed improvement in his finger clubbing and

his

> nailbed color was pretty pink again.

>

> Sulfur is one dietary component low in people with CF. Estelle

Nash,

> an Australian naturopath, pretty much " cured " her children's CF

with a

> specific diet she created.

>

> When I looked over her list of recommended foods, I noticed the

diet

> was high in Omega 3 essential fatty acids, sulfur, and the

flavonoid

> quercitin.

>

> So after my son got back that crappy sputum culture showing

> aspergillus and S. maltophilia, he started taking magnesium, MSM

and

> inhaling tea tree oil -- and eating a high sulfur diet (brussel

> sprouts at least three times a week, lots of garlic, broccoli) and

> more salmon and cranberry juice.

>

> I'm currently revising the info that will go on a supplement page

Bev

> is building on the pharmacy web site, but if anyone is interested

in

> the list of foods, let me know and I'll send it out this weekend,

or

> if there is great demand, I'll just post it to the group.

>

> Kim