Guest guest Posted January 9, 2003 Report Share Posted January 9, 2003 Dr recommended canned peach juice ( from a lite can of peaches) if I could not get the kids to drink pedialyte when they were small. It worked... Oz water is supposed to work well also. D stomach flu Hello everyone, My son, (4 years old, moderate autism), has the stomach flu tonight. He has vomited and had diarrhea several times. Is there anything specific you would recommend to replace nutrients, etc. (such as a probiotic) lost in his digestive system due to being sick? He currently takes enzymes Houstoni AFT, Zyme, and No Phenol) after being on a gluten/casein free diet (been off the diet for several months - moderate success with enzymes). Thank you, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2003 Report Share Posted January 9, 2003 straight juice from a freshly squeezed lemon is good as well. what i notice with flu's is that the stomach flora gets messed up but you have to be careful giving supplements with viral illness cause you don't want to feed the virus, i think some of the symptoms are the body shhutting down supplies to the virus like raising body temp to cut of iron metabbolism... this makes me wonder about children asd children with immune impairement and viral illness.... if it were as simple as chelation and maybe for some it is... vitamin a ,d i feel a lot more knowledge is needed on anti viral immune system reinforcement. > Dr recommended canned peach juice ( from a lite can of peaches) if I could not get the kids to drink pedialyte when they were small. It worked... > Oz water is supposed to work well also. > D > > stomach flu > > > Hello everyone, > > My son, (4 years old, moderate autism), has the stomach flu tonight. > He has vomited and had diarrhea several times. Is there anything > specific you would recommend to replace nutrients, etc. (such as a > probiotic) lost in his digestive system due to being sick? He > currently takes enzymes Houstoni AFT, Zyme, and No Phenol) after > being on a gluten/casein free diet (been off the diet for several > months - moderate success with enzymes). > > Thank you, > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2003 Report Share Posted January 11, 2003 If he is throwing up, you may want to stop the Peptizyde or reduce it just so the proteases are not lingering in the esophagus. But drinking water or anything will wash them down. If Pediasure doesn't work, try some Gatorade because that also contains needed electrolytes and minerals. Hope he is better now and this message isn't even needed. Maybe next time. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 > It seems we have a case of the stomach flu circulating in our > house. I had the flu a few months ago. Olive leaf extract worked very well. > Since we think this is a stomach virus, should I continue to give > him the culturelle? Will this help to move the virus along > quicker? I don't know if it will help, but I don't think it would hurt. Viral " die off " causes yeast at my house, so it might help. >>Should I give enzymes between meals (without food) to help > move this along? Peptizyde can help. Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 Kathy, Sounds like something that sucks. Here are some options that come to mind: a) COMPLETE TONIC with an echinacea tincture. If you have no complete tonic available(it's easy to make) then eat 8 to 18 cloves of GARLIC throughout the day and again echinacea support if that's available. Garlic is nature's antibiotic, also called russian penicillin. ONIONS get used similiarly, the dose of onion juice is 1 tsp at least 2x per day but I'ld do it more often if I was in a mess depending on your size and constitution. If there's echinacea available use that too. Send hubby to the health food store for some good echinacea tincture. Use it with any of these other options. c) If the tummy hurts have you tried a strong MINT infusion? Remember to make it strong by steeping 1 tsp/cup with a cover on for a long time, more than 20 minutes and two hours isn't too long. If the mint is in teabags use 2-3 teabags per cup. Drink 3 cups/day. We all ought to have a little patch of mint growing next to our house. d) If you have GOLDENROD available (it's coming into bloom in the northeast), a strong infusion of the tea is awesome for tummy troubles. Use the flowers. e) SLIPPERY ELM tea would help. It's better done as a cold infusion overnight and both COMFREY and MARSHMALLOW root would work similiarly but if you need it make it up normal as a tea and take a dose while waiting for your cold infusion to weather. Simmered in milk any one of those 3 works good too. My preference of the three would be the slippery elm. Don't take the comfrey internally for weeks on end unless you know exactly what you are doing. F) ASTRINGENTS can help, got any raspberry or blackberry plants or sumac available (NOT poison sumac!)? Make tea from the leaves, bark, or root bark. Those are listed in the order of increasing strength. If you are too sick to go out you could use normal black tea, make it super strong such as 2 to 3 teabags/cup and steep for a half hour or so. Not my first choice for a treatment but if nothing else is available go with it. Take 3x/day of the strong infusion to cut down on the diarhea.. g) PEOPLE PASTE: Mix one part each of slippery elm, cayenne, and myrhh. Take as tea or even as a capsule 3x/day. Works on a lot of different things like this. This would be my first choice for what you describe. H) CINNAMON: Simmer some cinnamon in milk and take with a little honey. This would help with the diarhea immensely. I haven't tested this one out on myself but Tierra recommends it highly. If you try it let us know how it works. I'm not sure what herbs you have available in your area but there are some options. Most of us have onions, garlic, and cayenne and a good treatment could come from those. Slippery elm is worth picking up from the health food store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 --- In health , " Kat " <vanokat@m...> wrote: > > Thank you for your reply I am still pretty sick here. > I am trying some of your suggestions. > Kathy > >Kathy, Try some epsom salt baths or ginger baths... to sweat out the toxins also. Suzi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 > I don't know about using Virastop with the flu. Maybe > others have opinions on that. At the FIRST sign of illness, I give my kids [or take myself] Virastop, and the illness vanishes. For the stomach flu, which we all had about two months ago, we could not keep anything down for a day, but the next day I gave Virastop and we felt 99% better. Great stuff! Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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