Health and Healing Blog

We are seeing a dramatic increase in the severity of the food allergies in our pediatric patients. We have children that are showing up at our office covered in rashes and/or hives. These are of course the more extreme examples of how food allergies present. Parents need to know that your child does not have to be covered in a rash to have a food issue. Most children actually have more chronic problems like stomach aches, ear infections, eczema, headaches, runny noses, etc.  A wonderful book we highly recommend for any parent who has an allergy child is “The Unhealthy Truth”. Great book that does a truly wonderful job of educating people on this dramatic increase in food allergies and sensitivities (not only our children but also in the adult population).

We are seeing an alarming number of children with some very troubling symptoms; hives, rashes, GERD, headaches, stomach pain, etc. Children should not have these issues, they are not normal nor are they a benign part of childhood. Symptoms are the bodies way of telling us that something is wrong. We are encouraging parents to get their children tested while school is out. This is the best gift you could ever give your child.

Candida testing can be done with either stool or blood.