Pregnancy presents many food & eating challenges for most women.  This class will provide recipes for healthy, nutritious & high protein meals as well as address common pregnancy topics such as morning sickness, foods to avoid while pregnant & why!

Fortinos Community Room
2515 Appleby Line, Burlington, ON L7R 3X4

Wednesday May 29th  - 7:30-9:30pm
FREE but you must register @ info@naturalcareclinic.ca

We were out to dinner with my mom and my husband and I hummed and hawed because she just wasn’t that sick at the time, finally we decided that if Baby A had strep then we had better get on top of it before some real sickness happened. So my husband took our 2 year old home to bed and I went to the walk-in, where my little girl with a little cough, got a lot sicker waiting in the waiting room. I was glad to have come.

The doctor said fever, ear infection and bronchitis and sent us home with advice to continue breast feeding. So now, I had a really sick baby and no drugs.

I called my sister, cause she’s a naturopath and I just needed a plan. No answer, so I just sat and developed a plan and decided to pretend she wasn’t my kid that was screaming in pain unless she was firmly attached my boob.

We did warming socks. These are weird but work. I put a pair of sock in cool water, wrung them out and put them on the baby and put on her sleeper. Warming socks engage the immune system and stimulate the body to get going and start the fighting the cold. Don’t worry, the socks warm up. You can put castor oil on the bottom of the feet or vicks and speed up the process, but the socks warm right away and dry very quickly, leaving the body with more energy to fight a cold. No idea how it works, it just does.

I gave her 2 different kinds of probiotic, human strains, and just a finger full that she sucked off my hand

I squirted a saline nasal spray up her nose and decided I would do that 5 times a day.

I gave her belladonna homeopathic for the fever,

I gave her Traumeel ear drops….which were like magic. I woke in the middle of the night to her crying and a bad fever. It took me a very long time to realize she only had a fever on one side of her face……her ear ache! So I dropped these Traumeel ear drops in to her ears and I kid you not, the fever/ear heat was gone in 10 seconds.  I did that 5 times the next day. When I asked my sister Sonya, also a naturopath about this magical reaction, she said it was amazing for some kids and didn’t work at all for others. I was just happy my baby was in the camp that Traumeel worked for.

I put ear oil in her ears from St. Francis.  Olive oil and garlic, oregano and mullein. My baby A basically smelled like a warm pizza. Just olive oil would do the trick too.  It brought all the wax out and she didn’t mind.

I put the ear oil on Baby A’s chest and back and overtop put castor oil and vicks. You can’t be too heavy handed on the super bad smelling things when we are trying to fight bronchitis.

We nebulized her with glutathione for 1-5 minutes 3 to 5 times a day. We have a nebulizer at home which is like a humidifier that you can put medication in and attach a mask. I use sterile water or saline water and glutathione. Glutathione breaks up mucous and kills viral infections. Amazing for chest infections. It has a nasty smell and kids hate it. It breaks up the mucous and really helps for those deep awful wet cough.  It worked for my dry awful cough too, but this is about the baby. If I didn’t have the nebulizer, I would have just sat in the bathroom with the shower on and steamed her so the mucous could break down more easily.

The glutathione did make her spit up mucous, but better out than in for my little girl.

We went through a variation of all these things every couple of hours during the night. My goodness the nights are awful. I felt good just doing something, even if it did nothing.

By the morning, her fever had broken and the cough wasn’t as bad. She was much much happier. We continued to put nasty stuff on her chest, in her ears, up her nose and just rested and napped for the next 2 days.

It felt good to be doing something. Some of the things we did really worked for Baby A, Hope this helps when you are in the middle of the night. None of the things I have mentioned are unsafe and can be used in smaller infants. Good luck!

Carissa Doherty

Natural Care Clinic

• Feeling tired and wired
• Difficulty sleeping
• Anxiety

• Fatigue particularly in the morning and after lunch
• Increases  susceptibility to infection
• Blood pressure issues
• Low libido
• Low blood sugar
• Depression
• Mental fog

• Vitamin C as it is needed in a much higher concentration in the adrenal glands
• B vitamins are necessary fuel for the adrenal glands.
• Magnesium is my new favourite mineral
• Zinc
• Iron but only if directed through blood testing. Unnecessary iron supplementation is dangerous.

One if the authors is Dr. Richard Deth, neuropharmacologist studying The Molecular Origins of Human Attention.

This macroepigenetic study may begin to numbers why the number of children receiving services for autism increases 91% between 2005 and 2010.

Never-Before-Seen-Evidence points to genetically engineered foods as a major contributor to rising disease rates in the US population, especially among children. Gastrointestinal disorders, allergies, inflammatory diseases, and infertility are just some of the problems implicated in humans, pets, livestock, and lab animals that eat genetically modified soybeans and corn.

Diet that is gluten free and dairy free because of the inflammatory nature of these foods. Wheat Belly by William Davis and The Devil is in the Milk by Keith Woodford explains why. Food that are inflammatory increase demand for the baby. When we eat foods that are organic and have less inflammation, we can optimize development in utero (while pregnant).

Methlycobalamin (Methyl-B12) 30mg a day. A good company is AOR. 2 a day of the ultra methlycobalamin. This recommendation provides a co-factor in the conversion of folic acid to the most active form folate. 40% of us are methyl deficient and this puts the fetus at risk for developmental delays.

Methly folate. 1000mcg-5000mcg. Good companies are Douglas with it’s Methyl folate L-5-MTHF or Metagenics with it’s FolaPro. This is a more active form of folic acid. Not everyone will be able to use folic acid and we know it is essential for fetal developemnt. When taking this before conception and during pregnancy, there is less risk for anemia and better use of folic acid which is essential for fetal developement.

Probiotics are good bacteria needed to support the immune system. Studies show that good bacteria strains in the human bowel can be predictive for future obesity, cardiovascular and immune system issues. Human strains of probiotics are Cytomatrix, Seroyal, Natren and Metagenics. 1-2 a day are recommended for immune system and digestion regulation.

Fish oil. Most Canadians are deficient in omega 3 essential fatty acids Maternal fish oil supplementation has been shown to increase infant IQ, increase developement, decrease immune system issues such as allergies, eczema and asthma. Recommended brands include Nutra Sea, Douglas, Nordic Naturals, Genestra, and Minami. DHA should be a minimum of 1200mg.

The 3rd part of the series http://www.insidehalton.com/community/health/article/1532141–unlocking-autism-mystery-with-diet-programs

The 4th part of the series http://www.insidehalton.com/community/burlington/article/1536537

The 3rd part of the series http://www.insidehalton.com/community/health/article/1532141–unlocking-autism-mystery-with-diet-programs

The 4th part of the series http://www.insidehalton.com/community/burlington/article/1536537

Biomedical treatment of autism spectrum disorder and AD/HD takes a functional approach to treatment.  Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) includes what is referred to as classical autism, regressive autism, Asperger’s syndrome and PDD-NOS.  To simplify, I will refer to these developmental disorders as ASD or autism.  I realize that these disorders present differently but as you read through the different sections, it is important to understand that the chemistry and physiology of developmental issues is very similar.

Functional medicine treats the individual by assessing underlying impairments in each person’s system.  Biomedical treatment includes thorough assessment through medical history, family history, review of systems and laboratory testing.

Benefits of treatment include:

• Enhancement in receptive, expressive and spontaneous language development
• Increase in vocabulary, language complexity and appropriate use of language
• Increased social awarenesss, interaction and appropriate play
• Cognition, understanding and learning
• Eye contact and responsiveness
• Normalized behaviours and interaction including self-stimulating, self-injurious, tics and aggression
• Understanding and feeling emotions, affection or increased tolerance to touch

Biomedical treatment addersses physical complaints such as:

• Chronic diarrhea or constipation
• Sleep disturbances
• Eczema and rashes
• Behaviour (self-stimulating , tics, aggression and self-injurious)
• Frequent illness or immune dysregulation

Individualized treatment for autism and ADHD is not only based on the most recent research, it is based on ground breaking research that is changing the way developmental delay is perceived by the medical community.  Mounting evidence, for example, is showing that ASD, like other developmental disorders, is biological in nature.

The long held belief that autism is a mental health issue is being challenged based on physical findings such as immune dysregulation, elevated heavy metal and/or toxic load, inflammation, enzyme dysfunction, dysbiosis or microbe imbalance in the gut, nutrient deficiencies and altered neurotransmitter biochemistry (chemicals that regulate brain function).

While biomedical treatment is not considered mainstream treatment for ASD and other developmental issues, thousands of children have benefited dramatically.  I have seen tremendous success in the over 200 children that I have treated on the autism spectrum.  Biomedical treatment does not help every child but it has the potential to help t he majority of children with ASD, ADHD, OCD, Tourrette Syndrome (TS), LDs and many other developmental issues.

For more information about biomedical treatment of ASD and AD/HD, visit www.treatautism.ca