Update on appointments 4 & 5

Ok, so clearing Audree's allergies is not as easy as it has been for most people and is going to take a little more work than we hoped. I mentioned the results of our egg challenge to the gal and she said it was rare to need to go as far as we are with egg, but it's still very doable. She had one case before that is similar to Audrees, but I think her problem was with milk. It ended up being a combination of grass and milk... of course cows eat grass!

Instead of trying to figure out the eggs right now.. or milk... she said the best thing to do is strengthen Audree's immune system first and then go back and check the foods. Today we did treatments for vitamin B complex and vitamin C. Next week will probably be sugars and iron. She said by the way things are going, Audree's system appears to be very sensitive.

We may not be able to have that special birthday cake for her this year that I was really hoping for as her birthday is in a month, but I will be counting on it for next year!

No eggs :-(

Just an update..... We challenged eggs this last weekend and they failed again. A little frustrating, but now I have more questions. We'll see how her appointments on Friday go.

Appointments #2

We ended up with 2 appointments this morning instead of just one. Audree was rechecked to see if being cleared for eggs held and it did! However we brought up the fact that her skin broke out when we touched them to her face, but had no problems when we put it on her tongue. So she checked eggs with skin and eggs with all her organs, especially her digestive tract. Her organs were fine at accepting the eggs, but skin was another story. So she did a combination treatment and did inflammation/skin/eggs. Sounds weird, I know, but it's how they do it. I am to re-challenge eggs this weekend, same as before, scrambled eggs on her skin and her tongue, if all looks good, since Audree has never seen an egg before and will most likely push it away, I'll make some cookies or other baked good with eggs in it instead of an egg replacer. I'm excited to try it!

Half an hour later we went in and had her rechecked to see if the egg treatment held, and of course it did. The 2nd round is calcium...in this round we are working on clearing her dairy allergy. Hallelujah! This is the one that always scares me the most for her to be around. It might take more than one visit as eggs did, but it might not. We'll see... I'm not going to challenge this one on my own though... I will most likely wait until her blood tests are done in a couple weeks as anaphlyaxis is nothing to mess around with.

First NAET appointment

We had our first appointment today. She did some basic muscle testing through use of a "surrogate"... me. She only tested a few things to start with...very basic nutrients- egg, vitamin c, calcium, B complex and sugars.. but they all came up as problematic. Instead of treating the individual foods, they start with nutrients and work from there since that usually clears up the food problems. Then if the foods are still problems, they work on the individual foods. What the tests showed was that Audree has problems absorbing and digesting these nutrients. There are many, many more, and they start off by treating 10 basic nutrients, but these were just what she worked with today.

Egg is self explanatory--- vitamin c - this could be her problem with strawberries----calcium- dairy of course, oats, etc--- B Vitamin complex- grains (wheat, rye, barley, oat), soy-----sugar is self explanatory also.

Today she worked on clearing Audree's egg allergy...now it could take more than one treatment as her last blood test indicated she could be in the anaphylactic range with eggs or there could be a nutrient in eggs that she has problems with. I attempted to give her some scrambled eggs during dinner... of course my picky 2yr old wouldn't put it in her mouth since eggs are totally foreign to her, she's never had them. I put some on her skin, then tried to at least get it on her tongue. She had a slight outward reaction, her skin got a little red and swelled at the site, but her tongue did not. That appeared promising.

We'll see what happens... we are going back for another appointment on Friday and I will mention this to her. I'll give it a fair shot and see how her actual blood test goes at the beginning of November when we see the allergist again. If the blood test proves that her allergies are being eliminated and lessened, we'll keep going. I would love to make a birthday cake with wheat and eggs this year! :-)

If you're curious about NAET.. here's a website that explains what heppens. Sounds totally weird... I know....but I've heard wonderful success stories. :0) http://cherokeethc.com/naet.html