Natural Ways to Proactively Fight Off Your Child’s Ear Infection
Over 35% of all visits to the pediatrician are a result of an ear infection. Antibiotics are usually the treatment of choice, but more and more parents now understand the benefits of natural remedies. These natural approaches also happen to be the safest. Most infections are not even a threat to your child’s well-being. Developing a strong immune system for your child is a key component in making sure an infection does not occur.
Does your child have allergies?
Food allergies are a common problem in children, and often time are overlooked. In his book, “Childhood Ear Infections,” Dr. Schmidt presents over sixteen scientific studies that present many chronic ear infections are actually due to food or airborne allergies or hypersensitivity reactions. Eliminating the allergen allows the infection to go away on its own.
Cow’s milk and other dairy products are the number one allergen implicated in an ear infection. Other allergy prone foods include wheat, eggs, chocolate, citrus, corn, soy, peanuts, nuts, shellfish, sugar, and yeast. An elimination or rotation diet is an effective way to determine if a specific food is affecting your child.
Why is nutrition so important to ear infection prevention?
Nutritional deficiency is a major cause of an ear infection. We truly are what we eat. We can improve our health by eating more nutritious food and eliminating foods that contain high amounts of sugar, hydrogenated oils, and empty calories.
An organic, unprocessed, whole foods diet is essential for creating healthy cells and is a key factor in maintaining a vibrant immune system. Dietary fats can either enhance or impair our immune function, depending on what type of fat you eat. The incorrect types of fat can predispose a child to recurrent infections and inflammatory conditions. Bad fats include potato chips, hydrogenated oils, fried foods, processed and saturated fats.
Essential fatty acids promote normal immune and nervous system function. These fatty acids are found in extra virgin olive oil, cold water fish, flax seed oil, walnuts, almonds, and free range eggs. A recent study found that the U.S. has the highest incidence of essential fatty acid deficiency in the developed world. If our children were simply supplemented with a daily dose of essential fatty acids, our children would be far less sick.
What do you do if your child has an ear infection in the future?
An impaired nerve supply can make a child’s ears and eustachian tubes susceptible to fluid buildup or infection. Restoring proper nerve supply with safe and natural chiropractic care has helped thousands of children proactively fight off any ear infections, or keep a second one from returning.
An ear infection contains fluid that accumulates behind the ear drum. A structural blockage may be the cause of the chronic infection. The correction given by a chiropractor is a gentle movement to the bones of the head and neck. This allows for drainage of the fluid to be released from the ear drum.
Giving medication to block or suppress any illness can push the illness further into the body. Check your children for food allergies, maintain their healthy immune system with a natural, nutritional diet, and proactively seek chiropractic care so your child can be free from an ear infection.
Dr Joseph Fanning is a Chiropractor in North Fulton, Atlanta, GA. Helping health-conscious Suwanee/Johns Creek-area patients with today’s safe and natural chiropractic care is not only emotionally fulfilling, but also humbling. Seeing folks get better, each visit building on one the ones before is immensely gratifying! As a chiropractor, I get to witness miracles every day. Dr. Fanning has a large family practice that focuses on the vitality of a properly functioning nervous system for all ages. Emphasis is placed upon diet, rest, exercise, and eliminating physical, chemical and emotional stress. Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/natural-ways-to-proactively-fight-off-your-childs-ear-infection-1786266.html
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