Alternative Medicine

This morning I noticed that my one-year-old son was breathing normally and without congestion.

Zack has been congested since birth basically. I’ve taken him to the doctor probably 4 times over his single year of life and he’s been prescribed 3 allergy medications. At $25 co-pays and $60 per prescription his congestion was getting costly.

I also had a problem with doping him up on 3 different allergy medicines at the same time. The nurse assured me that many, many children were on tons more medicine than he is so it was no big deal. Still, I take allergy medicine and I know they can mess with your mood and have icky side effects. Like pseudoephedrine always makes my heart race and I loath that stuff. With him being a baby he couldn’t tell me about any of the lousy side effects.

Also, none of the medications were working. His pediatrician said if they weren’t working we might as well stop giving them to him.

The likely culprit is mold, she said. We have it under the house, in the walls and under the carpet from a previous leak.

Her advice: MOVE quickly because the poor child has a right to breath.

Well, that’s a great idea and we’re working on it.

In the meantime, my friend told me about this massage therapist who did this weird lymph node thing to her when she had a sinus infection. Weird, she said, but effective.

So, I looked the massage therapist up and stopped by one day for “lymph node massage therapy.” She gave my baby this little massage around his neck and shoulders and sinuses and on his fingers and toes and ears. It took about 15 minutes and cost a mere $10.

The next few weeks I sucked and sucked and sucked mucus and drainage out of his nostrils and throat with a bulb syringe.

Now, he can totally breathe. It’s such a sweet non-sound.

I’m thinking about taking him back preventatively. At least until we move to a mold-free house.

Just goes to show you, sometimes, when the MDs are confounded and have run through their meds and examinations and you find yourself exactly where you were when you started – the “quacks” might just have some groovy voodoo that actually works and costs pennies.