Son with sinusitis and ear discharge...

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Hello -- we've been trying to deal with this for about 2 months now.

I'm starting to think that it's stress exacerbating a small seasonal

allergy problem, as my son is a very intense young man and has never,

even as a baby, handled transitions well. He's 17 and will be

starting university in February, and that's his greatest worry now.

 

His symptoms - the sinus congestion is deep in his sinus cavity, and

switches from side to side, but predominates on the left. He's had a

little bit of watering from the left eye in recent days, but he's

also been doing nasal lavage twice a day, and I'm thinking that has

helped cause that. He has had on and off discharge from both ears,

but again predominately on the left. It is a clear discharge, and

tends to crust up at the opening of his ears. I know ear discharge

can be linked with the liver, so that is one of the things we have

supported in trying to treat this.

 

What we've tried so far and results: chiropractic adjustments on his

neck have given instant relief, but it was all blocked up within 24

hours. Cranio sacral treatment helped somewhat, and for longer, but

it went back to being very congested within a week. Cayenne pepper

in water 2-3 times a day gives him some quick relief but doesn't last

more than 15 minutes. Nasal spray (the chemical kind that works

instantly) worked for a couple of weeks when it was really keeping

him from sleep, but he and we didn't want him to continue that much

longer than a couple of weeks. He's taking eyebright on the

recommendation of a medical herbalist but it does not appear to be

having any affect after 10 days' use so far, he has used kali bich

with no results, he takes mega doses of Vit C (8K mg/day) also on

the advice of the medical herbalist, b complex, and a liver support

complex. GP just wants to give him antibiotics and steroids, neither

of which he wants to take (he's never had to use either and would

like to keep it that way). He eats a very healthy diet, little

sugary foods, drinks raw goats' milk, does eat meat, but it's all

home-produced with no chems or hormones, big eater of fruits and

vegetables and we all eat very little wheat. It is seasonal allergy

season here in the Southern Hemiphere, but he has never had a

reaction such as this, and even when we got in the hay a couple of

weeks ago, he was having no reaction to it.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm really beginning to

worry about this turning into a bad sinus infection, and also worry

about the affect it has been having on his sleep.

 

 

 

Andrea

NZ

[Guest guest]

please  try saline- nazal douche 2-3  times per day---- drink  or eat

fenugreek-either tea or spouts and changre all bedding -including pillow and

nightwear  to smoothe cotton-check out shampoo and conditioner-perhaps

reaction   use a anaturAL SOAP-    dust clean house and bedroom

 

 

 

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i think some doctors dont give sudafed for ear infections.  it helps.  it

dries the fluid in the ears.

 

--- On Thu, 1/7/10, cheryl bullock <cooee.shari wrote:

 

 

cheryl bullock <cooee.shari

Re: Son with sinusitis and ear discharge...

 

Thursday, January 7, 2010, 7:27 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

please  try saline- nazal douche 2-3  times per day---- drink  or eat

fenugreek-either tea or spouts and changre all bedding -including pillow and

nightwear  to smoothe cotton-check out shampoo and conditioner- perhaps

reaction   use a anaturAL SOAP-    dust clean house and bedroom

 

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[Guest guest]

Thanks, Cheryl -- he's already doing the nasal lavage 2x/day, already

wears all natural fibers (all the time), bedding is cotton flannel, he

hasn't used shampoo or conditioner in over 2 years, and the handsoap

we use, is a natural goat's milk soap (made by an acquaintance, so I

know what's in it). We're all really puzzled by this. We are seeing

a naturopath next week, because it's gone on far too long, and he's

getting stressed because he can't breathe properly (and he starts

university full time next month, so he really wants it to go away by

then).

 

Cheers

Andrea

NZ

 

 

On 8/01/2010, at 1:27 AM, cheryl bullock wrote:

 

> please try saline- nazal douche 2-3 times per day---- drink or

> eat fenugreek-either tea or spouts and changre all bedding -

> including pillow and nightwear to smoothe cotton-check out shampoo

> and conditioner-perhaps reaction use a anaturAL SOAP- dust

> clean house and bedroom

>

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> See what's on at the movies in your area. Find out now:

http://au.movies./session-times/

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