Acid Trip

So JJ began throwing up again. I am pretty sure he is sensitive/allergic to corn. He is now totally on the new formula - Neocate Jr. The specialist said corn would be the only thing he could show a reaction to in it. Once we took him off it, his runny nose went away immediately. As soon as we gave it back to him, the runny nose came back.

He is now throwing up sardines - which he was able to eat fine before. He is also doing that cough which means "I am allergic to this" with apples. He is also throwing up raisins - violently so, even going into dry heaves which turn JJ red in the face from the force of them. Poor baby.

SO I have removed corn from his diet, along with raisins and grapes, as well as apples and pears (my 3 daughter had that cough whenever she ate apples and pears and would actually throw them up - but now she can eat them just fine - we are removing pears from JJ's diet as a precautionary measure.

I must admit that it is hard to deal with all this. Especially when he gets fussy. We can't let him cry, because he throws up and that makes him not gain weight. And especially now that he is not on any formula (I am not sure what the doctors will say about this), I cannot afford for him to lose any weight. I am hoping that I can get him to THRIVE and gain weight WELL (even HEIGHT) on what we are doing as our own intervention. It will give me some leverage with the doctors, especially when they find out he is not on formula.

So what are we doing instead of formula? Green smoothies. 60% fruit 40% greens. Then I add coconut oil (an anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-viral) and flax seeds. He gets about 4 cups of this throughout the day. I started this yesterday. I also give him Vruit (the fruit/veggie juice the specialist recommended) juice two to three times a day. And he also gets one or two drinks of hemp milk or coconut water with hemp oil. To this I add apple cider vinegar (more on that in a minute), a liquid calcium/magnesium supplement, and PB8 (one of the best pro-biotics on the market), also started yesterday.

I am thinking of adding more apple cider vinegar to his diet (probably in his Vruit juice). I was talking to a dear friend who was talking about how an acidic body can cause the body to have allergies (among several other things) and apple cider vinegar causes the body to be neutral. Green smoothies also help the body go from acidic to alkaline.

I had been testing his saliva and he was always an 8. I thought that was a good thing, but it turns out it is not. That body can be too alkaline. BUT, I had not tested his urine. She suggested that his urine might be very acid since his saliva was so alkaline. We theorized that the high alkaline saliva was probably the body's way of trying to correct an acidic body. So I tested his urine.

4.8!!! YIKES!!! VERY acidic!

I have the book Alkalize or Die by Dr. Theodore A. Barody, but have never read it. So now I have a reason to. :) It turns out I am also very acidic (just from reading the symptoms of an over acidic body). So this will be a journey my WHOLE FAMILY goes on.

Here is a video about green smoothies from the lady who wrote the book on them! I discovered Victoria Boutenko when we first started learning about my daughter and her allergy to gluten and dairy. We did a lot of raw foods, and still do. I will say though, she looks TONS healthier now than she did when she had been on just raw foods for several years. She is looking good! I need to get back on the green smoothie wagon myself.