One way Stomach bug

After my previous post that i may be sharing remedies on my blog my Dad, who gets my posts delivered to his e-mail account made sure to reply; "That's weird!" He would be one of the Nay-sayers I was chatting about! Love ya dad even if you think I am weird! If you don't care about the content of this 'Natural remedy' post in particular please just delete! :o)

Recently my family suffered from a bought of some sort of stomach virus. It effected only 3 out of the 5 of us. There was no vomiting so, without being graphic, this gives you the general idea where the stomach bug was being flushed out (no pun intended)! If the stomach bug would have caused probelms with vomiting AND the later, my treatment would have been different so please keep this under advisement.

For Michaela and I, to avoid getting the bug, we just took the immune boosters listed below under the link for Immune boosters for the whole family! Berry well, Vitamin C (or Emergen-C), Vitamin D, Bee Immune, Colostrum transfer for both of us! This kept she & I from getting the bug!


When the body is trying to expell a virus from the system, in either direction, our initial medical reaction is to stop it immediately with chemicals. I remember when Immodium AD came out in the stores and it was great at stopping the inconvenience ASAP. However, what I later came to understand is that there are much better, more natural ways, to help this process along, without keeping the nasty bugs in your system!



Papaya enzymes (I just buy these at Wal-mart in the vitamin section)

Probiotic

~This one for little kids Rhinophos chewable probiotic

~This one for the older ones, my hubby & myself Beeyoutiful Tummy tune-up or Ultimate defense)
I actually ended up using the Tunny tune-up on Abby as well because the Rhinophos wasn't strong enough for her.


Bentonite clay; read about the benefits of this toxin flusher here. You can usually purchase this at a local health food store or from the website above here.


Vitamin D3 (I just get the huge bottle from Costco 2000 IU)


If you are just getting started with Immune boosters from Beeyoutiful, you can save a bit on this pack for the whole family!


Multi-vitamins for the whole family Men, Women, Kids


Besides pushing a lot of fluids, all of them were complaining of stomach cramps so we gave papya enzymes for this.

The bentonite clay is taken to draw out the toxins (virus) from the gut. You can't use metal spoons while mixing this as the metal does something to the clay, so I use plastic spoons. Keep in mind that the clay DOES taste just like dirt. We mix 1 tsp to a little water and it makes basically a slimey blob that is easily swallowed. The they need to take a full glass of water afterward! If you have a child that has a strong gag reflux you may want to purchase some capsules. My kids are pretty great troopers so they just swallow the blob-o-dirt. You only do this once a day for the duration of the spell plus one extra day.

While the Clay draws out the bad stuff the Probiotics re-innoculate the stomach with the proper/good bacteria. About an hour after the clay I gave a probiotic.
At meal time I give vitamins such as the D3, Colostrum, berrywell, bee immune, along with their normal multi-vitamin .

One bonus about giving kids the liquid vitamin (superkids), immune boosters (berry well)is that it absorbs faster. When you have things coming out as fast as they come in, absorbtion is a big deal!


After doing this stuff yesterday when it all began, everyone was doing much better the next day. Abby and Ben had some residual effects, but it was their body ridding itself of the final bugs and fighting through the infection. I continued the immune boosters, probiotics for a couple days after to keep the body fit to fight off any other bugs they come on contact with!


On a side-note....... If you do not have a good health food store nearby and you want to place an order for Beeyoutiful products AS WELL AS some bulk herbs & spices, the company More than alive does sell both! To keep your shipping rates low this is how I do it.

If you just want to purchase Beeyoutiful products and get it at a discount, beeyoutiful has a supplier that 'sells' the products at a 15% discount and beeyoutiful gives a portion of the proceeds to fund their family mission trip to Kenya. Since I love a good deal AND a GREAT cause I like to order through her when I do not need to include any herbs with my order! To order through her, just email your list of items to sales@valuesdrivenfamily.com. You can order anything from Beeyoutiful.com through her but she only recieves the discounted price from the beeyoutiful products.

Anywho, this is how we took care of the latest stomach bug! Love and hugs to ya all!

Natural remedies/ Disclosure

Once upon a time, just after I met and married my hubby I had the awesome opportunity to work for a Naturopathic midwife. In that one short year of my life, I learned countless ways to combat many illnesses without having to run to urgent care or the family doctor. MOST of my family members enjoy poking fun at me for it........ Usually, they are all rallied about by my misguided hubby. However, since we moved far away from that 'fuel' that kindled his fire, he no longer mocks it anymore and just takes whatever I put in front of him. What I learned and what I continue to learn about are basically using herbs, homeopathic and vitamins to help the body do what God designed it to do.
Illnesses and viruses are usually shorter in duration and frequency at our house for 2 reasons. Preventative measures and boosting immunity. I WISH it had more to do with impeccable hygiene habits but, that would DEFINITELY not be keeping it real!
So I have started a new label under posts called natural remedies. This is in no way, shape, or form, medical advice that takes precedence over a real doctor. If in doubt please seek medical attention but what I am going to do is just post things that we go through, what I did to treat it and how it worked.
It am NOT a 'trained professional'! Just a mom that likes to study about weird stuff and has some information that works for my family! Hope it works for yours too if you choose to use any of them!