What Your Doctor Didn T Tell You About Childhood Constipation

Is your child struggling with chronic constipation and your doctor is only prescribing laxatives? 5% of all visits to pediatricians are for childhood constipation...but most doctors just prescribe a laxative, tell you to increase fiber in your child's diet and send you home. They don't help you to figure out what is causing your child's chronic constipation but just put a bandaid on the problem with a laxative. My son struggled with chronic constipation from birth. I took my son to multiple doctors. They all just prescribed laxatives and sent us home. My son had terrible side effects from the laxatives and his constipation didn't improve. I knew that there had to be a better way. I worked with an integrative medicine doctor to get to the root cause of my son's and ended his years-long constipation struggle. Since then, I have been lucky enough to help thousands of families get their child off of laxatives. This book will help you to find the reason why your child became constipated in the first place and get a game plan to help end your child's chronic constipation. Discover what supplement you can buy at any drug store that will help your child to have daily bowel movements. Learn why laxatives can make your child's constipation, and behavior, worse. Get techniques to help your child overcome withholding. Determine what is causing your child's constipation so you can end their struggle permanently. This step by step guide will help you to know what questions to ask your child's doctor, what supplements to give your child to help them finally be able to have a painless bowel movement and what tests to ask your child's doctor to run. Solutions for constipation in infants, toddlers, ideas to overcome witholding, how to potty train a constipated child, and information to help you figure out what is causing your child's constipation so you can end it quickly and permanently. Bonus! Get the eBook for free when you purchase the paperback of this book, start reading your book immediately!

"The facts you need to make informed infant care choices for a happier, healthier child. Finally, a well-researched text on infant digestive health. Palmer addresses the issues where parents' choices can make a difference for the health of their child. Written for parents, but even the most experienced lactation, birthing, or pediatric professional will find many new pearls of information throughout the text."--P. [4] of cover.

Early parenting and health care choices make a huge difference in your baby's health and wellbeing. This book is filled with caring advice based on the latest scientific research on key issues of infant care-a rare overview of information too often missing from parenting circles, pediatric offices, and financially motivated product promotions: Why exclusive breastfeeding is so beneficial, How you can reduce crying, colic, food allergy, and illness in your baby, What you can do to optimize your child's nutrition and avoid the ADHD, colitis, diabetes, osteoporosis, and obesity now epidemic in the U.S. How you can raise securely bonded children, more likely to become responsive teenagers and emotionally healthy adults. In a warm and down-to-earth style, Baby Matters provides the hard-to-find facts you need to make informed parenting choices for healthier, happier children with brighter futures. Book jacket.

Are you struggling with IBS, Crohn's Disease, constipation, IBD, or other gut issues, and nothing is helping? If you have tried everything and aren’t feeling better, your vagus nerve might be the culprit. Trauma, chronic stress, or surgery can damage your vagus nerve and put you into a perpetual state of fight, flight, freeze, instead of rest, digest, and heal. When the vagus nerve isn’t working properly, there is a lack of communication between the gut and the brain. This makes it hard for your body and your gut to function properly. “The Vagus Nerve Gut-Brain Connection: Heal Your Vagus Nerve and Improve Gut Health,” gives you easy exercises to stimulate your vagus nerve. There are really simple things you can do, like breathing in certain patterns, that train your body to turn off your stress response, allowing the vagus nerve to put you into a state where you can rest, digest, and heal. This practical, concise guide gives you actionable steps you can easily take to improve the function of your vagus nerve in just a few minutes a day. Special bonus chapter is included to help you heal your child's vagus nerve. Includes information on how to tone your child's vagus nerve and how to help them get into the important rest digest, and heal state they need to have a healthy gut. In Meditations to Soothe the Vagus Nerve, we will explore how to use guided meditation, mantra-based meditations, EFT, and mindful visualization to restore balance to the nerve. We will also explore breathing exercises designed to activate the vagus nerve and bring us back to a peaceful state. Finally, the book offers practical advice on how to incorporate these meditations into your daily life to help you restore your vagus nerve to full functioning. With step-by-step instructions, this book will help readers understand the connection between the vagus nerve and relaxation and will provide meditative techniques to reduce stress and anxiety, improve sleep and digestion, and enhance overall well-being. With the help of this book, you’ll be able to soothe the vagus nerve and enter a state of rest, digest, and heal.

Muscle pain; fatigue; bladder infections; insomnia; hypoglycemia; IBS; chronic candidiasis. If you have one or more of these symptoms or syndromes, you may have fibromyalgia. In 1999 Dr. St. Amand, an experienced endocrinolost and UCLA assistant clinical professor, published his effective protocol for reversing fibromyalgia, based on nearly half a century of research, including his own experience with the disease and that of hundreds of his patients. Years later, thousands of fibromyalgia sufferers have followed Dr. St. Amand's revolutionary program and have experienced amazing results. This third edition of the book offers the latest research and Dr. St. Amand's breakthrough program that uses guaifenesin, an inexpensive, safe, and increasingly available medication that can help reverse the disease. The authors have seen symptoms eliminated and normal living restored in an astonishing 90 percent of the fibromyalgia sufferers they treated with guaifenesin. In this edition, readers will find more patient anecdotes and a deeper understanding of patient symptoms, treatment, and results, including: More information about the current treatment of fibromyalgia and what causes it New results from Dr. St. Amand's City of Hope study about the efficacy of the guaifenesin treatment Changes in disesase protocol A discussion of pharmaceuticals in treatment, and

Proven, practical advice for treating and preventing potty problems.

Constipation, Withholding and Your Child is a positive, accessible guide to dealing with the common problems of stool withholding, soiling and wetting in young children. It gives insight into the perspectives of both children and parents, enabling a clear understanding of the issue. Using friendly and informal language, the book examines the different causes of toileting problems, including the arrival of siblings and difficulties at school, and provides practical techniques and strategies to help children overcome these problems. It emphasises the importance of diet and offers advice on how to make using the toilet less frightening, the benefits of keeping a stool diary chart, and what laxatives and medications to use in different circumstances. It provides tips on how to tackle inappropriate lavatorial behaviour sensitively and addresses the issues particular to children with special needs. This book is a reassuring, informative and non-patronising guide to help children overcome toileting problems. It is useful for parents and all professionals who work with children.

A groundbreaking, proven approach for successfully diagnosing and treating the millions with hypothyroidism. Depression, weight gain, fatigue, headaches, memory lapses, hair loss—these are just some of the vague, often debilitating symptoms that plague the more than 13 million patients with hypothyroidism. The typical blood test for diagnosis is often inaccurate, leaving many to suffer through ineffective treatment. But now, there is a solution: Dr. Blanchard’s groundbreaking program draws on emerging research, medical facts, and three decades of clinical experiences as an endocrinologist. This individualized program uses questionnaires and charts to help diagnose sufferers through symptoms, not only lab results. It then treats patients of all ages with the safe but little used T3 hormone in combination with the more common T4 hormone. Also including specific nutritional advice and alternative treatments, this is the one program for sufferers of hypothyrodism that really works!