Natural cures for asthma and allergies in children are often sought by parents who are tired of pumping their children full of medications, steroids and other chemicals that have an amazing range of side effects. Day by day the number of asthma attack victims are rising on a rocket speed of people. The attacks can be mild, moderate, severe or life threatening.

There is a distinction between allergies and asthma in adults and children. During allergies and hay fever attacks the sufferer has difficulty with allergic rhinitis or sneezing, congestions, runny and itchy nose. An allergic rhinitis reaction may be either seasonal or perennial. Although allergies can precipitate an asthmatic attack it isn’t necessarily the case.

Most allergies present themselves as symptoms in the head, sinus or nose. However, when the allergic reaction moves into the chest with angioedema and constriction it comes under the associated name of asthma. One of every six Americans has some type of allergy. Many of these allergies are triggered by pollen, weeds, grasses, as are asthmatic attacks.

Almost 40% of children in the US miss some school each year due to allergies. Complications from these allergies can lead to nasal polyps or sinus cavity infections.

There are natural cures for asthma and allergies in children that help to decrease the severity and number of the attacks. Some use hydrogen peroxide in the humidifier or medication aerosolizer. Others use stress reducers to decrease emotional stress and therefore a potent asthma trigger.

Some of the current brand names of medications used to treat asthma include Pulmicort, Beclovent, Flovent, Ventolin, Serevent, Slo-Bid, and Prednisone. They all come with side effects with a wide range of severity and variety. Some can cause facial edema, nausea, nasal irritation, dry mouth, delayed growth in children, infection, osteoporosis, cough and wheezing, headache, permanent loss of smell or taste, pneumonia, rash, cardiac complications, increased risk of glaucoma, psychotic reactions, liver dysfunction and worsening diabetes.

Before beginning any new routine of medication or natural treatments you must consult you doctor. There are many natural remedies that interact with other medications you may already be taking. Natural remedies, although thought of as distinct from chemically produced medications, are actually chemicals themselves that interact with the foods you eat, the environment in which you live and the other medications you ingest or use on your skin.

A medication interaction can lessen, increase or completely change the way in which your body reacts to either of the medications. So before getting into trouble with potentially life-threatening side effects ask your doctor or pharmacist to approve the natural cure for asthma and allergies in children.

After you have researched the natural remedies you may want to use you should stock up on the products before the symptoms appear. Asthma attacks are often worse at night although the asthma type might not be nocturnal asthma. Stores are closed and over the counter relief is hard to find. Doctors are charging large fees for calls at night and the emergency room is not cheap. If you can stop the attack early you will save your child medication administration, yourself cost and the worry of a potentially life-threatening event.

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There’s no secret: we’re all moving faster and faster, with no apparent end in sight.

People are driving and texting on their cell phones!

Think about that.

How absurd is it that we’re so rushed for time that we have to drive a couple thousand pounds of metal down the street at breakneck speeds, while looking at a small screen, fumbling for letters on the keyboard to write back to someone texting us?

I think people should be ticketed for that kind of negligence behind the wheel. Absolutely.

So what does this have to do with ADHD/ADD?

A lot, actually.

We’ve created a society that demands a constant state of buzzing activity. We’ve created an environment that unnaturally demands our focus on the distractions around us. If we stop to get focused on our internal compass, we’ll get run over by someone texting while driving!

The contemplative, peaceful path is being ground up by the churning bulldozer of modern distraction.

So, ADD and ADHD are very likely outcroppings of our brain chemistry in an environment like the kind we’ve created, coupled with our sorely lacking components of our nutrition–plus stress and exposure to environmental pollutants.

Dealing with ADHD and ADD naturally requires a re-tooling of how we view the body, how we live our lives, how we select food and making an effort to ignore a lot of what gets passed off for being important in today’s world.

So, turn off the t.v., put the cell phone and texting away for a week, do a media-fast, eat organic foods, do some yoga or qi gong and get with the program of de-programming.

And get some Omega-3 fatty acids into your diet! Really, it’s one of the best things you can do, and for the money, Omega-3 fish oil is a great daily measure of prevention against the stresses and load placed on the brain and body.

Now get out there and stop doing things!

Dr. Masaru Emoto is someone you’ll want to check into.

What Dr. Emoto is doing, is researching how your thoughts, language and words effect the ways in which water molecules organize themselves into “micro-clusters” or patterns that have crystalline or geometric shapes.

Dr. Emoto observes frozen water using a microscope, and is able to view how the water organizes itself into micro-clusters, or geometric crystals as it freezes.

For example, regular tap water may have a rectangular shape of molecules clustering, or maybe they are in a circular shape, as shown in this slide taken from Dr. Emotos’ Website…

It doesn’t really matter what the shape of the crystals is in the beginning, it just matters that the “before” structure is observed.

Then, Dr. Emoto will do an experiment, like saying or writing down on a piece of paper, next to the water, the word “Love”–then he will re-examine the newly “charged” frozen water sample to see how its molecular structure has changed.

The more “beautiful” the word or intention (love, blessings, healing, etc.) used to charge the water, the more beautifully organized the resulting micro-clusters become.

For example, here’s a water crystal slide taken of tap water, after a prayer was offered over it–quite a difference compared to the regular tap water slide above.

Conversely, using words like hatred, anger, disease, war and so on… will cause the micro-clusters to take on very ugly, misshapen forms.

Check out many more shapes and crystal samples from Dr. Emoto’s Messages from Water website.

Bottom line: water will take the energetic fingerprint of your thoughts and words, and organize itself into something beautiful or not, based on the nature of your intention.

Think about this: if the cells in your body are comprised of about 60-70% water, which is about average for an adult human body, what effect do your negative thoughts or self-deprecating words have on your cell structure and overall health?

I think Dr. Emoto has a lot of interesting things to say about that, and if you think it sounds intriguing, take a look at his website (where you can also read about his book Messages From Water).

I think his work is fascinating.