Praying that Ronan's seizures subside. So scary to experience, yet what a blessing that you and your family are there for him in his hours of most need. We were informed that our son has subclinical seizures. That sometimes occur early in the morning during his sleep. They were picked up during an overnight EEG procedure. Seizures seem to affect a lot of our children and interesting that on some vaccines, seizures are listed as a possible side effect. What madness. Praying for all of our affected children and their families.

I am sorry Cathy. This type of stuff happening after it all seems under control, just takes the ground out from under your feet, making you feel like you are falling in such a spin that you have no idea where the ground is. My son just told me yesterday that during his Jan 2020 ordeal with strep, OCD, anxious that he had fell and hit his head on his dresser. At the time he did complain of severe neck pain. I thought it was the strep that was causing the neck pain. I had no idea till now that it was a physical injury. He did not communicate that well to me. So, perhaps the fall was a seizure? You never know.

For our family; mast cell activation seems to fit. It seems to be the theory of everything that is looking like it is going to be a law.

Our immune cells; the mast cells have been made very sensitive, by the vaccines, and are producing large amounts of histamines. If we get an infection it will cause those mast cells to get busy producing histamines. Some times when my son was younger he have seizures before or during an infection. Usually strep. If parts of the body are over exercised, friction example is skin; causes mast cells to produce histamines. If my husband had a brutal day of work, he would have to go to the hospital because he could not breath, and he had low oxygen. Certain foods also have high histamines. Gluten is really high in histamines. It looks like that the whole FODMAP diet is right.

According to several guest on John Campbell's website (do you know of him?) We do produce enzymes in our small intestines, kidneys and liver that does break up histamines. We can make an enzyme that helps us. So, this enzyme breaks up histamine from our over active mast cells, but when we consume high histamine foods, it overwhelms those enzymes.

By the way rye is worse for me than just regular gluten bread. Even a small amount of rye, a half of a Tablespoon fermented rye added into a chaffle hurt all of my fingers and legs. Back in May of this year, my husband was with me at Trader Joes when I was purchasing gluten free bread, and he bought a loaf of sour dough rye. He loves it. A week later I had to rush him to the ER cause he could not breath. They gave him lots of steroids and he landed in the hospital for two days, very sick. I myself found I had problems with the gluten free bread. I just gave it up two weeks ago. I feel much better. I also found out that if I eat a whole lot of fresh tomatoes; along with picking them, touching the vines, it breaks out my skin. It is the matter of how much I eat, and how much I fool with the vines. I do love them and I still am able to enjoy fresh tomatoes, but there is a limit to how much I can eat. Overwhelming the enzyme and as they love to say; over filling the bucket.

John Campbell's guests says as there are foods that are high in histamines, to be avoided, there are also foods that have a high content of an enzyme that will break down the histamines. Pea shoots, are high in this enzyme. I bought a bunch of them to grow as a microgreen. Also we can buy animal forms of it, made from cow kidney cells in pill form. Liver also is high in this enzyme. Plus our own bodies do make it as well.

Another thing we can do besides avoiding high histamine foods, and taking this enzyme that breaks up histamines is to make sure our small intestine is cleared out at night. Small intestines are suppose to be clean of microbes. The small intestine sweeps out microbes at night while we sleep. To help it, we should not eat three hours before bed. It is also suggested that that before bed we drink a glass of water with two drops of iodine in it. This helps with the microbes. They also discussed that we need more iodine that we can possibly get unless we live on the side of the ocean and eating sea weed.

Histamines can effect blood pressure as well.
Nick posted on the article inflammation Highway that Olmesartan a blood pressure medicine is proving to be a good medication for seizure control. This is probably why we can eat high histamine foods and our sinuses all clog up, and ear infections.

Ronan is blessed to have you, his dad and siblings as ever watchful guardians. May God grant him healing rest and renewal, and give you respite.

Cathy,

Peace to you and your family. Reading your short story about Ronan's seizures was heartbreaking and far too close to home. We live that way as well. In a good place now . . . until we are not again.

Praying with you today.

andrew foss