Health Naturally

Yes I am going to venture into this subject. We are a family with five children. The youngest has Down Syndrome and with Down Syndrome, she can have a compromised immune system. The first year of her life I breast fed and so she was quite healthy. From age one to two, all hell broke loose. She had a constant cold from August until April. She would get over a cold to then get a flu, then a cold again. A stomach flu and a cold again. Then it happened. Pneumonia. She got sick at 1:00 a.m. and the next morning something wasn't right. I called our Pediatrician who gave her a chest X-ray and yes she was put on her fourth antibiotic. I was beaten. I was destroyed. Other moms of Down Syndrome said "Oh yea this is all our lives with Downs children". What??????? Nope I was NOT going to be on this cycle. I was getting off this ride.

I discovered through the help of my cousin Brenda, essential oils. All began when she told me about Oregano Oil. Oil of oregano, which is distiller from the flowers and leaves of the oregano plant, could be one of nature's most powerful antibiotics. I started my adventure of discovering a company called Young Living Here. This company sells the purest of oils. I read about how if you put ONE DROP of oil on the bottom of one of her feet, it is soaked into her system like a sponge. Our feet are porous. They absorb. If you ever heard of kids having a terrible cough and moms putting Vicks on bottoms of the feet and socks, then the child has a restful nights sleep without coughing!

So then I started getting different oils and either putting them in the air by diffusing or by putting a drop on a foot or on one of the kids hand. Illness in this house stopped!!! Kate had a three day cold since August and it was barely anything. Praise God through whom all Blessing Flow!

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