Let me tell you my story . . . .

We started out like most American families. We faithfully took our child to the doctor for ever well-baby check-up to be pumped full of vaccines. Every sneeze turned into antibiotics and I knew all the nurses by name. You see my first born is a deaf dwarf. So my natural inclination was to make sure that she was well watched after by the medical profession.

She had every shot available from the standards to the ear infection vaccine and the chicken pox vaccine. Of course she still had the chicken pox and her ear infections never ceased. One day on the way home from school she developed a large lump on her throat. I immediately took her to the doctor to only be told that she could possibly have the mumps. What?!?! He proceeded to tell me that the amount of antibiotics she had been on had, more than likely, voided out all the vaccines. So why did we give her these vaccines?

After a culture, we discovered that she just had a weird reaction to strep throat, but it definately got me to thinking and to re-evaluate how we managed our children’s health. Our children were 4, 2. and 8 months old. I did a little research and we stopped giving them the vaccines.

At this point my oldest daughter had also had 4 sets of ear tubes already and they wanted to do another. I stood my ground and refused the surgery and began a course of natural remedies. After about 4-5 months I had to give in and have the tubes put in as she was wanting a cochlear implant. But when the doc went in there to place the tubes, he found lots of fluid, but no infection! I love baffling the medical profession!

She had only one more ear infection after that and that was during the cold season. Having only one ear infection was quite a feat for this child. She had chronic ear infections due to her dwarfism and use of hearing aids. She has not been on antibiotics since and that was 4 years ago!

We continued using herbs and homepathic medicines on all of us. And since then we have discovered the use of essential oils. We just went through a flu-like bug and used a combination of echinacea and peppermint oil. We all healed quickly and our house smelled of peppermint for about a week!