My 2 year old daughter came down with a sudden fever the other night. It was the first time she has ever had a fever. I will admit it I was a little caught off guard since she hadn't had one in 2 1/2 years so I contacted my neighbor who has a 3 year old to ask how she handles them.
She was was very thoughtful and brought some children's ibuprofen liquids over. I decided however to let my daughter's body fight it out without medication, unless the fever got dangerous. I gave her a lukewarm bath and then checked her throughout the night to make sure it did not get higher than the 102.8 she had going. Thankfully, she woke up in the morning feeling better and the fever left on it's own.
I was getting ready to take the medicine back to my neighbor when I decided to read the bottles to see what was in them. I was shocked! Both of them had High Fructose Corn Syrup and Red Dye #40 and Polysorbate 80.
I avoid all dyes in our food, especially Red Dye #40. It has been linked to hyperactivity in children all the way to being a known carcinogen. When I looked up Polysorbate 80, the possible side effects listed where anaphylactic shock and scientists say that polysorbate 80 causes infertility in mammals. Baby female rats were injected with the substance and experienced accelerated maturation, hormonal changes, decreased weight of the uterus and ovaries, and degenerative follicles. Also High Fructose Corn Syrup's possible side effects are weight gain and obesity, increased risk of developing Type-2 Diabetes, elevated triglyceride and HDL (cholesterol) levels, long term liver damage, oh yea and it contains alarmingly high levels of mercury!!
This is a medication to be given to a child while their body's immune system is under attack? So while their bodies are already vulnerable the ingredients in the medication supposed to help them can actually do way more harm then good. I don't think so!!!! Not my daughter.
I did research and even the dye-free options still contain High Fructose Corn Syrup and Polysorbate 80. Some of the even still had dyes listed!!
As shocking as it is there was not a safe non-toxic alternative I could find. There are some holistic methods that I read about, but for the most part it is the old school route for me. Lukewarm baths and socks soaked in cold water. The socks need to be able to cover the ankles and wrung out.
It caught me off guard this time but I will now know what I will and won't do in the future!
Till next blog....
Monday, March 26, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Simple Breakfast, or is it?
As I made breakfast this morning it seemed so simple, eggs, bacon and toast. Simple, right? Or was it?
Well it used to be. There used to be a time when people would go to the local store and pick up the bacon, eggs, and bread and not think twice about it. Unfortunately those days are long gone, for me and my family at least they are.
Now the bacon is hormone, antibiotic and nitrate free. The eggs are organic from a local farm. The bread I make to be sure it is preservative free and I know exactly what is in it. I cooked the breakfast on pans that are not non-stick to make sure the chemicals from non-stick (Teflon) cookware do not enter the food and possibly poison it. I used spatulas that are also stainless steel, no plastic here, to be sure that there are no chemicals that can leech into our food.
Seemed like a simple breakfast until you realize that there was alot of thought that went into the ingredients that go into the food that is served in my home everyday.
As sad as it may seem, there will never be another day that goes by that I don't know exactly what is in the food, or how it was grown that I feed my family. I cannot trust that my own government agency that is "supposed to" protect me and my family will actually do so.
As I looked at the meal I was making and thought about this, I longed for the days when going to the local store for all of these items wasn't toxic to my family. And it used to be the way things were. All before our government and big business started to run our food, and doing a damn awful job at it. AHHHH Long before Monsanto. Long before the company that created the toxic Round-up started to create our food.
A simple breakfast? Not in my house! But is it the best, safest breakfast my family could have!
Till next blog...
Well it used to be. There used to be a time when people would go to the local store and pick up the bacon, eggs, and bread and not think twice about it. Unfortunately those days are long gone, for me and my family at least they are.
Now the bacon is hormone, antibiotic and nitrate free. The eggs are organic from a local farm. The bread I make to be sure it is preservative free and I know exactly what is in it. I cooked the breakfast on pans that are not non-stick to make sure the chemicals from non-stick (Teflon) cookware do not enter the food and possibly poison it. I used spatulas that are also stainless steel, no plastic here, to be sure that there are no chemicals that can leech into our food.
Seemed like a simple breakfast until you realize that there was alot of thought that went into the ingredients that go into the food that is served in my home everyday.
As sad as it may seem, there will never be another day that goes by that I don't know exactly what is in the food, or how it was grown that I feed my family. I cannot trust that my own government agency that is "supposed to" protect me and my family will actually do so.
As I looked at the meal I was making and thought about this, I longed for the days when going to the local store for all of these items wasn't toxic to my family. And it used to be the way things were. All before our government and big business started to run our food, and doing a damn awful job at it. AHHHH Long before Monsanto. Long before the company that created the toxic Round-up started to create our food.
A simple breakfast? Not in my house! But is it the best, safest breakfast my family could have!
Till next blog...
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