its reasonable when in periods of relative health to challenge status quo, however any time someone presents some rabbit
hole of a trap their raw knowledge and experiments have left them there is clearly
one truth. -
in periods of crisis, one needs to get out of crisis any means possible and 'stop digging'. Even when pressed the most ideological people - from vegans and elsewhere - I have spoke to have acknowledged that should be the case, and that hard line advices even against medicines, supplements, surgeries or whatever are often thankfully compromised by succumbing to reality.
While the natural standpoint (of which I would agree) would be that the underling condition is clearly systemic, with causes innumerable in our un-natural world and diet,
the medical viewpoint is pretty strait forward :
Treating eczema herpeticum as soon as possible can help to halt the spread of the herpes simplex infection in your body.
Treatment for eczema herpeticum normally is begun immediately and even before test results can be concluded. The particular infection works fast and little time should be lost.
The most common treatments for this infection are acyclovir and valaciclovir. Treatment is begun quickly to help prevent secondary infections, such as streptococcus. If left untreated, this infection could overtake the body and cause problems to major organs, including the eyes, liver, brains, and lungs and can cause death." http://worldvillage.com/eczema-herpeticum-can-be-fatal
Every occupant of the world according to many of these alternate theories (many of us ascribe to) paint a picture where every person is in a condition so
vile that it becomes some great mystery how people can walk around at all never mind still live relatively healthfully much of their lives. Ironically as many people try to use that knowledge
they can get absolutely no where or worse off than they started because such pictures become so convincing that they ignore everyone elses pictures.
The reality is that for whatever truth that our bodies are plagued by such fungal imblances, toxins, effects of drugs etc...that there is no real cohesive plan people have discovered that any groups
here or even the larger world will agree upon for this or any other issue.
Its way trickier with kids. Many people on 'health' forums likely as kids had all kinds of abysmal health, taking all kinds of poor diets and medicines afterwards and still doing
ok - enough to live another day anyway. The worst I've heard is children of 'alternate health' advocates - many of which were vegetarian of course. On the larger scale most people with access to health treatment are the ones that last into their later years to reasses what is working or not, where youth elsewhere ( in non tradtional cultures) routinely die of all kinds of things. Many of these people unhampered by medicine might have also easily succumb to 'detoxes' which would have been so intense to have killed them as children, often the case throughout history..unless people actually do get infected by things that have nothing to do with poor quality food...
I'll chime in here, following the idea that stress slows healing. I am not a researcher in this area, but others are, and I have casually read many studies that support this concept.
In that connection, stress of a parent and stress between both parents impact children even when the parents think they are masking their concerns. Three areas of parent-stress that you have shared in this forum are:
You have direct and deep concern over the rash and weakness of your son, reasonable, but Cush can sense this and this adds to his own stress;
You and your wife have not reached accord on the topic of raw food, curiously, children can manifest symptoms to distract parental discord;
You have latent worries about your son's size and development, which he may sense even though you do not express your worry to him verbally.
In my own case, I am healing grave illness (including outward appearance of skin fungus/eczema) with gentle and confident measures, such as unsupplemented all-raw diet and semi-instincto-therapeutic food selection and preparation. I supplement this only with a meditative/spiritual practice that forbids worry and anger. Some days are symptom-free, other days are not so good, but I trust the process. I think you are a wise man, and can trust the process, too.
I don't see how you can reconcile the good advice above with having all out
faith in religion as you mention. The raw-food mantra/trap is often to claim future success when often all ones receives is misery and second rate results. forbiding anger (ala the secret) was never the intention of many root spirtual teachings which are to
accept all feelings and emotions and
not to 'create' positivety. These are tool of the unwell to live outside of and suppress reality and creates disease.
Stresses and a mixed 'diet' of both illegitimate or too strenuous/rapid detox, abundant sugars coupled raw animal fats and proteins, and otherwise mixed approach I'm sure would be found upon by many who have experienced eczema as trigger points. Often these systemic things aren't corrected even by the purest of diet with do need more specific and learned thinking and dietary/healing tools, which is why they end up on forums like this and primal etc...
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GS in a way you are probably right to think that the
solution is some kind of even more extreme practice that often goes hand in hand with raw-eating triggering such things. Likely it would at least involve eliminating all sugar or the like as a almost automatic first step, but I don't think you should be focused on curing the root problem at all if it means added stresses and unknowns.
I personally would probably stick with the advice of
one healer/practicioner schooled in solving the crisis (not focused on systemic stuff, or if so following things to the T along with any dietary conflicts to what is 'pure')
or just outright bring him to a conventional doctor. At that point you use your nutritional knowledge to feed him the healthiest
generic diet, and assume he will probably mature better than most kids on serious medications (more serious health problems) and even poorer diets. At which point in the future maybe he can discover and analyze a better sampling of health - if it actually exists - from what most people would view as extreme thinking.
