When my first born was a year and a half we welcomed his brother to our family. My first born was so sick he was unable to come to the hospital to meet his little brother. I didn’t think anything of that first illness in 2015, but for the next two years, he had similar illnesses at the exact same time of year, with 2017 being his worst year. His skin was always affected, developing crazy rashes.

Viral rashes are not uncommon with fevers, but in 2017 the illness was starting to take over his lungs. He was needing to do nebulizer albuterol treatments to keep his oxygen levels up and his breathing was very labored. We somehow managed to control it at home and keep him out of the hospital which was great.

In addition to all of this, he had developed eczema on his inner thighs. It started as some small red bumps, but continued to grow and bother him to the point of him scratching to bleeding.

In 2017 I was also in my coaching program hearing from experts in functional medicine and alternative healthcare. Had I not been, I likely would have ended up at my conventional pediatrician’s office with some steroid cream that would have been the band aid to the problem.