The wondrous gut brain connection?
When I work with families on their children’s health, I always work with the gut brain connection and bring in the link to the immune system too. The microbiome-gut-brain axis is so vital that really, it is easier to consider them as the same organ! The gut includes everything from mouth to bottom, and also […]
How To Improve Your Gut Health Naturally
How to improve your gut health naturally Everyone is talking about gut health these days. But why does gut health matter? How can you tell if your child has an issue with Gut health? How do you improve gut health? Why does gut health matter? If you gut isn’t working right, your body isn’t working […]
Chronic constipation in children
Chronic constipation can be a traumatic experience for a child. In my last article, ”how to help a child with constipation” I talked about some general ways to address constipation in your child. But what if you have done all those things and nothing is helping. You need to dig deeper into the root cause […]
How to help a child with constipation
If your child has had constipation at some point, you are certainly not alone. Constipation will affect up to a third of children at some point in time. But that doesn’t make it normal. Just common. It is a sign that something isn’t right with your child, and something you should get to the bottom […]
Reflux in babies and children
The amount of children taking medication for reflux has increased dramatically in the last 10 years. Why is that? Are we more aware of the effects of reflux on babies due to chat in Facebook groups etc? Or are our baby’s guts getting more sensitive as time goes on? Are doctors reaching for the script […]
3 tactics to use if your child has troublesome threadworms
If your child is irritable, has sleeping issues or a sore tummy….do they have threadworms? I see a lot of kids with threadworms in clinic. It might not be something that we routinely discuss in the school playground, but it is an issue that is lurking in many families. Sometimes, it can be a simple […]
How to avoid unnecessary antibiotics
Climate change and antibiotic resistance are two big issues that really worry me. They are both major threats to mankind, and they are pretty much inevitable unless we all make changes. Yet the majority of people carry on without thinking about them. With antibiotic resistance, I think there is a general feeling that most people […]