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When Hypersensitive Children React To Factors To Which They Are Sensitive

In another article, I described a little about these children being sensitive. Now, I will talk about what the reaction is all about and how it is related to developmental problems.

Symptoms Are Simply Symptoms; They Are Not The Problem

Our frame-of-reference is that a developmental problem is a problem with the developmental process. Interventions which are focused on the symptoms do nothing to get the developmental process back on track. Our interventions are focused on re-engaging the normal developmental process and encouraging the developmental process so that the child catches up with his/her peers. When this happens, all symptoms dissolve and go away.

What Blocks The Normal Developmental Progress?

We think that this is the most basic and the most important question to ask with respect to developmental problems. What is the mechanism by which the developmental process gets blocked or gets slowed down? We think we have an answer to that question. But, I don’t want to tell you what great researchers or what great scientists we are. We have developed our models of understanding about this by working with children and recognizing the results.

We work with children with developmental problems. After working with us and after we saw the developmental process re-engage and children start moving through developmental steps and stages after being stuck for years, we assumed that we were doing something right. So, we started to explore what did we do which caused the re-engagement of that stuck developmental process.

Cleaning The Child’s Environment

We started cleaning up the environment of these children, because we had seen this approach provide an immediate return to health for a variety of chronic problems (asthma, headaches & migraines, acne, etc. . ) in adults and children. We did not expect this environmental cleaning to have such an strong impact on the developmental process, but it had become a normal process we used with all clients with whom we work. It was simply the thing we started with for anyone with chronic problems.

When parents of children with developmental problems did this testing and cleanup, the children started showing new developmental accomplishments within a few days. It did not take us long to figure out that the developmental process was re-engaging. As we became more focused on this approach, the signs and signals were quite clear.

But, What Blocks The Developmental Process?

The environment in which we humans evolved was less contaminated than we have now. Our self-protecting immune systems were developed in that less contaminated environment. If we are confronted by something our immune system recognizes as toxic for us, it takes control of our processes. It organizes our body’s resources to limit the damage this particular threat might cause us. Our immune systems are appropriate and do a wonderful job in keeping us healthy.

In our immune response to toxic factors, the immune system decides to shut down all processes which are not necessary for our survival today. The immune system has this short-term focus, because this immune process evolved in an environment in which these toxic factors were not very common. This immune response (to shut down all processes not necessary for survival today), was good for us because we would normally have been able to get out of the influence of the toxic substance (walk away) and the immune response would pass and we would return to a normal state.

Inhibits The Growth and Developmental Of Critical Brain Circuits

One of the processes which the immune system shuts down during its toxic response, is the growth and development of a set of circuits which controls and manages the developmental process. I’ll discuss more about these circuits in another blog post. This is a ‘safe’ thing to do as part of an immune system response, because the immune response is temporary and the restriction on the growth of these circuits would be lifted within a few hours. In the context in which our immune system evolved, this restriction of the growth and development of these circuits provides more of the body’s energy resources to get away from that toxic substance.

Permanent Shutdown Of The Development And Growth Of Those Critical Brain Circuits

But, in our modern times, we have many more environmental factors to which our bodies can have this immune response. We have many more things around us which could cause our bodies to shut down the growth of those critical circuits. And, for these hypersensitive children, there are many more things to react to and because of this the immune response is not temporary. They have an ongoing response to all those things their immune system recognizes as toxic.

From our testing, we see that these hypersensitive children have reactions to many foods, household chemicals, medicines, and some materials. Cleaning the environment for these children involves determining the menu of factors to which this specific child is reacting and getting those things out of the child’s environment.

Many popular treatment programs for these children involve restricting wheat, gluten, milk, etc. . . from the child’s environment. We think that this idea has a lot of merit and for some children this has been quite helpful. But, we find that each child has a unique set of environmental factors to which they react. If you work from a list that someone has developed, you might (or might not) be successful in cleaning your child’s environment. If you want to be sure you are successful in getting your child’s immune reaction stopped, you need to have your child tested and clean those things from your child’s environment to which your child reacts.

Testing

Our testing process is by phone (or skype) and is iterative. We have a technology which provides a clear signal if the child reacts to a specific environmental factor. We go through each of the environmental factors you have identified in your child’s environment and we immediately report your child’s reaction.After you have cleaned those identified factors from your child’s environment, we test for those additional things you have recognized. We also provide coaching for our clients to achieve better quality-of-life for your child during this process.

There are other testing processes available which you could use. A blood testing process is gaining popularity. Also, there is an electronic method. These are based in previously tested ‘standards’ for each of the environmental factors. In our experience these work quite well, but are limited to those factors in their library of ‘standards.’ Our approach is to measure the child’s reactions directly.

Is This Enough?

This testing and cleaning of those environmental factors to which these hypersensitive children are reacting is the first step. It is an imperative step, because if the immune system has inhibited the growth of the circuits which manage and control the developmental process, no other intervention can help the children overcome their developmental problem.

If you want your children to catch up with their peers, you have to eliminate those factors from the child’s environment those things the child’s immune system thinks is a toxic threat. You have to free up these critical brain circuits so that the developmental process can proceed appropriately.

But, there are other interventions needed to encourage the ongoing growth of those critical brain circuits and to guide the developmental process forward. Cleaning the child’s environment is the necessary first step in this overall process.

The Get My Child Back On Track™ program tests for those sensitivities and intolerances and guides parents to clean their child’s environment so the reactions stop. The program also teaches parents how to provide the stimulation which encourages the critical brain circuits to grow and catch up.