Balanced Immune Health » crud

Immune health question: Is spring crud starting to bud?

Craig Maltby, Editor — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:54:31 +0000

A guy in the office down the hall from me has been coming to work every day with a cough that sounds like near-death. He’s been this way now for 3 weeks. I’m no diagnostician, but if anyone were a candidate for having walking pneumonia, he’s it. At the same time a client and a couple friends are recovering from a week or more of being sick, sometimes with a household of sick family members.

I also hear the some H1N1 activity has started up Georgia. Not a widespread thing…yet. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) blames low vaccination rates in Georgia as a contributor. Imagine that, in the state that’s the home of the CDC!

The government’s flu portal has an up-to-date map of seasonal flu activity, influenza-like illness (IFI), H1N1 lab results that shows where some hots spots are. Nothing in the epidemic or pandemic realm; Most of the country is color-coded as “sporadic” or “no activity” for influenza and H1N1. But for IFI, the southwestern U.S. shows up as “widespread.” We’ll see what the next month brings.

My kids complete a full year with EpiCor….

Craig Maltby, Editor — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:34:31 +0000

The immune balance supplement EpiCor, which, yes, supports this blog, has now been taken by my twin daughters for at least a full year. My girls are seniors in high school, and have been taking EpiCor daily (or as close to daily as they can, when they remember). I am reporting today that we have seen noticeable changes in their health experience.

Days missed at school due to seasonal crud have been reduced dramatically. One daughter has had no sick days this year. The other has been out a day and a half. This amidst the H1N1 outbreak and possibly the worst winter in our state’s history. And, this amidst a music rehearsal and class schedule that runs from 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. most weekdays, with all-day competitions on weekends. In other words, sleep has been at a premium. Typically, in past years, sick days might total a week to two weeks for each daughter.

I know when they start college next fall, they likely will have a less demanding schedule than they did in high school. At least for their freshman year. Yet, I’ll be pushing them to stick with EpiCor as well.

To view several published studies and papers on EpiCor, click here.

The crud cometh, and my immune balance helped the crud goeth.

Craig Maltby, Editor — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:16:01 +0000

A couple nights ago, I woke up at 2:00 a.m. with my eyes sealed shut. Sealed shut with gunk. I can’t remember when that had happened to me, if ever. It had come several days after returning from a trip to Florida, on a bus, with high school marching band students. (see earlier post). So I wasn’t all that surprised that I might get stuck with some nasty stuff. As the eye condition continued, I also got the bronchial junk going, the sinus stuff kicking in. Normally, in years past, I would have settled down for 10 days or longer of enduring this stuff, and probably gone to the doc after a week of suffering, knowing I couldn’t kick it by myself without getting the coveted Z-pack antibiotic. At the same time, my teenage daughters both would have also come down with the same thing, and been out of school for 2-4 days each.

Now, the immune balance supplementation science seems to be bearing itself out with respect to my experience. If immune balance doesn’t help ward off seasonal cold and influenza, it may help reduce length and severity of symptoms. The eyes are 90% cleared up after 24 hours. The bronchial crud made a very visible appearance, but has since receded in the past 36 hours. A mild cough did not balloon into a incessant hack and is not next to non-existent. I have not spent 5 minutes at the toilet coughing up gunk each morning and night. I’m sure sipping a couple of pear martinis at the neighbors’ house when this was starting didn’t help things, but I’m sure it wasn’t a game changer either way.

As for my daughters, one half-day at home for one of them has been it. The other is symptom-free so far. And throughout it all, no fever for anyone. All in all, I’ll take this scenario any day.