Just when we thought things were going a whole lot better, J's lowered auto immune system caught another
"interesting set of challenges". The spot in his lung turned out to be positive for valley fever and not something we really lost sleep over.
So what is "Valley Fever" ? Something we needed to learn more about! See http://www.vfce.arizona.edu/ValleyFeverInPeople/Default.aspx for more information. Dr S, the pulmonologist prescribed Fluconazole (a the side effect could be spots ) And what do we have now? 4 Spots/pimples/lesions etc! too! Apparently there are serious complications and getting spots/lesions is one of them...So we happened to have a supply of KEFLEX which should help the spots.
Now why am I discussing all this? It affect J's appetite! He doesn't want to chew food... not enjoying food... last week he only had a 1/2 cup of pasta each day. The rest was Gatorade, High Protein Naked Smoothie and a yogurt/applesauce/protein smoothie. That's not a lot for his digestive system to work. Maybe a trip to the Nutritional Psychotherapist is in order? Is that a specialty? Ha! Maybe we should take more of the appetite increasing pills, that are buried in the cupboard. Or eat Papaya or pineapple for it's digestive enzyme papain! http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=47
Oh no back to enzymes!
For more info:
Digestive Enzymes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_enzyme
Probiotics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotics
Prebiotics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prebiotics
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