Friday, September 11, 2009

Children and Colostrum

By Dr. Anthony Kleinsmith

Recently, we worked with a doctor and a daycare center in Salt Lake City to conduct a placebo-controlled study that would test whether our colostrum strawberry chewables for children could reduce the incidence of infectious disease in such a crowded setting. The study was never completed " but for good reason. Heres why.

It has to do with a little boy named Hunter Shepherd.

Hunter Shepherd was one of the subjects in our study. He was 18 months old and was constantly sick. He had chronic middle ear infections, and as a result, always had tubes in his ears to drain them. He had not yet slept all through the night. One of Hunter's relatives was his pediatrician, so health care costs were never an issue; additionally, Hunter had received every antibody in hopes to help him. Sadly, though, because of all the antibodies he had been given, his immune system had become very weakened.

Hunter started sleeping through the night only three days after he was given the colostrum strawberry chewables. Hunter's ears, nose and back of throat were cleared from the fluid build up only four days later. His parents couldn't believe how well the colostrum worked. It almost seemed as if we had given him the vaccine to cure his ear infections. We expected his condition to improve once he started taking the colostrum strawberry chewables; however, sometimes colostrum is seen as the cure all and vaccine against anything.

More happened than just this though.

Hunter was not the only one experiencing similar effects. We had some children on the colostrum strawberry chewables, and some children were on a placebo chewable. Two months after we started our study, parents of the placebo chewable said the children receiving the colostrum strawberry chewables did not have any allergies, flu, colds or other respiratory problems. The parents also said the children, whom they thought were receiving the colostrum strawberry chewables, were happier, had better listening skills and longer attention spans.

The placebo chewables children's parents strongly requested to know which children were on the colostrum chewables and the placebo chewables. After finding out their children were not on the colostrum chewables, they demanded their children receive the colostrum chewables or they would leave the daycare. We did not want to be liable for the daycare losing half their children, so we gave all the children the strawberry colostrum chewables and ended the study.

Colostrum and Children

What we did get to see from the time we conducted this study, was the immune benefits for children that result from colostrum. Colostrum is usually seen as beneficial for baby calfs. This is true, but colostrum is beneficial for the improvement of humans health as well. Studies show the abundance of immune factors found in colostrum that can protect people of all ages from infections.

At the Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism, Guatemala City, Guatemala, researchers are also very interested in first-milking colostrum as a means of protecting malnourished impoverished children worldwide.

Children who are living in deprived conditions are in such need that immediate public health assistance is required. These children living in developing countries suffer from proper development, growth and health. Their need for nutrition improvement and morbidity reduction is urgently needed. If protozoal colonization, diarrhoeal episodes and balancing intestinal microflora could be decreased, then that would be an appropriate goal and starting place. Bovine colostrum is becoming more readily available, continuous and stable due to advances in the food technology industry for dairying, says researchers from the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, August 2002 issue.

Children definitely benefit from colostrum. However, when giving colostrum to your children, think of it as a whole food concentrate rather than a nutritional supplement. If you have a child or children who suffer from multiple occurrences of colds or the flu, middle ear infections or other respiratory infections, then colostrum is the answer for you. Our strawberry colostrum chewables can help improve your children's immune system and protect them against these illnesses. Plus, because they are strawberry chewables, it is easier for your children to take them. All you have to do is have your children take two to three colostrum strawberry chewables daily. You can find these Strawberry Chewable Colostrum Tablets at HealthyShores.com

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