The Nagging Mom

Trails of tissue throughout my house keep leading me to one very puffy eyed and red nosed little boy. It has been very disheartening to see that my son has adopted the seasonal "allergy" and even more so being a mother who HATES the idea of giving my child any form of western world medicine my heart breaks every six hours as I hand him over the little pink pill. Unfortunately I realize that he is miserable and needs an immediate fix; the antihistamine provides this. One other alternative is to give him a vaccination OR I can apply those same principles and build up his immunity to the allergenic pollens using a gentler and more holistic approach: Honey.

Now as there are no conclusive studies to show that Local Honey really is anecdotal there are enough reports to be convincing to me. I look at it as a vaccination; Vaccines invade your body with a "germ impostor" to trigger your immune system to respond with the production of antibodies to fight off the germ when it really does invade.

A spoonful of honey a day is kind of like slowly vaccinating the body against allergens, immunotherapy. And the local honey has the same pollen spores that you're sneezing and sniffling to but introduces these spores into your body in tiny amounts making the body accustomed to their presence and decrease the chance an immune system response like the release of histamine but too low to trigger an allergic reaction like smelling a flower might do.

Obviously this method is not as quick of a cure as it's sleep inducing counterpart but its a much safer method. UNLESS for an infant: Children 12 months or younger do not have a fully developed immune system and are subject to Infant Botulism. They should not be fed honey.

Im still studying the ways of keeping bees, I hope to have some next year and then Domestic Diva will be able to sell Local Honey. In the mean time I just picked up a
4 Ounce jar at Market of Choice for $4.50. Farmers markets are a great source too!