Holistic Ways to Strengthen Your Child's Immune System Naturally

Crumpled up tissues littered the living room floor. The blasting cartoons that the kids’ eyes had been glued to for hours still couldn’t drown out the grating noise of her son’s wet, raspy cough and her daughter’s seven consecutive sneezes. It had been three days of this misery, this plague. 

If Amy had been feeling well, the kids would be having homemade chicken soup and a tablespoon of elderberry syrup every hour. But since she had a pounding migraine, high fever and felt like she had been hit by a mack truck, she let the kids have whatever snacks they could stomach and kept Tylenol within arms reach of the couch they all had been planted on for days. When Mom’s sick too, it’s a free for all. 

Amy blamed school. Her son’s teacher even sent out an email warning parents of the plague, since nearly the entire class was out for the count. Friends, neighbors, practically everybody they knew seemed to have this nasty virus. 

Everybody that is, except Amy’s sweet six-month-old, Olivia. There she was, lying on her play mat on the floor, smiling up at the toys dangling from her baby gym. She was perfectly healthy and happy. 

How was it possible that the entire family was sick, yet baby Olivia, with her fragile, developing immune system, didn’t even have a sniffle? It truly felt like a miracle. 

Buzz! Amy checked the notification from her phone: a text message from Slainte Chiropractic. 

“Friendly 24 hour reminder for Olivia’s appointment!” the text read.

Light bulbs went off in Amy’s head; it finally clicked. She had been taking Olivia to the chiropractor for a month now, and had already noticed a significant improvement in her temperament and digestion. Could it also be the reason she wasn’t sick?  

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How Chiropractic Care Supports the Immune System

One of the most common things that parents of kids under consistent chiropractic care report is that they are sick way less often. How can that be? 

Chiropractic care works with the nervous system. The nervous system is the master control system of the body, coordinating every cell, organ, and system in the body–including the immune system. 

There is a two way communication system between the nervous system and the immune system. The immune system perceives what’s happening in the body and the nervous system regulates the response necessary with that information. But if theres a block in communication between the nervous system and immune system neither will work optimally so the body will suffer. 

This blockage most often comes from a vertebral subluxation which results from outside stressors being greater than the body’s internal resistance. The job of the chiropractor is to assess the nervous system for subluxations and correct them so the nervous system can communicate optimally giving the body the best chance to reach its fullest healing and functioning potential. 

A study compared kids under conventional medical care and chiropractic care, and found that “children raised under chiropractic care are less prone to infectious processes such as otitis media and tonsillitis, and that their immune systems are better able to cope with allergens such as pollen,weeds, grasses, etc. compared to children raised under allopathic care.” 

If you want a holistic solution to optimize your child’s health, chiropractic is the ultimate biohack!

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Though still under the weather, Amy managed to get all three kids out of the house for Olivia’s chiropractic appointment the next day. She almost forgot what it looked like to see so many happy, healthy, energetic kids and babies. The Slainte lobby was always full of them.

“Her body is working great!” Dr. Vin expressed as he checked Olivia. 

 “That makes one of us,” Amy sighed. “How soon can I get my other two under care?” 

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