herxing

Hi Northlover!
First of all, I am sorry to hear that your daughter is feeling so poorly.

I am a little confused - you asked how to ease a herx and then said that "we are going to start going from detoxing... ". Is the detoxing causing a herx?

If so, I am so sorry! I have been in that boat before, fortunately only for a short while and it was because I was trying to detox faster than my body was able to handle.

If this is the case, I would start her off with foot soaks for detoxing, using the epsom salts & peroxide & only allow her to keep her feet in the water for maybe 10 minutes at a time, and only every 2 or 3 days for starters.

If she can tolerate the foot soaks without any issues, then go to bath soaks - again starting out with only a few minutes in the water at a time, slowly building up to more time.

For more suggestions, please read the thread "New to Lyme? ...Start Here!", which can be found here;

www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=1606610

Please do let us know if this helps or if you need more help finding the information you are seeking.

A famous LLMD recommends Alka Seltzer Gold...the Gold one only.

I second Alka Seltzer Gold or Benadryl. It helps calm the entire body down. If you look up herxing and benadryl, you will find a few websites that talk about it. My LLMD had also rcommended it to me but I am very sensitive to anti-histamine.