From Chronic Eczema and Steroids to Eliminating Prescriptions and Sleeping Through the Night

Katie Herb (00:00) I have never experienced a provider, both in my own life and now in my children's lives, as invested in my children as all of the providers at Integrative Health. Um, of course, when you become a patient at the clinic, they are investing a lot into helping your child to get better, but it's more than that. The way that they invest in your so much of a deeper immersion in what you get through other different types of healthcare. Hi, my name is Katie Herb and I live in Terre Haute, Indiana, and I am a stay-at-home mom. So, we joined the Eczema Transformation Program back in 2023. And prior to that, my son was just very, very sick. "He came out of the womb sick," I like to say. He had rashes from the start, and that quickly turned to food allergies when he was three months old, which we found through blood in his stool, and it just escalated from there. We saw a lot of conventional doctors and continued to be handed a prognosis of, "Oh, this is just going to be his life. Next he'll have allergies, then he'll have asthma." And we were also handed a lot of steroids. And it just got to the point where he was miserable. He wasn't sleeping. Then I found Dr. Temple, and we joined the Eczema Transformation Program, and then later Integrative Health Care. My husband and I were both very hesitant about the We were in military so we had Tricare, so the thought of having to pay a couple thousand dollars out of pocket for this program was absurd to us. But our son was so sick, and we were miserable. We had another baby on the way, and we were to the point that we had done everything that they said to do, and he wasn't getting any better, in fact, he was getting worse. We would pay it a million times over to do it again. Bowen's doing phenomenal. Today, actually, we are getting him off of his last prescription, which is just like amazing to say! He can play outside in shorts and a t-shirt. He's sleeping at night. He's eating a lot of new foods. There's still some allergies that we're working through, through low dose allergen therapy with them, but it's night and day compared to what it was when we joined the program and the clinic. So he's doing amazing. I think it's important for parents to understand that eczema is a sign of inflammation. And the team at Integrative Health Carolinas, they view it as that. And so they see these children who have eczema or food allergies or different - all kinds of different immune responses to things. And they're not just treating it as this one thing that we need to figure out and move on from, but they're treating it as the whole picture of your child's health. And so, I think if you as the parent, are wanting to look at the whole picture and to set your child up for success for a healthy childhood, and hopefully a healthy adulthood and future, I think Integrative Health is the place to be because they want them to have a good future and it's not just a band-aid to get you through what you're dealing with without that.