My Poor Kid

[Nurse in the Raw]

After 5 months of transitioning my family from a diet consisting of meat and cooked foods, we are eating a vegetarian diet (them cooked, me raw). Well my son (age 16) decides to go to my sister's house to skateboard and they were having a cookout. I didn't go because I am in the middle of the Master Cleanse but he did and felt obligated to eat a hamburger (pushy relatives!). Big mistake!!! He felt fine until this morning and then it hit him. He woke up with diarrhea, violent shaking, head and face burning like fire, migraine and then he passed out in the bathroom floor. Apparently he had a violent reaction to the hamburger and his system rebelled. No one else got sick.

This is the same kid of mine that I was talking about in another thread who hangs out at the salad bar at school and gets yelled at by the lunchroom ladies. I am now for sure going to talk to the principal about the salad bar thing. I don't want him giving into the lunchroom goons and eating something that is going to do this to him again. That really scared the crap out of me.

My entire family is also on notice.....feed my kid meat again and heads are gonna roll.

[SuBu]

Oh Stacie, I am so sorry! How scary for you both! Hope he's doing better. If that's not a "health issue", I don't know what is. He CANNOT eat those foods! How much more plain could it be to anyone. I can see you before the School Board!

[RawHeaven]

My God that's scary. I'm glad your son is okay. I've heard of worse reactions/situations when someone who has eliminated red meat consumes it. I can understand your fury, I'd be pissed! You shouldn't force anyone to eat anything they don't want to.

[StarFire]

If they don't let him eat as much salad as he wants -- then -- HEAD SHOULD ROLLL!!

awww... I'm sorry your son got so sick from the cook out... I hope he feels better soon... I'm sure this was a valuable lesson -- this will hopefully prevent an EVEN more serious reaction in the future...

I had a tiny bit of cheese fondue - and I was sick for three days! :eek: ... so I understand the body saying..."Get this out of me!!" :cool:

that's really scary stacie... if that happened to one of my kids I wouldve freaked...

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[soulstar]

Wow, Staci,

I too, am sorry about your son. I hope this will be the last time he has to experience anything like this. Poor kid. I can certainly understand why you'd be upset, too.
Let's hope this makes it clear to your family that your son's diet cannot yo-yo back and forth between healthy and SAD without dire consequences.

All the best to you,

Soulstar

[Gittel]

How is your son feeling now? I hope that he's much better.

This also may serve to strengthen his resolve to stay away from meat. Let's hope that some good will come from this.

Gittel

[Morn]

Sending get well wishes to your son!:D

[Nurse in the Raw]

Jesse is fine now but I kept him home from school. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. Both of my kids learned a lesson today and both swear never to eat meat again.

Shelbie, my daughter got a secret chuckle out of it and couldn't help but say to him.....I told you so!

[halikatak]

I had a tiny bit of cheese fondue - and I was sick for three days! :eek: ... so I understand the body saying..."Get this out of me!!" :cool:



This scares me. Am I going to get sick the first time I eat something un-raw? :eek:

[EZ rider]

This scares me. Am I going to get sick the first time I eat something un-raw? :eek:I have read quite a few posts from "clean" raw fooders who ate SAD and especially meat and then felt poorly as the food progressed through the digestive tract.

[Joyeuse]

It seems that when we "upgrade" our bodies do not want to go back! I keep craving cooked food and every once in awhile I give in and regret it fast as it gives me headaches and drains me completely and I get depressed afterwards. I think though it is that I have always felt that way but was so used to it, I've been 1 month raw (with several slips though) and it makes me feel so light and so good, lots of energy that I didn't have before. I don't think getting sick on cooked food as a bad sign or that your body is weak and can't handle it, I think it's the opposite, the body was being properly nourished and then let him know that the hamburger was not good for it, the body is working as it should, it's supposed to let us know these things. Most people muffle it up and become desensitized, and just like with hunger pains that hit hard and then slowly fade as we try to ignore them. I hope I'm making sense!

[Raspberry4]

I hope your son is feeling better very soon.

As far as the lunch ladies go - they have no right to tell him what he can and cannot eat. That is a violation of his rights. See the principal about it and if it goes no where the next time I would say "Please correct this or I will have no choice but to seek legal counsel". That will usually get them. I have had to go so far as to the superintendent of the school. Good luck to you.

[Radiantly Raw]

Wow Stacie, what a violent reaction! Poor kid. I hate it for your kids that your family does that. I had read the other thread about them picking on your daughter when she's there to help out. And the lunchroom, well, that's just hideous. I mean really!! It makes my blood boil just thinking about it, both situations. :mad: Glad your son is doing better now, and I hope it never happens again!

[Nurse in the Raw]

Wow Stacie, what a violent reaction! Poor kid. I hate it for your kids that your family does that. I had read the other thread about them picking on your daughter when she's there to help out. And the lunchroom, well, that's just hideous. I mean really!! It makes my blood boil just thinking about it, both situations. :mad: Glad your son is doing better now, and I hope it never happens again!

Yea....people just can't grasp eating raw or organic for that matter. I don't know why people are so closed off when it comes to food. Jesse is much better today and won't be eating at anyone's house in the future. He is also standing his ground in the lunchroom, especially after the bad reaction. He does not want to go there again.

[baltochef]

Stacie

I hope that your son is well & recovers with no ill effects..

Your relatives should be ashamed of themselves for what they did!!..

People do not realize what the effects of cooked food, especially modern "tainted" meats, will do to a person who has cleansed themselves of the toxins of cooked foods or meat..

There was a news article in the Baltimore Sun newspaper a while ago that talked about this very thing..

A man & woman, "hippies" if you will, had moved up into a remote area of Northern California sometime in the late 70's..

They grew ALL of their own food & were practising cooked vegans..

They home schooled their two children, a boy & a girl..

The older child, the boy, won a scholarship to one of the major universities in California, I can't remember which one..

He wasn't at the university for more then several weeks, when due to the EXTREME lack of & variety of vegetables & salads in the dining facility; he bowed in to peer pressure & ate something with meat in it..

He became so ill that his life was in jeopardy, & had to be hospitalized; nearly dying..

This young man's body was SO clean due to having never ingested ANY foods that were contaminated with petro chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, hormones, antibiotics, etc. that the first bite of such foods made him deathly ill..

"Normal" people eating the SAD diet JUST DON"T GET IT!!..

They cannot wrap their minds around the concept that the food that they & the majority of the WORLD is eating is slowly poisoning them..

It attacks their entire belief system, & like most human beings that feel attacked they retaliate in one form or another..

As humans we have NOT yet progressed to the point of feeling the need to physically attack raw foodists for being different from the the majority SAD eaters, although that time may occur at some not so distant point in the future..

At the present, most raw foodists are pressured to change back to SAD by snide verbal comments; partial to complete dismissal of the validity of raw eating for ANY reason, medical or spititual; & by being constantly tempted & actively encouraged to eat cooked foods..

Unfortunately for your son, his relatives in all likelyhood don't see anything wrong with what they did!!..

They probably see you & your children as being "different" & feel compelled to change them back to their way of eating in order to feel good about themselves..

I hope that they now at least realize that if your son had needed hospitalization, had suffered any kind of permanent damage, or GOD forbid had died from eating the hamburger that they so willingly urged him to eat; that the adults at your sisters house that urged him to eat the hamburger would have been legally culpable & responsible for any injuries to him..

Good luck to you & all of the other parents on this forum that have to look out for your children who are vegetarians, vegans, or raw..

Bruce

[Radiantly Raw]

Yea....people just can't grasp eating raw or organic for that matter. I don't know why people are so closed off when it comes to food. Jesse is much better today and won't be eating at anyone's house in the future. He is also standing his ground in the lunchroom, especially after the bad reaction. He does not want to go there again.

Good for him! I know what you mean, it's amazing how many "buttons" get pushed in people when it comes to food! All he's doing is making the best choices for himself, not judging anyone else- yet it creates drama? I don't think I'll ever fully understand that. I know we all experience it to some degree. Glad he's feeling better!

[chilove]

Aww, poor thing. Hopefully he won't want to do that again!

Blessings,

Audrey
www.rawhealing.com