Hi monicalucia - sorry to hear about your five-year old. Here is a new training article on Stevens-Johnsons Syndrome.

Hi,

kudos to you for taking care of you little one!..
Tto improve my daughters chance of survival and minimal dicomfort..I focused on the immune building food groups...These foods are also known to improve health for cancer patients.
She really I mean really ate 5-7 helpings a day of fruits and veggies. I worked out a diet so that the chemical compounds would work with her where she needed it most...First...spinach, this is an A+ in immune building compounds...and makes the blood strong it helps keep a better balance of red vs. white. other favorites for her were broccoli, italian broccoli(broccoli rabe). Dandelion greens along with carrots are the only veggies to help the kidney and directly the liver. As you may know the Henoch Scholein Purpura effects the kidneys and worse case causes renal failure...HSP is a syndrome that takes up to several years to leave the body..

There are other recipes and foods that also help...I'm working on a guide for families that have children with HSP..best advice I could give is to stay away from overprocessed food...to many chemicals can cause a reaction with hypersensitive HSP kids or SJS kids or adults.

yes, This is becoming more common one culprit is overuse of antibiotics.. and potentially in some because of the pre processed foods in our diets. Our bodies dont have the strength to fight these types of reactions off because lets face it how many of us really have a balanced diet...it takes as much time to plan a healthy way of eating as it does to train for any goal you might have. It is not impossible however to do. I like to refer to this as a work in progress and to be flexible throughout in terms of eating habits. End result is that the strains of viruses as well as bacterial infections are becoming resiliant. It is the proverbial rock and a hard place.

Thanx for the advice MonicaLucia. My daughter refuses to eat veggies unless their in soup so I will find a way to get her to eat the particular ones. I had never heard of HSP until my daughter had it. Also her label of Autism was just lifted by the school because she has caught up to speed with the areas that she was behind in. I guess the Autism label was a way to get her approved to be in a therapeutic class. I believe the cross between therapy and changing her diet at home has made a difference for all of us. My mother is very suspicious of vaccines, processed foods and gluten as causes for Autism. We eat at home, versus eating out and consume minimal gluten. However she is finicky with veggies. Thanx for your advice and good luck with your daughter too! I hope all the best for her and mine as well.