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I think my 6yr. old son is suffering from air
hunger. Last Friday I caught him taking
deliberate breaths. I asked him what was wrong
and he explained that it was hard for him to
breathe. He doesn't have a cough and asthma
doesn't run in the family. His breathing seems
normal when he sleeps. I want to add that he has
other lyme issues as well.
When I experienced air hunger it lasted from a
few minutes to a day.
How long do your air hunger episodes last? Does
this seems especially long to anyone? Thank You
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TerryK
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I'm sorry that your son is suffering. Air hunger is usually considered a babesia symptom.
Copying a previous post of mine about how I got relief from air hunger:
Air hunger for me is related to babs AND acetylcholine. I only know this because I use muscle testing and found that things that increase my acetylcholine help a great deal to alleviate the air hunger.
Later, I read the article at the link below that explains that the borrelia toxins affect acetylcholine.
I'm cutting and pasting just a fraction of the article:
http://www.townsendletter.com/FebMar2006/lyme0206.htm Dietary Supplements in Lyme Disease One of the known actions of the Lyme spirochete toxin is to diminish the release and availability of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, a simple organic compound (see above for chemical structure).
This substance is biosynthesized by the body as required in nerve activation and transmission.
Supplementation by the precursors of acetylcholine synthesis would be of value to Lyme patients since they have a deficiency of this substance. (See Listing 1.)
Listing 1: Dietary Supplements Increasing Acetylcholine Synthesis Improving Neurologic Function
If the inhibition of acetylcholine release were total, Lyme patients and those suffering from food poisoning would not be able to move; they would be completely paralyzed.
Since the blockage is only partial, any increase in the amount of available neurotransmitter would benefit anyone experiencing neurotransmitter blockage. For this reason, dietary supplements increasing the amount of available acetylcholine have been shown to benefit Lyme patients.
I'm not sure why it causes air hunger but there is some info related to anxiety and air hunger symptoms that show a relationship to acetylcholine. I think acetylcholine does control breathing to some degree.
Before supplementing anything for your son, please ask his LLMD.
My air hunger started out not lasting very long but as time went on and before I figured out how to stop it, it would last for weeks at a time.
Terry I'm not a doctor
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c3mom - I'm sorry for what your child is going through.
As TerryK said, the air hunger is usually associated with Babesia.
As for as asthma, I wasn't diagnosed with it until I was 50 and no one else in my family had it.
It wasn't until my daughter got a pet that I had an allergic reaction causing asthma. You might want to pursue it with the pediatrician. Good luck.
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