As parents, we will do absolutely anything and everything to keep our kids healthy. That’s why when they get sick, oh man do we get stressed. From stuffy noses to coughs, and especially fevers … our natural reaction as parents is to go straight to fight-or-flight worry and anxiety.
It’s this natural, stressful emotion combined with a generation or two of “training” that also then sends so many parents right to the doctor’s office or pharmacy aisle with their sick kiddos.
The biggest problem with our current “health” care system that trains us to turn to Tylenol, antibiotics, decongestants, and corticosteroids almost immediately, is that while those things may help in the short term, they weaken and suppress the immune system and body in the long term.