HEALTHY CHILDREN = HAPPY MUMS!
HEALTHY CHILDREN = HAPPY MUMS!
Breathing easier with Pycnogenol
Just a few months ago, nine-year-old Jenny Grant was using steroid inhalers to control her asthma. Diagnosed asthmatic when she was a toddler, Jenny had used inhalers regularly day and night. “I just don’t like giving her these chemicals,” explains mum, Sarah. “But she was really very poorly.”
Sarah is delighted with Jenny’s new asthma remedy, a simple extract of pine bark from France called Pycnogenol, as recommended by her local health food shop, after Sarah had read a review of scientific research in the newspaper. Published in the Journal of Asthma in early 2005, the researchers found that two thirds of asthmatic children managed to come off inhalers after three-month’s supplementation with Pycnogenol. The dosage used in the study was 1mg for every 1 lb of body weight. Jenny has been taking one capsule of Pycnogenol 50mg daily and has noticed immediate results. As Jenny is just 9, she finds it difficult to swallow capsules and so her mum breaks it open and mixes the powder with yoghurt.
“Within a week, Jenny was saying how much better she felt. After a month, she was completely off the inhalers and her breathing much improved,” explains Sarah. “I have noticed that she is breathing through her nose as well as her mouth now. She enjoys swimming so much more too, since she is no longer struggling to breathe.”
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