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Uveitis in children

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@gemz

Hi, just found this chat from googling uveitis questions. I see it's an old post but wandered if any of the natural therapies worked for the children? My son is 9 and was diagnosed with uveitis over 3 years ago, about 5 months ago the hospital decided that it was time to start him on methotrexate but so far I have refused, I did private testing and he had high levels of heavy metals, a blocked valve in intestines so have had him on a strict food plan of one ingredient foods, nothing processed at all he was on high vitamin c and a few other supplements for a couple of months, massaged his intestine area (so he now 💩 more often) I'm hoping this will detox the poisons out of him. The hospital see us once a month and the steroids he has been on are now down to 5mg per day and dropping to 2.5mg next week, I really want him off these, so this is good but the fear of a flare up is a bit of a worry. I'd love to know about any natural steps people have taken and how the results of that have gone. Good luck to all our babies with this awful autoimmune, Gem x

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Hello @gemz, Welcome to Connect. This is an older discussion and I don't think there are any active members but I did a search of Connect for uveitis and found members have commented on the condition in other discussions. Here is a link to the search results that lists the comments - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/search/comments/?search=uveitis%20treatments.

I'm hoping members with some experience will respond and share their experience with pediatric uveitis. I also found this Canadian site that has some educational information on children with uveitis that might be helpful - Cassie+Friends - https://cassieandfriends.ca/uveitis/.

I know this must be really difficult for you trying to find other ways to treat your son rather than the steroids. I did find this article that mentions natural treatments that might be helpful - Natural Uveitis Remedies: Prevent & Treat Uveitis Naturally - https://www.vision-and-eye-health.com/natural-uveitis-remedies/.

Have your son's doctors offered any suggestions for natural treatments that might help along with the current treatment plan?