Dr. Jonathan Henderson

Keitetääs kahvit.

Mikä ihana lause.

Saa hengähtää ja unohtaa hetkeksi huolet ja hommat.

A lot of kids were coming with their parents with tummy pain.

Now there are lots of causes for tummy pain, but when we looked into the history, like what's the diet like, suddenly it was noticed in the history it's very beige.

Not a lot of water being taken and kids were being diagnosed with constipation.

They fall down this spiral of needing medication, laxatives, presenting to A&E for treatment.

These kids were getting blood tests that were normal and suddenly anxiety is driven with, there is something wrong with my child.

Why is nothing being found?

When actually it was the functional aspect of what we put in our mouth is creating the problem.

I have a patient who's a teenager currently who we've had to put a tube in just to get the nutrition correct because they have vitamin A deficiencies, so they're losing sight.

So there's an extreme element of this from different trace elements or deficiencies that's affecting health of children.

And eyesight's only one of them.

Even response to infection, recovery from illness can take longer if the nutrition is not right.

I mean, it could list lots of things.

And what we actually did, we surveyed the school and that sort of informed us of how we should target this because we are definitely of the view that we're not going to go in to tell people what they need to do because they don't know what they don't know.

We need to see what is it that we can do to help and allow for that open Q&A.

So for me, sharing experience because I can share what I see, so in preventative medicine term, share this with the public and go, if you don't follow these steps, potentially this could happen to you or your child.

Things can also be done differently.

Everyone deserves to be seen in health care.