Testimonials: Blood Cell Count

Author: Derrick B.
When my youngest son, Ethan, was eight months old he was diagnosed with failure to thrive. He had some blood tests done and the results showed that his liver enzymes were elevated, but before any more tests could be done he was growing and gaining weight again. When he was about 10 months old he contracted RSV and had to use a nebulizer with steroid breathing treatments for about four weeks. When he was 15 months old he had a low-grade fever that spiked in the middle of the night and caused him to have a febrile seizure. He was taken to the emergency room where they gave him a breathing tube and performed many tests. The doctors discovered that his red blood cell count was extremely low and his white blood cells were virtually nonexistent. They gave him three blood transfusions that stabilized his red cell counts but his white cell count was still extremely low and falling. After a bone marrow tap they discovered he wasn’t producing any neutrophil cells, or baby white blood cells. They gave him a Neupogen injection. After a week in the hospital, he was allowed to come home. Since his bone marrow still wasn’t producing any white blood cells, Ethan had to be quarantined for several months. With a white cell count as low as his, he couldn’t be exposed to people. His immune system was so devastated that he could pick up a germ from a grocery cart that could be a death sentence for him. His hematologist started him on a Neupogen regiment. Neupogen is the miracle drug that helps build up one’s white blood cell count. We have had to give him Neupogen injections 1 to 3 times a week for the past two years. These injections run about $250 each. This would help stimulate production of the white blood cells but would barely maintain them at an acceptable level. The doctor had warned us that it might take up to three or four years for his body to recover––if it did at all.

During this time he had a high level of food allergies caused by poor absorption. This led the doctors to believe he also might have celiac disease, due to his gluten allergy. Along with all of these other problems he also had a moderate case of eczema.

I was introduced to mangosteen juice in mid October 2003. I looked all over the Internet for articles on the mangosteen. I couldn’t find a reason not to give it to him. I ordered two cases and started giving him the mangosteen juice around the first of November. Ethan had been on one ounce per day of the mangosteen juice for about three weeks when I gave him his last injection of Neupogen right around Thanksgiving. He has been on mangosteen juice for about 18 months and didn’t need another injection for the whole time. This mangosteen juice has been able to help elevate and maintain my son’s white blood cell count to an acceptable level. He has no more food allergies and his eczema is completely gone. In the beginning his doctor was totally baffled by this. Now he truly believes that mangosteen juice is doing something. At his appointment last week he still didn’t need a shot, and his hematologist said, “Keep giving him that juice!”