By Stephanie Ray, BCN – Board Certified Naturopath, Chinese Herbalist, and Mom
Why Use the Vaccine Companion Kit With Your Child?
The choice of how and whether to vaccinate your child is a very personal one. If you decide to vaccinate, preparing their body beforehand and continuing afterward gives the organs responsible for responding, filtering and eliminating time to do their work.
A vaccination activates your child’s immune system, making healthy immune modulation important during this time. Medicinal mushrooms help modulate immune function rather than simply stimulating it.*
Getting a shot also places physical and emotional stress on your child. The adrenal system helps their body adapt. The liver filters the blood, while the gut and microbiome help maintain healthy immune function. The body also needs to process and eliminate what it no longer needs.*
The BIORAY Kids® Vaccine Companion Kit uses NDF Calm®, NDF Tummy® and NDF Focus® before and after vaccination to address these functions.
Prepare Before Vaccination
Before vaccination, we want your child’s liver filtering the blood efficiently, their gut and microbiome supporting healthy immune function, and their bowels moving 1–3 times a day.
We also begin detoxification before the vaccination. The micronized chlorella in BIORAY Kids® formulas binds to heavy metals and environmental chemicals already present in your child’s body and helps move them out primarily through the urinary tract and secondarily through the bowels.*
The purpose is to begin reducing what your child’s body is already carrying before it has the additional byproducts from the vaccination to process and eliminate.
This is why the Vaccine Companion Kit begins at least 5 days before vaccination rather than waiting until afterward.
The Adrenals and the Stress of Getting a Shot
Getting a shot is emotionally and physically stressful. The adrenal system is your child’s natural stress responder, helping their body adapt when there is an increase in physical or emotional demand.
Supporting the adrenals before and after vaccination helps your child have the reserves to respond to that stress without becoming depleted.* This is particularly important when their body is also using energy to respond to the vaccination.
The Liver Filters the Blood
Your child’s liver is one of their primary filtration systems. It cleans the blood and processes toxins and other substances the body needs to eliminate.
This is important before vaccination. We don’t want to add another demand when the liver may already be overwhelmed.
NDF Calm® is the liver formula in the Vaccine Companion Kit. It supports liver filtration, emotional balance and your child’s response to stress.*
The Gut & Microbiome
Much of your child’s immune activity takes place in the gut, so we want to keep the intestinal lining healthy while the immune system is responding to the vaccination.
NDF Tummy® contains probiotic lysates that help protect and maintain the intestinal lining and support a healthy microbiome.* This helps keep the gut strong and doing its job without adding more work for the immune system and liver during this time.
Micronized Chlorella: Bind It and Move It Out
Every BIORAY Kids® formula contains NDF® (Natural Detox Factors). At the center of NDF® is our micronized chlorella, which binds to heavy metals and environmental chemicals and escorts them out of the body.*
NDF Focus® provides additional micronized chlorella to begin binding and removing toxins before vaccination. After vaccination, we continue NDF Focus® while your child’s body processes and eliminates vaccine by-products.*
We continue for three weeks afterward to give your child’s body time to thoroughly clean up and restore a healthier internal terrain.
Our published research with NDF® and NDF Plus® shows increased binding and excretion of heavy metals, chemicals and pesticides.¹
Are Your Child’s Bowels Moving 1–3 Times a Day?
As we bind and remove toxins, your child needs to be eliminating every day. The bowels are an important route for moving waste out of the body, so the goal is 1–3 healthy bowel movements each day.
If your child is already doing this, continue to monitor them while using the kit.
If their bowels become sluggish, add NDF Pooper®. Its herbs encourage a downward-moving action, while omega-3s help lubricate the intestines for smooth, comfortable bowel movements without urgency or mess.*
Suggested Intake: 2 mL per 50 lbs of body weight, 1–2 times daily.*
Keep Your Child Hydrated
Your child needs enough water to help move what the micronized chlorella has bound out of the body through the urinary tract. Water also helps keep the bowels moving, providing another important pathway for elimination.*
A practical guideline is approximately half of your child’s body weight in ounces of water each day, adjusted for age, activity, weather and individual needs.
40-lb child = approximately 20 ounces of water per day
Keeping your child hydrated and their bowels moving 1–3 times a day helps ensure that what has been bound can continue moving out of the body.²
What’s in the BIORAY Kids® Vaccine Companion Kit?
NDF Calm®
Supports liver filtration of vaccine by-products while helping with anxiousness and emotional upset.*
NDF Tummy®
Supports the gut and microbiome during the immune activity that follows vaccination.*
NDF Focus®
Provides additional NDF® micronized chlorella to bind heavy metals and environmental chemicals for elimination while your child’s body processes the vaccination.*
NDF Pooper® — Optional
Add if your child’s bowels become sluggish or they are not having 1–3 healthy bowel movements a day. Herbs encourage downward movement, while omega-3s lubricate the intestines for smooth bowel movements without urgency or mess.*
How to Use the Vaccine Companion Kit
Begin at least 5 days before your child’s vaccination and continue for 3 weeks following each vaccination.
Suggested Intake: Give 1 mL per 50 lbs of body weight of each formula, 1–2 times daily.*
Add products one at a time every 24 hours. If your child tolerates them well, the BIORAY formulas can then be given together.*
If your child is receiving approximately one vaccination each month, these periods overlap. In that situation, continue the formulas throughout the vaccination schedule rather than repeatedly stopping and restarting.
Additional Recommendations on the Day of Vaccination
Ice Pack: Bring an ice pack with you. Immediately following the injection, apply it to the area for 15–30 minutes.
Thuja 6x (homeopathic remedy): Give 4 pellets under the tongue immediately following vaccination, then again 1 hour, 1½ hours and 2 hours afterward.
Rescue Remedy (Bach flower essence): Give 3–4 times on the day of vaccination: before going to the appointment, immediately after the vaccination and 1–2 additional times later in the day.
Working with a caring and thoughtful health practitioner is recommended, particularly if your child is sensitive to dietary supplements or is receiving a series of vaccinations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why start the Vaccine Companion Kit before my child’s vaccination?
Beginning beforehand gives your child time to start moving some of the heavy metals and environmental chemicals already present before their body has the additional byproducts from the vaccination to process and eliminate.*
How long should my child use the Vaccine Companion Kit?
Begin at least 5 days before vaccination and continue for 3 weeks afterward.
Can my child stay on the kit between monthly vaccinations?
Yes. If your child is receiving approximately one vaccination each month, the recommended periods overlap. Continue the formulas rather than stopping and restarting between vaccinations.
How much should I give my child?
Give 1 mL per 50 lbs of body weight of each BIORAY Kids® formula, 1–2 times daily.*
When should I add NDF Pooper®?
Add NDF Pooper® if your child’s bowels become sluggish or they are not having 1–3 healthy bowel movements each day.*
If their bowels are already moving normally, continue monitoring them. There is no need to make the bowels move more.
Why are bowel movements important during vaccine support?
The micronized chlorella binds to heavy metals and environmental chemicals, but binding is only part of detoxification. Your child still has to eliminate what has been bound. The bowels are one of the important pathways for moving it out.*
How much water should my child drink?
A practical guideline is approximately half of your child’s body weight in ounces of water each day, adjusted for age, activity, weather and individual needs.
Water helps keep the bowels moving and provides the fluid needed for urinary elimination.
What if my child is sensitive to dietary supplements?
If you know your child is sensitive to dietary supplements, begin more slowly and increase according to tolerance. Work with a knowledgeable health practitioner when additional guidance is needed.
Footnotes & References
1. Ray S, Wilken T. How Plant-Based Detoxifiers Benefit Chemical Detoxifiers. Explore! 2012;21(2). This paper describes NDF/NDF Plus and chlorella-based binding and excretion of heavy metals, chemicals and pesticides.
2. Ray S, Wilken T. How Plant-Based Detoxifiers Benefit Chemical Detoxifiers. The published protocol recommends hydration, increased liquids and moving the bowels at least twice daily during detoxification.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.