Four members of my family were having terrible cramps: my wife and 3 children.  Lower back cramps, knee cramps, leg cramps, foot cramps almost sabotaged our family vacation.  My family went on a very short vacation to Puerto Galera beaches in Mindoro island.  The bad part about it was the crisis of pain and cramps began without me as I just followed later on in the late afternoon.

My wife and 3 kids and a nanny were driven to Batangas port by van.  At the port our 8 year old daughter suddenly complained of knee pain and leg pain then foot arch pain.  Then our 11 year old boy too complained of leg pain.  My wife was thinking of sending the children back.  But they pressed on and rode the small boat from Batangas to Mindoro.  On the boat, our 9 year old boy too started having leg pain as well.  By the late afternoon my wife was also feeling tailbone pain, lower back pain.  What an epidemic!Continue Reading