In case you missed my free webinar, The Five Most Common Mistakes Parents Make in Their Children’s Health, I wanted to share an excerpt from the section on croup.
Croup is a respiratory infection accompanied by a harsh, barking cough. Most common in very young children, croup frightens parents because it sounds as if the child can’t catch his breath. This viral infection leads to swelling that constricts the respiratory passages causing very loud breathing sounds. Croup should be carefully watched, and emergency care sought if breathing is too labored, but a parent armed with a little homeopathic know-how and common horse sense can successfully treat croup at home.
First, bring your child into the bathroom and place him next to the running shower where he will be exposed to the steam. You should see a modicum of improvement in his breathing after half an hour or so of being exposed to this warm, moist air. The breathing passages will relax and the cough will diminish.
Next, select the best fit from the following three homeopathic remedies.
When choosing croup remedies, our main focus is time.
• If the cough begins just after midnight and your little one is fearful, then the remedy is Aconitum 30. As always, Aconitum is most useful at the beginning stages of an illness and for symptoms that come on suddenly. So if your child has had croup for over 24 hours, it’s unlikely that Aconitum will be of value.
• If instead, it’s closer to 2 AM or the cough sounds like a saw grinding through wood, then use Spongia 30. Cold drinks and talking make the cough worse when Spongia is the correct remedy.
• A croup cough that begins at 3 AM generally calls for Hepar sulph 30. The child is irritable and the cough rattling. Coldness and drafts make the cough worse.
Choose one of the above remedies and administer it every 30 minutes if the cough is severe and every 2 hours if it’s a milder version. As soon as improvement ensues, stop the remedy. One of the clearest signs that the baby is improving is if he falls asleep. If on waking the cough returns, continue treatment.
There you have it! You’ve just learned how to treat a cough that has frightened parents and baffled emergency room personnel for years. In just 3 minutes, you’ve become a mini expert. You can treat your child’s croup yourself.
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As a parent, is there anything more frightening than a young child with a high fever? Even those of us who have decided to raise our children without the use of drugs could find our resolve weakening without proper preparation in the face of a thermometer reading north of 103⁰. Before you grab the Tylenol, take the time to memorize these three fever remedies.
This is the whole point of my recently introduced system How to Raise a Drug Free Family. We owe it to our families to learn this stuff now, before the fever hits or the flu appears.
Here’s my easy to remember ABC guide to treating fevers with homeopathy:
A) Aconitum 30: This remedy is useful for a fever with quick onset. In contrast to an illness that develops over several days, fevers that can be helped with Aconitum are suddenly high. However, if you don’t catch the fever within the first 12 hours of illness, don’t bother with this remedy. It won’t be the correct choice at that point.
B) Belladonna 30: If the fever is very high, think Belladonna. The child’s face might be flushed bright red from the heat and his eyes may be glassy with dilated pupils. He may even appear delirious.
C) Chamomilla 30: Chamomilla is an extremely useful remedy for fevers accompanying teething. The child who needs Chamomilla is fractious, unable to be comforted, and irritable. He may beg to be picked up, but then demand to be put down again. If you see a child arching his back in frustration while being held, this is a good indication that Chamomilla is the remedy required.
Give a dose of your chosen remedy every 3 hours up to 4 doses and stop as soon as there’s improvement. If your child falls asleep, that’s a great sign that you’ve probably selected the proper remedy. If the fever has returned when he awakens, then continue using that same remedy.
If you’ve selected correctly, you’ll witness a thing of beauty. Remember, we’re really not treating a fever; we’re just using the characteristics of it to help us determine the remedy that needs to be used to treat the child as a whole.
The fever will inadvertently melt away, but more importantly, the child will be well—most noticeably in his demeanor. If you don’t see this occur, then you've chosen incorrectly or not used the correct procedure because homeopathy ALWAYS works when the remedy is right on. There you have it! Now you’re a fever expert.
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Do you know how you felt on the first Christmas when you learned that there was no Santa? That feeling of exhilaration because of the festivities, family and gifts, but then a let down from the reminder that the kindly old fellow didn’t really exist.
Well, that’s the way I felt at the Weston A. Price Conference last weekend in Dallas.
The camaraderie, the astute and inspiring speakers, and then the recollection of the cold reality that we have a mountain to move to get our voices heard regarding food and health freedom.
Then again, the pure delight of meeting so many able people. This was often followed by sadness when my glance met the eyes of moms who were suffering remorse when they realized they had previously made questionable choices for their families.
Up, down, up down.
It was almost dizzying with intellectual and arousing shifts. I needed to put it all straight in my head.
After pondering it on my flight home, I came away from it all with three ideas:
1) That this freedom movement will be arduous, but possible and even quite probable.
2) That what we had given our children and what we had allowed them to be subjected to, compared to what we give them now involves an important path that is practically necessary to a newly acquired thought process. For, we’d probably not be interested in any of this, if it hadn’t been for someone we love who has suffered at the hand of industrialized foods and chemical medical methods.
3) That we’re not alone; each in our own cities and towns, with joined hands around the world in one of the most riveting movements of our times.
I met and dined with a wonderful 70+ year old architect from Australia, a young father from England and a woman from South America. I met Conservative Jews, Amish, Bible-based Christians, Roman Catholics, New- Agers, Conservatives, Liberals, and Libertarians. And we all agreed on one thing…..health freedom is a commanding movement in our world.
I’ve been interested and involved in this philosophy for nearly 30 years. It has shaped the posturing of my mothering skills, professional choices and political positions…. even my religious affiliation.
Yet, until I experienced the depth and breadth of this conference with over 1500 participants, it had never occurred to me in most of those years that this could be a full-fledged faction of such proportion.
Surely there is a Santa. I know, because I’ve met his elves.
They were all bustling at the Weston A. Price Conference in Dallas and they’re making their place in American and world history.
Real food, family farms, drug free medicine and empowerment to families is real.
Santa lives!
It’s that time of year when our lives are in full swing. Each day is packed with dance classes, soccer practices, weekend activities, grocery shopping, oh! The list goes on and on.
We end up following the daily planner to the “T” just to be sure that everything gets done.
If you’re like me, marking your calendar with the remedies you and your family might, need keeps life a bit more tidy.
One way to be sure that we take our homeopathic remedies, is to carry them along with us; they are great for on-the-go!
A fabulous purse, utilitarian back pack or diaper bag…..these all work just fine.
Carry them either as dry pills or in water. I like to put my cell salts in a glass water bottle, label it and take it with me. That way, if it’s in the car, at school, or out shopping, I can always have my remedy handy, if needed.
The one I usually take along is Calc fluor 6x. It’s great for strengthening teeth, keeping wrinkles from forming and nails hard.
How do you keep your remedies close by?
Can you think of anything worse than the thought of pinworms? Because pinworms are a common childhood infection, regrettably, they're prevalent in schools, too.
Consider this your first lesson in homeopathy.
Homeopathy is a method of medicine that has the gentle and powerful ability to deal with easily spread infections, such as pin worms and colds.
Let’s look at two homeopathic remedies that have a reputation of protecting teachers (and students) who’ve been exposed to these common childhood sicknesses.
When the classroom epidemic is pinworms, there is a great little remedy that is reputed to be just as powerful, not only to eliminate them, but which can be used as a prophylactic.
(Remember, the alternative is not a pleasant one. Conventional medicine will suggest a medicine that is a vermicide. The suffix “cide” means to kill. This means that the active ingredient is a pesticide of sorts, which kills the worms. We want to get rid of the worms, but not at the expense of harming the body with a vermicide.)
Instead, the remedy Cina creates an unfriendly environment so that the worms will expel themselves. Cina tincture can be used by taking 6 drops in water, then sipping the water throughout the day for 15 days in a row. It should be repeated one month later in the same manner. This is the advice of practicing homeopaths of India where this kind of infestations is even more prevalent than in the U.S.
Homeopathy has helped many teachers from getting contaminated with this insidious infection even when nearly the entire class is affected.
For colds, my favorite remedy for our family is Oscillococcinum. In France, it is the top selling, over-the-counter medicine of any kind. They use it as the premiere remedy to abort a cold or flu before it comes on or before it comes on in full force. The French take it as a preventative as soon as the first student begins to sniffle and then one day each week for a month, then one day each month until the cold season is over.
Plenty of other Europeans and Americans use it too.
That’s because the protection it offers can be significant, as long as it’s taken before the symptoms get a foothold. Oscillococcinum is reputed to be particularly valuable when the colds and flu’s come about during the wet and cold seasons, such as autumn and spring. Some say it’s infallible.
All of these remedies are available at health food stores and many pharmacies and will cost no more than $15. Additionally, homeopathy will not interfere with any meds you may already be taking.
If you find that your health is too often plagued by the latest illness in school, give homeopathy a try. It may even become the discovery you innovate in your next science class.
Pinworms and Colds; Who Needs Them? Protect Yourself, Teachers is solely intended to provide a format in assisting the student in learning the principles of Homeopathy. It is in no way to be considered a substitute for a consultation with a health professional.
Children learn many things in the school, don’t they? Math equations, pronouns, sports and games, but the last thing you want them to soak up is a taste for nutritionally vacant and maybe even harmful foods. Cafeteria foods are notoriously unhealthy and gross. (I remember visiting with the head cook at my son’s school and found that nearly every item in the pantry contained MSG.)
Yes, they must go to school, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t learn invaluable lessons from you and their lunch box, too
Here are 5 easy and fun snacks to snuggle in their lunch box:
Check out these and other fun ideas in my audio CD, “Secret Spoonfuls. Confessions of a Sneaky Mom”!
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