Allergies & Eczema. Teething and Treatments

Teething and treatments.
S, eat raw garlic to fight off your cold.  I find it most effective shreded with carrots as a salad.  I know someone else who prefers it as raw garlic and tomato juice that she makes in a juicer.  Garlic works very well in fighting and preventing colds.  Also, chamomile works really well for teething. It is something that has always been used for teething and adults with gum problems can verify that it works.  I would really only resort to doliprane as a last resort and try chamomile first.  It is okay to give chamomile on a regular basis.  You can dissolve 3 granules in a tiny bit of water and then give the baby the water.

The translation of "racine de guimauve" is marshmallow root, not mallow root.  This is what marshmallows were originally made from and has traditionally been used in France on the sore gums of teething babies.  Some herbists can still find it.  It grows in marshes and I have been looking for it for a bit now.  Since I haven't ever seen it though, I'm sort of having a hard time finding it.  But I live in a small town and apparently asked the right person to get someone else motivated in finding it for me (since she is close to us and I guess didn't like the idea of me asking this other person).  Anyway, she asked someone who knows where it is and is going to show it to me.  Good luck finding it - T

Just a quick idea for those who have teething babes, many people swear by these little necklaces made of amber beads which ease pain apparently. Can be ordered on most natural parenting websites. Don't know what it's worth but once when I had a bad earache I put a piece of amber in my pillow and within a few minutes my ear popped and all pain was ended.... maybe a coincidence? R.

Just wanted to tell you we went through recently 2 severe bouts of ear ache with R (who is 3 years and 11 months old).

The first time a couple of weeks ago, really sudden onset, red ear, very hot, crying so much he didn't want me in the room let alone breastfeed or even water. He was quite delirious. I eventually managed to dribble some water (with Belladonna granules dissolved in it) into his mouth while he slept and finally got a doliprane (paracetamol) suppo into him. Then he slept the rest of the night (crawled into our bed at some point but no crying) and in the morning it was over.

Then last week the same thing but this time I got him to take Belladonna straight away and again the suppositoire. and again it passed quickly.

Both times I was sure if we'd called a doctor he'd have got antibiotics. Luckily it was over before we got through to one.

So far of the 4 times in his life R has had a severe ear ache he never needed antibiotics!! It cleared up by itself.

I saw a homeopathe today who is giving him a course of Belladonna (higher dose) to try to put a stop to it. I fugured twice in 2 weeks was starting to be a bit of a pattern.

Aynway Belladonna is by no means the only possible homeopathic remedy for ear infection. It depends on the "symptom picture". But it fitted R's symptoms.

Attached is an article I just found (see : ear infection article) in my files which I remember reassured me the first time Raphael refused the antibiotics he was prescribed by the doctor who we called out a couple of years ago.

Also fever plays an important part in helping the body to fight off infection.. There's an article about that I want to find again...

R

Both my brother and I spent a good part of our childhoods with tubes in our ears. (both of us were breastfed for 3 months, every 4 hours, with supplements according to Doctor's orders) Tubes in your ears grow out so when the next otitis struck, another painful insertion of tubes in our ears...
Great to have a little info on plant treatments. I feel very priviledged to actually see it in print, in English! C.