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Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile]  | on 2011-06-13 |
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| Hi, my daughter is 3 years old, will be 4 in August. She has constant nose blockage, that seems to get worse before going to sleep at night, and in the morning, and she picks it and sniffs during the day. It started a few months ago, after she got sick with rotavirus that lowered her threshold for seizures as I was told by the doctors. She had 3 seizures within 2 hours and was hospitalized for 4 days. They couldn`t figure out what caused seizures, there was no fever documented, so they just left her with diagnose of predisposition to epilepsy and recommended getting on medication. I refused. During the stay at the hospitals they gave her strong antibiotics, as they explained "just in case" for meningitis or any other infection that could ne in her system. She was extremely weak and in a lot of stomach pain from severe diarrhea and it took her a couple of weeks to recover and get back to normal. Ever since then, she`s been eating a lot, she constantly wants dry snacks, like nuts, bread, crackers, cookies. She also asks for milk all the time and drink at least 3 cups a day, which I was told is not so good. She does not eat vegetables unless I sneak them some how, same goes for fruit, which i hid in her oatmeal. She`s had stomachaches since them and became very sensitive to stools. She`s also had eczema since she was about 9 months old, which got infected with ringworm a few times. She has constant genital irritation around her vagina and anus. Beside being red often, she complains it itches her all the time. 2 months after the rotavirus she caught a cold that lasted for 3 weeks with no fever. It started with a bad sore throat that was gone within 3 days and then just severe nasal congestion with a lot of mucous. After 4 weeks of nasal problems we went to pediatrician, who said she might have allergies and told to take claritin for a week. I made no difference, just made her very irritable. Now she doesn`t seem to have mucous in her nose, but something is still blocking full breathing. The nose is often dry, and it seems like whatever is in it, seems to be pretty deep in the nose, behind the nostrils, because I cannot get it out with a bulb syringe. The problems with nose contribute to disrupted sleep and therefore, moodiness. Most of these symptoms lead me to sulphur when I used the software on this site. But I want to make sure it`s the right remedy for my daughter and about the dosage and how long I should give it for and how to give it. I`m new to homeopathy, so I could really use some advice, just tired of doctors who don`t seem to care about what`s going on. Please help, thank you! |
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| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-14 |
Do not use the softward on this site to prescribe for yourself. It is only for acute situations not for chronic ones. Homoeopathy is very powerful and can have serious side effects - you must have someone with training and experience help you to choose a remedy. The software cannot advise you on how to catagorize symptoms, how to rank them, how to choose which ones are indicative of the remedy and which are not.
Sulphur will usually come up top because it has the most symptoms in our repertory. This does not mean everyone should take it.
Please present your daughters case using my intake form and I will attempt to guide you.
GUIDELINES FOR GIVING HOMOEOPATHIC CASE INFORMATION
It is important to describe all her problems in as much detail as you are able. One word answers and short sentences are not particularly helpful. Discuss each problem one at a time, providing (as a minimum level of detail) the following information. Note that some complaints may not lend themselves easily to answer each of these questions.
1. What exactly happens?
2. Describe all sensations and pains. Each pain or sensation should be described in such a way that allows us to imagine having the same pain.
3. What causes the problem to get worse after it has started occurring?
4. What creates some relief for the problem?
5. What triggers the problem into occuring?
6. What time of the day or night does the problem occur?
7. When did the problem start? What was happening in her life at that time? Did some specific event or treatment take place just before the problem started?
Move from one problem to the next, doing the same thing. IT IS VITAL THAT YOU GIVE A COMPLETE PICTURE OF her HEALTH BY PROVIDING ALL PROBLEMS YOU HAVE, EVEN IF NOT CONNECTED TO THE MAIN ONE, AND EVEN IF YOU CONSIDER IT OF LESS IMPORTANCE. You should address each problem separately using the above 7 questions as a guide.
As well as this, please describe any traumatic incidents that have taken place in her life. Discuss anything that has had a lasting impact on her mentally, emotionally or physically.
Discuss the way that she manages or deals with her problems, or any problems that occur in her life.
Discuss any patterns you have noticed in her behavior especially concerning her disease.
Discuss any part of her life where she seems stuck or unable to change and grow, especially where this occurred around the beginning of her disease, or as the disease evolved.
Describe her childhood and the kind of environment she grew up in, with reference to her relationships with her family, her school experiences, and any serious childhood diseases.
If her earlier discussions have not mentioned these already, please describe:
1. The specific foods that she craves (not just like) or hates
2. The specific drinks that she craves or hates
3. What her sleep is like
4. How the weather and the temperature affects her
5. What kinds of things in the environment she is particularly sensitive to
6. What is her general level of energy is like
9. Also give these details
a) Body type and build
b) Skin colour and texture
c) Areas of the body tends to perspire on
d) Odour of sweat, body, stool, flatus, urine
e) Colour of stool, urine, sweat
10. Give any reactions to vaccines or medical drugs.
Some of these questions may not be relevent, or you may have already answered. Just fill in what you can, and I will ask for clarification as I need it.
David Kempson
Professional Homoeopath | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-14 |
Thank you so much Dr. Kempson! I`m going to try to give you as full a description of her as I can. I`m glad you stopped me from administering Sulphur before I made things worse for her, it hurts us to be uneducated, so thank you for educating me on this! I truly appreciate it! I`ll try to go exactly with the order of your intake form.
1) One of the main problems for her right now is definitely the nose blockage that seems to bother her a whole lot, especially at night at around 9-11 p.m (or 21.00-23.00) when she is getting ready to go to bed and it usually starts bothering her on waking around 9.30 a.m. in the morning. She starts to sniff very loudly and it sounds like something is blocking the airways in the nostrils for the air to go completely through them. She starts picking her nose to relieve it and "get it out" but when I look inside and try to clear the nose with a bulb syringe, there`s barely anything coming out and if it does it comes out from way far inside the nostrils. If I do it for too long it seems to start bothering her ears, and she has to swallow several times, like in an airplane. I perceive it as a sensation similar to when we blow our nose and the ears get affected. A few time she said it hurt her nose when I used the bulb syringe, I cannot unfortunately describe the pain, because I`m not the one feeling it, she just grabbed her nose and said “ouch, it hurts me”. But there was a tiny amount of blood in the mucous a few times also. All in all, she is not crazy about me cleaning her nose out, but it seems to relieve the blockage somewhat. She also often asks that I spray some saline in her nose, because the nose does seem dry at times probably from me constantly messing with it as I try to help her. Saline relieves the dryness but clogs everything up even more and so the cycle starts all over again. That`s why I try not to give in and use saline drops sparingly. During the day when she is playing and distracted it does not seem to bother her as much and she breaths through her nose pretty well, so distraction and playing outside are the only things that seem to provide some relief for her. The nose problem frustrated her greatly at first, she deals with it a little more calmly now, but one could tell she does not like it. This whole nose problem started about 2,5 months ago when she woke up in the morning with a bad sore throat and no voice. I don`t recall her ever having a sore throat before. It hurt to swallow and talk. And she just did not look or felt well at all. I just gave her tea with honey and oscillococcinum, and the sore throat was gone within 3 days, but the blocked nose stayed, first with a lot of mucous, clear then more yellowish-greenish, then more white and then back to clear, and now it just sounds like slurping when she inhales vigorously. But no excess mucous. She also snored for about 4 or 5 weeks in the beginning. This brings us to a problem number 2) Difficulty breathing through her nose does affect her SLEEP in a sense that she sometimes starts sniffing during the night and we have to try to clear it in the middle of the night. Sometimes she wakes up coughing, she`s done it for her whole life though, when she is in deep sleep it seems like may be she doesn`t swallow and saliva builds up and at some point she chokes on it, so she has to cough it out. It`s not bad, it never caused any breathing problems, but she does it almost every night after about 2 hours of deep sleep when she just falls asleep. I don`t know if it`s related, but just giving you all the details I can think of. Talking about sleep I also need to mention that she was born at 35,5 weeks and had sleep apnea when she was a baby. I still notice that she holds her breath sometimes for no obvious reason, and pauses to breath at night for 5-6 seconds sometimes. To my opinion that might also affect her sleep. Because after she resumes breathing , she changes position. I haven`t caught her many times breathing with her mouth open during sleep though, most of the time she has her mouth closed. All in all, she moves a lot during sleep, sometimes ends up upside down with her feet on her pillow. She fell off a bed once, but it was not a bad fall she was not injured in any way, just shocked a little. And a couple times I caught her almost falling off. Most of the time she falls asleep on her right side where I would sleep if I were with her. Sometimes I find her falling asleep or already asleep with her face buried in the pillow or between pillows . If I sleep with her she has to get really close to me either back to back or putting her feet over me. She is also obsessed with my hair, if I`m next to her, she will extend her hand from any position and reach to run her fingers through my hair and twist it around. She also often asks me to put my hair down if it`s in a pony tail and always notices when I have my hair down around my face. (I`m her mom by the way, just in case:)) Don`t know if it`s important, but again obsessions are probably a part of this process as well. I do think that her sleep is obviously not deep if she constantly feels the need to do it. I also have to wake her up around 3-4 a.m. to go to the bathroom, sometimes she wakes up herself to let me know, otherwise she wets the bed. Even though she goes to the bathroom before going to bed. I forgot to mention that she sometimes has nightmares, not too often, but a few times she woke up with the same scary dream about a bee. Last year she was stung by a bee and although I thought she got over it very quickly and did not develop any reaction to the bite, she did develop fear for insects, anything that flies especially bees, of course. And I guess they worry her so much, that she sees them in her dreams. She mentioned a couple of times that it`s always just a bee but a robot bee that she had to turn off... I`m not sure what that means, but she told me that story quite a few times. I clearly remember that one night the full moon triggered that kind of nightmare, we were looking at the sky before bed, we do that sometimes, and that night the moon was weirdly close to Earth and it was enormous. She seemed to have been fascinated by it, but that same night she woke up screaming and didn`t even want to stay in her bed, it took her about 40 minutes to fall back asleep. Again, I don`t know if there is a connection, just describing what I remember. She also perspires during the time when she is falling asleep. it`s always along her hairline and on her scalp at the roots of her hair. She perspires the same way as when she is physically active during the day or when she is hot. The heat makes her a little restless and antsy. It does take her longer to fall asleep if she is hot. If she had a rough night or not enough sleep, it definitely affects her behavior, she is more prone to breaking down in tears for every little thing, more irritable, distracted, moody. She seems to be a night owl, she goes to sleep late and wakes up relatively late, comparing with other kids. Even if I put her to bed at eight, she`ll only fall asleep by ten or so. What else...if it`s important, she does have a bedtime routine and she would not let me skip a step in it even if she were exhausted and it was 3.00 a.m, she always wants her waffle with milk as the last snack before bed, then her bath, which she loves, and her books which she delights in. She refuses to take a nap in the afternoon, but if she falls asleep in the car, it`s usually pretty late in the day and 98% of the time she wakes up cranky and whiny, but gets better within an hour. Also she is easily distracted while performing tasks, and often needs to be reminded of what she is supposed to be doing. Looses focus. Sometimes she takes a few seconds to think of what she was just told or asked before saying or answering anything, sometimes she ignores people altogether. She tends to daydream a lot and space out even in what seems to be a stimulating situation.
Another problem would be her constant genital irritation around vagina, clitoris and anus. The skin gets red, extremely sensitive to touch around clitoris and vagina, the anus skin always looks raw after a stool and she`s been complaining recently that it itches her a lot. She constantly tries to scratch it and scratching it does not seem to provide long-term relief. She always cringes while wiping after stool or drying after bath. To my observation she`s always been sensitive with stool, she always gets restless if she has to have a bowel and if she doesn`t do it when she needs to for the reasons of being too distracted or excited etc., I think it makes her bloated and causes a lot of discomfort which cause her to act out. She can get upset for no obvious reason, drop on the ground if she doesn`t want to go somewhere, try to find a spot where she can be alone, she always finds great comfort in front of computer when she is irritable. If she holds the bowels in it also seems to make the process itself more tense, she gets teary eyes, dripping nose, and her body becomes stiff. After she is done she acts and looks completely relieved and cheers for herself that she did it. When she was a baby, she had to often breastfeed while having a bowel movement or be in a certain stooping or standing comfy position. Her bowels usually happen in the morning after breakfast, if she doesn`t go she usually waits until evening or next day. Skin around anus has always been somewhat sensitive, and zinc oxide cream usually helped relieve that. She also often holds her tummy and grimaces as if in some sort of discomfort or pain if she eats or drinks too much without realizing it. Especially if she drinks too much milk.
As for the irritation around vagina, I noticed that it became a regular thing after she had vulvitis and UTI that turned into acute pyelonephritis after sitting on cold sand on a trip abroad when she was 2 years old. She had a fever and extreme pain before and while urinating. She was treated with antibiotics and an equivalent of clotrimazole cream and camomile baths. She was also prescribed a composed homeopathic remedy for improving the work of the urinary tract. Even though the tests confirmed she was clear of infection 10 days later, she`s been getting irritations and sensitivity ever since. Prolonged contact with cold water or urine and also bubble baths, as I was told, may aggravate those symptoms and zinc oxide cream provides a light temporary relief, but if it gets too red, sometimes I have to use that cream she was given, but I don`t like to use all that because obviously something deeper triggering it and these are just temporary suppressants that I`m tired of.
And the last problem, but the least concern for me right now, because it is still unclear whether she should be fully diagnosed or not, is the fact that she had 3 seizures in one day back in March. As I said in the previous post, the seizures occurred while Sasha was severely sick with rotavirus (which is dysentery if I`m not mistaken) as she was later diagnosed at the hospital. She woke up at 4 o`clock in the morning vomiting and moaning, then went back to sleep and the same repeated at 6 o`clock. She vomited the entire day after that morning and was very weak and sleepy that day. She was also constantly saying she needed milk and water, and refused to drink pedialyte or gatorate. She ate a little but could not hold anything down. She had a low fever and I gave her Tylenol for that which relieved the fever. Meanwhile she also had diarrhea that was very painful for her. It made her cry and cringe and moan. She was also constantly saying she was cold and needed a blanket to wrap herself in it. The next day I had to take her to the hospital because she asked to go and things weren`t getting better. At the hospital she had a high fever, was given acetominophen and anti-vomiting medicine and sent home without a diagnose. She went to bed very early without taking a bath or changing clothes and moaning a lot during the night. She woke up the next day very pale with dark circle under eyes, very weak. She seemed to feel a little better while lying down in bed and even sitting up, but as soon as she stood up, she felt sick and weak again and got very sad every time. Did not vomit anymore, but kept having diarrhea, a few drops at a time a lot of pain. While sitting on the potty i noticed she was doing something weird, her left arm extended outward with 3 last fingers clenched and her head turned to the left. I thought it was her way of dealing with pain. She did it a couple more times before taking a nap. She woke up crying from her nap, I comforted her and decided to give her a bath since she didn`t have one the night before and as soon as I put her in the bath tub in a sitting position, he body got stiff, she screamed and went into her first seizure. Her seizure lasted a few minutes, by the time ambulance came, she was already recovering and regaining consciousness, by the time we got to the hospital she was fully conscious and even talking a little. 20 minutes later she had another seizure in the same sitting position, stiffness, left hand extending and 3 fingers clenching and head to the left side and screaming beforehand. She was administered anti-seizure drug. An hour and a half later she had another seizure with the same signs right before it. After that all diseases that could cause that were ruled out, no trauma or brain tumor were found in MRI and CAT scans, so the diagnose of epilepsy was unclear, unless she had another seizure, which so far she hasn`t. Again I provided all the details I could remember without knowing whether you need THAT many.
2. The only traumatic experience I can think of that had a somewhat lasting effect on her mental and emotional state would be when she lost her father at the age of 2 with whom they were very close and loving. It took her about a month to get through the pain and the emotions of missing him, meanwhile there appeared a new male figure in my life as well as hers along with two older step brother and sister, whom she grew very attached to. All in all, it took an emotional toll on her that affected her diet, ability to trust and development for some time. She seems to be well past it now and caught up with major milestones. Please let me know if you need to know more details about this aspect.
3. Emotionally Sasha seems to deal with problems quite well, she adapts to situations and changes well without showing signs of worry or distress. She usually gets excited about new things. When she was 8 months old she endured our first move, and seemed to only enjoy the change. When she was 10 months we took her on her first trip abroad, she did not cry once on a 9-hour flight, and seemed very cheerful. However traveling did affect her sleeping schedule and diet, she started eating less fruits and vegetables because she got to try some “airport food” and made a preference toward it. It also made her a little more “needy”, clingy. She started breastfeeding more often, especially at night and needed to sleep next to mommy. So I guess you could say it affected her behavior in some ways. After that traveling became a life style and she was on no schedule and no wholesome healthy food for a while. She was still always very cheerful and loving and funny. The only problem she did not deal well was when I had to put her in Day Care and she was still breastfed and completely unprepared, and it was a huge stress for her, 4 days later she came down with cold that we exchanged back and forth for the next 4 months. And that was right after she was treated with antibiotics for pyelonephritis, which just made me realize that she must be very sensitive to antibiotics (anyone would be probably), because both times she was given them she had a prolonged cold-like sickness. That time and the time after she stayed in the hospital for rotavirus where they gave her some strong antibiotics as I wrote earlier and that again cause her immune system to become weak and not being able to fight simple cold. That`s probably why it`s still lasting in form of nasal congestion. I might be wrong though, just putting my observations here. As of right now, my daughter does not like to be in stressful situations and does not like change. She likes her routines, she likes things to be planned, she likes some level of schedule, likes the places she already knows. But I can`t say she becomes inadequate if put in a new situation or faced with a problem. I noticed that she does not like when I make her do something, she would cry and protest and sometimes even scream, but when everybody forgets about it, she does it herself without anyone asking her. Let me know if you need any specifics on this, I think I`m a bit lost as to what to describe here.
4. I can`t think of any part of her life where she seems stuck, she is constantly progressing, doing and learning something new. She has a hard time dressing herself so far, but I don`t think she perceives it as challenge, more like lack of interest in that particular area I guess. She also politely refuses to try new foods. There we are definitely stuck, if I understand what you are asking here.
5. She absolutely hates all fruit. She can barely touch a fruit, looks at fruit with disgust and even gags sometimes if she sees someone eat fruit. If she has an opportunity to leave the room while someone is eating or peeling or holding a fruit, she will take the opportunity and leave. She can come back and ask if a person is done with their banana, apple and so on. She can`t stand the smell of fruit either. Always says it`s gross. Yet when I sneak them into her morning breakfast, such as oatmeal or muesli, she eats it. But I do not tell her she has fruit in her oatmeal, otherwise she`ll spit everything back out and run away. She does not eat most of vegetables either, except for corn on the cob and potatoes, she doesn`t have that disgust for them. She does eat veggies in almost any soup, when they are cooked. She always craves milk and always asks for milk and talks about how yummy it is. She also craves anything dry, like roasted almonds, cookies, crackers, pop-corn, bread, pistachios, dry cereals like cornflakes or rice crispies. She often craves banana nut muffins and buttermilk pancakes with Nutella (it`s a chocolaty hazelnut spread), she asks for either of those on almost any given morning and she often asks for breakfast for dinner, meaning she wants oatmeal or cream of wheat instead of pasta and chicken as an example, so you can say she craves sweet sugary foods. She also hates any other drinks besides milk, water and tea.
6. 1)So my daughter is 3 years old, she will be 4 in August. She is of average height for her age, she weighs around 35 pounds, she has a pot-belly type torso.
2)Very light fair skin, pretty thin-you can see veins and capillaries through it especially on face. Mostly soft with occasional dry patches from eczema on both sides of hips, inner thigh folds and bottom of buttocks.
3)If she perspires it would almost always be her hairline along her forehead and if she`s really hot, her whole scalp at the roots of her hair will be moist.
4)I do not observe any abnormal odors in her.
5)Urine color is light yellow, if she holds it in it can become a little darker. Stool color is generally light brown, may be even yellowish. Sometimes it`s dark and hard, but that`s quite rare.
She grew up in a very loving environment towards her from both parents, however she had witnessed some intense arguments in her lifetime so far. She is generally very sympathetic and caring and loving. If she sees someone cry, she always wants to know what`s wrong and why the person is crying, she always brings crying people tissues and always wants to know how she can help. If she sees someone hurt she wants to be the doctor who can help. If someone is arguing or yelling, she asks them to calm down says “sshhhh”. She loves to laugh and be silly and make other people laugh. She laughs a lot throughout the day. She likes to play pretend and has a very vivid imagination, she sees things in common objects that I would never think of. She is the most focused when she plays on the computer or “reads” a book by herself. She does not go to school yet, but she goes to a class where everybody likes her, she is always taking care of everyone and makes everyone laugh. She has a hard time separating from me, but she`s been getting more and more independent.
The weather does not seem to affect her much, she does love the rain, she always wants to go outside and play in the rain and get wet. She likes to pretend that it`s raining it makes her very excited. She does sneeze if she looks directly at the Sun when she just gets outside. I`ve always had the same reaction to the Sun. She also sneezes sometimes if she looks directly at a source of bright light, like a lightbulb. Hot weather makes her little less active and makes her want to go inside, go home faster, than she would normally stay outside. She recovers as soon as she is in cool environment.
She is sensitive to overly loud, sharp sounds, like a big truck or siren. She does not like when someone yells at her or just screams loudly, she covers her ears with her hands, if I raise my voice at her, she covers her ears and cries, as if scared or shocked. But if she is in a crowd of screaming kids she remains totally calm. I think she also finds eating or drinking calming.
She never had severe reaction to a vaccine, only two or three times she developed a mild fever for a few hours.
I`ll be surprised if you get to the end of this, this is a lot of details, some of them I suspect, unnecessary:) Thank you so much for your patience and attempt to help. Please let me know if you need to know anything else. | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-14 |
Ok that is a lot of information. It will take me some time to work through it all.
I believe though that the Oscillococcinum suppressed her original complaint and has created a more serious chronic one. It is important not to use homoeopathic medicines that way, as they are quite powerful (as you can see). | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-14 |
It`s amazing that you say that, because I had no idea, like I said what we don`t know hurts us. Oscillococcinum seems to be a big hit lately and everybody is taking it, there are no warnings of any kind and people like me have no clue what they are taking and doing to themselves. I myself have been taking it every time I come down with cold:( Who knew Thank you again I`ll be patiently waiting for your response | This thread continues beneath the following ad.
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| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-15 |
Homoeopathy has a whole approach to healing that is almost the exact opposite of orthodox medicine. Using our medicines the way they do theirs is risky. Our remedies have capabilities that theirs do not (as toxic as their drugs are). Homoeopathy can reach into the mind, the heart, the very life energy of the patient and make changes. If used inappropriately the consequences are quite different (usually not fatal though).
Anyway, back to sorting through all of this information :) | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-15 |
Thank you very much again for explaining this to me, I wish that physicians who recommend such over-the-counter remedies and the companies who produce them as well would warn consumers about things like that. Not everybody know how homeopathy works, the general perception is just that it is safer and there are hardly ever side effects, nobody ever talks about how dangerous it could be if misused. Like I said before, I had no idea it could be misused at all, neither did I realize how deeply it can affect someone. I will be very careful from now on and will try to educate myself more on this, I`m becoming very fascinated with this. I hope I didn`t overwhelm you with my "essay", I just took your request about all the details quite seriously I guess. Waiting patiently, Thank you so much for your time! | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-15 |
I want to say though, that you have given me an excellent case - a great deal of description, covering many different aspects of your daughter's health. I will probably have a few questions but a lot less I think than normal. | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-15 |
Ok the remedy I would like you to start with is Sepia 200c. You can get liquid or pillules, but you will also need to get hold of a small bottle (15-30mls) and dropper, and some spirit alcohol (I use vodka or brandy).
Let me know when you have these things and I will instruct you further. | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-15 |
Ok, I`ll order it right away and as soon as I receive it I will let you know. Thank you so much! | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From vikas_grower [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-16 |
Jutting in for case updates. | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-23 |
Hi, Dr.Kempson! The Sepia 200c came in, so I am ready to proceed on the treatment. It came as 80 tiny pellets. About the bottle:does it have to be glass or plastic? Or it doesn`t matter? Also will it need to be discarded after this? Also, just curious about the alcohol aspect, what is it for? And just general questions like, what should I expect once we start, are there any side effects or extreme reactions I should be aware of, or anything at all that`s important. Thank you so much again and looking forward to your further instructions! | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-23 |
Bottle should preferably be glass but that is not so important.
The bottle can be reused after being sterilized if it is glass (so I prefer glass).
Alcohol preserves the remedy in the water. In water alone, the remedy will not last, the water loses its potency as a medicine and becomes normal water after a short while.
You should expect to see a short aggravation of her normal symptoms, which may be physical mental or emotional. After that improvement should start to show.
The wrong remedy should do very little at all. In some very sensitive people you can get new symptoms from the wrong remedy, but my process of dosing should minimize even that.
Dissolve 4 of those pellets into a mixture of alcohol and water in the extra bottle with the dropper. The mixture should be 1 part to 5 parts.
For every dose we give her, follow these instructions.
Hit the bottle firmly against the palm of the hand twice only. Place 1 drop into 1/2 cup of water, and stir thoroughly. Give her 1 teaspoon out of this, which she can swallow straight away. Throw the rest of the cup out.
This is one dose. Each step can be adjusted to change the effect or reaction.
Do it once, then wait a few days to report in (or give me any updates as they happen). | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-23 |
Ok, I will give it to her tomorrow morning fresh and early and will report back with changes. Thank you! | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-23 |
1/2 cup is 125 ml by the way. Because I may want to adjust this amount, it is important to measure it. | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-06-23 |
Ok, will do, sir:)) | This thread continues beneath the following ad.
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| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-07-01 |
Hi, Dr. Kepmson! It`s been exactly a week since I gave Sasha one dose of Sepia, i gave t to her last Friday. I don`t see a whole lot of changes in her except that for the past three or four days her nose seems to have bothered her more than ever, her eczema is more itchy and red, genitals also get red and irritated constantly. I`m not sure if swimming in the pool and playing with water could have helped aggravating that. I don`t see any major mental or emotional changes, or change in sleep so far. It`s still unpredictable. Waiting for further instructions. Thank you,
Irina. | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-07-02 |
Hmmm...that does seem like aggravation. It is very slow for someone so young.
No changes to her behaviour, mood, sleep, dreams?
When did the nose and eczema get start becoming worse?
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| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-07-02 |
May be the dose was too small? I felt like the drop that came out of the dropper was so tiny it could barely make a difference in all that water. And also I notice there is a big difference between a regular teaspoon and a syringe 5ml teaspoon dose, which one is right? She didn`t want to drink from the spoon so I had to use an oral syringe to make it easier for her to drink. I think the aggravation started on tuesday, but she had a swim in the pool on monday, so I just thought that the chlorine in the water caused a little irritation, but it never stopped, just relieved for very short periods of time and then she`d be complaining again. She constantly picks her nose and wants me to soften it with saline spray. I`m doing it for her when she seems really upset, but I`m not sure if I`m supposed to. Mood wise, I cannot see anything dramatic, she is still fighting with me over food that she does not like and she gets upset and scared easily if she someone raises his voice, still scared of bees. She had a nightmare monday night , and the nose dryness and actually wakes her up a lot during the night. Other than that, she is in a good mood most of the time, just demanding and protests a lot when something is not her way. | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-07-02 |
If it is an aggravation then the dose may even have been too large not too small.
An aggration usually comes before the improvement. The best thing to do is to watch and wait for the moment.
Does this kind of worsening normally happen, or go on for so long if it does?
Is she worse in any other way? | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-07-02 |
It actually seems like she is a little more excited about things, if she weren`t so "opinionated" about how she wants things I could actually say that she is a perfectly happy content child, and on other occasions she seems so impossible to deal with. Also she can cry easily over simple difficulty and frustration, she didn`t use to do that a lot, but i feel like it`s an effect from disrupted sleep and all these issues with skin and nose. Like i said I don`t have any experience with homeopathy, so I don`t know how her body reacts to the remedies and how long the aggravations last. If you are asking about the daily basis of her conditions, the skin around genitals and anus has been red and irritated on and off for over a year, and it never goes away on its own, If I let it go without doing anything, it`ll only get worse and more red and eventually painful for her and affects more and more skin around. It only goes away if I use chamomile baths along with zinc oxide cream, sometimes but rarely even that doesn`t help and I have to use russian ointment that is an equivalent of american clotrimazole as I was told by the russian doctor. I usually don`t use it for longer than 2 nights in a row, it seems to help, but I don`t want to use all that, I hope that her body has a way of working all of thus out on its own, that`s why I looked for help from homeopathy. I want her to get healthy again..for good. She used to be perfectly healthy until 2 or so. The nose problem hasn`t aggravated before at all, it remained really bad and runny and slimey for a while as I desribed before, and then very slowly seemed to start getting better, but not good enough and as I said before it seems like something, especially in her right nostril just seems to be too deep slurping. It`s like there`s a deviation or something. I don`t think there is any object in her nose, because the doctor looked inside it, I`m assuming they would see something, plus I read that there would be smelly discharge and inflammation and it has been so long now, it would be obvious by now I think. I can be wrong, I`m not a doctor. Seems like the nose is really dry and all the dried mucous blocks the passages and she picks them to try to get them out. So I have no idea what`s going on in there. Will be waiting for your thoughts. Thank you! | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile]  | on 2011-07-02 |
And sorry I meant left nostril, not right. You probably know women aren`t good with the sides:)) | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-07-02 |
It sounds like remedy has aggravated her. With people who have had their skin conditions or other symptoms repeatedly suppressed with medication you get longer aggravations. The symptoms have been pushed back into the body, and the remedy pushes them back out. Patients with eczema, who have used a lot of steroids for instance, have very prolonged aggravations.
The important thing to do is to be patient while the remedy attempts to recreate some order. If you can just report any changes each day we can keep an eye on it and attempt to work out if the remedy is moving her in the right direction. | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-07-02 |
So, do you think I shouldn`t use anything right now for her skin or nose? No lotions, no camomile, zinc, saline etc? What can i do when she gets too frustrated with nose or itchy? | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-07-02 |
Continuing to use those will not only block the action of the homoeopathy, it will create a conflict between the two, as the homoeopathy pushes the symptoms up, the medication will try to push them down. It actually prolongs the whole event.
Oatmeal baths are good for itching and not very suppressive. Chamomille tea can sometimes be soothing when applied to the skin, without being too suppressive too.
This is the hard part, getting people past the aggravation. There is a price we pay for orthodox medicine's strategy of suppression, and it can make true healing a much more painful process. | | |
| Re: Can`t figure out how to help my daughter:( | From wonderzoozoo [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-07-02 |
yes, i`m starting to see that now, it`s just that it`s much harder to let a child go through such things than say, letting oneself go through that. Ok, I will stick to the natural solutions as necessary and stay away from anything else. Thank you so much, will keep you posted on any changes. |
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