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Baby with cold/coughing
My 10 month old nursing baby came down with a cold Friday (as did I). I used Zicam and Oscillicum (sp?) and was mostly better by Sunday evening. As far as I know our symptoms were the same: frequent sneezing, achy muscles (I'm guessing for her; she was a bit cranky and sleepy; but mine stopped there. I didn't know I could give her anything so I didn't until yesterday.She started really coughing a lot Monday. I don't know quite how to characterize it, but it comes in bouts and initially sounded rather dry, and her nose started running a little . Now the cough sounds wetter and is more frequent. She has not really had a fever, but got a bit sweated this morning.
I am really stumped as to what to give her. I tried BHI/Heel's Cough yesterday, and initially I thought it helped. I also tried their Flu2. I tried Remedy Finder here but didn't really see the right things to describe her symptoms.
Her history: home birthed; had a staph infection under her left armpit a week later in several pores, treated with tea tree oil and my milk, which forced them to come to a head a drain. She has a tiny scar, more like stretched skin from that. In August she started sneezing a little, like a slight cold, when I did. We both kept on for a couple of weeks that way, just mild sneezing on occasion, and then it was gone. No other illnesses. She has not been vaccinated.
Any ideas what I should do for her? A related question is that I took one of the cough tablets myself last night after I had a small amount of coughing, and it made me cough severly. I took a bhi/Heel Sinus tablet, and that stopped it instantly. So I tried that for her but it didn't work, or at least not much.
Thanks,
Trace
tracebooks on 2005-10-12
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If you are breast feeding then anything you take will affect her.
Try taking [you] Aconite 30
one dose a day for three days-- then stop and wait.
Try taking [you] Aconite 30
one dose a day for three days-- then stop and wait.
walkin last decade
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