kids and the common cold and homeopathy

Thanks Gloei. Our gp prescribed gastrochoice once for dh and i still have it in the cupboard. It makes me soooooo naar. But it's something they use in the capsules becuase the viral choice does exactly the same thing, and if i pour the contents out of the capsule and just take it like that i don't feel naar at all.

Marijke, thank you so much for that link. It confirms a lot of what I am starting to believe regarding the body and how it handles infection and antibiotics and various other things.

Gloei - I recently heard about Thieves oil, want to go out now and see if i can find some as logan is busy getting snotty himself. he's definitely not showing any other signs of sickness so i'm not giving him anything as such, but want to try this thieves oil over the winter if i can find it: aromatherapy4u.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/...ieves-essential-oil/

Huggles,

Ugh...She is almost 4 now....I really though things would have improved by now!

I will post the name of that probiotic that helps with prevention of colds.

I also give the Probiflora junior chew tablets. Once a week I give her Gastro choice mixed with a bit of juice. The urologist recommended it and said that it is the best on the market and one capsule once a week for a toddler is fine. (It is actually used for adults)

Marijke,

Thanks so much for sharing all of this!!!

I haven't read everything yet but I am sure this will help a lot of parents to be better prepared for the dreaded winter sniffles.

Thanks for sharing again.

OOObaby,

Thank you so much for sharing your recipe. I have taken a look at all the supplements
and these are the vitamins that are recommended in so many of the articles I read regarding this. The ones that kept coming up were

Vit A (See link on amounts for different ages, note that the IU and mcg is not the same measurement! ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminA-HealthProfessional/)

Fish oils, Omega 3 and 6, codliver oil.

Vit C

Zinc

Good probiotic

Salt water spray also recommended


Your concoction contains most of these and then the added herbal post nasal drip remedy!

He has yet to post Part 4, will copy when I see it.

The guy who wrote it Mark Zuhrbrigghen does hair analysis. He's in CT, read about it here solutions4health.co.za/?page_id=16

Would love to have ours done!

PART-3
The thymus gland of children aged between 12 and 14 years is now twice as big compared to birth. At adulthood, the thymus gland now starts to shrink again, to the size at child-birth.

Antibiotics can prevent the thymus gland from growing, therefore causing immune problems in the early life of children with permanent catarrh and head colds. Antibiotics also play havoc with adrenal gland function causing more cortisol instead of cortisone to be secreted, implying continuous inflammation of ears, nose and throat, sore throats, tonsillitis, chest infections and even pneumonia. And we also know that antibiotics also open a can of worms (excuse the pun) in terms of proper digestion and many other side-effects.

Mothers are bombarded daily with advertisement in the media to give your child its winter protection with a flu vaccine. The very vaccination that is supposed to protect your child lays your child’s immune system bare to the flu. Continuous suppression of catarrh in your child can lead over the next two or twenty years to pneumonia, emphysema, lung infections, or (bronchial) asthma. If you suppress the mucous from colds and flu you also suppress the other impurities in the nasal & sinus cavities. This in turn can also lead to severe frontal headaches and pressure around the eyes, which can lead to a trip to your optometrist for you or your child due to bad vision, with trapped mucous being the problem 90% of the time, not bad eyesight (symptom). How many children have you not seen with glasses but also with their mouths half open because they cannot breath through their noses due to bad nasal congestion and mucous?

Very important to note: if you take antibiotics for relief from sinusitis and mucous, you suppress mucous back into the Eustachian tube leading into the ear. Today it has become common practice to have grommets in the ears of children to assist with the congested pipes in the ears and accumulated impurities that lead to middle ear infections, perforated eardrums and ear (hearing) related problems. This can also lead to allergies of the environment, such as dust, pollen, grass and many more.

Finally, tonsillitis is a sign that the body is hoarding toxicity, of any kind. It is not a time to have your child’s tonsils removed, but to address general toxicity, including mucous in your child’s body. As you know, the tonsils are in fact lymph glands that assist in trapping and cleansing the surrounding area of toxicity. From tonsillitis, progressive deterioration leads to a sore throat and bronchitis.

A cough is the body’s natural defence in trying to rid the upper bronchial tubes of catarrh. Do not give your child an antibiotic or chemical cough syrup, as it will suppress the cough and force the catarrh back into the bronchial tubes that will within a few days/weeks lead to another infection, possibly worse than the previous.

Some of the most popular medicines work by suppressing the cough centre in the medulla of the brain, but there are also other centres relating to the heart, lungs, and digestion at the cough centre in the brain, and a drug cannot isolate and suppress just the cough centre without affecting the other vital centres in the same brain area. By stopping the cough and mucous drying-up, what you are really doing is encouraging abnormal scar tissue that can eventually lead to fibrosis of the lungs or wherever catarrh settles (e.g. cystic fibrosis of the lungs).

Bronchitis usually deteriorates to asthma and wheezing and emphysema and (lung) cancer from the final, degenerate stage – almost the point of no return. In many children this process starts from the time they start showing signs of catarrh and parents administering antibiotics, also causing drug-resistant illnesses…

PART-2: Healing cannot take place unless the catarrh formed to carry away toxic material is eliminated from the body. Mother Nature’s way is to let catarrh run until the source of the irritation and inflammation is eliminated (unless you choose to use pharmaceutical drugs, worsening the problem by its side-effects and interrupting the ‘flow’ process of Mother Nature).

Many mothers believe that when their children or babies have catarrh, they are sick and some believe their children are healing. There is a difference between sick and healing, as this will determine a mother’s response to dealing with the situation. The word ‘sick’ means a dis-eased condition indicating that the body is ailing and incapacitated to help itself recover, requiring medical intervention and assistance. ‘Healing’ is the body is unwell, but natural body processes are working to help it recover. Your child’s cold is the body’s way of healing itself by combatting a viral invasion.

The intelligence of the body’s immune system registers the nature of an invasion and then produces an antidote to overpower the marauding virus/bacteria.

If at first the immune system (Thymus gland) produces an antibody that does not work, it will go back to its ‘laboratory’ and produce an antibody until it creates an antidote to overwhelm this particular strain of bacteria. However, for the thymus gland to produce the correct antibody on its ‘assembly line factory’, it needs protein, and this is where favourite foods such as chicken soup come in during time of healing…

As the battles lines are drawn between antibodies and bacteria, your child’s temperature will go up in an attempt to ‘burn’ the bacteria and since the battle is vital for survival, it also uses up the body’s energy – leaving your child unwell and perhaps with no appetite or nausea. Allow your child to rest as much as possible and feed your child plenty of liquids, 2-3 times his normal consumption (e.g. weight of 20kg x 0.025 = 0.500ml x 2,5 = 1,25 litres of water or herbal teas). As digestion uses so much energy, your child may not have an appetite, therefore do not feed your child starched foods and protein, but rather vegetables juices, natural fruit juices or fruits and/or fruit salads as these foods required virtually no digestive enzymes and digestive processes and therefore saves on energy. Boys when ill seem to have a greater appetite for protein, then feed him as much protein as what he wants. Girls seem to have a preference for fruit. Carrot juices with an array of fruits, both like equally.

A fever ‘breaking’ is the sign that your child’s immune system has eliminated the bacteria and will excrete it via the normal elimination channels including the skin. Therefore the mucous that now flows from your child’s nose, or in the next few days, maybe darker, yellowish or greenish, and may even have an odour to it, indicates trapped dead bacteria in the body which it is expelling.

When colds and flu can be remedied naturally it is a good sign that your child’s immune system is functioning optimally. In fact colds and flu amongst adults should be very rare, if not, non-existent, never mind an embarrassment, as immunity is entirely built up from childhood. By rushing off to your doctor every time your child has a snotty nose, cold or flu, is not healthy, in that long-term you are depriving your child of the best health money cannot buy. We do not need a cure for a cold and flu, and the cold and flu – is the CURE.