Ipecac for Night Choking Cough-Followup on 18-month old boy cough

The child was getting severe coughing episode at night. The child was chilly and thirstless. Mother was advised to give Ipecac 30c in three times at 10 minute and this worked great for him and he had only a short spell of cough during night. No fever the following day. Active and playful. No blood upon coughing is seen. Mother is very apperciative of care. She is advised to exposure to cold as this cause aggravation.

Followups on Acne-Case-4-and 1-year-old Boy With Frequent Cold And Excessive Head Sweating

Acne case
The patient asked advice regarding acne scar. I advised the patient to avoid squeezing the acne as it is main cause of acne scar. After doing so she noticed remarkable improvement in her acne. I further advised her to apply lemon juice on her acne scar and also to avoid any hand touching to the face and excess hair oil use. The patient is asked about her sleeping hours as lack of sleep often causes aggravation in skin problems. She is advised to try to take at least 8 hours sleep at night. She is also asked about changes in her symptoms both related to acne and menstrual and general symptoms since being on Nat Mur 30C.

Follow up on 1-year-old boy with frequent cold and excessive head sweating.
This boy who is having frequent and chronic cold, cough, and fever is being successfully treated for his second episode of cold exacerbation with fever with Puls, Ipecac, and Ferrum Phos. His excessive sweating in head is usually not present. He has no fever since last three days, but does have runny nose and always wanting someone to be near by him. Mother is advised to give him Puls 30c three dose at 10 minute interval. I am hoping to solve his tendency to take frequent cold and fever in about six months to one year.

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After improvement condition got worse with gagging/choking cough, less appetite, lethargic, weak, recurrent fever at 10:30 am, sleepy all day, hot head, and fussy.

Antim Tar 30c advised for which child responded well return of appetite, active, not sleepy, and less sleepy.

During night he got sever cough episode even with some blood in sputum and catching of breath. Mom worried and asked for checkup by local doctor who told nothing serious just viral sore throat and given Ibuprofen.

Mother has advised to give Ipecac in evening for choking cough in the hope to less severe cough
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Online Child case-2 18-month-old boy with fever and cough

This online homoeopathic consultation was requested by mother who had decided to treat his son homeopathically and have already brought in a homoeopathic kit "Helios Homeopathy 36 Remedies"

This 18-month-old boy has had an intermittent fever and cold for the past 8 days. Fever usually occurred in the morning with greenish yellow crusty mucus in the eyes. She tried Pulsatilla 30c by her own given green mucus and did notice significant improvement with Puls.

Mother further reported despite using Puls in the past 24 hours, the fever has gotten worse and boy has become lethargic. He wants to be continually held and is irritable.

Generally, he has a very big appetite, but a slender figure.

Mother did not want to give her infant son antibiotics!

Mother updated his son condition stating that he is waking in middle of night with an involuntary choking cough, can't seem to expectorate mucous. She reported that she reviewed and read homoeopathic books and is now unable to decide between Ant Tart or Ipecac.

I advised her to give Ipecac as it helps expectorate the mucous.

Mother gave Ipecac in the morning and noticed improvement and did well and at 9:30 am vomited up a lot of phlegm.

Online Acne Case No.5-Female with severe acne on nose and chin

This 29-year-old female with severe chin and nose acne. Her symptoms were mainly of severe acne on nose and chin with whiteheads, papules, pustules, and cyst. Her acne are worse before menstrual and during menstrual period. Her menstrual cycle is peculiar for blood flow usually bland, occurs at night mainly, and blood is red thick with few clots. She is prone to get cols very easily during winter and she also have cold feet in winter. Her acne condition is worse with egg consumption and without egg eating she is prone to have more frequent bouts of cold. Mentally she is a cheerful lady with brief bouts of anger occasionally.

She has little to no sweating and is thirsty and has frequent urination.

She usually does have dreams of train and railway station.
On evaluation, Sulph, Sepia, Merc, Lyco, and Kali-Carb were in consideration. Based on severity, aggravation during menses and wet weather aggravation Kali-Carb was advised.

Follow-up On 1-year-old boy with fever and rapid breathing

This online case is from Florida.

Mother posted request at night locally and I reply soon the above three options namely Puls, Chamomila, and Nux Vomica., but mother saw that in morning and found Chammomila and gave accordingly, but she noticed no improvement.

So taken her child to his PCP who diagnosed him child with "bilateral ear infection and viral sore throat" as per mother and gave him "one antibiotic shot and oral antibiotics to be taken at home" as per mother.

? antibiotic for viral sore throat? May be PCP seen bacterial infection in ear.

Mother decided not to giving antibiotics by her own decision and asked for how to go ahead with homoeopathic medications for his ear infections and viral sore throat.

Mother reported in this post " today he has fever 103.7 and one vomiting. he is not eating solid just drinking milk and water.he has also got runny nose and watering from eyes and red cheek"

I assumed there may be ear effusions due to chronic nasal obstruction and asked that he is touching his ears or not. I reassured mother about viral infection and advised to gave him plenty of fluids, using an extra pillow for relief from head congestion, chicken soup, and advised to give Puls 30c.

But mother do not have Puls 30c and said that she had Puls 200c and posted "i gave one dose of PUL 200c in the evening, He got fever 101.7 after 1 hr of dose so i gave him fever medicine . he is feeling ok after medicine like he is playing but not drinking milk . he ate little bit solid .hereis update of his condition. cough - runny nose + fever+++ appetite+ . He seems tired . Please tell me what to do ?"

I advised mother to give Ferrum Phos 6x and Puls 200c 2-3 granules disloved in one glass of water and to be given one teaspoon from this one hourly.

Child with cough, vomiting of undigested food, fever with rapid breathing

This 1-year-old boy who was treated successfully for bronchiolitis earlier got fever and asked for homoeopathic treatment by her mother. According to her post “her 1-year-old son was playing outside while there was sudden cold weather. After dinner he started coughing a lot and vomited once for undigested food taken in afternoon. During night he got fever of 101 and rapid breathing.

From homoeopathic point of view, rapid breathing (asthmatic) due to cold weather was main symptoms and once again his constitutional medicines (according to my understanding) Puls and Silicia were indicated along with Chammomila and Nux Vomica.

As mother only give a brief history, she was advised “summary of your child fever typically indicates an pneumonia attack, but in the view of your son's past history it may be an asthmatic attack due to weather change and fever may be due to some thermal imbalance associated with.

If he has some runny nose and throat symptoms cough then he may have a viral infection.

Each of these conditions is worrisome as it would hold the development of your child.

With regards to medicine
If he is dull, feeling hot, thirstless, desire open air, and wants more care then you should give him Puls 30c three dose at 10 minute interval.

If he is thirsty, chilly, restless, desire to be carried out, red cheeks, kicking and crying then gave him Chammomila 30c at 10 minute interval three times.

If he is dull, chilly, thirsty, angry when disturbed, desiring much covering then gave him Nux Vom 30c at 10 minute interval.

Online Acne Case No.4-Young Male From California with Acne on nose

This young gentleman asked for any product for treatment of his mild acne. His acnes are mostly located nose and they are itchy in the starting stage. They are mild to moderate in severity.

Given brief detail, these questions were asked
What kind of material comes out from your acne, if any?

Do you acne have any color to it, if any?

Height and weight?

Ability to tolerate heat and cold? Which one you tolerate easily and feel comfortable with this?

Acne sufferer should drink plenty of water (at least 8-10 glasses) normally. This helps a lot for acne. How much do you used to drink?

Acne sufferer should try to avoid to get constipated. Constipation contributes greatly to acne formation. Do you are used to have constipation?

Acne sufferer should not take too much stress and should take easy while facing problems in life. Living under stress causes over production of male hormones which in turn causes increased sebum production and causing acne. Stress also decreases the healing power of body significantly so there is double impact on acne upon being under stress. Are you are under stress?

Online Free Acne Consultation no. 4-acne of 19-year-old Girl Affecting Cheek And Forehead Leaving Scars

This 19-year-old girl from Goa studying in Mangalore (humid climate) asking online consultation for acne (pimples and papules ) affecting cheeks and forehead with whiteheads and blackheads occasionally suppurates without itching.

The patient was advised and asked: Acne sufferer should drink plenty of water (at least 8-10 glasses) normally. This helps a lot for acne. How much do you used to drink?

The patient answered that now she has started to drink much water.

Acne sufferer should try to avoid to get constipated. Constipation contributes greatly to acne formation. Do you are used to have constipation?

The patient reported that she has tendency to be constipated a lot.

Acne sufferer should not take too much stress and should take easy while facing problems in life. Living under stress causes over production of male hormones which in turn causes increased sebum production and causing acne. Stress also decreases the healing power of body significantly so there is double impact on acne upon being under stress. Are you are under stress?

The patient denied any over stressful condition
Her menstrual symptoms were significant for morning menstrual flow, bland menstrual discharge, bright red menstrual discharge, thin in consistency, suffering from dysmenorrhea.

Natrum Mur 30c three doses at 10 minute interval only for one day was advised on January 20, 2009 and patient reported good improvement one month on February 19, 2009 and asked for treatment for scar left by her acne.

Delayed response by her caused me to forgot her case and I do not see her post until March 16, 2009 and asked her that if she is waiting my reply then reply to me and post her present status.

Once again, the patient post delay and responded again April 6, 2009 and reported good relief of her symptoms.

New Acne Case Case No. 3 Acne Worse During Menses And Warm Weather

A Female for quite sometime suffered with small reddish pimples which seem to appear more often on chin and around mouth. Acne aggravated by sugars i.e., a big slice of cake. The patient also gets pimples on forehead but noticed that they come up only when she stops taking milk thistle (hindi name bhatkatya). So according to this patient milk thistle are helping his forehead pimples. The patient also suffered with dry skin on cheeks, which cured by taking Sulphur 30C two tablets sucked on the tongue 4 times a day.

The patient's acne usually appear more during her period. So once again it is proving that acne is quite much related to hormones.

The patient's acne is very mild, get small red raised pimples on chin sometimes with whiteheads.

Her acne do not suppurates and her acne does not cause itching.

Her acnes are not painful.

Her acnes are reddish in color.

Acne worse in heat environment.

Her menstrual symptoms were significant for bland menstrual blood, dark brownish red in color, for first 2 days is thick and heavy, a lot at the start and then calms down, regular, lasting for 7 days, and get pain during the first 2 days which is relieved by a hot water bottle and taking Mag Phos.

Generally, the patient's is normal, usually feels hungry, interrupted sleep, dreams the patient doesn’t remember.

Mentally, the patient is depressed, moody, irritable, when down don't talk much, don't liked to be touched, prefer to be alone, low sex drive, shout at partner and parents, weepy, become house bound when down in the dumps.

The patient likes hot weather but her body doesn't ! The patient don't like the cold. The patient prefers dry, warm, slightly breezy climates.

The patient like sweet things and things fatty.

During menses tongue is heavily coated in white.

Sulphur and Psorinum medicines were indicated. Psorinum 200C 2-3 globules three times at 10 minute interval only one day was prescribed and the patient was advised to post response in 10 days.