It is every homeopath’s practical experience that, children being more susceptible, they also respond quicker to homeopathy. They like the sweet, small pills, so there is no fuss about taking medicines! These medicines are also easy to administer to infants. There are no side effects even when it is necessary to take them for a long time. The remedy arouses vital energy (immunity) to fight against the disease (rather than merely temporary relief from symptoms), so a child’s resistance power builds up.
A child’s health is affected by many factors, e.g. environment, pollution, stress during pregnancy, foods that the child eats or avoids eating, and quality time given to child by parents.
Common cold
Tonsillitis
Otitis media
Bronchitis
Allergic rhinitis
Chronic tonsillitis
Bronchial asthma
Conditions to go for hospitalization.
Case Study – a 3.5 year old girl, brought in with a complaint of cough, high fever, and a runny nose for 3 days. She had history of contact with another child who already had a cough and cold. This was the 2nd time in a month that she had come down with the symptoms. On examination, the child was very breathless, panting, with a fever of 103.8 F. She had stopped taking anything orally. On auscultation, rales and rhonchi were heard. This is the time when child should go for hospitalization. As this child may need bronchodilator, her hydration had to be restored by giving intravenous fluid.
Other conditions are-
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sudden breathlessness in a child who was previously playing well. This indicates a foreign body in the respiratory tract. Child may have put something in nose or mouth.
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a child who stopped taking anything by mouth and who has not passed urine for the last 8 -12 hrs should be treated immediately for dehydration, and then treated for the underlying disease.
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a child who looks cyanosed (bluish in colour). This may be in status asthmaticus, a condition where bronchial asthma is not better even after medication or in severe bronchiolitis.
順勢療法和兒童
所有順勢療法的實踐經驗發現孩子們更容易對順勢療法有反應。他們喜歡甜小的藥丸，服藥無需大驚小怪！這些藥物方便處方給嬰兒。即使需要長時間服用也沒有副作用。療劑激發生命力/氣（免疫力），以對抗疾病（而不是純粹暫時緩解症狀），從而建立起來孩子的抵抗力。
孩子的健康受多種因素影響，如：環境、污染、孕期緊張、孩子吃的或避吃的食物、家長與孩子共度的時光。
急性疾病
普通感冒
扁桃腺炎
中耳炎
支氣管炎
慢性疾病
過敏性鼻炎
慢性扁桃腺炎
支氣管哮喘
有需要住院的情況
案例分析–一名3歲半的女孩，持續3天咳嗽，發高燒，流鼻涕。她曾與另一個咳嗽和感冒的孩子接觸過。這是她1個月內第2次出現這些症狀。經檢查，孩子呼吸 急促，喘氣，高燒103.8 度（華氏）。她已經停止進食。聽診時，聽見羅音及乾囉音。這時候孩子應該送院。因為她可能需要氣管擴張藥物和通過靜脈注射來補充身體水分。
其他情況 –
•之前遊玩時並無異樣的孩子突然呼吸急促。這表明有異物在呼吸道，孩子可能把一些東西放進鼻子或嘴巴。
•孩子停止進食，並且在過去的8 -12小時沒有排尿，應立即按脫水病狀接受治療，之後再治療引發脫水的成因。
•當孩子在支氣管哮喘在服藥後沒有得到改善，或有嚴重的細支氣管炎時，便會呈紫紺色（偏藍的顏色），這表示可能出現重積性氣喘。