Colic :

It is a state characterized by abdominal pain, especially caused by inflammation, distention etc. of the gastrointestinal tract.

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

Dry, hot skin, watery diarrhea; crying and complaining very much, biting his fists and is sleepless.

>>Medicine suggested: Aconite

Colic and crying with sudden and violent vomiting immediately after nursing; violent vomiting of curdled milk, with drowsiness.

>>Medicine suggested: Aethusa.

Child cries out suddenly and ceases crying suddenly; bends backwards during colic; abdomen distended with wind.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Colic comes on at a certain hour every afternoon.

>>Medicine suggested: China

Disposition to pick or bore in the nose; restless sleep; will not sleep without rocking; worm symptoms.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina

With excessive nausea.

>>Medicine suggested: Ipecac

Colic of the infant when its mother or nurse has taken meat, or fat food; colic with very sour-smelling stool.

>>Medicine suggested: Pulsatilla

Child cries but ceases crying as soon as placing its abdomen on the shoulder of the nurse carries it, as pressure relieves the colic.

>>Medicine suggested: Stannum

Child very peevish; throws or pushes things away indignantly; scrawny, pot-bellied children; habitual colic; teeth turn black. (See page 226).

>>Medicine suggested: Staphysgaria

Violent colic with cold sweat especially on forehead; coldness of forehead, very cold feet with colic.

>>Medicine suggested: Veratrum A.

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Wetting the bed (Enuresis) :

It is a state of incontinence of urine not due to organic defect or illness but referring to the involuntary passage of urine at night in children past the age of three years.

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

Esp. indicated in fat, nervous children with blue eyes, light hair, fine complexion; involuntary urination during deep sleep, esp. after midnight and towards morning; restless sleep with sudden startings; moaning and screaming during sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Wetting bed at night during first sleep, involuntary passage of urine when coughing or sneezing urinates so easily that the patient is insensible of the stream.

>>Medicine suggested: Causticum

Wetting the bed at night generally during first sleep, with worm symptoms characteristic of the drug, such as rubbing and picking of nose; starting and screaming during sleep; hungry soon after a meal; etc; urine white and turbid, sometimes of a very strong odor.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina

Urinates when dreaming of the act, or dreaming of urination in a decent manner; wetting the bed during first sleep from which it is very difficult to waken the child; “teeth show dark specks and begin to decay as they appear.” Wets the bed during first sleep from which it is difficult to waken the child.

>>Medicine suggested: Kreosote

Wetting the bed always during the first sleep); wets the bed as soon as the child goes to sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Sepia

Urine of intense ruinous odor, usually high colored, wetting the bed at night of delicate children.

>>Medicine suggested: Benz Ac.

Involuntary urination when walking; dribbles after stool or urination.

>>Medicine suggested: Selenium

Wetting the bed at night, awfully hungry at about 11 a.m., heat on top of head, aversion to being washed; body of offensive smell etc.

>>Medicine suggested: Sulphur

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Snuffles, Cold, coryza, stoppage of nose :

A snuffle is a state of catarrhal discharge from the nasal mucus membranes in congenital syphilis in infants.

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

Stoppage of nose mostly at night; must breathe through mouth; without any cold; starts up every time it tries to go to sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Ammon C.

Running of nose, still the nose is stuffed; one cheek red, the other pale; characteristic irritability.

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla.

Coryza fluent during day stopped at night; nose dry and stuffed; breathes through mouth. Coryza prevents infant from breathing while nursing, worse at night and towards morning.

>>Medicine suggested: Nux Vom.

Edema, when it affects the nose may give rise to obstruction, as in the snuffles of infants with dry coryza, preventing nursing and breathing. When it occurs lower down in the tract it causes dyspnoea, the child awakens suddenly nearly suffocated, face livid, blue, sits up in bed; turns blue, gasps for breath, which it finally gets; attack passes off but is again repeated; child inspires but cannot expire; sleeps into the attack; nose perfectly dry and completely obstructed, preventing breathing and nursing; constant snuffles.

>>Medicine suggested: Sambucus N.

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Cry of Children :

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

Watery diarrhea, crying and complaining very much, biting fists and sleepless, Whining and constant gnawing at fingers or something else, expression of anxiety and fear upon the countenance.

>>Medicine suggested: Aconite

Child fretful, and peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at; cries when touched; cries when washed with cold water.

>>Medicine suggested: Antim C.

Cries out suddenly without any apparent cause and after a while ceases suddenly, as if nothing has been the matter, Drowsiness with almost constant moaning, Sudden crying out from retention of urine. Crying from colic bends backwards.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Child exceedingly fretful and peevish must be carried all the time to be quieted; wants different things becomes angry when refused, or when offered, petulantly rejects them. Child makes itself stiff and bends backwards; kicks when carried; screams immoderately, and throws everything off. Pressing earache in spells; tearing pains extorting cries; probably has earache, relieved by heat, wants to rest head on shoulder of nurse.

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla

Restlessness, twisting, turning and wriggling around in colic, cries on account of colic but is relieved by pressing hand on belly.

>>Medicine suggested: Colocynth

Cries and screams with pain before passing water, better immediately afterwards.

>>Medicine suggested: Lycopodium

Cries with colic and ceases crying as soon as carried with the abdomen placed on the mother’s shoulder.

>>Medicine suggested: Stannum

Cries during or after nursing, or as soon as the child begins to take food; wants to be carried fast.

>>Medicine suggested: Arsenic Alb.

Child quiet all day, but screaming and tossing about all night, whether suffering from diarrhea or other complaint, Coryza in an infant, violent attacks of crying and intense pain.

>>Medicine suggested: Jalapa

Extreme obstinacy child throws itself angrily upon the floor when in the least opposed, screams, cannot get its breath.

>>Medicine suggested: Thuja

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Diarrhea :

It is state of frequent loose bowel movements.

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

Diarrhea worse immediately after nursing, when excited by the nurse having taken cold food, ice water, ice cream.

>>Medicine suggested: Arsenic Alb.

Child looks old and dried up like mummy. When caused by the nurse having taken too much of sugar.

>>Medicine suggested: Argent N.

Undigested stool, containing white lumps of curdled milk; or milk turns sour in stomach and is thrown up.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Child is cross, feverish and wants to be carried; moaning in sleep with hot, sticky sweat on forehead, one cheek red, the other pale.

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla

Greenish, slimy; greenish and white mucus, the latter looking like little pieces of popped corn; will not sleep without rocking.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina

Stool like curdled milk with colic; voluptuous itching of canthi and eyelids, child rubs them often.

>>Medicine suggested: Gambogia

Child smells sour, wetting the bed at night.

>>Medicine suggested: Hepar. Sulph.

Best adapted to fat, pale children.

>>Medicine suggested: Ipecac

Child sad and listless, or nervous, irritable and unmanageable, Child cries before urinating. Sleeps with half-open eyes. Sleep disturbed by frequent waking; child springs up terrified and screaming, and is angry and cross, striking, kicking and scratching every one who approaches. Feet cold.

>>Medicine suggested: Lycopodium

Straining during stool, during which the child does not wish to be touched.

>>Medicine suggested: Mag Carb.

Profuse salivation, thighs and legs cold and clammy particularly at night.

>>Medicine suggested: Merc. Sol.

Frequent soiling of clothes when passing flatus.

>>Medicine suggested: Oleander

Restless sleep with half-closed eyes, moaning, and rolling its head from side to side; rolling of head during dentition.

>>Medicine suggested: Podophyllum

The whole child smells sour. Screaming of children with urging and sour stools is characteristic. Peevish impatient screams for things; dislikes even his favorite playthings.

>>Medicine suggested: Rheum.

In scrofulous and rachitic children; green, watery stools expelled forcibly; green slimy stool; hot and watery stool; extremely offensive; emission of much offensive flatus; child peevish and fretful; infant wants to nurse all the time; abdomen sunken and flabby; head disproportionately large; sweating of head; cranial bones thin and brittle; emaciated, unable to stand.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Phos.

Stool containing large quantities of small white, shredded particles; tenesmus during and after stool; after stool; after stool, exhaustion and the child falls asleep on the vessel as soon as the tenesmus ceases; aversion to food even when smelling of it.

>>Medicine suggested: Colchicum

Great nervous erethism and tenesmus occurring only after stool.

>>Medicine suggested: Ignatia

Watery; sour-smelling stool; worse at night; general coldness and blueness of face, child is quiet all day, but screams and tosses about all night.

>>Medicine suggested: Jalapa

Stool greenish or dark brown, watery; fetid; cadaverous-smelling.

>>Medicine suggested: Kreosote

Especially useful in chronic diarrhea of children; Marasmus, emaciation very pronounced about neck; greasy appearance of face; longing for salt, and salty things; loss of taste; mapped tongue; cross and irritable; aversion to bread; slow in learning to talk; great emaciation although living well.

>>Medicine suggested: Nat Mur.

Rapid exhaustion and emaciation and aggravation after taking boiled milk are the peculiarities of the drug in infantile diarrhea.

>>Medicine suggested: Sepia

In chronic diarrhea of infants; great emaciation from long-continued diarrhea; stool cadaverous-smelling; profuse perspiration of head; open fontanelles; aversion to mother’s milk, refuse to nurse, or after nursing vomits; diarrhea from mother’s milk.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

Chronic diarrhea of weakly and sickly children, canine hunger even when the stomach is full, hot flatus smelling like rotten eggs, child cries as soon as it eats.

>>Medicine suggested: Staphysgaria

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Hernia :

It is a condition of abnormal protrusion of an organ or a part thereof through structures normally containing it.

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

With characteristic febrile symptoms, the parts extremely sensitive to contact.

>>Medicine suggested: Aconite

Fat, flabby child, large head, open fontanelles, perspiration of head and other characteristics of the remedy.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Congenital hernia of right side; abdomen distended; loud rumbling of flatus esp. in left hypochondrium; screams before urinating; red sand in urine; sleeps with half-open eyes.

>>Medicine suggested: Lycopodium

Congenital hernia of left side; crying spells during which the feet are alternately drawn up and then stretched out again; frequent but ineffectual urging to stool; feeling of weakness in abdomen particularly in morning; nausea and vomiting of sour mucus red face.

>>Medicine suggested: Nux V.

Hernia of infants with profound prostration; great disposition of hernia to come down; better when quiet, worse from coughing or breathing

>>Medicine suggested: Sulph Ac.

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Muscular Cramps (convulsions, spasms) :

It is a state of involuntary muscular contraction, especially one resulting in cramps or convulsion.

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

Flushed face, red eyes; fever; hot head, feet cold; during teething with fever; drowsiness after spasms: child plump and large-headed.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Delayed dentition with characteristic sweat on head and open fontanels.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Child seems well when there is sudden rigidity, then jerks and violent distortions, then utter prostration. Renewed from slightest touch, noise, or jar. Head turned or twisted to one side. Loss of consciousness; great oppression of breathing; face dark red; foaming at mouth. When caused by worms.

>>Medicine suggested: Cicuta

Worm complaints; picking and boring at nose; face pale; becomes suddenly stiff, followed by trembling of whole body; gurgling noise during convulsion, as if water was poured out of a bottle from throat down to abdomen.

>>Medicine suggested: China

Convulsion with clenched fingers and blue face; with screaming out; boring head into pillow; spasms begin in fingers and toes and spread into whole body; after convulsions turning and twisting in all directions; caused by dentition; by repercussed eruptions or failure of eruptions to come out.

>>Medicine suggested: Cuprum

Sudden starting and twitching, of muscles; on arm twitches then the other; sudden shrieks followed by convulsions and insensibility; frothing at mouth, biting of tongue; face deep red; from fright or warm.

>>Medicine suggested: Hyoscyamus

Child lies as if dead; pale but warm; “suddenly he arouses and goes into severe convulsions, only again to relapse into this sort of cataleptic rigidity.”

>>Medicine suggested: Arsenic Alb.

From repercussion of measles.

>>Medicine suggested: Bryonia

Stiffness and bending backwards, Legs moved up and down, gasping and reaching with the hands, mouth drawn from side to side, and eyes starting. One face red, the other pale; very irritable, must be carried all the time to be quieted; hot sweat about face and head.

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla

From fall or other injury.

>>Medicine suggested: Arnica

When occurring during sleep; trembling of tongue; cold feet before attack; with screaming; after attack sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Lachesis

Convulsions during dentition without fever.

>>Medicine suggested: Mag Phos.

Spasm returns at same hour everyday; single parts or single muscles (particularly those about the eyelids or the mouth) here and there convulsed; face deathly pale, although sometimes it may be flushed after fright.

>>Medicine suggested: Ignatia

From fright; in infant when its wet-nurse has become frightened, or very angry; begins with loud screams; foam at mouth; trembling of limbs; eyes half open; face dark red and hot; hot sweat on body; opisthotonos; after attack, deep, snoring sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Opium

Twisting of head to and fro; labored and anxious breathing, in thin, scrawny children.

>>Medicine suggested: Secale Cor.

Spasms return at change of moon; sweat about head; coldness of left side before attack; constipation, stool receding after being partly expelled; after vaccination.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

After suppressed eruptions, corrects tendency to convulsions when other remedies fail.

>>Medicine suggested: Sulphur

Child cries out during sleep; whole body jerks during sleep; seems frightened when getting awake, starts, rolls head from side to side; twitching and jerking’s of various muscles. Convulsions during dentition, with pale face, no heat, except perhaps in occiput, no increase in temperature, rolling the eyes; gnashing the teeth.

>>Medicine suggested: Zincum

Convulsions, Spasms

Flushed face, red eyes; fever; hot head, feet cold; during teething with fever; drowsiness after spasms: child plump and large-headed.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Delayed dentition with characteristic sweat on head and open fontanels.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Child seems well when there is sudden rigidity, then jerks and violent distortions, then utter prostration. Renewed from slightest touch, noise, or jar. Head turned or twisted to one side. Loss of consciousness; great oppression of breathing; face dark red; foaming at mouth. When caused by worms.

>>Medicine suggested: Cicuta

Worm complaints; picking and boring at nose; face pale; becomes suddenly stiff, followed by trembling of whole body; gurgling noise during convulsion, as if water was poured out of a bottle from throat down to abdomen.

>>Medicine suggested: China

Convulsion with clenched fingers and blue face; with screaming out; boring head into pillow; spasms begin in fingers and toes and spread into whole body; after convulsions turning and twisting in all directions; caused by dentition; by repercussed eruptions or failure of eruptions to come out.

>>Medicine suggested: Cuprum

Sudden starting and twitching, of muscles; on arm twitches then the other; sudden shrieks followed by convulsions and insensibility; frothing at mouth, biting of tongue; face deep red; from fright or warm.

>>Medicine suggested: Hyoscyamus

Child lies as if dead; pale but warm; “suddenly he arouses and goes into severe convulsions, only again to relapse into this sort of cataleptic rigidity.”

>>Medicine suggested: Arsenic Alb.

From repercussion of measles.

>>Medicine suggested: Bryonia

Stiffness and bending backwards, Legs moved up and down, gasping and reaching with the hands, mouth drawn from side to side, and eyes starting. One face red, the other pale; very irritable, must be carried all the time to be quieted; hot sweat about face and head.

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla

From fall or other injury.

>>Medicine suggested: Arnica

When occurring during sleep; trembling of tongue; cold feet before attack; with screaming; after attack sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Lachesis

Convulsions during dentition without fever.

>>Medicine suggested: Mag Phos.

Spasm returns at same hour everyday; single parts or single muscles (particularly those about the eyelids or the mouth) here and there convulsed; face deathly pale, although sometimes it may be flushed after fright.

>>Medicine suggested: Ignatia

From fright; in infant when its wet-nurse has become frightened, or very angry; begins with loud screams; foam at mouth; trembling of limbs; eyes half open; face dark red and hot; hot sweat on body; opisthotonos; after attack, deep, snoring sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Opium

Twisting of head to and fro; labored and anxious breathing, in thin, scrawny children.

>>Medicine suggested: Secale Cor.

Spasms return at change of moon; sweat about head; coldness of left side before attack; constipation, stool receding after being partly expelled; after vaccination.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

After suppressed eruptions, corrects tendency to convulsions when other remedies fail.

>>Medicine suggested: Sulphur

Child cries out during sleep; whole body jerks during sleep; seems frightened when getting awake, starts, rolls head from side to side; twitching and jerking’s of various muscles. Convulsions during dentition, with pale face, no heat, except perhaps in occiput, no increase in temperature, rolling the eyes; gnashing the teeth.

>>Medicine suggested: Zincum

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Progressive Wasting (Marasmus) :

Marasmus is characterized by emaciation, anemia, dry, wrinkled skin, flabbiness of muscles. There is at times ravenous hunger but taking very little food appeases the hunger. At other times the child will eat well, yet loss flesh all the time.

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

With marked emaciation, sometimes only of the lower extremities, at time especially of the legs, or the emaciation may be first noticed in the legs; head weak, cannot hold it up; ravenous hunger, eat well but lose flesh all the while; skin flabby, hangs loose in folds; face pale, wrinkled with blue rings around eyes; child cross, depressed.

>>Medicine suggested: Abrotanum

Child looks old, withered, dried up; emaciation most marked on the legs; great craving for sweets; green slimy stool, expelled with much spluttering; worse at night.

>>Medicine suggested: Argentum N.

Dry parchment-like skin; general emaciation; great prostration and cold hands and feet; great restlessness, particularly at night; diarrhea as soon as the child begins to eat or drink; hollow eyes with blue margins; fever with desire to drink often but little at a time.

>>Medicine suggested: Arsenic.

Large head with open fontanelles; much sweat about head; abdomen disproportionately enlarged and hard; general emaciation with good or voracious appetite; craving for indigestible articles; longing for eggs; cold, damp feet; stool green; fetid; pungent; smelling like rotten eggs; sour; or undigested with curdled milk.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Diarrhea nose, chin and tips of ears cold; desire for salted or smoked meat; inability of neck to support head; abdomen flabby; skin dry and cold; great emaciation, looks old; intellectually depressed.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Phos.

Face, cold pale, sickly; distension of abdomen with desire of belch up which relieves for the time being; painless, undigested offensive stool with great weakness; worse after eating and at night; violent thirst for cold water which increases diarrhea; profuse sweat esp. at night; enlargement of spleen and liver.

>>Medicine suggested: China

Withering throughout the body, the muscles shrink, the skin wrinkles and the face of the child looks like that of a little old person, but the glands under the arms, in the groin and in the belly are enlarged and hard. Ravenous hunger, eats well or must eat every two hours, yet loses flesh all the time; feels better while eating or after eating; hectic fever, night-sweats, diarrhea.

>>Medicine suggested: Iodum

Chronic diarrhea, Whole body wasted, while the head is exceedingly large; forehead often cold but becomes warm when lightly covered; slow in learning to walk; child obstinate, headstrong, cry when spoken kindly to.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

Voracious appetite; particularly about 11 a.m.; child greedily clutches at everything within reach and thrusts it into its mouth; “child looks shriveled and dried up, like a little old man; the skin hangs in folds and is rather yellowish, wrinkled and flabby; heat on top of head and cold feet; odor of body offensive despite frequent washing; cannot bear to be washed or bathed; frequently awakens from sleep with screams; excoriation esp. at anus.

>>Medicine suggested: Sulphur

Scrofulous, dwarfish children; mentally weak, timid, stupid, of silly look, does not want to play; slow in learning to walk; swelling of glands of neck and occiput; face and abdomen bloated; general emaciation.

>>Medicine suggested: Baryta C.

Stool sour-smelling; greenish and slimy; clay-colored with liver troubles; white and sour; or smelling like rotten cheese. Digestion weak, cannot digest food no matter how well selected it may be; diarrhea worse during day and after eating; child smells sour; sensitive to cold air; craving for condiments.

>>Medicine suggested: Hepar. Sulph.

Digestion defective; child puny and sickly; milk is refused, or if taken causes pain in stomach; sour vomiting, stool green, watery, frothy, with green scum like that of a frog-pond; milk passes undigested in nursing children; sour smell of whole body.

>>Medicine suggested: Mag C.

Skin about neck wrinkles and hangs in folds; neck so weak and emaciated that the child cannot hold its head up; child looks old, dirty, greasy and brownish; great emaciation of neck and extremities, abdomen distended and hard; head and neck sweat profusely during sleep; no desire for stool until a large quantity is accumulated, stool is partially expelled after great straining and recedes again stool hard and impossible to evacuate, must be removed mechanically.

>>Medicine suggested: Sanicula

Great emaciation; skin becomes shriveled and lies in folds; face shriveled; abdomen enlarged; aphathe in mouth; herpetic eruptions on skin. It is antipsoric, antisyphilitic and antisycotic.

>>Medicine suggested: Sarsaparilla

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Rickets (rachitis):

It is a constitutional disease of childhood characterized by softness and curvature of the bones. Its prominent symptoms are largeness of head, curvature of the bones of legs, of the spine, enlargement of the joint-ends, especially of the wrists and ankles, late closing of the fontanelles, profuse perspiration about head and neck, voracious appetite, pot-belly, diarrhea etc. A peculiarity is that the mental faculties are precocious.

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

Large curvature of spin and long bones, extremities crooked deformed; profuse sweat of head while sleeping; great longing for eggs; craves indigestible things; difficulty in learning to walk or stand, no inclination to walk, will not try to walk; canine hunger in morning; diarrhea; milk disagrees; sour vomiting of large curds.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Cranial bones especially occipital very thin and brittle, crackling like paper upon pressure; delayed closure or re opening of fontanelles; delayed teething; slow in learning to walk; neck too thin and weak to support head; curvature of spine esp. to the left; child is thin, emaciated; skin being rather brownish or yellow; intellectually depressed and slow to comprehend.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Phos.

Scrofulous, rachitic children; disproportionately large head; fontanelles esp. the anterior open; much sweating about head of sour, offensive smell; hard, distended abdomen; likes to be wrapped up warmly; weak ankles; slow in learning to walk; diarrhea.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

Scrofulous, dwarfish children; imperfect development; physically and mentally weak; silly look; abdomen; face bloated, swelling of glands of neck and occiput, general emaciation.

>>Medicine suggested: Baryta Carb.

Sensation as if the vertebra were gliding one over the other, when turning in bed; cracking in cervical vertebra, especially on bending backward; curvature of spine, vertebra softened.

>>Medicine suggested: Sulphur

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Striking symptoms of Children :

Constipation

Constitutional

Colic

Convulsions

Craving

Crying

Emaciation

Fear, Fright, Terror

Gums

Late learning

Limbs,Head,Cheeks,Neck

Milk

Nursing

Repeat

Sleep

Smell

Starting

Stupor

Suffocation

Swallow

Sweat

Temper

Vomit

Wetting Bed

Though a single symptom is rarely characteristic, the striking symptoms will help in selecting remedies. On the strength of some of the striking characteristic symptoms, many successful “snap-shot” medicines can be used.

Constipation :

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

In emaciated children during dentition.

>>Medicine suggested: Kreosote

Have to make great effort to pass even soft stool.

>>Medicine suggested: Alumina

Stools hard, knotty, lumps united by mucous threads or coated with mucus.

>>Medicine suggested: Graphites

Chalk-like stool.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Cry during and after stool, which is dry and hard; much flatulence.

>>Medicine suggested: Lycopodium

Expulsion difficult even when stool is soft; stools slip back after being partly expelled.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

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Constitutional :

Thin, dried up children, looking almost like mummies.

>>Medicine suggested: Argent N.

Walk unsteadily; fall easily.

>>Medicine suggested: Causticum

Easily fatigued; sit bent forward; refuse to stand long, crawl about.

>>Medicine suggested: Sulphur

Both physically and mentally weak

>>Medicine suggested: Baryta Carb.

Memory deficient; forgetful, inattentive; cannot be taught for they cannot remember; threatened idiocy.

>>Medicine suggested: Baryta Carb.

Cannot bear to be washed or bather in cold water.

>>Medicine suggested: Ant. Crud.

Restless, hot, kick off clothes at night.

>>Medicine suggested: Hepar. Sulph. / Sanicula

Kick off clothing even in coldest weather.

>>Medicine suggested: Hepar. Sulph. /Sulphur/Sanicula

Weak with well-developed head but puny, sickly bodies.

>>Medicine suggested: Lycopodium

Afraid of strangers; will not play, will not read; prefer to sit idly in a corner, stupid, silly look.

>>Medicine suggested: Baryta Carb.

Aversion to washing.

>>Medicine suggested: Sulphur

Grasp everything within their reach and thrust it into mouth.

>>Medicine suggested: Sulphur

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Colic :

Of infants, which no position relieves, with bilious stools, relieved by pressure.

>>Medicine suggested: Colocynth. /Stannum

Comes on at a certain hour every afternoon.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

With cold sweat on forehead.

>>Medicine suggested: Veratrum Alb.

Relieved by bending backwards, abdomen full of wind.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Habitual in cross, ugly scrawny, pot-bellied children, especially with characteristic.

>>Medicine suggested: Staphysagria

Daily colic in infants at about 5 A.M.

>>Medicine suggested: Kali Bich.

Daily colic in infants at 4 A.M.

>>Medicine suggested: Colocynth/ Lycopodium

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Convulsion :

Sudden rigidity, then violent distortions, then utters prostration.

>>Medicine suggested: Cicuta

Head turned and twisted to one side.

>>Medicine suggested: Cicuta

Gurgling noise from throat to abdomen, during.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina

Spasms begin in finger and toes and spread into whole body.

>>Medicine suggested: Cuprum

Sudden shrieks followed by convulsion.

>>Medicine suggested: Hyoscyamus

Spasms return at same hour every day.

>>Medicine suggested: Ignatia

Boring the head into pillow.

>>Medicine suggested: Apis Mel.

Spasms return at change of moon.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

Coldness of left side before attack.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

Twitching of single muscles, during.

>>Medicine suggested: Ignatia. /Secale Cor.

Single part affected, during.

>>Medicine suggested: Ignatia

When occurring during sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Lachesis

Spasms renewed by least touch, followed by deep sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Nux Vom.

Hands stretched out.

>>Medicine suggested: Secale Cor.

From a fall or other injury.

>>Medicine suggested: Arnica

From fight, When wet-nurses have become frightened.

>>Medicine suggested: Opium

From irritation of worms.

>>Medicine suggested: Artemisia/ Cina /Cicuta/ Hyoscyamus

After retrocession of eruptions.

>>Medicine suggested: Cuprum, Ant Tart. / Sulphur

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Craving :

Unusual craving for eggs.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Constant craving for meat.

>>Medicine suggested: Helonias

Craving for bacon and ham.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Phos.

Irresistible desire for sugar.

>>Medicine suggested: Argent Nit.

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Crying :

Suffer from a watery or green diarrhea, cry and complain very much, bite their fists and are sleepless.

>>Medicine suggested: Aconite

Constant crying with anxious looks and great uneasiness whine and fret, constantly gnawing at their fingers or something else.

>>Medicine suggested: Aconite

Cry before paroxysms of cough as though in fear of soreness.

>>Medicine suggested: Arnica

Cry when washed with cold water.

>>Medicine suggested: Antim Crud.

Cry when touched or looked at.

>>Medicine suggested: Antim Crud.

Cry when touched.

>>Medicine suggested: Ant Carb. / Cina

Very fretful, must be carried all the time to be quieted.

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla

Quiet all day but scream and toss about all night.

>>Medicine suggested: Jalapa

Scream with pain before passing water, better immediately afterwards.

>>Medicine suggested: Lycopodium

Infants scream before urinating.

>>Medicine suggested: Borax

Scream when urinating.

>>Medicine suggested: Sarsaparilla

Cry piteously if taken hold of or carried.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina

Throw themselves angrily upon the floor when in the least opposed, scream, cannot get their breath.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina

Cry with cough and cough when angry.

>>Medicine suggested: Ant Tart.

Much crying during and after nursing, or as soon as they begin to take food.

>>Medicine suggested: Arsenic Alb.

Cry out suddenly without any apparent cause and after a while ceases suddenly, as if nothing had been the matter.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Want to be nursed in arms, cry in cradle or bed.

>>Medicine suggested: Borax

Waken from sleep with piercing cries and tremble all over, sobbing and sighing continue long after the crying ceases.

>>Medicine suggested: Ignatia

Struggle and scream before passing stool, seeming to go in fits.

>>Medicine suggested: Kreosote

Cry out during sleep, and if awakened express fear and press their head anxiously from side to side.

>>Medicine suggested: Zincum

Moaning and screaming during sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret and cry.

>>Medicine suggested: Psorinum

Cry much and very cross.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Palate of infants looks wrinkled, with screaming when nursing.

>>Medicine suggested: Borax

Cry at least thing.

>>Medicine suggested: Causticum

Cry as soon as they eat.

>>Medicine suggested: Staphysagria

Awake suddenly, screaming and grasping sides of cradle without apparent cause.

>>Medicine suggested: Borax

Pitifully weeping when awake, start and scream during sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina

Cry all day, sleep all night.

>>Medicine suggested: Lycopodium

Screaming with urging and sour stools.

>>Medicine suggested: Rheum.

Cry and toss about all night.

>>Medicine suggested: Psorinum

Restless sleep with starting, jumping and screaming out; whole body jerks during sleep; wake frightened, stare and roll the head from side to side.

>>Medicine suggested: Zincum

Awaken terrified, know no one, scream with fright, and cling to those near. Stramonium

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla

Moaning in sleep, with hot sticky sweat on forehead.

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla

Shriek out in sleep, or if old enough complain of terrific visions.

>>Medicine suggested: Kali Brom.

Moaning during sleep, with half-closed eyes.

>>Medicine suggested: Bell.

Sleep restless with crying out at night; scratch head when aroused.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Restless sleep; waking frequently, or frequently changing position; waking with cries.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina

Awaken from sleep with piercing cries and tremble all over.

>>Medicine suggested: Ignatia

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Emaciation :

Marked emaciation, sometime only of the lower extremities.

>>Medicine suggested: Abrotanum

Look withered, dried up like mummies.

>>Medicine suggested: Argent Nit.

Ravenous hunger, eats well, or must eat every two hours but lose flesh all the time.

>>Medicine suggested: Iodum

Whole body wasted, while the head is exceedingly large.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

Voracious appetite, particularly about 11 a.m., child looks shriveled and dried up, like a little old man.

>>Medicine suggested: Sulphur

Skin about neck wrinkles and hangs in folds.

>>Medicine suggested: Sanicula

Great emaciation; skin becomes shriveled and lies in folds, herpetic eruptions on skin.

>>Medicine suggested: Sarsaparilla

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Fear, Fright ,Terror :

Fear downward motion, hence rocking cradle. Etc.

>>Medicine suggested: Borax

Awaken terrified, cry for sometime and will not be quieted; will not stop rubbing their nose.

>>Medicine suggested: Lycopodium

Easily startled at sudden noise.

>>Medicine suggested: Borax

Anxious feeling during downward motion or rocking.

>>Medicine suggested: Borax

Have anxious expression of face and suffocative attack whenever children are lifted up from cradle.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Phos.

Afraid of strangers

>>Medicine suggested: Causticum

Seize things when carried, as if afraid of falling.

>>Medicine suggested: Gelsimium

Fear of falling; grasp the crib or seize the nurse.

>>Medicine suggested: Gelsimium/ Borax/ Sanic.

Night terrors of children, children constantly active or in motion, nearly afraid to sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Kali Brom.

Cry out during sleep, and if awakened express fear and roll head anxiously from side to side.

>>Medicine suggested: Zincum

Cry out during sleep; awaken with fear; limbs and body jerk.

>>Medicine suggested: Zincum

Fear to go to bed in dark.

>>Medicine suggested: Causticum

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Gums :

Intense desire to press the gums together.

>>Medicine suggested: Podophyllum/ Phytolacca

Frequently pulling at the gums.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

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Late :

In learning to talk.

>>Medicine suggested: Nat m.

In learning to walk and talk.

>>Medicine suggested: Aethusa/ Calc Carb.

In learning to walk.

>>Medicine suggested: Baryta Carb. / Calc. Carb.

In learning to walk on account of weak ankles.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Phos.

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Limbs , Head, Cheeks, Neck :

Hot head, while the hands and feet are cold.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Rolling the head from side to side.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona/ Podophyllum/Lycopodium

Legs jerk while asleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Borax

Neck too slender to support the head.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Neck too slender to support the head, which falls from side to side.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc p.

Feet cold and damp.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Redness of one cheek, the other pale.

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla/ Arnica/ Aconite

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Milk :

Sours on stomach; is either thrown up or passes downward in white curdled lumps.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Milk thrown up is cheesy.

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla

Milk tastes bitter, babe rejects breast.

>>Medicine suggested: Rheum.

Aversion to milk; diarrhea from it.

>>Medicine suggested: Nat Carb.

Averse to mother’s milk and vomit whenever taking it.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

Nurse well but food pass through undigested and fails to sustain child, alternating with loss of appetite and vomiting.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

Vomiting of milk wither curdled or just as it was swallowed.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

Sudden and violent vomiting immediately after nursing; vomiting followed by exhaustion and sleep, nurse again as soon as they wake.

>>Medicine suggested: Aethusa

Vomiting of sour curds.

>>Medicine suggested: Aethusa

Persistent vomiting of milk.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Phos.

During difficult dentition are unable to digest milk; it causes pain in stomach and passes undigested; puny, rachitic children who crave sweets.

>>Medicine suggested: Mag Mur.

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Nursing :

Mouth so dry that children will not nurse until it is moistened.

>>Medicine suggested: Bryonia

Dislike to be carried or to be raised.

>>Medicine suggested: Bryonia

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Repeat :

Repeat everything said to them.

>>Medicine suggested: Zincum

Sleep :

Sleep only when rocked hard.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Will not sleep without rocking.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina

Wide awake; cannot sleep, on closing eyes see figures.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Awake at night from sleep, and are unnaturally bright and playful, and evince no desire to go to sleep. (In brain affections.)

>>Medicine suggested: Cypripedium.

Shriek out piercingly in sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Apis Mel.

Sob and cry in sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Hyoscyamus

Sleep all night and cry all day.

>>Medicine suggested: Lycopodium

Sleep all day and cry all night.

>>Medicine suggested: Jalapa/ Psorinum

Sleep with half-closed eyes and moan, roll head from side to side.

>>Medicine suggested: Podophyllum

Very drowsy but cannot sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Drowsiness with starting and jerking of muscles during sleep when carried and fondled; moaning and dozing with half-open eyes.

>>Medicine suggested: Kreosote

Sleep with half open eyes and throw head from side to with moaning.

>>Medicine suggested: Lycopodium

Sleep but cannot sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Fall asleep as soon as the tenesmus ceases after stool.

>>Medicine suggested: Sulphur

Want to be rapidly rocked, will sleep only while being rocked.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina

Scream out sharply and suddenly during sleep esp. at night.

>>Medicine suggested: Apis Mel.

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Smell :

Body has a filthy smell even after bath.

>>Medicine suggested: Psorinum/ Sulphur

Children smell sour.

>>Medicine suggested: Hepar. Sulphur. / Rheum. / Mag. Carb.

Children smell sour, despite most careful washing.

>>Medicine suggested: Sulph ac.

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Starting :

Violent starts when falling asleep with fear of suffocation.

Start up every time children go to sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Ammon Carb.

Start from sleep with a wild look, dilated pupils.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Starting from sleep with anxious scream, throwing hands about, seizing things or clinging to mother.

>>Medicine suggested: Borax

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Stupor :

Stupor interrupted with occasional piercing scream.

>>Medicine suggested: Apis Mel.

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Suffocation :

Have a suffocative attack when lifted up from the cradle.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Phos.

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Swallow :

Can swallow nothing but liquid, even the smallest quantity of solid food gags.

>>Medicine suggested: Baptisia

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Sweat :

Hot sweat about the head, even in hair.

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla

Sweat easily and take cold.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Profuse sweat on head when sleeping esp. on the back of the head, wetting the pillow.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Profuse perspiration on head, sour smelling and offensive in first sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea.

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Temper :

Do not want to be touched.

>>Medicine suggested: Ant C--.

Want to be carried, cross, feverish, and very thirsty.

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla

Desire many things, which are refused when, offered.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina/ Chamomilla

Make themselves stiff and bend backward, petulant and angry disposition, kick with feet and scream immoderately.

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla

Morose, self-willed, stubborn.

>>Medicine suggested: Aethusa

Cannot bear being touched, or looked at.

>>Medicine suggested: Ant c., Ant t.

Aversion to being touched or looked at.

>>Medicine suggested: Arg. Nit.

Will not play, not read, prefer to sit idly in a corner, stupid, silly look.

>>Medicine suggested: Baryta Carb.

Precocious, obstinate, self-willed and cry persistently.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Impertinent, laugh at reprimands.

>>Medicine suggested: Graphites

Sad and listless, or nervous, irritable, and unmanageable.

>>Medicine suggested: Kreosote

Very cross and strike and bite.

>>Medicine suggested: Stramonium

Cannot bear to be spoken to.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea/ Chamomilla

Headstrong, obstinate, cry, and kick, cross, irritable, quickly alternate with laughter; do not want to be touched.

>>Medicine suggested: Sanicula

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Vomit :

Vomit water only, food is retained.

>>Medicine suggested: Bismuthum

Wetting the Bed :

When dreaming that he is urinating in a decent manner.

>>Medicine suggested: Kreosote

Wet the bed, during the first sleep, from which children are roused with difficulty.

>>Medicine suggested: Sepia

Suffocation (asphyxia neonatorum):

Sometimes the respiration of the newborn infants becomes in abeyance. The child is apparently dead. There is no breathing or the child may gasp. Respiration is often established by smartly slapping the buttocks of the child.

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

The newborn is “hot, purple-hued,” breathless or there is “difficulty of breathing, after the use of forceps, or from a tedious labor;” pulse less.

>>Medicine suggested: Aconite

Child pale, breathless, gasping, rattling of mucus in throat, cyanosis.

>>Medicine suggested: Antim T.

Face and eyes red, pupils dilated.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Face is very blue with gasping for breath, twitching of muscles of face.

>>Medicine suggested: Laurocerasus

Pale and breathless, cord still pulsates, face of the child blue.

>>Medicine suggested: Opium

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Dentition (Teething):

The first sets of teeth (milk-teeth) are twenty in number, of which the two middle teeth of the lower jaw, are cut first. After three or four weeks, the two corresponding incisors of the upper jaw appear. First molars are cut between the 12th to 14th month, canines between the 15th to 20th month and the second molar between the 20th to 30th months. During the period of dentition children are liable to attacks of fever, diarrhea convulsions etc.

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

Child cries and whines, constant gnawing at its fingers or fists, or something else, watery diarrhea, fever with much restlessness, restless sleep.

>>Medicine suggested: Aconite

Moans and groans a great deal; starts suddenly from sleep as if frightened; face and eyes red, head hot; convulsions followed by sound sleep; gums swollen and inflamed with numerous small blood vessels on surface of gums.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Difficult and delayed dentition with characteristic head sweat during sleep, open fontanel’s; abdomen large and hard, cold, damp feet, flabby muscles; canine hunger is morning; stools look like lumps of chalk or are thin and whitish; craving for eggs; milk disagrees; sour vomiting of large curds

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Carb.

Flabby; shrunken emaciated children; large sunken, flabby abdomen; slow development of teeth; large, open fontanelles, or fontanelles close and re-open; diarrhea and great flatulence; slow in learning to walk; neck weak and slender, unable to support head; stools green and slimy, or thin, greenish; diarrhea and great flatulence; refuse to nurse or want to nurse all the time.

>>Medicine suggested: Calc Phos.

Starting and jumping during sleep; very irritable, quiet only when carried; stool, green slimy, mucous, or like chopped eggs and spinach, smelling like rotten eggs; or obstinate constipation; gums red and tender; one cheek red, the other pale; convulsions,

>>Medicine suggested: Chamomilla

Picks, bores into or rubs the nose; paleness of face, particularly around nose and mouth; cross and peevish; restless sleep; will not sleep without rocking; white, turbid urine; watery diarrhea containing lumps of white mucus, like little pieces of popped corn.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina

Copious salivation; gums red; sometimes little ulcers on tongue, gums, and cheeks; convulsions when child takes cold and salivation is arrested; profuse sweat at night.

>>Medicine suggested: Merc. Sol.

Rolling of the head during dentition; restless sleep with half-closed eyes; moaning and whining during sleep; green, watery or whitish, chalk-like stools, very offensive, may be like carrion; gagging on empty retching; diarrhea immediately after eating or drinking.

>>Medicine suggested: Podophyllum

Rachitic children with large heads; open fontanelles; profuse sour-smelling sweat on head; abdomen distended; slow in learning to walk; protruding gum is blistered and sensitive; difficult stool which recedes again after being partly expelled.

>>Medicine suggested: Silicea

Very painful dentition; teeth begin to decay as soon as they appear; gums hot, swollen, tender and look as if filled with a dark, watery fluid; sleep very restless, tossing about all night, wants to be petted all the time.

>>Medicine suggested: Kreosote

Wants to continually bite the teeth or gums together or to bite continually on something hard.

>>Medicine suggested: Phytolacca

Scrawny, ugly, pot-bellied children, teeth decay as soon as they are cut; canine hunger even when the stomach is full.

>>Medicine suggested: Staphysgaria

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Tetanus , Trismus (Spasm of jaw muscles)

It is a fatal disease caused by a bacterium Clostridium tetani and characterized by convulsive contractions of voluntary muscles.

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

May be tried first in tetanus of the newborn babes Indication: Rigidity of muscles of jaws and neck; body bent backwards; frequent alternation of redness and paleness of face.

>>Medicine suggested: Aconite

Head alone, or face alone hot, rest of body cool. Short, panting breathing.

>>Medicine suggested: Arnica

Face red and hot; lockjaw; throws body forwards and backwards; sudden jerks and shrieks daring sleep; involuntary discharge of stool and urine: staring eyes.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Great coldness all over the body; titanic convulsions with loss of consciousness; limbs extended with fixed head bent sideways; lower jaw rigid, wide open; oppressed, anxious and panting breathing; clammy, cold sweat.

>>Medicine suggested: Camphor

Screams before and during a spasm; eyes half-open; difficult breathing; foam at mouth; trembling of limbs; pupils dilated and insensible to light; face dark-red and hot; rigidity of whole body, the trunk curved in a form of an arch.

>>Medicine suggested: Opium.

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Whooping Cough (Pertussis):

Whooping cough is almost entirely a disease of infancy and childhood. It is characterized by distressing spasmodic fits of coughing ending in a long, crowing inspiration, and vomiting of tough glairy mucus. It is an infectious and in most cases an epidemic disease. During a paroxysm the face sometimes becomes cyanotic (blue or blue red) as a result of impeded respiration and there is violent straining which is sometimes the cause of nosebleed. After the termination of a paroxysm, comes lassitude for some time and later the child feels quite well until disturbed by the next attack. The intervals between paroxysms may generally vary from a few hours to a few minutes in exceptional cases. It is a very obstinate disease and may last for a few weeks to a few months.

>>Therapeutic and guiding notes and Medicine Suggested: 

Child coughs when angry; is said to be a strong indication, child very fretful before the cough, provoked be eating, Great rattling of mucus but none is expectorated, vomiting of food and mucus after coughing fits.

>>Medicine suggested: Ant Tart.

Child cries before each coughing spell, as if it dreaded the attack. This dread is due to soreness. Child also cries after each coughing fit. Left cheek swollen and red, with heat in the head and coldness of the body, eyes bloodshot; nosebleed, worse in evening till midnight, worse when child becomes angry.

>>Medicine suggested: Arnica

Generally indicated in the beginning of most cases. Face becomes red during coughing fits; cough is dry, hard and barking; paroxysms frequent, worse at night esp. just after midnight; bleeding of nose; sneezing after coughing.

>>Medicine suggested: Belladona

Child becomes stiff during coughing spells; after coughing fits there is a gurgling noise from throat to abdomen, as though water were being poured out of a bottle; frequent sneezing after a coughing spell; face sickly with dark rings under the eyes; picking and rubbing of nose; other worm symptoms of the remedy. Fretting excites the cough, Grinding of teeth.

>>Medicine suggested: Cina

Every spell of cough ends with expectoration of clear, ropy mucus hanging in great long strings from the mouth; on waking in morning, the child is immediately seized with a coughing fit. Sensation as of a thread in the throat. Feels better in a cold room, in open air. Child lies in bed with the covers off.

>>Medicine suggested: Coccus Cacti.

Cough so violent that the child loses its breath and turns purple and black in the face. Whooping cough, with smothering before the cough, and great exhaustion afterwards, the child gasps and gasps and becomes black in the face. Taking very little food or drink.

>>Medicine suggested: Corallium R.

Severe form of the disease when there is violent and long continued spells of cough, until the breath is nearly exhausted; and the child is completely prostrated; during attack child becomes rigid, turns blue or black in the face, and seems as if dead; vomiting after paroxysms and then rattling of mucus in chest; convulsions during whooping cough in which flexor muscles are principally involved.

>>Medicine suggested: Cuprum

Violent paroxysms, which come on so rapidly that the child is scarcely able to get breath; worse particularly after midnight, vomiting of food or mucus, and bleeding from nose, and sometimes the mouth

>>Medicine suggested: Drosera

Child becomes stiff and purple or blue in face, cough causes gagging and finally there is vomiting of phlegm. Wheezing, If it is present in any case it would be a very strong indication indeed, Cough loose but phlegm does not yield to coughing; Red face, thirstlessness, violent whooping, with convulsions, with gagging and vomiting of all that he eats.

>>Medicine suggested: Ipecac

Convulsive stage; after a coughing fit, the child falls over, Exhausted with cold sweat especially on forehead; collapsed or greatly prostrated state; great thirst; quick, weak pulse; involuntary discharge of urine during coughing fits; neck too weak to hold the head up.

>>Medicine suggested: Veratrum A.

Fever, cough dry, whistling; child grasps at its throat during cough due to pain.

>>Medicine suggested: Aconite

Cough followed by eructation of wind.

>>Medicine suggested: Ambra G.

Cough worse after eating or drinking; vomits its food after cough, which follows almost immediately after eating, or drinking; involuntary discharge of loose stool during coughing spells, also of urine; or the stool may be dry and hard.

>>Medicine suggested: Bryonia

After repercussion of eruptions, or excited by cold, damp atmosphere.

>>Medicine suggested: Dulcamara

Dry, barking cough worse in morning; vomiting of viscid mucus, which can be drawn out in long strings. Expectoration is stringy, yellow.

>>Medicine suggested: Kali Bich.

Hard cough, catarrhal symptoms slight, spasmodic whoop decided; worse at night and on lying down; suffocative feeling; cannot exhale; at times convulsions; vomits food sometimes hours after eating. Whooping or any other kind of cough which is very violent, coming on spasmodically, and seeming as though each spell would terminate life.

>>Medicine suggested: Mephitis

Two paroxysms follow one another rapidly, and are separated from next two by an interval of perfect rest.

>>Medicine suggested: Merc. Sol.

Violent spasmodic cough; paroxysms last a long time.

>>Medicine suggested: Napth.

Cough very dry and hard; worse mornings and after eating; hurts the head or stomach, child puts his hand up to his head while coughing; gagging and vomiting; blue face; fear of suffocation

>>Medicine suggested: Nux Vom.

Chubby children; tough expectoration as clear as white of an egg; paroxysms worse evenings; sensation of crushing weight in chest.

>>Medicine suggested: Senega

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