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post #41 of 59
10/19/08 at 12:37am
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Originally Posted by changingseasons View Post
Wow- that is hardcore. Or maybe the arnica montana is just that good. I better check it out.

Is that dose appropriate for a 1yo?
The story is even more amazing as her husband is a medical physician.

After the mastectomy, her surgeon was discharging her and asked 'What are they giving you for pain meds, nothing is recorded.' She held up the little vial of Boiron homeopathic pellets. And the doctors were squinting at the little writing on the container, completely unaware of what it was.

As a nurse, we never used homeopathy.

For a major injury, soft tissue damage, head trauma, broken bones with muscle injury, sprain, surgery, major bleeding, open wounds, I'd use Arnica Montana 200c or 1M if available. We only have 200c as our maximum at home. But, I'd call the homeopath first thing for a major trauma, barring life-threatening injury, of course.

For general aches and pains, bumps and bruises, I'd use Arnica Montana 30c repeated as needed.

Our homeopath is doing a presentation about "Homeopathy for emergencies like bleeding, fractures, spider and insect bites, bee stings, hives etc", next month. But, we have a "first aid kit" of homeopathics for these things.

They do work. At least from what I've observed with my own eyes. I don't understand it, but whatever.


Pat
post #42 of 59
10/19/08 at 12:40am
ETA: If indicated (ie. above 104+), for fevers we use homeopathy also, with significant benefits.


Pat
post #43 of 59
10/19/08 at 12:44am
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Originally Posted by firefaery View Post
well, I'm not sure what you tried in terms of homeopathy, but I do assure you it is not worthless for pain. My sister had a c-section and was up walking within a few hours and never took a drug post op. I had her on arnica 1M, and then moved to 200C and it was quite sufficient. She never even considered meds. It is intensely powerful stuff, but only if you have the right remedy. It is not a one size fits all approach and not every baby teethes the same.

I would never allow a child to suffer and I have used homeopathy successfully for each. However 3 kids required 3 different remedies. My first was a total belladona, my second a dulcamara and my third a chamomilla. I never had to stay up at night with a screaming child though. Like anything else you have to know how to use it and sometimes doing it yourself isn't the best way. I was lucky enough to have a fabulous homeopath.
We don't have the pleasure of having a homeopath currently and since I can't give her anything in a lactose base, that left us with Boiron's Camilia and the gum-omile oil OTC. However, with the prior 8 teeth (the ones that came prior to learning about the dairy intollerance) we used various Hylands remedies too, although Camilia was always the most effective. I'm really glad that various remedies worked for your kiddos.
post #44 of 59
10/19/08 at 12:50am
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Originally Posted by DoulaMary View Post
We don't have the pleasure of having a homeopath currently and since I can't give her anything in a lactose base, that left us with Boiron's Camilia and the gum-omile oil OTC. However, with the prior 8 teeth (the ones that came prior to learning about the dairy intollerance) we used various Hylands remedies too, although Camilia was always the most effective. I'm really glad that various remedies worked for your kiddos.
She cannot handle pellets, either? That is tough. Ds cant' do tablets or he gets mucusy green stool, but the pellets he handles just fine. As an infant I did get a liquid remedy for him too. I can see not having great success if you were that limited. Hopefully you weren't offended. I was just saying that it is very useful when used well. Clearly not everyone is able to do that for various reasons.
post #45 of 59
10/19/08 at 1:25am
I used arnica 30x post-op for my dental surgery (all 4 wisdom teeth removed) with great success. I had been on ibuprofen 400 mg every 4 hours and went down to none. (I was silly and didn't inform my ND that I was going in for surgery prior to it occurring so I didn't get it until 3 days post-op. Homeopathy for pain relief honestly never even occurred to me. I won't make that mistake again.)
post #46 of 59
10/19/08 at 1:49am
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Oh yeah- forgot about the lactose base in those things... so that won't work for us.

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3 things:
  1. Yay!!! I'm so happy that you found a great ped!
  2. A quick question: The thing about the food coming out looking undigested...this has always concerned me because I don't remember it being that bad with my now 4 yr old. How fast does it come out? I know, totally TMI, but it really bothers me that dd can eat some beans and then 1.5 hours later the beans are in her diaper, kwim? We were just at the doc and I forgot to ask him about the undigested food and speed at which it exits. Just wondering if your ped said anything more regarding it? My dd will often poop 5-10 times a day, I don't feel like anything is absorbing
  3. For fever or pain relief we use an infant's suppository called Fever All. You can google it but it's easy to find. I get mine at Walgreens. You just stick it up their butt and they are good to go. I've only used it once for a fever when dd was miserable and it seemed to help a lot. It's acetominophen.
That does seem concerning if the food is coming out that quickly. I know that for DD, when she's having a reaction she will poop multiple times a day. But when she's not reacting, she only poops every few days (but it still has the undigested food in it.

Someone suggested Fever All a while back, and I remember looking it up and seeing an ingredient that we couldn't have. Don't remember what it was... but I'm just going to guess it was corn.
post #47 of 59
10/19/08 at 2:08am
Oh duh.
I totally forgot to say

congrats on find a good ped!!!
post #48 of 59
10/19/08 at 2:24am
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Originally Posted by firefaery View Post
She cannot handle pellets, either? That is tough. Ds cant' do tablets or he gets mucusy green stool, but the pellets he handles just fine. As an infant I did get a liquid remedy for him too. I can see not having great success if you were that limited. Hopefully you weren't offended. I was just saying that it is very useful when used well. Clearly not everyone is able to do that for various reasons.
So we just have to try it to see if the amt of milk in it is a problem? Bummer. We're getting better, and I don't think I'd see an immediate reaction (for my son--I think my daughter would be fine). For me, for gluten, I can't tell for weeks (it messes up my luteal phase if it's in the 1st half, otherwise it's too subtle anymore) and I am assuming casein would be the same deal (same subtlety, obviously my son would manifest it differently ). I don't suppose there are casein-free homeopathic remedies?
post #49 of 59
10/19/08 at 10:51am
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Originally Posted by TanyaLopez View Post
I don't suppose there are casein-free homeopathic remedies?
Seriously. My older daughter is seriously dairy (not just casein) sensitive. We can't do the tablets for that reason. I guess I assumed the pellets were lactose based too, but am I incorrect? I will jump for joy if I could stock up my homeopathic kit again and use it without worry of a (dairy) rxn!
post #50 of 59
10/19/08 at 12:26pm
I have never found something OTC that was not liquid that wasn't in a lactose base. Maybe I was looking in the wrong place? I am well aware that homeopaths can make liquid remedies and the homeopath I most recently talked to said all of their remedies are in a sucrose base which is fine for us. But, not OTC. I'd also be thrilled to find out there are OTC lactose-free remedies. I have a full Hyland's home-care kit that we can't use. At least I'll be able to use it when DD weans and hopefully she'll be okay with dairy by then too.
post #51 of 59
10/19/08 at 12:59pm
all the pellets are a sucrose base. That is the difference between tablets and pellets. Even the blue tubes (Boiron) is sucrose.
post #52 of 59
10/19/08 at 1:00pm
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Originally Posted by TanyaLopez View Post
I don't suppose there are casein-free homeopathic remedies?
Boiron is casein free. You can find them almost anywhere.
post #53 of 59
10/19/08 at 1:02pm
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Originally Posted by DoulaMary View Post
I have never found something OTC that was not liquid that wasn't in a lactose base. Maybe I was looking in the wrong place? I am well aware that homeopaths can make liquid remedies and the homeopath I most recently talked to said all of their remedies are in a sucrose base which is fine for us. But, not OTC. I'd also be thrilled to find out there are OTC lactose-free remedies. I have a full Hyland's home-care kit that we can't use. At least I'll be able to use it when DD weans and hopefully she'll be okay with dairy by then too.
You can order a home care kit from washington homeopathics that is all sucrose and then you have what you need on hand. It's the company the national center for homeopathy uses.

http://www.homeopathyworks.com/jshop...n.php?xSec=104
post #54 of 59
10/19/08 at 1:07pm
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Originally Posted by ~Twighlight~ View Post
all the pellets are a sucrose base. That is the difference between tablets and pellets. Even the blue tubes (Boiron) is sucrose.
well, to clarify Boiron is *predominantly* sucrose based. They're remedies are 80/20. Washington homeopathics is pure sucrose though. I have three of their kits and have been very happy with them. They come in hard plastic cases that are very small (even the 100 remedy kit is smaller than a paperback book) and very easy to travel with. IIRC their kits even appeared on Oprah with Cindy Crawford. LOL. Famous kits.
post #55 of 59
10/19/08 at 1:18pm
Just to be clear, casein is the protein in milk and lactose is the sugar in milk. Homeopathic pellets have a very tiny amount of lactose - not casein, which is the allergenic component to dairy. Adults can be lactose intolerant, but babies are generally not. There is lactose aplenty in breastmilk. In addition, the amount of actual lactose in pellets is so very small. Consider that 20 pellets contain 1 gram of total sugar, equivalent to 1/5 of a sugar cube. And only 20% or less of that is actual lactose. Any homeopaths I've spoken with have never seen a dairy reaction to the pellets, the little ones. Not to say it hasn't ever happened, but it is pretty unlikely. If you're really worried about it, you can get the liquid from the homeopath, or straight sucrose.

Also, Humphrey's teething tablets are pure sucrose with no lactose, at least last time I looked. They're harder to find but I'm sure you could get them online.
post #56 of 59
10/19/08 at 1:30pm
Oh, and I got head-butted this morning (accidentally of course! My dd likes to wrestle in bed) and got a bloody, swollen nose and a resulting headache and swelling. First bloody nose I've ever had - yuck! One dose of arnica later and I have no pain.
post #57 of 59
10/19/08 at 2:03pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by firefaery View Post
well, to clarify Boiron is *predominantly* sucrose based. They're remedies are 80/20. Washington homeopathics is pure sucrose though. I have three of their kits and have been very happy with them. They come in hard plastic cases that are very small (even the 100 remedy kit is smaller than a paperback book) and very easy to travel with. IIRC their kits even appeared on Oprah with Cindy Crawford. LOL. Famous kits.
I was going to say... I just looked at some Boiron the other day and it said lactose. Except their liquid Camillia teething relief doesn't have any lactose, so that's what we've been using. I'm not sure it helps much, but DD loves them.

I will have to check out the Washington homeopathics.
post #58 of 59
10/19/08 at 2:50pm
Yep-all of our Boiron blue tubes say lactose. I guess since DD is passing butter right now I could be brave enough to try the homeopathy again, since it is unlikely she would react at all. I was just being 100% pure for a very long time but now that we're doing butter again I can't follow that same logic anymore.
post #59 of 59
10/19/08 at 9:08pm
they do say lactose but that comes after sucrose because it is 80% sucrose. Wanna hear something funny? I have some remedies that are so old they don't say one way or the other. Things have changed.....

I would try, because homeopathy is so invaluable to us.
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