It’s also completely different in that they had a completely different diagnosis from your nephew. And I’m an RN and feel more comfortable with taking a more “wait and see” approach before making an appt. with the doctor.
Home remedies for tummy bugs generally work OK.Breastfeeding certainly beats a hospital IV & all the cost & risks involved.Lime-water works on milder tummy upsets.You can make up your own electrolyte solution from pantry ingredients, too.OK, a tummy bug isn’t influenza. Two extremely different things. I will say that when my son had a severe tummy bug, my pediatrician told me to stop breastfeeding him since he shouldn’t have “dairy”. He wouldn’t take pedialyte or *anything *else. He couldn’t keep down water or absolutely anything. When I did my own research I found breastmilk is medically considered a clear liquid and only cow’s milk is “dairy”. My breastfeeding him was what kept him out of the hospital for dehydration, praise God! In my case, the advice my son’s MD gave was neglect, incompetence, and nothing short of malpractice. If we followed her “expert” advice he would have landed in the hospital. And with the outrageous amount of hospital-acquired infections now days (what is it, something like 100,000 people die from them each year?) who knows how that would have ended up. Praise God for a mother’s intuition!
Maybe you should bring up your concerns with your sister. It couldn’t hurt if you phrase it tactfully.
I looked at the active ingredients, but the only thing listed was “Zincum Gluconicum 2X”. It is unclear if the product actually contains any zinc or not, because no quantity is listed, just the mysterious “2X”.Actually after talking to my mom, we think it may contain zinc (hence the name). So as I mentioned previously, I don’t know how strictly the Zicam company uses the label “Homeopathic”. I know the pills have a metallic taste to them. Maybe it’s got some homeopathic ingredients and some vitamins/herbs/minerals. Who knows? I don’t feel like researching it right now
Does that mean that garlic sellers are bad people? Nope.
And I bet they look adorable!
Peace, dude!What, that won’t really work?
oh darn…now I’ll have to think of something else…chickens feet maybe…hmmm…As one poster pointed out, homeopathic remedies can be dangerous if they are substituted for real medical care in serious illness.We used a homeopathic teething pain remedy for our first kid, when he started teething at 4 months and didn’t stop until all the teeth were in at 12 months. He teethed two at a time. I didn’t feel like pumping him full of Tylenol every night of his infancy, and his godmother recommended the Hyland’s brand of tablets, and we tried them.
For him, they worked. They did NOT work for his younger brother; however, that baby slept through the teething.
When my brother died and I was going through a lot of stress, I used Bach’s Rescue Remedy and it helped a lot. I don’t use it now, because my stress is manageable.
I tried the osillocinum (I think that’s it) for the flu, but I couldn’t tell if it did any good. If it helps some people, great.
I don’t think most people are going to be harmed by homeopathy. If it works for some people, great. I have a friend who goes to a chiropractor regularly and claims it helps her allergies. Maybe it does. Maybe it’s a placebo effect. My friend isn’t taking money from the grocery fund to pay her chiropractor, so her family isn’t suffering, so what’s the problem? Unless somebody is starving their kids or sneaking money from the mortgage budget to buy homeopathic remedies, and the remedies seem to work for them, why be troubled by it?
Medical and health treatments vary from person to person. What works for one person may not work for another. I have a friend who believes in fresh raw garlic to cure colds; I can’t stomach the stuff, so it wouldn’t work for me.
Alternative health remedies are not evil. Unless you’re calling on the soul of a dead goat to come and heal your bursitis; then, well, you’re just asking for trouble.
Of course you need real medical care for serious illnesses. I would think that’s a nobrainer. I don’t know anybody who uses homeopathic remedies (for colds and whatnot) who rejects traditional medicine. My friend who goes to the chiropractor for her allergies also uses colloidal silver to knock out colds and ear infections; but she will just as readily take her kid to the doctor for a suspicious rash that might be ringworm.
So i’m not sure why you started this thread. Has somebody on here claimed that traditional medical care is never needed, that all they need are some herbs and powders from the health food store? Unlikely. Homeopathy is not traditional medicine, nor does it really claim to be. Otherwise you’d need prescriptions for it. Is it a hoax? Eh…I’m not ready to say that yes, it is. It doesn’t work for everyone, but then, not every antibiotic works for everyone! Not every cancer treatment works for everyone. My nephew had every cancer treatment known to man, but he still died of cancer. Does that mean chemotherapy and radiation are hoaxes? Nope. It just didn’t work for his case.I think perhaps if you go back & read the earlier posts pointing out that homeopathic remedies only contain sugar & no active ingredients that might explain the reasoning here.Of course you need real medical care for serious illnesses. I would think that’s a nobrainer. I don’t know anybody who uses homeopathic remedies (for colds and whatnot) who rejects traditional medicine. My friend who goes to the chiropractor for her allergies also uses colloidal silver to knock out colds and ear infections; but she will just as readily take her kid to the doctor for a suspicious rash that might be ringworm.
I think the people who would substitute homeopathy for a prescription when it’s needed would be the same people who would be calling on that dead goat’s soul.
Odd, then, that the homeopathic teething remedy I used for my son worked. And i don’t think the placebo effect works on babies. We tried it, he slept. We stopped using it, he went back to screaming and crying from the teething pain.
That’s a good point!
No, placebos don’t work on babies–you have to “know” that you’re getting some sort of cure or treatment. I agree whole-heartedly with you, if it works for you, then I think this might come back to what are we calling homeopathic. I’ve seen two types of homeopathic teething remedies, one is a pink jell in a tube the other is some combination of those little while tablets my MIL is so fond of. If its the pink jell, maybe there is an actually something good in it.That’s a good point!
The gel is actually an anesthetic gel, not homeopathic at all. Hylands teething tablets come in little white pill form.
I’ve seen one thats a homeophatic gel it was not the anesthetic gel because thats works for my kids and the homeophatic gel didn’t do a thing.The gel is actually an anesthetic gel, not homeopathic at all. Hylands teething tablets come in little white pill form.
These are dispensed to patients, as remedies… for various illness’ and conditions. The prices of these remedies are astronomically high.Oops, sorry! I’ve never seen any teething gel on the market around here other than the anesthetic types.
. I do myself partake of herbal and many home remedies. I do not run to the medicine cabinet at the first sign of illness. I am sympathetic to the idea of being as ‘natural’ as possible and doing no harm.Would he have rejected the microscope? And the germ theory of disease, microbiology and chemistry. Hmmmm. We know better now because we can SEE that his disease theories were wrong.
Thing is, homeopathy is not that old at all. It’s not akin to ancient healing practices or potent herbal tinctures, it’s a vitalist theory that some dude came up with in the 1700’s. From the beginning, his theories were rejected and criticized. His idea was that if ingesting a certain bark produced the same symptoms as malaria, then that bark in a very diluted form would cure malaria.
I have a headache now…wonder if Hanneman can help me?
