HOMEOPATHY FOR CHILDREN - COLIC

Babies have colic do to the air that they swallow when being nursed, because they are hungry, or they have been overfed, or milk intolerance (cow milk). OBSERVE: If the pain goes away when the child moves. If it is before eating lunch, breakfast , or if the pain occurs repetitively (take the child to the doctor), observe if the child is restless, if he cries persistently, if he elevates his legs over the abdomen, if he bends over, or refuses to eat. Try to give him some food at night, in some babies pain is relieved by eliminating gases or eructations. REMEDIES TO HAVE IN MIND: CHAMOMILLA: Distended abdomen with colic around the navel. Colic by swallowing air, colic after being angry or the mother was angry and then nursed the child, and associated with diarrhea. CINA: Spasmodic pain around the navel (put your hand very softly over the baby's abdomen) distended abdomen and hard and the child is hungry all the time COLOCYNTHIS: Intense pain > bending over, sometimes vomiting, with retch, diarrhea, the baby is restless MAGNESIA PHOS. Use 6x in warm water , Flatulence better by warm and pression. Diarrhea do to the indignation of the mother that fed the baby. SULPHUR : Observe: pass your hand over the hair of the baby, observe and feel if it is dry, and ruff, ask the mother if the baby prefers being covered or not. sometimes when the baby goes in the office offers you his arms so that means the child is sociable, a characteristic of sulph babies. abdominal pain with diarrhea, mucous, think of Sulph. by Beatriz H Hill My experience. Bibliography: Homeopathic Family Guide