mom and baby colds

I forgot to mention that last night and today I have bouts of violent sneezing.

Okay, I think I am going to try the Allium cepa because my eyes are watering now too, not burning. Thanks for your help Astra.

A concern I have though is that I am trying all these different remedies and it is also going into my daughter's system through my milk . I don't want to make her feel worse. What happens when a person switches back and forth on the remedies?

It was suggested to me to give remedies to her through my breastmilk, but I didn't even think to dilute it in water. I think I will do that for her. Thanks.

Yes, dilute in water and give to baby. Maybe I am using the wrong terminology to say "dilute" but I understood our previous coversation to mean to put the dose in a glass of water, let it dissolve and stir and give 1/2 tsp.

Thanks for clarifying, Sabra. I realized I'd used the wrong word when I saw your question.

My daughter is doing well on the Calc Carb. My symptoms have changed a lot and I need some help.

I woke up at 3:30 am and had a very bad headache in my forehead, near my eyes. I think it is a sinus infection.

The head ache has been constant since then except for a short time when I was lying down in my right side and slept a little.

My legs ache and feel weak.

I have a fever of about 100.5

My nose is blocked once in a while runs. The violent sneezing has stopped.

I never took the Natrum Sulph. I have taken Ars Alb last night and then later today, Kali Carb and then did the Remedy Finder and took sulphur which was right before I laid down and had some relief. But it is back again with the same amount of pain and in the same place.

I cannot be around activity in the house without totally shutting down. My son is behaving as though I am not even here because I am not able to do much for him with the pain. It is probably only a 5 on a scale of one to ten, but constant.

I am doing much better now. Thanks for the help.

My daughter's nose is still running, yellowish, thick. It seems to be worse in the morning.

Last night she slept well but her nose sounded stuffed up.

She doesn't seem to be particularly fussy. I just want to get rid of the running nose. The pulsatilla or the calc carb do not seem to be helping her anymore.

I forgot to add that she is not eating very well.

Thanks for getting back with me Sabra. I only have Sulphur 6X. Is there a way to use this or should I go get a higher potency?

As far as I am concerned, I had taken Calc Carb right before I heard back from you and it started to work, so since I didn't have Gelsemium, I just kept taking it since the head ache was going away.

I thnk I am getting over it, although still tired and have a scratchy kind of sore throat with stringy greenish yellow nose discharge.

Linda

Hi Sabra, I posted one other tie since your last reply, and now I have some changes to tell you about.

My daughter had a dry cough for a very short time this morning. Then it went away and she coughed a litle bit more during the day, but it wasn't a dry cough. Now tonight she is having a hard time sleeping and her cough started out dry but now is seeming more loose as she nurses. It seems to be painful/uncomfortable.

Still no fever. She does have red cheeks though.

Sabra, thanks for your reply. She seemed to settle down a bit last night. I had rubbed some Young Living oil on her chest--Raven is the name of the oil blend. In the middle of the night, she coughed some more and I gave her Belladonna and it seemed to help.

This morning I gave her the Sulphur and the rest of the day Belladonna. I think it was helping her although it was only 6X, so I went out later this afternoon and got 30X and she has had one dose of it .

She ate a better meal tonight than she has in days. She was eating a lot of bread which is okay, but I wanted her to have more variety. Tonight, she was waiting for the spoon and ate more than she has been.

Her nose is still running. She had the cough again today, mostly during her nap and right after.

Should I continue to give her the Belladonna or switch back to Calc Carb?

I have a question for myself now, too. I posted about my tiredness, weight loss, etc, a couple of months ago and explained that I take whole foods supplements for thyroid and adrenal glands. You had mentioned a thyroid remedy and I am wondering what it is called.

I think on this message board or on some article I read, I had learned that some of the supplements actually work in the same manner as allopathic medicine and don't actually correct the problem. I am paying a lot of money for these supplements and if I can find a way to correct the problem, that is what I prefer rather than continuing to buy whole foods supplements. They help me but I don't take the amount I am supposed to take because they are so expensive.

Linda

Sabra, just wanted to update you again on my daughter. I decided to keep giving her the Belladonna and it still didn't seem to help. So I tried the Calc Carb and still no different.

I noticed yesterday when I gave her the sulphur that her nose stopped running. So after trying the other two remedies with no luck, I did the Remedy Finder and sulphur came up as the remedy.

I gave her Sulphur 30X a couple of times today. You had said to give it to her only once to reset, but since the Calc Carb didn't work, I was wondering if the Sulphur would do what it did yesterday. It didn't. Her nose is still running and she is coughing but it sounds different. It is not as dry, seems a little more productive, but not real loose. She has been sleeping soundly now for over an hour which is early and long for her considering the last two or three evenings. So something good may be coming of it. Is it okay to keep giving her the Sulphur even though it was supposed to only reset for the Calc Carb?

I also wanted to ask more about something for myself. I wrote a little about it in my last post, I think yesterday or earlier today. I did the Remedy Finder on myself and Sulphur came up for the symptoms of weariness, irritability, thin build, etc. I took it and it seemed to help for a short time and then I dropped down to an anxious depression kind of state. I don't know if my problem is thyroid or not. I just know that the whole foods supplements help me when I take the amount I am supposed to take. It seems ridiculous to not take them as directed, but as I said, they are very expensive for our budget. Do you have any suggestions?

Linda