Soooo, just an update on what's going on around our house! ; )
After bragging to a friend of mine about how rare my kids get sick.....you know what's coming next!! Two weeks ago Cal got a vomiting bug. We slammed him with some homeopathics and he cuddled all morning, vomiting very often but being passed the illness within six hours. By the afternoon he was running and playing. Darby got sick a week and a half ago. She was at a playdate and started complaining of a head ache and achiness in general. When she got home she felt as if she had a fever and she started feeling nauseous. So I made her a pallet in our room. I like to notice the differences in my children! Darby is super sensitive, toward others and herself. Which makes her a phenomenol friend and sister and daughter but not so easy of a patient! : ) So I keep her close when she is ill and answer a lot of whimpering and such. I chose to give her a tylenol for the night so that she wouldn't feel so achey. Friday when she woke she was miserable. We did an aromatherapy bath, stayed away from the tylenol so that her fever could get to work, started some homeopathy for the flu (which was my guess as to what she had) and started garlic. YUM! Poor thing, that wasn't fun for her. It's not fun for anyone. I minced a clove, poored honey over it in a spoon, put a cup of juice in her hand, and piece of gum in the other and we hit it fast! Garlic, juice, gum! We did that three times. Twice on Friday and once on Saturday. By Saturday she didn't have a fever and wasn't in pain anymore. Still a little tired though. So I kept her home Sunday to give her lots of rest but by then she was already 100%! Bryse had a fever yesterday. That's all, just the fever really, she said her eye hurt, but it didn't show any sign of pink eye and stopped hurting quickly. So I don't know if that was achiness or not. Bryse is not so sensitive. We have to work on her thinking about how she makes people feel when she speaks (or yells) at them. : ) But she's tough as nails, so she is a super easy patient. She still ate pretty well. And just laid on the chair all day falling asleep occasionally and not talking much. She felt warmer than Darby had. It was a descent little fever. I did no tylenol at all because she wasn't in any pain and I wanted the fever to work it's magic. We did, ofcourse, hit the homeopathics. I did a garlic poultice (because swallowing garlic did not work on her, it came back out and spewed everywhere!) on her feet that night along with jojoba oil + essential oils. She slept in her own bed and at some point her fever broke during the night. She woke up jabbering and bouncing around as if Sunday never happened! And my first sign that she was well was her hair!! All day with that dry fever racking her, her hair was so limp and gross looking! In the morning, after sweating it off, her hair was back to it's bouncing, crazy, curly self! As for me, I have been working on a "Fighter Girl" costum for Bryse. This something she made up a year ago so we have decided to have a Fighter Girl party for her birthday. And I looked into super hero patterns, $18!!!! No thank you! Geez! So I'm freehanding it, which does NOT come easy to me, but I'm just too cheap. So that means a ton of trial and error and lots of putting the sewing machine away because I'm fixing to toss it through the window. I thought I had finished it today, but the armpits are too tight. Sooooo, I took a break and will tackle it again in a couple more days. Otherwise we are gearing ip for Bryse-y turing four on Friday!!
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Andrea M.
2/7/2011 02:43:35 am
Do you have any books you can recommend on natural remedies? I have a well-worn "Naturally Healthy Babies and Kids," but would like to get another one. I've never heard of using a garlic poultice, but I make garlic lemonade :)
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