Treating Children with Homoeopathy
Our children are our most treasured possessions, or should I say our most valued charges. It is the natural wish of a parent that their child should have the best of everything, including, and especially, health. By extrapolation, as parents we are anxious that, when our children are ill, they should receive the best treatment. But what is the best treatment? Who can we turn to, to help us decide whether a given feverish illness is a harmless virus or a dangerous bacterial infection? Is it necessary to ladle paracetamol and antibiotics into the child with the former, in case it turns out to have the latter? There is definite evidence that the vast majority of childhood fevers are due to viruses. These include obvious sore throats and ear aches as well as the majority of coughs and all colds. Thus, when there are clear features to explain the fever, such as cold-type symptoms and when the child is merely off-colour, as opposed to obviously very ill (delirious, with decreased...