Childhood Acne
... Acne is the teenagers� curse. Teenagers have to worry about pimples just when they want to look their best. Acne can pop up on the shoulders, back, neck, and face. Many people still have acne or acne ...

Hugs, Not Drugs
... There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children. -Marianne Williamson Like birth, menstruation, and menopause, the u...

Childhood Allergies
... An allergy is a hypersensitive reaction to a normally harmless substance. About one in every six children in the United States is allergic to one or more substances. There are a variety of substances,...

Elimination Diet
... An elimination diet can help you determine the particular foods to which your child is most allergic or sensitive. Once you have identified them, you can eliminate from his diet the things that cause ...

Childhood Asthma
... A lot of children get asthma. Most children grow out of it after they are teenagers. Children under 4 years old hardly ever get asthma. These are all symptoms of asthma: Wheezing Tight feeling in the ...

Childhood Asthma
... Asthma is an inflammatory respiratory illness characterized by mild to severe difficulty in breathing. This is caused by constriction and swelling of the airways, along with an increase in accretions ...

Bed-wetting
... Wetting the bed is not only uncomfortable, it is embarrassing, especially for a child older than 3 years. And that''s not all. Afraid of waking up in a soaked bed, children who wet their beds may avoi...

Childhood Bronchitis
... There are 2 kinds of bronchitis: Acute bronchitis lasts from 3 days to 3 weeks. Chronic bronchitis can last up to 3 months, and come back over and over for 2 years or more. Children usually get acute ...

Burns
... Your child may suffer a burn from dry heat (fire or sun); moist heat (steam or hot liquids); corrosive chemicals; or electricity. An encounter with electricity can be particularly dangerous. A severe ...

Therapeutic Uses of Aromatherapy
... In this chapter we explain how essential oils heal the body. We have divided the chapter into sections dealing with the major systems in the body-circulatory, digestive, respiratory, nervous, glandula...

Aromatherapy and Children
... Care must be taken in treating children with essential oils, although there are any number of safe ones. Use one-third to one-half the adult dose, or a 1-percent dilution (five or six drops of essenti...

Administering an Acupressure Treatment
... The gentle art of acupressure is something you can do at home for a sick or hurting child. Massaging an acupressure point will help relieve symptoms as well as strengthen your child''s body. Acupressu...

The Vaccines
... Tetanus Polio Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Diphtheria Measles, Mumps and Rubella Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib) Meningitis Hepatitis B Varicella (Chickenpox) Tetanus Tetanus...

Childhood Colic
... Colic is one of the most frustrating conditions parents deal with. Your baby cries for hours on end for no apparent reason, tucking those tiny knees close to the stomach as if in severe pain. Typical...

Childhood Constipation
... Constipation is when you can�t pass solid waste, or stool. (Passing stool is also called �having a bowel movement.�) Constipation is not usually serious. Here are some reasons for constipation: Your c...

Childhood Cough
... Children usually get coughs from an infection in the nose and throat. A baby under 6 months old who coughs may have a lung problem. Older babies cough when things get stuck in their windpipes. Childre...

Childhood Diarrhea
... Diarrhea is when you pass stool many times a day, and it is watery and loose. (Passing stool is called having a �bowel movement.�) Diarrhea is one way your child�s body fights infection. Diarrhea can ...

Childhood Earaches
... An earache is when your ears hurt. Children get earaches a lot. They get them most between 6 months and 2 years old. But earaches can be a problem up to age 10. The pain can be minor or very bad. Eara...

Childhood Flu
... It is hard to tell if your child has a cold or the flu. The flu is a lot like a cold, but worse. A cold usually starts with sniffling and sneezing, but the flu hits hard and fast. Your child is fine o...

Childhood Headaches
... Children often get headaches. Usually, there�s no reason to worry. Headaches like migraines happen on their own. They can also come from tension, tiredness,or stress. A headache can also be a symptom ...

Childhood Hiccups
... Hiccups happen when the diaphragm tightens up. (The diaphragm is a muscle used in breathing. It sits like a cap on top of the stomach.) Babies usually get hiccups because they swallow air when feeding...

Childhood Nosebleeds
... Nosebleeds are usually a childhood problem, a scary but minor bout with broken blood vessels just inside the nose. They''re caused by a cold, frequent nose blowing and picking, allergies, a dry enviro...

Childhood Skin Rashes
... Skin rashes come in all forms and sizes. Some are raised bumps, others are flat red blotches. Some are itchy blisters; others are pathes of rough skin. Most rashes are harmless and clear up on their o...

Childhood Vomiting and Nausea
... Vomiting is when you throw up what is in your stomach. Nausea is when you feel like you�re going to throw up. Here are some common causes of nausea and vomiting: Viruses in the intestines (Your child ...

Children''s Health: Cut''s, Scrapes, & Punctures
... Cuts, scrapes, and punctures make you bleed: Cuts slice the skin open. Close a cut so it won�t get infected. Scrapes hurt only the top part of your skin. They can hurt more than cuts, but they heal qu...

Seizure
... A seizure is like a short-circuit in the brain. Information in nerves in the brain gets mixed up. There are many signs of a seizure. Here are some of them: The neck muscles or all the body muscles get...

Vaccination: A Sacrament of Modern Medicine
... I am honored by your invitation to participate in this Conference, and deeply moved by the fraternal spirit, youthful vitality, and sincere dedication to homeopathy everywhere in evidence here. Homeop...

Childhood Diarrhea
... The number and consistency of stools varies a great deal. Loose stools are normal in the breast fed infant. If baby is vomiting and having more than 8 watery stools there is danger of dehydration and ...

Childhood Nausea
... Nausea, feeling sick in the stomach without actually vomiting, is a common symptom in children. The cause must always be ascertained, possibilities covering as wide a range as infection, food problems...

Children and Herbal Therapy
... With its focus on preventive medicine, holistic approaches to health can be most helpful in many of the common problems of childhood. If conditions are brought under control during childhood they can ...

Herbs and Children
... The World Health Organization defines health as being "... more than simply the absence of illness. It is the active state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being." This is a wonderfully ...

Homeopathic Medicines for Children
... Children often resist taking conventional medicines. Perhaps our children have been trying to tell us something. Perhaps they know something that their physician and their parents don''t.* Whether chi...

Homeopathic Pediatrics
... Earlier in this century meningitis was fatal 95% of the time in children who contracted it. Now, because of the use of antibiotics, 95% of the children who get it survive. The number of infants dying ...

Child Development
... What is a brain injured child? Brain injury may be microscopic, or it may be global. It may be recognized in disturbances of learning, of visual perception or even of speech. But these are minor disab...

Childhood Diarrhea
... Diarrhea, or frequent and watery stools, is the body''s way of ridding itself of toxins and foreign substances. Most cases of simple diarrhea should not be suppressed too quickly. It may be healthier ...

Colic
... Colic has been defined as a long period of vigorous crying that persists despite all efforts at consolation. The term itself comes from the Greek word for the large intestine, reflecting the belief th...

Dietary Guidelines
... In his 1988 Report on Nutrition and Health, then-Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop wrote, "Your choice of diet can influence your long-term health prospects more than any other acti...

Dosage Guidelines for Herbs and Nutritional Supplements
... For many of the treatments that are recommended in this section, dosage instructions may be found on the products themselves, whether as part of the product label or your doctor''s prescription. This...

Emotional Upset
... Emotional upset-whether anger, sadness, or fear-is a normal response to different stresses in a child''s life. Children may not be able to express in words exactly what it is they are feeling. Instead...

Fever
... Fever has been defined as a body temperature elevated to at least 1�F above 98.6�F (37.0�C).Actually, a child''s temperature normally varies by as much as 2�F, depending on his level of activity, emo...

Childhood Ear Infections
... During the years from birth to five years, the child is checked regularly by the pediatrician concerning his ears, throat, eyes, heart, lungs, digestive tract. In other words, is this child''s body fu...

Nutritional Programs for Adolescence
... Four Aspects of Life and Nutrition Daily Nutrient Program - Adolescence The teenage years are trying times in a lot of ways, especially in terms of nutrition. Adolescence is indeed a period of high nu...

Nutritional Programs for Childhood
... Daily Nutrient Program - Childhood For children ages two to twelve, it is very important to instill good eating habits and avoid overindulgence in refined sugars and flours and high-fat, fried fast fo...

Nutritional Programs for Infancy
... Daily Nutrient Program - Infant and Toddlers We might as well begin with the beginning of life. The time preceding birth, when the baby is still inside its mother, is an important period of growth an...