Motion Sickness: How you can Help your Baby!

Many babies love a car ride! They fall asleep and enjoy the soothing movement of the vehicle moving along the ride.

But what if your baby car ride turns each time into a nightmare and your baby suffers from motion sickness and even a simple trip to the doctors becomes a true challenge for mom or dad?

Do not despair homeopathic medicine can help your baby!

The following are the most commonly prescribed homeopathic remedies for children who suffer from motion sickness. My advice is to seek help from a qualified homeopathic physician for best results. Homeopathic constitutional treatment is advised to address the underlying imbalance.

What is motion sickness?
This condition is associated with the development of symptoms of nausea, vomiting and headaches as a result of traveling in a car, train, bus, boat, or plane.

Cocculus: this is a famous remedy for motion sickness of all types causing dizziness, nausea and headaches. The child gets tired easily, stays perfectly still and does not want to be touched, talked to, just wants to be left alone.

Tabaccum: this remedy works well for sea sickness that involves vomiting and nausea. The child is better by fresh air and looks pale and drawn out. This remedy is also excellent when the child is exposed to smoke of other travelers.

Ipecacuana: this remedy is for nausea that is constant and is not relieved by vomiting.

How to take homeopathic remedies?

Select a potency of 6C or 30C or talk to your homeopathic pharmacist. The best way to give a homeopathic remedy to a child is to melt a few pellets in a cup of purified or spring water and allow the child to take small sips every 5-10 minutes until the symptoms improve. The baby or child can keep sipping while in the car until he or she fells better.

First Aid Homeopathic Remedies

If you are planning a trip to the park or a vacation away from home, homeopathic remedies can help soothe minor accidents your child may suffer from.
The following is a very simple but useful list of homeopathic remedies you can prepare and have handy , just in case!



Arnica 6C or 30C: This is the first remedy to think about when your child falls and bumps his head. If is great for head injuries, cuts, scrapes, contusions, muscular strain. This remedy also reduces bruising.

Bellis perennis 6C or 30C: I call this remedy the Arnica for soft tissue injuries. It is indicated in cases of abdominal injuries, useful after surgery, injuries of the tongue, eyes, virtually any internal soft tissue and organs.

Hypericum 6C and 30C: This is a great remedy to soothe nerve injury, finger cuts. It also works well for Mom or Dad's sciatic pain.

Ledum 6C, 30C: If your baby ever gets a black eye, this is the remedy! It is also great for bruising, insect bites, puncture wounds. If Mom and Dad spend too much time on the computer and develop eye strain or headache, this remedy can help!

Symphytum 6C or 30C: This remedy helps heal fractures and should be administered after Arnica. BUT, do not give Symphytum unless the bone has been set! The healing power of this remedy is very strong and it can knit the bone right away. Give Symphytum after Arnica and Ledum for eye contusions.

Apis mellifica 6C or 30C: Insect bite and sting pain, swelling and at times infection. Remove bee or wasp stinger with sterile tweezers if you can see it. Take the remedy every 15 minutes, up to 6 doses. This remedy helps when the area is red, feel hot and swollen.
Caution: If sting is inside the mouth, nose, ear, or if it's in or around the eyes, rinse with cold water to reduce swelling and see a healthcare professional immediately.

Phosphorus 6C or 30C: For nose bleeds that come on suddenly and the blood is bright red. Spontaneous nose bleeds in children.

Glonoinum 6C or 30C: This remedy is great for heat exhaustion when the child has throbbing, splitting headache, hot face, and sweaty skin. A dose can be taken every 5 minutes, up to 10 doses.

Rhus Tox 6C or 30C: This remedy helps soothe the effects of poison Ivey. This remedy can be taken as soon as you get into contact with the pant to prevent manifestation of symptoms to occur. This can happen in the majority of the cases.

Rescue Remedy Drops: This remedy is great to soothe a crying baby as a result of a shock, fall, fright, separation anxiety, nightmares and more.

Rescue Remedy Cream: Apply right after burns, head bumps and injuries to the fingers or toes.

Calendula Cream: Soothing and healing for diaper rash and dry skin.

Soothing a Colicky Baby Can Be Easy with Homeopathy

Does your beautiful new baby have colic?
Are you so stressed out that do not know what to do?
Does everybody tell you, your baby will grow out of it, but cannot wait another second!

Homeopathic Medicine has a lot to offer to parents who have a baby suffering from colic.
It is very important to note the baby's behavior and match that with the most suitable homeopathic remedy.

Here is a brief list of the most homeopathic remedies that can help bring fast relief to a colicky baby:

Aethusa

This is the best known remedy for when your baby is intolerant to mother's milk or formula. The baby that needs this remedy develops colicky pains about one hour or so after feeding and spits up large curds of milk. Sometimes the baby vomits the milk he or she had just eaten. The vomiting can be quite severe (projectile) and diarrhea is common.
During the colic attack, the baby is in great distress and cries a lot, feeling sweaty and cold until falls asleep due to exhaustion.

Chamomilla

This is the main colic remedy when baby screams angrily, is very restless, and shrieks desperately. The colic pain may be associated with diarrhea which smells like rotten eggs and looks like chopped spinaches with diaper rash or redness. The baby experiences excruciating pain that results in non-stop angry cry that drives the parents crazy. Baby cries one minute for something and then it pushes it away, nothing seems to please this child. The child feels temporarily better by constant rocking and carrying, but this doe not lasts for long. The baby also becomes very difficult to soothe and eventually begins to scream and cry very loudly. The child is very sensitive to the gripping pain of the colic attack. You can tell the abdomen is distended and bloated with lots of gas.

Colocynthis

This is one of the best colic remedy used by homeopaths. The baby experiences a severe colic attack where the pain comes in waves and the abdomen is hard and bloated with green diarrhea at times. The colic pain is better by passing a stool and worse after feeding, before a bowel movement and if baby is too hot. Baby is better by tummy massage and firm pressure, especially when the baby is placed over the parents shoulder. The colic is so strong that the cramping, cutting pain makes baby double over (baby draws legs toward abdomen vigorously and wants to curl up). Baby looks extremely anxious and likes to be carried tummy-down on someone's arm. This remedy soothes the nerves of the lower part of the abdomen and helps with stabbing pain of colic attack.

Dioscorea

The baby has colic and lots of gas. You can hear rumbling of gas in baby's belly. The baby wants to be held upright all the time and cries more when laid down because the symptoms worsen. The colic in baby is felt like aabdominal pain that feels better from bending backward. The pain comes in fits with gas and burping. This colic remedy helps the baby that stretches the legs out or arches backwards to relieve the colic pain. There is also lots of screaming with the pain.

Magnesium Phosphorica

This colic remedy helps the baby that is definitely better by a warm gentle pressure, as by pulling the legs up. Baby seems nervous from the pain, and can be irritable or fearful.

Bryonia

This colic remedy helps a baby with extreme stitching pain in the abdomen worse from the slightest motion. Baby is better by keeping completely still and by warmth. The abdomen is bloated and tender to touch. The stools can be hot and dry and constipation could be present. The baby can be grumpy and does not want to be touched, changed and carried and wants you to be still as well.