My 2 1/2 year old son has whooping cough.

His cough is a barking loose cough which occurs periodically in violent fits. He occasionaly vomits though often he we won't spit up the mucus no matter how much I coax him. His vomit is often the food he previously injested with stringy, ropy clear to yellow mucus. He constantly has clear, stringy, sticky mucus coming from his nose. The past two nights he has had a low grade fever which is always gone in the morning. His face is pale with dark circles under his eyes.

He often rubs his eyes saying he has dirt in them and wants a cold cloth to wash his eyes.

When he coughs he falls to his knees and holds his head, his eyes bulge, turn red as does his face. After coughing he cries and needs lots of reassurance, who wouldn't. He sits up to cough when he is in bed.

He is in fairly good spirts between fits though he is always whining and clingy in the morning after sleeping. He will not sleep by himself, he constantly wants to be with someone.

He has little or no appetite and I constantly have to remind him to drink, except for rice dream ( a milk substitute).

He is worse for: evening, upon waking, night time (sleeping is when he has most of his fits), coughing, exertion, drinking.

He is better for: vomiting, mid-day, fresh air.

sounds like Coccus Cacti. - Do you have a homeopath near where you live?. Has your son had any homeopathic treatment before.

We live 2hrs from the nearest homeopath, we live in a rather isolated community. My son has had homeopathic treatment before, both prescribed by a homeopath and myself, and responded very well to the "right" remedies.

I guess the next question I have is that my doctor insits I put my whole family on antibiotics. I have a 6 month old baby and am aware of the risks of the baby getting whooping cough and could not not even bear the thought of my baby going through what my 2 1/2 old son is going through. I have given my baby as well as my husband Pertussinum 30c, 3 doses as a nosode. I believe I have contracted whooping cough, though I haven't been swabbed. My husband and I were fully vaccinated as children but both our children are not.

My 2 1/2 year old has had it between 2-3 weeks and I can not let my baby go through this. Any ideas?



[This message has been edited by gt (edited 27 September 2000).]

Pulsatilla 200, one dose once, only. avoid all that contains coffe, like coca cola.chocolate.

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The Pertussin should protect. I would continue it once a week during infection period. If you are still breast feeding the baby should be OK anyway. By the way the vaccination does not give protection. My kids were not vaccinated whereas others in the street were and they all got whooping cough!!

AH!! This is always the problem I find with homeopathy, so many remedies sound correct, at least to me. After reading various materia medicas, I decided upon coccus cacti because the remedy was SO MUCH like him, though Pustilla also rings true. After only 1-2 hours of giving him his first dose of 30c (that is the only potency I have) he vomited four times, it was his previously injested food. He vomited more in last 3 hours than he has in the previous weeks. I hope this is an aggravation and he will soon start improving. I think I'll give him another dose tomorrow morning?

I'm still very concerned about my 6mn old baby because yesterday for the first time he started developing a cough. I don't see a clear picture yet though he has dry, scaly, cheeks which are very red. They are always dry but not red in the morning and by afternoon or early evening his cheeks are flaming red. He also has small white pin size bumps over his face, and legs, though none on his body. His cough is not too alarming though it sounds like a tickle in his throat with a rattling sound. He often arches his back and becomes stiff, esp. when nursing and likes to hang upside down. He is a very easy going baby, chubby and sweet but he has been a bit fussier lately with a slightly snotty nose (yellow in appearance). As I said his picture really isn't clear, but I don't want him to whooping cough at 6 months. I have given sulfer for his rash, but that did not seem to be the remedy.

If you, think your the homeopath, well keep on torturing people, soon youll get to pay for that!
Your on your own!

You should listen to GM - he's the expert on this board. The reason I asked if you had a homeopath nearby was precisely because you shouldn't try treating your kids yourself, unless you are a very experienced homeopath (and even then get a second opinion)Be humble - if you're really in trouble I guess GM will help. Coccus cacti might have matched the COUGH but Pulsatilla matched the totality

[This message has been edited by ma57 (edited 01 October 2000).]

I'm sorry, I had no idea this would become so confrontational. I had no intention on offending anyone or trying to put on "airs" that I wanted to play homeopath. I'm sorry.

I sat down and read several of GM's posts as well as several of the cases. I had no idea what the BB really was until now, as I just hit upon it by accident, and I realize that GM has helped numerous people and is a brillant homeopath who has dedicated a lot of time to making this homepage work. Will you accept my apology GM????? I'm sorry and I don't want to play roulette with my kids lives and for that reason I'm letting my ego go. Sorry again GM? Will you accept my apology????

I guess there is no point in discussing my son's case futher until you respond to this post.

PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGY!!!!!

Well vomiting, is showing up, and that is torture, and is also show that this is experimenting with ones own child..instead of taking the advice of one who knows what he does.
That do tell me, that im not to help at all! No way.
If the advice i already have given, is scoffed at, and one instead choose to do an experimenting like this, with this result, and this dont ring a bell...
At the top of it, i got an insolent falsely accusing mail, trying to teach me..

Some people, is just unbelivable...

[This message has been edited by GM (edited 02 October 2000).]