Please help. My newborn niece has developed blood blisters around her groin and mouth, and they are spreading. She is now exuding an orange fluid from her eyes, nose and mouth. She has been rushed to hospital, the Drs. think it may be septicemia, and are attempting to grow a culture from the orangey fluid, to see what it feeds on and what it will respond to, presumably antibiotics (ugh), they are trying to beat the clock as she is fading fast. Normal pregnancy & birth.
Any suggestions. Please.

This is lach or phos. Mail me any info you have ASAP.

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Carole Franske

one dose Arnica200 followed by Pyrogen

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Dr.P.K.Sinha

The orange colour gives phosporus as the correct remedy, phos LM one, one dose.

Lm might be given in water potency, sucussed, diluted, every tenth minute until a bettering shows.
Hope sincerely you got help before it was to late.

[ 27 April 2001: Message edited by: cib ]

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Carole Franske

Dear CIB,

I can't find this symptom anywhere--orange discharges. Where did you find it?

I know that phos. is in the rubric "Bleeding from all orifices" (the closest rubric I could find), but so, for instance, is anthracinum, which has a keynote of "Succession of Boils" or boil-like eruptions. Crotalus h. is also in that rubric and is listed for "blood boils".

I'm just wondering how you know it's phos.?

I'm wondering if we can assume that this might be a vaccine reaction? I mean, what else could have caused this? I wonder if we should be looking under "Ailments after vaccinations"?

Snoopy

This is not a vaccination reaction, she is only 11 days old. It now appears that she became infected with septicemia while at the hospital. Her platelets are extremely low also.

Phos is blood streaked discharges, which when blended, it gives an orange colour fluid

A. Von Lippe, Keynotes:
septicæmia of the newborn Arn., Bry., Chin., Hyos., Kali-P., Lach., Lyc., Op., Phos., Rhus-T.

When Dr Sinha said Arn I had originally agreed for the trauma, however arnica is not for the weeping discharges, phos is appropiate when bleeding occurs and covers the case better.

The lach that I mentioned is not suitable because there is no red colour discribed in this case.

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Carole Franske

Dear cib
arnica and pyrogen are as good as intercurrent for such conditions . these medicines will certainly controll the haemolysis in septicaemia . It is an acute serious condition which may need more medicines further
please don't waste time and must give these

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Dr.P.K.Sinha

Ok, the secretion of the orangey fluid has abated. Blood platelets are at 10, instead of 150 (ish), and now severely jaundiced (300).
Any more ideas?
She's only just hanging in.

Hi Meg,
Sorry the baby is struggling so badly.

Did you give her a remedy???? If so, which one??

Any other symptoms, at all, to report?
Has she had ANY medicines? If so, which ones???

Hope she's going to be okay!! Post as soon as you can - and keep us update.
Saying some prayers here.
Lisa

[ 29 April 2001: Message edited by: LisaAnnan ]