My 3 year old daughter appears to have stomatitis with fever around 38. I took her to an allopathic generalist, she found no symptoms except for little eruptions onthe inner side of her cheeks and a little swollen and reddish adenoids. She prescribed antibiotics as is common in Japan on any occasion, but I try to treat her homeopathically, so I looked into the french guide of home homeopathy (by Dr. Alain Horvilleur) which indicates Mercurius 9 Ch for 6 to 8 days.

I asked the homeopath here, she also told me that I could try, but as homeopathy here is along UK traditions I only have a remedy kit of 36 remedies in 30 CH.

So I gave my daughter one tablet. She did not have fever today in the morning, but after Mercuirius in the afternoon the fever started to rise again and now it's around 38.4. However she's extremely lively and in good spirits altogether thogh normally she is very unhappy even with 37.6.

I asked my homeopath if I should consider this as positive effect of Mercurius and whether I shold give her another dose, but my homeopath told me that frankly speaking, she does not now. She once told me before that she's new, has no experience and "let's study together". So now I'm at a loss as I myself have no edical or homeopathic training whatsoever, only wish to avoid all these antibiotics.

So my question is, should I give her another dose considering I have only 30CH potencies and when is one supposed to stop treatment?

Will be very grateful for any comments.

Hi,

There really is so little to go on here, in terms of signs and symptoms. I do find it significant that your child feels happy and vital after the mercury even with fever, when she is usually quite unhappy at normal body temperature.

How did you come to decide on the mercury for her? Is there anything you've noticed which has changed as a result of the merc...eg, disposition, behaviour, food cravings, energy level; what has happened in terms of changes in temperature--is she still holding at 38.4, or has the temp decreased and stabilized since you last wrote? What is the child's sleep like? Are there any changes in eating habits, urination and defecation? Changes you've noticed in the stool and urine? Changes in appearance? Any other symptoms presenting, such as a headache, throat pain, ear pain, stomach pain, etc?

Off the top of my head it seems the merc has done some good, but I'd appreciate more information.

Divina

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Thank you for answering!

In fact, as I wrote, I just looked up the home homeopathic guide, well, two guides - the french one and the english one, which both mentioned mercury for stomatitis. I understand that it is no good to give the wrong remedy as it can have dissimilar aggravations all the same. As for the state of the girl after I wrote, the temperature is still in the same range, but she fell asleep in rather a good mood. Normally she protests and tries to play more and more and it is impossible to make her sleep alone even at this age of three. Every time I have to get in the bed with her, read her a book, then she will try to think of something to get up again, like to drink something etc. Today she fell asleep quite soon, well, maybe she is just tired because of fever. She whined a couple of times in her sleep, she fell asleep around an hour ago, but that is nothing as sometimes she wakes up crying and it's hard to put her to bed again. So again, for the moment she is better than she might be.

As for food, this morning she was beginning to loose appetite, that's why I decided to take her to the doctor, but in the afternoon she ate almost well, and ate a lot of raw cucumbers with olive oil dipping. She seems to like that normally too. I read somewhere that mercury people aften like butter, but as our girl is allergic to milk we try to not give her any milk products, so there is no way to know. In fact, my homeopath, who by the way makes her diagnosis by measuring electric (?) potentials on hands, ankles and head, said that our girl's basic type is Pulsatilla. I only stopped breast-feeding her 5 months ago, when she started to go to a kindrgarten. That was when I first went to see this homeopath, for the girl developed an ear infection, was given tons of antibiotics, which she was allergic to some of those antibiotics, so they gave her antihistamin potions on top. After about a month of this I went to see this homeopath and all was quickly treated with Capsicum followed by Pulsatilla.

By the way, though this is another question, at that time I was also given a bone support remedy, consisting of ow dilutions of Calc-p, calc-f and Silica, after which my daughter started to scratch herself much in groin area and on inner elbows. In the beginning this was annoying, but no other problems, but after some rash as a result of eating sesame, which she is allergic to as well, it began posing problems as she started making nasty little wounds. Is there any way to do away with this itching?

Coming back to stomatitis, she was clearly more alive and happy after mercury than she was these last 3 days, when the fever started, then decreased in waves, but gave way to some loss of vitality. I did not give her anything before putting her to bed but I'd very much like to know if it's better to patiently wait till the fever goes down or try to repeat the dose.

Thank you again for your attention! I understand that my case is not anything acute, like septicemia of the newborn girl which I think is a miracle!

So, how is your daughter now? Can you see any difference at the itch at her groins?
I sujest you wait and see if her behaviour keeps being happy and relaxed.

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sorry Hellenaz, I forgot to mention, do not repeat the remedy.

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My daughter has woken up and has no high fever, so I will leave her alone for the moment. In general there is no change in her behavior, only she now scratches more.

Obviously it is because of high fever, she always sratches more when she is warmed up, as in bed or by having fever.

She also feels itching when she is unhappy about something. FOr example, she does not like to go the toilet, so when she feels the need she's unhappy and scratches all over. Also when she's hungry. And when I try to tell her that something she did is wrong, she scratches like mad, which makes it difficult to impose any discipline.

In general we try not to give her any allergens in food, I always cook at home, many vegetables, brown rice, sometimes fish and more rarely meat. That prevents the rash from breaking out, but does not stop the itching.

In fact it's in Japan as all this aggravates, in warm and humid climate. We spent 1 year and a half in France, and there to begin with all skin symptoms disappeared in 2-3 weeks and everybody was happy. But when we came back to Japan last October, it all started to come back again.

But I can tell for sure that itching has definitely come back after the bone support remedy. Is there anything that can be done?
To all my questions my homeopath tells me that she does not know anything and that skin problems are not big in children, it's just that skin serves to throw away all unnecessary things and it's better when the go away and do not stay inside the body. I agree with her but the sight of the poor girl scratching all the time makes me feel unhappy.

My daughter's stomatitis has clearly calmed down. Somehow the general layman's homeopathy guides must have had some sense...

I will use this opportunity to pose another question. In fact, now I understand that homeopathy could have helped us a lot with our girl, if we could have a good homeopath around us. Homeopathy was permitted in Japan only 2-3 years ago, what a pity!

So, when my daughter was born she did not give her first cry. She had her umbilical cord was around her neck but also around her shoulder, so the last phase of her birth was unnecessary prolonged and was apparently tough for her. She was of blueish color also, I'm told but I don't remember that. She recovered quickly, was but to suck breast milk quite soon and all went well with her feeding. However it was impossible to put her anywhere. She would cry violently any time I tried to put her somewhere to do something and almost could not sleep except for sleeping in my hands, where she could peacefully sleep for hours. This lasted for about 4 months and my husband was exhausted with all hosework he had to do instead of me.

Will it be a good idea to give her some carb-veg now? Maybe she was too scared at the moment of birth that it continues now and develops in new problems?

Hello Helenaz

You need to post all of your daughters symptoms here for one of the homeopaths to be able to help you. I am just a student but would recommend that you not give carbo veg at this time. The symptoms she is currently expressing need to be dealt with - of course it is possible that there was birth trauma that may need a remedy at some point BUT it is very likely that a remedy that covers all or most of her current symptoms will take care of that as well.

I noticed that you mentioned that heat aggravates the scratching condition as does being reprimanded or doing something unwanted. I would imagine that this is a helpful key modality. Go ahead an post all the girls symptoms, mental state, likes, dislikes, previous illness, what makes the condition better or worse, etc. I am sure you will find some help here. It is unwise to treat conditions by yourself - especially chronic states.

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Thank you Barb, it is encouraging, I really appreciate your suggestion. I will try to write as I think of something particular.

In general she is quite lively, likes to move around much and does not like to stay at home. Always looks for friends, tries to "seduce" almost everyone we meet, smiles, jumps invitingly, shows things that she herself considers interesting, wants to share her joy and interest. She seems to be quite intelligent as she mastered a bit of French while we were in France and went very well along with her nanny, speaks now Russian with me and quickly picks up Japanese in the kindergarten and with her father.

Has extremely good memory - remembers now at the age of 3 and 4 months things that happened almost a year ago.
She is almost always very unhappy in the morning - the trait you often find in the popular literature as attributed to Lycopodium persons.

She likes all this macrobiotic food we give her, likes seaweed very much, probably it's a source of minerals for her. But she eats very slowly, tasting bits of food, playing with them, talking to people she's eating with. Mostly eats by hands, though can use fork and chopsticks. In the kindergarten her eating habits pose some problems, as she eats much longer than all other children but refuses to leave the table before she finishes.

When she was about 6 or 7 months a little bit of rash appeared on the back of her left ankle. At that moment I started using betametazone as I was assured that it was not a hormone. But this only temporarily calmed her rash. I think the rash started to appear after I started to eat regularly youghurt and also at about the same moment I had a problem with my gall bladder. As I breastfed her almost exclusively till the age of 1 year, her rash appeared is almost surely because of my liver problems.

Her rash progressed in winter of that year, when she was around 1 year and 1 month. Now that I think of it it was the time we did some vaccination. But then at the age of 1 year and 2 months she (with us, parents, of course) went to France, where the skin symptoms quickly subdued. Though she scratched like mad the first couple of weeks in France.

She seems to have problems to get used to new environments. It always takes about 2 months until she's fully at ease in a new place, but after all I admit that this is too much of travel for a little girl like her.


Also, when she is reprimanded she evidently is afraid that she didsomething wrong, not just unhappy that I said her something strict.

We have terrible problems with her potty training. She understood very well what's going on with her and what she is supposed to do, but I think she was afraid of having something falling out of her in the pot or something else than those Pampers which in fact we started to use only when she was about 1 year old, because of the rash.
Only the Japanese kindergarten succeeded
to make her go to the toilet, but that was clearly against her will. She just had no choice.

However she rarely wets her bed and even when she was a little baby she woke up before wetting her diapers.

Also she's extremely demanding with me, but is quite well and self-confident in the kindergarten and in nanny's house in France that was the same story. She would cry awfully wen I was leaving, this lasted for 3-5 minutes and then she was happily playing as if nothing happened which appaled our French nanny, she kept telling our girl that she was too tough with her mother.

Well, that's all I can think of for a moment.

Does that tell anything? What do I have to add?

Here's some more details.

My daughter is not selfish, you can always persuade her to give something to someone when this need to be done. In general, I try always to explain her the reason of such or such behaviour of people, avoid absolute restrictions and she seems to understand. In her turn she tries often to explain reasons of what she sees. Kind of analytical mind.

She does not like her food too hot. Likes all types of sea food, - calmars, crevettes etc.

I could not make out aggravation modalities except for the bath, the girl is very changeable. She can react very diffirently to the same event without any visible - for me - reason. She is not easily distracted when she is upset. Well, I don't know how other children are, I'm kind of cut off from the society here, my father is back in Russia, parents of my husband live far away, we have almost no friends, so in fact I'm under a lot of stress here, and I cannot guarantee that I am accurate in my observation and do not myself overreact to some things.

My daughter catches a lot of colds in the beginning of any adapaptation period when there is a change in her environment, but once she gets used to the new order she is quite strong even when the weather is not
at all favourable.