How would one come up with the correct remedy in a baby when clearly you really only have symptoms to go on not a lot in the way of character and likes and dislikes
or mental effects of the itching and redness etc in all the creases of the body especially back of knees and elbows and heels
Not actually oozing
Resembles a Graphites description but the Homeopath has tried that without success
Food sources have basically been eliminated as a trigger and the exzema can be horrendous one day and invisible the next

Pat,

What could have been the trigger? Suppression of a diaper rash with zinc ointment, perhaps? Vaccinations? Was the baby born with this rash?

Usually the homeopath asks what was the mother's state during pregnancy and if she had any traumas. Also, the state of the parents' health when baby was conceived.

If the baby's breast-feeding, ask what Mom is eating and what supplements she's taking.

You have to think of Thuja if the skin problem came after vaccines.

The constitutional remedy can be tried if you know it.

See if the baby's sleep position is striking.

You can see if the eczema is better for warm baths or cool/cold applications. If warm bathing makes the baby worse, I would think right away of sulphur. If the baby is better for cool/cold and is better in the fresh air and worse in heated areas, I would think of Puls.

If there's a concomitant, the concomitant picture might be clearer--diarrhea, for instance--green and watery.

Also, whenever you see the puls. or cham. disposition in a baby, give one of these remedies a try.

In Murphy's repertory, Skin: eczema, children-carc., graph., nat-m., sulph.

Snoopy

Pat,

It's me again. I just reread your letter.
You say the symptoms appear and disappear without warning.

I looked up in Murphy's Disease chapter,
Symptoms, contradictory and alternating states-Carc(3), Puls(3), Nat-m(2), Thuja (2).

Snoopy

I think you can get an awful lot of necessary information just from watching the baby; his or her mental state will be evident (is he irritated? oblivious to the rash? does he seem quiet and uninterested in the world around him? etc etc...), the rash will be evident in its colour, its appearance and location, and you can watch how the baby functions with it(that should tell you what it might "feel" like to the child). The mother can tell you when it is better or worse, and what makes the baby feel more or less comfortable. You can also gather a lot of information about all the body systems by asking for detailed information from mom.

Rashes are actually very, very common in babies, and in some instances, they are to be expected. This is one instance where your knowledge of pathology--what is normal/abnormal, what is typical/atypical in skin ailments--has to be really sharp. Babies undergo a terrific amount of skin disturbance, simply because they are brand new on the earth and their skin is making adjustments to being exposed to air and light, among other things.

Divina

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Baby is 5 months old
Has not had vaccinations
Mother was not stressed in pregnancy &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;too relieved to actually be pregnant after 5 yrs of trying
Mother has very mild spotty kind of exzema which comes and goes in odd places
Baby is bothered by the itching and is scratching pulling at back of knees
Baby is basically very placid although clearly suffers from painful teething
Has been given Chamomilla from day 1

Has only just started to sleep through the night as Mother who is Milk Allergic ( totally avoids all milk products etc ) has been feeding baby and solids have only just been very carefully introduced

Food Diary is being kept but nothing has so far linked together

Will read up on the suggestions as feel the Homeopath is playing at the art not really practising it

Dear Pat,

If Mom has eczema and baby has eczema... gee, doesn't this look like an inherited miasm? Has anyone tried Psorinum 30C?

Snoopy

Pat,

Frequently in babies, the eczema IS psoric and if you look into the family history, and you know what to look for, you will find psoric tendencies and symptoms. Remember that Hahnemann said:
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Psora is that most ancient, most universal, most destructive, and yet most misapprehended chronic miasmatic disease which for many thousands of years has disfigured and tortured mankind, and which during the last centuries has become the mother of all the thousands of incredibly various (acute and) chronic (non-venereal) diseases, by which the whole civilized human race on the inhabited globe is being more and more afflicted.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Eczema is a prime example of a psoric affliction, and yet those who are "practicing the art" choose to ignore Hahnemann's theory of the chronic diseases and instead look for psychodynamic or other causes of miasmic pathology. And there may not be any mentals yet but these could develop if the psora is allowed to continue unchecked for years. Fortunately, the mother is bringing the child to a homeopath.

My own brother developed severe eczema at the age of six months. The doctors gave my mother creams and told her he would develop asthma, which he did and it was so bad that his first attack required a hospital stay at the age of two. He nearly died several times during childhood and had to live for two years at a residential asthma hospital for children in Denver, where they got the disease "under control" by using steroids and other drugs.

Prescribing for babies with skin symptoms can be difficult because there are so many remedies that cover these kinds of eruptions. (See the case in the Skin Diseases section.) And the nosodes should not be routinely given in cases of actual or suspected miasm. There are many, many anti-psorics but there is only one actual simillimum for this child. Unfortunately, finding it may be difficult.

Hmmmmmmmm

I believe she has been given psorsinium

I agree there is probably a hidden miasm in the family as Grandfather has Hashimotos Thyroiditis and months of Homeopathic treatment made no difference

pretty sure theres something but as you say finding it is the problem

There are too few really skilled and intuitive Homeopaths around these days

Can you enlighten me as to where he practises from please

I have used\Silica LM1 and 2 with great success on a baby. Sorry I can't give more from experience. It was\suggested by my supervisor.( Eczema was all over shoulders and head).
Karan