Hi,

My 5 year old son has worms. I usually treat my family homeopathically for everything. But, my books are at my old house overseass, and i am at a loss, never having dealt with this before.

we have been in egypt for 2 years, arriving in the US in April.

My son just got itchy, diahrrhea, this week. i have seen a worm now, looks like the pinworm online, about one inch long, white, thin.

Also, just started playing with two new kids this week.

Let see, what else do you need to know???

Susan

At the risk of starting a riot...try Cina.

Do you have experience giving homeopathic remedies?

The cell salt for worms is Nat-phos 6X, which might be easier for you to get than Cina. You can give it 4 times a day, just follow the instructions on the bottle, and you may have to give it for at least two weeks.

Snoopy

This is advice given by to me by a homeopath and seems to be somewhat successful, along with a homoeopathic prescription.

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I'm not sure, but I seem to remember using ground black walnut shells when my kids were little. Maybe someone with knowledge of herbals can help out here. It worked along woth the homeopathic remedy.

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Shirley Reischman

Has your child been treated successfully with homoeopathy before? If so, then it is best to repeat the last remedy that worked.

The worms will be expelled naturally as the child's health increases. The worms cannot be treated as a seperate illness - same rules apply as to everything else. The worms only appear while the body supports them.

Cina will only work if the child is in a Cina state - angry, grinding teeth, capricious, changeable mood, restless, not wanting to be touched or even looked at, sleeping poorly etc etc. Cina won't work just because the child has worms.

What other changes have you noticed in your child's behaviour? What other symptoms do they have?

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Susan,

Can you tell us what he does, for instance, nose-picking...any spasms, twitches, jerking, bedwetting, scratching the ears, dark circles around the eyes, grinding the teeth at night?

Do you know what his constitutional remedy is?

Anything new since he got worms that wasn't part of his profile before?

Snoopy

Okay, guess we opened a can of worms, ha ha.

My son is considered High functioning autistic, we used to take him to the homeopath. we never got the right remedy. she was frustrated. we gave up.

i have been treating my family for things like flu/etc, but not constitutionally.

My son since 2-3 months has had a fear of going far from the house. he will play in the yard, but won't go to store, etc.

My son is angry and has outburtsts sometimes. He has two moods, happy and angry. He has a speech problem (he sounds like english is his second language, always has, even though he was an early talker). He passed all his milestones early, walking at 7 months, crawling at 4 mos. Then around 1 1/2 years, he just wasn't the same anymore, he started lining things up, obsessing over the UPS man. We never vaccinated, thank God, he has never had the shots. Autism, seems to run in my husband's family.

Now my son, lets see, loves meat, loves white rice. Likes taste of spicy food, likes cold water to drink.

he often needs to be close to sleep, close to me.

1 week ago, my husband went overseas. My son seems okay with it. In one week, he will be back.

what else should i say?

oh yes, his sleep habits are terrible. when he was a baby he slept maybe 3 hrs a day, 21 hours up. i don't even remeber his early babyhood, i was so tired.

now, i cannot get him to bed before 1 am. he is simply not tired. if u get him up earlier than usualy, you can even sit him up, and he will sleep sitting up (he was always this way).

i remember lying on the futon, and him crawling over me (he was 5 months old, this was 4am). needless to say, my house was ultra safety proofed.

Oh yes, he has circles under his eyes, and yawns throughout the day. it seems his sleep is not restorative????

He is on a gluten free/casein free diet, which made his meltowns from 10 a day to 1 at most, and the kirkman labs b vitamin therapy, dmg, enzyme aid. he is in addition to sensitive to wheat and milk products, allergic (anaphylactic) to soy. Apples also make him lose total bladder control.

sorry if this is too much, i kinda forget what you need to know.

susan

First answer the questions below - this is an adult form so many qestions can be passed over.

Also can you give the names of the previous remedies tried and the response to them? Can you give a timeline of events? When the "autism" began, when his fear of going far from home began? describe his personality a bit more and what is his diet like. Please give an account of past illnesses as well.

Age:
Height:
Weight:

1. What is your chief complaint (CC)?
2. When did this problem begin? What happened in
your life around that time? What do you think
caused it?
3. What aggravates the CC? (certain types of
foods or weather, movement, light, noise,
heat/cold, or anything else that you can think
of; please be specific)
4. At what time of the day or night is the CC the
worst? Specify an hour if you can.
5. What symptoms can you identify that accompany
the CC (whether directly related or not)?

GENERAL QUESTIONS
6. Environment: With regard to the seasons, weather, outdoor temperature, indoor temperature, drafts, air quality, airconditioning, ocean air, mountain air, humidity, the sun/rain/thunderstorms/clouds/fog, etc.: what gives you comfort and relief, and what causes discomfort and distress? Try to give examples.

7. What position is most uncomfortable for you?

8. Do you tend to be chilly or warm? Are there parts of your body that are colder or warmer than the rest of you? Is there a special time of day or night when they are colder or warmer? Do you perspire a great deal? If so, when? And where on the body? (feet, head, hair, armpits, etc) Does it leave a stain of a particular color? Is there a particular odor?
9. What time of day tends to be a down time for
you?

MENTAL/EMOTIONAL
10. What do you worry about? How do you deal with
worries?
11. How do you keep your house/your desk/your room/your study/your bathroom?
12. How easily do you cry? In what situations?
13. When you are upset, what do you do to help yourself feel better?
14. What do you do when you are angry?
15. In what circumstances do you feel jealous?
16. When and on what occasions do you feel
frightened or anxious? What fears do you have?
17. What are the greatest griefs that you have
gone through in your life? How did you react?
18. What are the greatest joys you have had in
your life?
19. In what situations do you feel the blues,
depressed, sad, pessimistic?
20. What bothers you most in other people? How,
if at all, do you express it?
21. Describe your sense of self.
22. Do you have any recurring dreams? What is the
theme?
23. What would you need to feel happy?
24. What do you do for work? Ideally, what would
you like to do?
25. If you had an unexpected week's vacation from
work and $1000, what would you do?
26. When people have criticized you, what were their complaints? Similarly, the people who have praised you, what did you receive praise for?
27. What would you like to change most about
yourself?

FOOD
28. How do you feel before, during and after
meals? How do you feel if you go without a
meal?
29. What would you most like to eat (if you did
not have to consider calories, fat, anything
you've read about the right way to eat)?
30. What foods do you dislike and refuse to eat?
What foods do you react badly to, and in what
way?
31. How much do you drink in a day? Include
sodas, juice, coffee, tea, milk, and
alcoholic beverages as well as water. How
thirsty do you tend to get? What temperature would you like your drinks to be?

SLEEP
32. What hours do you sleep? Do you tend to wake
up at a particular time? Why? What makes you
restless or sleepy?
33. Do you do anything during sleep? (speak,
laugh, shriek, toss about, grind your teeth, drool, snore, walk, talk, etc.)
34. Do you have trouble falling asleep? What keeps you awake? Do you wake always at a certain time? What causes you to wake up? What position do you sleep in?

WOMEN
35. Number of pregnancies, number of children,
number of miscarriages, number of abortions
36. At what age did your menses begin? If you
have gone through menopause, at what age?
37. How frequently do they (or did they) come?
38. What about their duration, abundance, colour,
time of day when flow is greatest; any odour
or clots?
39. How do you (did you) feel before, during and
after menses?

HEALTH HISTORY
40. What medications are you taking at present?
41. How frequently do you get colds and flus?
42. Have you had any childhood illnesses twice,
or in a very severe form, or after puberty?
43. Have you had any vaccinations since the
standard childhood ones? Have you ever had an
adverse or unusual reaction to a vaccination?
44. Have you had any surgery? What and when?
45. Have you had at any time (mention year):
warts, cysts, Polyps, or tumors? Where were they located? How were they treated?

46. Do you tend to have any discharges (nasal,
vaginal, etc.)? Color, consistency?

SENSITIVITY
47. a) Do you tend to need a smaller dose of
medications than most other people?
b) Do you need less anaesthesia than others,
or have a hard time coming out of it?
c) Do you tend to react to vitamins and herbs
and/or need hypoallergenic vitamins?
d) Are you sensitive to paint fumes, exhuast,
dry cleaning fluid, fragrances etc.?

48. Family history: Mention diseases, causes
and ages of deaths of father, mother,
sisters, brothers and grandparents on both
sides.

49. Construct a time line: Mention from birth
on to the present day, all IMPORTANT events
(emotional and physical traumas,
heartbreaks, divorces, work-related events,
diseases or traumas your mother had while
being pregnant with you, family stress,
death in the family or of friends,
disappointment, etc.) Mention the symptoms
experienced at those moments or which you
can date to those traumas. Please try to
write at least one page outlining major
events of your life.
50. When you stand in line at the bank or supermarket, how do you feel?
51. When your family member was last sick, what did you do?

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Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to animals. For they are without sin and you in your greatness defile the earth by your appearance on it and leave traces of you foulness after you. Dostoyevsky

btw, i will just say it, what is capricious again????