Homeopathy Can Help Ease Ear Infections
Earaches and ear infections are common complaints in children. Most children have at least one event of ear infection each year. Parents need to take good care and also seek quick, effective medical treatment to avoid complications. Earaches may result from a build-up of wax in the ear, or infection of the outer, inner, and the middle ear — after a bout of cold, for instance — or ear injury (e.g., piercing). Sometimes, the body’s natural mechanisms for fighting infection may be compromised, or undermined. This happens when a child’s ears are exposed to extremes of temperature, or ear infections are suppressed by way of antibiotic use or overuse. Most ear infections are caused by viruses and/or bacteria. Other causes are allergy, blockage of the ear canal, day-care, school, siblings, exposure to smoke (tobacco, cigarette), formula feeding etc., When the condition is not treated suitably, ear infections may lead to sepsis, meningitis (brain fever) and so on.
Homeopathy differs from conventional medicine. It treats not just the earache or infection, but the child with the problem, as a whole, safely. Every child with ear infection presents with a distinctive array of pain/infection symptoms, temperament, feelings, likes and dislikes. For homeopathic medicines to work, they have to suitably match each child’s unique, individual illness-picture. In one study, 230 children with ear infection were treated with either homeopathy or placebo (dummy pills). The homeopathy group achieved pain control in 72 per cent of children after 12 hours. This was 2.4 times quicker than the placebo group. There were no complications observed in the group treated with homeopathic medicines. When compared to conventional treatment the homeopathic approach was also 14 per cent less expensive. Aconitum Napellus is useful when an earache comes on suddenly after exposure to cold, dry wind. Belladonna is handy when earache is ‘throbbing’ with redness. Ferrum Phosphoricum is effective when ear symptoms have just surfaced. Hepar Sulphuris is indicated when earache is extremely painful, or infection is advanced. Other useful remedies are Mercurius Solubilis, Pulsatilla etc.
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