Sick Days- Remedies

This month has been filled with the most sick child experiences as a parent that we have had to face so far. Shayna has had her share of ear infections and illness over the last two years but never everything at once in the same month. It was rough for us all!

It started a few weeks after new years with a runny nose that never went away. Then the tummy (throw up) flu hit, that passed. Then the fever hit, that passed. Then the upper respiratory infection hit, that has finally passed. 

She daughter refuses to take any kind of medicine. She has a reflex button that automatically throws it right back up with everything she recently ate. YUCK! I know! 

We learned some new parenting tips to help ease her pain through all the illnesses/ get her to keep meds down and stop infection from becoming serious.

Fever:

• The old rag cold rag on the head really worked. We did this whenever she slept. 

Fever always tends to be worse when we wake up, but luckily we sweat when we sleep so the chance of breaking it is more when asleep then awake. Since she is a toddler the minute she went to sleep the cold towel went. She would wake up with a less fever then when she went down.

• Fever reducer mixed with juice, milk, pedialyte or gatorade. This only worked for a few sips and she was no dummy. Read a lot of blogs where this one did it. Not for us.

What really worked: It is good for them to bath in a cold/luke warm bath to help keep the body temperature down. We had Shayna during this fever day about 3 times. This is going to sound cruel and crazy but it worked every time and she kept the medicine down and saved us an emergency room visit. What really kept the reducer down.Catch them off guard and put a little bit of medicine down the back of throat. Before they have time to think about gagging it, splash water so they have to hold their breath. We did this until the dosage was gone. She had the best night sleep and woke up fever free. I felt awful doing it, it is kind of funny now but you do what you have to.**

For upper respiratory:

• We worked two humidifiers at night (warm is best), baby vicks, nasal spray and suctioned, suctioned, suctioned. If they never let you suction (like ours). Use bath time to distract and suction that nose. Only thing that stops the ear infection from forming is getting that drainage.
• New good tip, we used Pure Essentials Lavender oil on the bottoms of her feet before bed every night. Supposed to open pores, soothe and calm. For adults, put on back of neck. Helped relieve sinus pain for me.

• Homemade lemon and honey tea. Simple, easy and works.

I wrote this post for my own archive for the future. It is all stuff I already knew and we have all done, I am not doctor by any means. I have a terrible memory and want to be able to remeber times like these. I am a young mother learning as I go and finding new tricks on my way. I love to keep things natural, learning more homeopathic remedies would be awesome! My husband and I are so fascinated with the body, how it works and functions. Since these sick weeks have passed we have made serious attempt to keep immune boosting foods in Shayna's diet (garlic, citrus, etc.).

We ended her month at her two year well check appointment where she looked great! 90th percentile for her height and 55th for her weight. Body looked good and well so she got the vaccines she was due for (not fun)! She kept saying Owee, owee, and got all obsessed with have bandaids on! It is all over and now we can look forward to a healthy spring (cross your fingers).