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Tuesday, 8 May 2018

What is IVF

What is IVF
IVF is conceptualized to help women with blocked fallopian tubes have children ( each month, when ovalution occurs, an egg is released from one of the Ovaries. The egg travels from the overay, through the tubes, and into the uterus. The sperm also swim their way from the cervix, through the uterus, and through the fallopian tubes to get to the egg. Fertilization usually takes place while the egg is traveling through the tube. Blocked fallopian tubes, thus prevent fertilisation and thereby pregnancy)
So, IVF treatment.,a woman ubdergoes hormone therapy to stimulate follicles in the Ovary. These are collected as eggs, which are then fertilised in a test tube ( in vitro) creating embryos.
One or more of these embryos are transferred through the vagina to the uterus, where implementation occurs and pregnancy begins. As not every embryo gets implanted, surplus embryos are frozen for transfers later on. Freezing eggs is an essential part of IVF nowdays.
What's interauterine insemination (IUI)
In IVF, a woman's eggs are removed and fertilised with man's sperm in a Petri dish in a laboratory, the resulting embryo is put back in to the woman's Uterus. IUI is not so complex and is called the basic treatment in assisted reproductive technology (ART ) . Here semen containing motile sperms is injected directly into the uterus using a special catherter, around the time of ovulation.
What is intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
ICSI is a process in which a single sperm is injected directly into the egg under high magnification using a micromanipulator machine. ICSI is meant to improve the chances of fertilization. IT is done along with IVF to improve fertilisation rates.
What is donation of eggs or sperm embryos
Some infertile men and women cannot produce gametes, that is an egg or a sperm. Hence as part of IVF treatment, such individuals could seek an egg or a sperm donation.Egg donations some clinics also allow infertile couples to adopt an embryo, extra frozen embryos of couples who have successfully undergone IVF treatment are at times given up for adoption to other infertile couples.
IVF can be used to treat infertility in the following patients.
Blocked or damaged fallopian tubes.
Male factors infertility.
Sperm count is low or zero.
Women with ovulation disorders, premature ovarian failure, Uterine Fibroid.
Women who have had fallopian tubes removed.
Generic disorders
Unexplained infertility.
Some side effects are there.
Miscarriage possible.
Three face procedure is this, it's in third face very painful.
Success rate is 70 percent.
Sometimes twins or three of even four babies are born.

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Sinus

Give Guys Sinusitis or sinus infection is inflammation of the air cavities within the passage of the nose.
It can be caused by infection, allergies, and chemical or particulate irritation of the sinuses. Most people do not spread sinus infection to other people. Sinusitis may be classified as acute sinus infection, subacute sinus infection,
Signs and symptoms
Sinus headache
Facial tenderness,
Pressure or pain in the sinuses, in the ears and teeth.
Fever,
Cloudy discolored nasal or postnasal drainage,
Feeling of nasal stuffiness,
Sore throat
Cough and
Occasionally facial swelling
Facial pain,
Pus like nasal discharge.
Sinus is a hollow air filled cavities, that are in the skull and connected to the nasal airways by a narrow hole in the bone (ostium) . Normally all sinuses are open to the nasal airways through an ostium. Humans have four pairs of these cavities. These are,,,
Frontal sinus (in forehead)
Maxillary sinus (behind cheeks)
Ethmoid sinuses (between the eyes,)
Sphenoid sinus ( deep behind the ethmoids)
These four pairs are often called as a unit Paranasal sinuses. Functions of the sinuses include humidifying and warming inspired air, insulation of the surrounding structures (eyes, nerves) increasing voice resonance, and as buffers against facial trauma. Sinuses decrease the weight of the skull. If the inflammation hinders the clearance of mucous or blocks the natural ostium, the inflammation may progress into a bacterial infection.
Homoeopathic therapeutics
Ammonium carb
Works best in cases where a person is unable to breath through the nose. Blockage of the nose is more troublesome at night.
Sticta is well indicated for sinus congestion with a stuffy nose along with fullness at the root of nose. Painful dryness of the mucus membranes, accompanied by obstruction of the nose.
Kali bich is one of the most effective remedy for sinus congestion with post nasal drip of thick mucus, nasal discharge thick stringy ropy. Give Kali bi four times a day 30 and Siliceia 200 every fortnight.
Iodium sinusitis with shooting, hammering pain in head and the lower jaw, especially during attack of catarrh, worse by bending forward. It affects the right side of the head ear and lower jaw
Kali iod Tearing or jerking stitches in sinus. Digging and aching coryza occurs repeatedly. Nose red and swollen. Discharge thick green and offensive.
Headache, sore throat, Eyes burn. Stuffed up nose. Nose does not stop running, chronic catarrhal purulent discharge, slow digestion. Ethmoid (bone at the base of skull forming the upper bony nose) and front sinus Eucalyptus glo is best remedy.
Pain in sinus mostly occurs on eyebrows after having cold. If the pain is on right eye brow or is right sided sinusitis Sanguinaria nit
If the pain is left sided and on left eye brow Sepia
Pain is on both sides Sticta pulse.
Sinuses left after breast abscess Siliceia
Shooting and hamming pain in head, jaw, ear and face during attack of catarrhal Iodum
Deep down in the nasal track Ferrum phos and Siliceia
The patient has a corrosive nasal discharge with burning sensation in the nose and eyes, feverish with headache and cannot sleep Ars alb
Face is hot but patient feels chilly has a fluent coryza with lachrymation, which is acrid Euphrasia
Thick yellow discharge from the posterior part of the nose, mucus drops in the throat, constipated with coated tongue Hydrastis.
Intense headache above eyes and facial bone with catarrhal trouble Merc iod rub.
Has chills headache upto the back and fullness of headache and face, sneezing and fluent coryza fever remits and recures again Gelsemium.

Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Smile those pregnancy blues away

Although the majority of pregnancies run a smooth course most women expect to feel different, as also look different, during the period of gestation (the time the baby spends in the uterus).
The human baby requires a gestation period of about nine months, the opossum's baby a mere eleven days and the elephant's nearly two years.!in humans this period varies probably influenced by the mother's menstrual cycle. Most drs agree that a baby will never live it is born on the 196th day after the last menstrual period, on the other hand, pregnancies lasting beyond the 300th day are rare. The average pregnancy lasts 260 days.
Care your unborn child.
Taking care of the pregnant mother is the best way to take care of the unborn child. The development of the foetus can be affected by many factors in its mother's environment. Though many babies seem perfectly healthy despite exposure to potentially damaging substances and events, each exposure increases the risk that something can go wrong.
Emotional care
If a woman is very tense during her pregnancy full of irritations and complaints, her unborn child may be unusually active. Instead of taking strong sedative and tranquilizers, it is much better to take a homoeopathic nerve smother like Kali phos 6 x potency, five pills three times daily, or more frequently if necessary. The use of Kali phos soother the nerves and has a calming effects on the pregnant woman. It has no side effects on either the mother or the child.
At times sleep is a major problem. This may be due to emotional p or physical discomfort. Once again, Kali phos, 6x,five pills at bed time, will help.
Drugs and cigarettes
Many obstetricians recommend that women refrain from taki any medications, including potent med such as cold remedies, at least during the first three months of pregnancy, unless that medicine is essential for the preservation of the mother's health. There are number of chemical substances which may or may not affect the development of the embryo.
The case of the Thalidomide babies is now quite well known. Thalidomide was a drug used by pregnant mothers for preventing nausea or vomiting which was prescribed as morning sickness. The drug however, had to be withdrawn from the international market because it produced physically and mentally retarded children. Thalidomide is only one of the many, chemical substances banned. Instead of taking strong, chemically formulated drugs, you are safer with non toxic homoeopathic medicines, aren't you ?
A study of more than 25,000 pregnancies shows that mothers who smoke cigarettes are more likely to have still born babies, premature babies or babies that are below average in weight than non smoking mothers, tobacco chewing, strong sedative drugs, and tranquilizers stimulate the contraction of the uterus and can lead to premature birth,. There are cases of spontaneous abortions and miscarriages, too.
Diet and digestion.
All the nutrients needed for the foetal growth must be taken from the mother's own diet and transmitted through the placenta. If the food eaten is not adequate, the growth of the child is affected.
Meals should be a high level of proteins and all the essential minerals and vitamins. The pregnant woman's Wright at the end of nine months should be around 20 pounds or 9 kg. higher than what it was before conception..
Homoeopathic Science is based on individualisation, that is, each individual should be treated according to the totality of her symptoms. When a woman is pregnant she is treated according to her present symptoms, past illnesses, present allergies, likes and dislikes and also her family history. This is known as a constitutional remedy. When this constitutional remedy is given over a regular period in the correct dosages and potency, it helps in building up the mother's and her child's cells and tissues, blood, bones, organs, brain and intelligence in a natural and healthy way.
These constitutional remedies act like a preventive medicine, against any unwanted problems. For example, we had the case of a woman, two months pregnant, who had given birth to two children with Atopic Eczema with skin eruptions all over the body. They were 7 and 5 years old, respectively, still suffering from the same problem and with many other complications. She was extremely worried about having a third child with same problem. After seven months of regular my homoeopathic medicines she gave birth to a perfectly normal child without any skin problems.
Another woman she was a Muslim woman had given a birth to three children, all of them deaf and dumb. She wanted a fourth child without any defects. Since a syphilitic trait normally gives this type of abnormalities, and her husband had suffered from this venereal disease, I gave her anti syphilitic homoeopathic medicines without any guarantee, but to my joy she gave birth to a normal child. After this again at the time of her pregnancy she took my medicines and her fifth child was also born normal without any defects.
These examples shows that not only do homoeopathic medicines help in developing and maintaining good health during pregnancy, they also help in getting rid of certain hereditary diseases and family illnesses.. Every pregnant mother must seek the correct constitutional homoeopathic remedy from her homoeopath. Self medication is not advisable.

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BY KISHINMULCHANDANI · PUBLISHED MARCH 14, 2017 · UPDATED JULY 2, 2017

Today with the advances in medical technology and better understanding of gynaecological factors, childbirth, is certainly not as worrying and difficult as it once used to be.Even so there are times, specially in cases of late pregnancies, pregnancies after age 30 which, in these days of career counscous women are getting to be not uncommon when mothers and their gynecologists go through worrying times before and during childbirth,. First pregnancancies after age of 30/32 can be risky for both mother and the child, the main fear being prolonged and difficult labour.

Homoeopathy, however, has medicines which if taken during pregnancy and during confinement can make for easier, more satisfactory deliveries in terms of both the mental and the physical problems that often accompany and labour. These can be used even in case of an emergency.

Caullophylim one of these medicines is Caullophylim, it has the effect of regulating the process of labour and has been used by Homoeopaths with great success.

I had an elderly patient who was pregnant for the first time. She was warned by her physician of the dangers of a late pregnancy and the possible need for a Caesarean operation. I started giving her Caullophylim 30 c potency thrice a day, from the 7 th month of pregnancy. And the 9 th month I changed it to 200 c potency three times daily. I also advised her to take it half hourly when she developed labour pains. During her confinement the attending obstetrician, a well known in the city, said that everything was going well. but that she anticipated a long and difficult labour. The obstetrician left to go home because, as she said there was still plenty of time. To her utter surprise, she was summoned to the hospital the moment she reached home. She got to the hospital just in time to see a normal, healthy child delivered with absolutely no trouble.

The mother was saved a lot of pain, forceps, Caesarean section and hours of labour together with the possible danger to the child.

Caullophylim was, in fact, first used by North American Indians they called it SQUAW ROOT for preventing tedious and painful labour and miscarriages.

Indications

The most important for the use of Caullophylim are.

When there is extreme utrine atony,

When the pains are very severe yet there is apparently no expulsive effort.

It is often indicated for nervous women whose pain tolerance is very low. The pains are spasmodic and fly from place to place , now in the groin now in in the abdomen and next in the chest, but not in the direction of the normal pains.Or when the contractions of the uterus are too feeble to expel the contents.

When to give Caullophylim

This question requires the skill of a good dr. Experience has taught me the following.

If a woman is pregnant for the first time, then start it in 30 c potency five pills twice or thrice a day, from 7 th month onwards.

Second pregnancy onwards Caullophylim 30 potency should be given only at the end of 8 th month onwards.

If there is of prolonged and complicated labour from the previous deliveries, or there is any illness or physical problems, then it should be treated only by experienced Homoeopath .

Viburnum opulus This is a specific medicine for false labour pains. It is useful when a pregnant woman complaints of cramping the abdomen and legs. It prevents threatened premature labour or miscarriage and spasmodic uterine pains. It should be taken under doctor’s guidance.

Cimcifuga rac.This medicine is indicated when,.

The patient suffers from irregular pains, a pain comes on , seems to be proceeding satisfactorily, when all at once she screams out and grasps her hip. The Pain leave the uterus and goes to the hip, causing cramps.

There is great fear of death with anguish and restlessness.

The mind is full of imaginations and the body full of uneasiness ( dr kent)

Arnica Montana And finally, after the labour is completed, never forget this remedy. During labour the body goes through intense physical trauma specially the muscles of the uterus. If the patient is imminent given Arnica 200 , five pills every two hours a few days after labour, then the Pain and stiffness of muscles and post labour complications can be minimised.

Hypericum Nowadays to facilitate normal delivery and to prevent muscles tear an incision is made at the outer wall of the vagina . This process is called episiotomy. Episiotomy widens the vaginal passage for the baby. After the delivery this incised area is stitched to normalise the passage. And these stitches can be quite painful. Hypericum 200 c potency 5 pills five six times a day in alternate with Arnica,200 will greatly relieve the pain and cure the stitches.

Local application

Calendula mother tincis the most effective antiseptic which, when applied locally, will make the area aseptic and promote healthy granulation tissue to heal fast.

The calendula mother tincture should be mixed in the proportion of one part to ten parts of distilled water before applying.

Kali phos From the time a woman becomes pregnant she goes through emotional changes and some degree of mental anxiety. During labour or at the end of labour or the end of labour, it is very important to relax her mentally. Kali phos 6 x , five pills three times daily acts as good as nerve tonic.

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Monday, 30 April 2018

Chickenpox

Chickenpox or Varicella is an acute infectious disease characterised by a rash which appears in crops and disappears in a few days by desiccation and scab formation. It is an extremely common infection affecting infants and children practically during all seasons of the year. It is uncommon in children above 10 years of age and probably significant percentage of children in the urban cities are effected.
Causes.
The exciting cause of the disease is a volatile filtrable virus which is found in a patient's blood and in the contents of the vesicles during the outbreak of the eruption. Infection in most cases is by direct droplet spray, but articles of clothing may remain infectious for a long time and the disease is sometimes carried by a healthy intermediary. In fact, the infection is contagious from the very first hour of the eruption, as such it is difficult to control its spread. The occasional development of chickenpox in children exposed to herpes zoster suggests that the two diseases are different manifestations of the same viral infection. The details of incubation period are as follow,,,
Incubation period (period between exposure to disease and appearance of Symptoms)
14-16 days, occasionally 3 weeks.
Period of communicability (period when child could have infected others)
One day before appearance of rash and no longer than 6 days after appearance of the first vesicle.
When child can mix with other children and return to school.
7 days after onset of rash. Crust is not infectious like in small pox.
One attack of chickenpox usually confers life long immunity, second attack being extremely rare.
Symptoms
The onset of the disease is sudden with slight fever and simultaneous appearance of eruption which is maculo popular from a pin head to a lentil size. In exceptional cases in children, vomiting and convulsions may occur. The maculae are scattered and very transparent content. The eruptions first appear on the trunk and then on the limbs and face and the distribution of the lesions is chiefly centripetal and not centrifugal as in case of small pox. The lesions tend to be more abundant on covered parts than on the exposed parts of the body. The common occurrence of the eruption is a successful crop of 4 to 5 days and each may be associated with a slight rise in temperature. The characteristic lesion is first a mucule, then a papule, then a vesicle and finally a pustle, with a subsequent scab formation. The eruptions also appear on the face, the palms and soles, mucous membranes like conjunctiva, fauces, cheeks etc. They soon burst and Ulcerate causing difficulty in eating and swallowing. Generally, there is no confluence of adjacent vesicles. However, due to the itch, the rash is often infected by scratching or rubbing and then the lesions become larger and more inflamed. The vesiculation is generally complete in 24 hours or little more. The vesicles look translucent droplets lying on the skin. The areola may or may not be present.
The severity of the infection may be judged from the numbers of pocks, which in severe cases may become confluent. The scabs are shaped in about 10 days though in severe cases these may be delayed for 2-3 weeks.
As chickenpox closely resembles small pox, the differential diagnosis of the two diseases is here below,

Chickenpox
A, The onset is rapid and the first crop of maculae appears on first day.
Small pox
A The crop may appear on the second day, deep maculae and papulae appear on the third day.
B Vesicles are oval, superficial and generally appear on third day.
B Vesicles are round and appears on sixth day.
C Pustulation and scab formation takes place on the 4-5 day respectively.
C Pustulation occurs on the 9th day and scab formation followed by scar formation may take place after 15th day.
D Onset is mild and is attended with slight rise in temperature.
D The onset is like influenza with fever, headache, vomiting and backache.
E The vesicles appear all over the body, most frequently on the hairy part of the head and face. The vesicles are not putted.
E The eruptions breaks out first on the face, mainly on the forehead, the hairy part of the head and simultaneously on the back and nose, and these appear on the trunk and more densely on face, and on the third day on the limbs. The vesicles appear against a pinkish background and are pitted.
F There is polymorphism of the eruption which is centripetal in nature.
F There is no polymorphism of the eruption which is centrifugal nature.
Types.
In addition to the ordinary form of chicken pox three types of chicken pox, namely
Bullous, in which large blebs containing turbid fluid and about 25 mm in diameter appear.
Gangrenous, in which large dark crusts form revealing rapid and deep ulcers and
Haemorrhagic, in which haemorrhage is found around the base of the pock and external haemorrhage from the nose and mouth. The second and third varieties of chicken pox are often fatal.
Constitutional causes
In the homoeopathic parlance it is the susceptibility of an individual child to a particular infection that is important, so to say, the soil must be receptive to the infection. The Miasmatic background and the Constitution of the child are basic considerations which differ in approach from that of the modern medicine.
Generally, those children who are psoric or of tubercular constitution are prone to the eruptive fevers. While the Constitutional make up of children has been dealt with elsewhere, it is evident from the overall picture of the eruptive fevers that these arise from a definite Miasmatic flow. Hence, till a child is studied in regard to the different constitutional traits and treated, it will continue to be susceptible and be vulnerable to such fevers.
Effects
Some of the effects of the chicken pox are laryngitis or slight bronchitis, pox on conjunctiva, acute nephritis, arthritis etc, though the complications are generally rare in children.
Homoeopathic therapeutics.
Aconite
This remedy is required in the initial febrile stage, when the skin is hot and child is restless, anxious and thirsty. High fever with rapid hard and full pulse. The hands are hot and feet cold.
Ant crud
Fever with nausea, vomiting and a thickly coated white tongue. The child is extremely irriatable and fretful and cannot bear to be touched or looked at. This remedy is also useful in case of cough and bronchitis remaining after the chicken pox. When eruptions attack the fauces, the palate and the corner of mouth, this remedy will be helpful.
Ant tart
This is one of the chief remedies for chickenpox when the fever is attended with convulsions or the eruptions are delayed or receding and are blue in colour. The child is drowsy, weak and sweaty and has a coated, pasty and thick white tongue. The face is pale and covered with cold sweat. One of the important symptoms of this remedy is that there is incessant quivering of chin lower jaw. This remedy is especially indicated when the chickenpox is associated with bronchitis and other chest troubles,. The child has thirst for cold water, little and often and desire for apples, fruits and acids.
Apis Mel
This remedy is indicated when there is an excessive itching of the skin or puffy swelling of the eyelids which is aggravated by slightest heat or warmth. There is thorstlessness along with scanty high colored urine.
Belladonna
This remedy is indicated when the febrile conditions are accompanied by severe headache and cerebral symptoms. The child has flushed face, red eyes and hot skin usually without any thirst. There is great drowsiness with inability to sleep. This remedy is also useful in the initial febrile stage of the chickenpox.
Merc sol.
This remedy is indicated when the vesicles suppurate or the disease taken a turn towards Gangrenous type. There is great itching especially from warmth of bed. This remedy is also indicated when the disease is complicated by bloody and slimy stools when the painful ulcers form in the mouth is fetid odour from the mouth. The tongue is thick, moist, yellow and shows the imprints of teeth.
Gelsemium
This remedy should be thought of when the onset of the fever is slight and the child is very weak. The child is dull, delirious and dizzy with pain in the occipital region. Complete thirstlessness is one of the important symptoms of this remedy.
Rhux tox
This is of the chief remedies for chickenpox when there is intense itch and burning. This remedy if given in the ist stage often arrests the progress, shortens the period of suffering and effects perfect cure. Unless any other medicine is strongly indicated, this remedy may be given with advantage. Some of the important symptoms of this remedy calling for its use in chickenpox are extreme restlessness with continued change of position, great apprehension at sight so that the child cannot remain in bed, bitter taste in the mouth, coated tongue except red triangular spaces at the tip, pain and stiffness in the limbs and great inclination to stretch the limbs and yawn. This remedy is also helpful when the complications like pustular inflammation of the eyes take place.
Sulphur
This is indicated when there is intense itching and burning in the eruptions and the child has great tendency to scratch. Least washing aggravates the itching and burning. There are frequent flashes of heat of and this remedy will generally show great redness of lip and around the anus. This being a strong anti psoric will benefit a child who is either of psoric or tubercular constitution. This remedy is also useful when the carefully selected remedies fail to act.
Each individual case should be considered the totality of the symptoms and not on the symptoms of fever and eruption alone. The prescription must be such as not to suppress the signs and symptoms or the course of the disease. Various symptoms like fever, types of eruptions at different stages, concomitant symptoms like convulsions, vomiting, etc, as well as any other peculiar symptoms should be taken into account of repertorization. It is not considered necessary to give a detailed repertorial Analysis for chickenpox. However following three rubrics concerning chickenpox are given in Dr. Kent's repertory which may be found to be of some use.,
Chickenpox,,
Aconite, ant crud, ant t, ars, asaf, bell, canth, carb v, caust, coff, cycl, hyos, op, led, merc, nat c, Puls, rhus t, sep, sil, Sulph, thuj.
Cough after chickenpox Ant c.
A case treated
A 9 years old boy contracted chickenpox from a class mate in the school and developed fever and typical rash of chickenpox about 15 days after exposure. The temperature was 38 °c and the eruptions appeared all over the body the only cause of worry for the parents was that there was an intolerable itching and burning sensation in the eruptions which was aggravated during night and by slightest warmth. Close observation also revealed the swelling of the eyelids. The throat was intensely red with tonslis swollen. The child was thirstless. With a view to give minimum necessary medication based on the above symptoms, Apis Mel 30, five doses were given which greatly relived the child of the intense itching and burning as well as the great sensitiveness to the warmth. The disease ran its nor course and the case was dismissed with usual advice on diet, quarantine etc.

Thursday, 26 April 2018

Measles

Measles or Rubeola is an acute infectious, highly communicable disease, characterised by a generalised exam them. The infants and children are highly susceptible to measles, however the higher incident is among children under 5 years of age, and the infants under 6 months of age rarely contract it. The disease can be very serious in young malnourished children and may lead to further loss of weight and result in severe forms of protein calories malnutrition. There are different types of measles, namely, Black measles, in which the eruptions is very dark and petechial, German measles or Rubella which has almost similar symptoms except the cold symptoms to that of the real measles, and hemorrhagic measles.
Infants born of susceptible mothers inherit no immunity. Generally, an attack of measles does not necessarily give a life long immunity, though second attacks are of great rarity. If uncomplicated and not suppressed, measles is not a dangerous malady..
Causes
The exciting cause of the disease is a virus which is active only inside the human organism. During the prodromal stage and the first days of eruption, the virus is found in the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, mouth and the conjunctiva as well as in the patient's blood. The measles virus is transferred from patient to healthy children during sneezing and coughing by means of the droplets injected and is carried by air. The virus can also penetrate the cracks in walls and cause infection. Thus the poor living conditions are conducive to the spread of the disease and increase in mortality. The details of incubation period, communicability, etc are given below,

Incubation period (period between exposure to disease and appearance of Symptoms)
7-14 days.

Period of communicability, (period when child could have infected others)
4 days before and 5 days after appearance of rash.

When child can mix with other children and return to school.
On recovery, at least 5 days after appearances of rash.

Symptoms
The initial symptoms are profuse flow from the eyes and nose, sneezing, short, tight and depressing cough, the eyes have a peculiar watery appearances and become more of less inflamed, with photophobia. If the lower lid is pulled down, the same would appear to be angry red. This is accompanied by slight fever for 3 to 4 days till the rash comes out about the 4th day, when fever shoots up. The fever usually goes higher each day.
The rash in form of indefinite pink spots first appears on the forehead and behind the ears from where it spreads all the trunk and limbs. In the initial stages, a fine desquamation of epithelium of the buccal mucosa at the molars beginning often at the second lower molars as well as on the internal surface of the lips and on the gums in the form of small whitish glistening spots surrounded by redness (koplik's spots) is found. The eruption of measles consists of numerous roundish lentil size red spots, which are a little raised above the level of the surrounding skin and generally contain a little pspule in their center. These spots have a tendency to coalesce if they app closer, to form irregular shaped plaques, while these stand isolated if they are scarce. The skin maintains its normal colour in between these spots. By the 8th day, the entire body is covered by eruptions. Sometimes, a serious picture is observed at height of the process, that is on the 2nd or 3rd day of the eruptions, very high fever and disturbance in the general condition, puffy face, eyelids glued to each other due to discharge, rhinitis, dry and persistent cough and red swollen fauces are accompanies especially in very young children. In Malignant epidemics death may ensue due to general paralysis and weakness at the early stage. In such cases, the pulse grows weaker and weaker and cutaneous capillaries burst and cause bleeding within cutis, there is immense loss of strength and the patient sinks into a typhoid condition.
The eruptive stage is followed by desquamation stage and within 3/4 days, the fever abates and bran like scurf is gradually thrown off the skin, leaving a dusky stain in the skin. The desquamation begins first on the face then behind the ears and on the neck, chest, arms trunk, thighs and finally legs. Sometimes, diarrhoea appears as the rash declines which is often considered to be a beneficial sign.
In a typical case, the extreme catarrhal stage especially of the patient presents unmistakable picture but milder forms may be confused with German measles or scarlatina. The comparative symptoms of measles and scarlatina are here,,,,,

Measles
(a) Rash appear on the 4th day
Scarlatina
(a) Rash appears on the second day with sudden onset, nausea and vomiting.
(b) Catarrhal symptoms are invariably present, that is watery discharge from eyes and nose, conjunctivitis etc.
(b) Catarrhal symptoms are usually absent through the symptoms of great heat of skin and hoarseness are present. The eyes are unusually bright.
(c) Eruptions first appear in the mouth, on the forehead and behind the ears from where they spread to whole body.
(c) Eruptions first appear on the upper part of the thorax and neck from where they spread to whole body.
(d) The eruption is rough and elevated and of the size of lentil.
(d) The eruption is smooth and consists of red papules standing on a erythematous background and is typical in the sweat areas.
(e) The color of eruption is pinkish red.
(e) The eruption is of a bright scarlet colour.
(f) The desquamation is in the form of bran like scurf and is thrown off in a minute portions of the skin.
(f) Desquamation is fine and powdery. Pin hole, peeling on the trunk and limbs while glove peeling about the finger tips and toes is a marked feature.
(g) Pulse is not rapid on the onset.
(g) The pulse is rapid from the onset, in fact a slow pulse is against scarlatina.

Effects
The most common effects of measles in chi are, broncho Pneumonia, bronchitis, laryngitis, otitis media, and encephalitis. Improper treatment of measles may lead to phthisis and Suppression of the eruptions by strong medicines may usually lead to severe diseases like asthma. It is now commonly believed that the above complications of measles appear only if the disease force is not thrown in the form of eruptions on the skin due either to low vitality of the patient or if the initial symptoms of coryza and fever are treated with strong medicines. No complications or sequelae arise if eruption is abundant.
Homoeopathic therapeutics.
Aconite
Useful at the commencement when the catarrhal symptoms, chilliness, restlessness, dry skin, thirst at night are present. Red conjunctiva with photo phobia, fever with quick full pulse, and dry barking cough are present. The skin is burning and itching.
Ant tart
This medicine is useful when eruptions do not appear or repelled. There is great rattling of mucus in the chest but it does not yield to coughing. Dyspnoea with bluish or purplish face and drowsiness are present.
Apis
This is also one of the important remedies in case of tardy or suppressed eruptions which effects the brain. The child has considerable difficulty in breathing with inability to remains in warm room. Stupor with stinging pains and extorting cries. The Apis child is thirst less and is worse from heat, hot room and fire and is better by cool air. There is pronounced oedema of the skin and throat with confluent eruptions. Great soreness of the chest with cough. Scanty urine along with thirstlessness forms an important symptom combination of this remedy.
Ars alb.
Tardy eruptions with great anxiety, restlessness and pronounced prostration are some of the important symptoms of this remedy when employed in measles. It is also useful when symptoms turn towards
Typhoid. After disappearance of the eruptions. There is great itching and burning of skin. The symptoms are worse after midnight. This remedy is of great service in Malignant types or black haemorrhagic measles. Diarrhoea with offensive stools followed by great exhaustion. Ars has been found to be useful in severe epidemic of measles as well as its sequelae. The child has thirst for small quantities of water at frequent intervals.
Belladonna
Indicated in measles when throat becomes sore with difficulty of swallowing and pricking pains. High fever with cerebral excitement and dry barking or spasmodic cough towards midnight often call for this remedy. Convulsions occur at the eruptive stage. This remedy is useful in the beginning when child is restless and has throbbing headache, flushed face and red eyes.
Bryonia
When the rash is slow to appear and there is hard dry cough with tearing pain in the chest. The lips are dry, parched and there is great thirst for large quantities of water at frequent intervals. This remedy is especially indicated when the eruptions suddenly disappeared and the child feels drowsy with pale twitching face and chewing motion of jaws. The child prefers to lie down quietly as slightest motion causes stitching pains in the chest. Great lassitude and irritability, anorexia, constipation and low mild delirium are some of the important symptoms calling for this remedy.
Cup met
This remedy is indicated when convulsions ensue due to the recess of eruptions. The child starts up from sleep and has frightening convulsive with bluish face. Measles complicated with bronchitis, cold clammy sweat at night, and cramps in fingers and toes are some of the additional symptoms calling for this remedy.
Euph
This remedy is indicated when the catarrhal symptoms predominate and when conjunctiva is red and swollen with acrid tears. There is intolerance to light and profuse bland fluent coryza. The cough is dry and hoarse with throbbing headache and is relived on the appearance of the eruptions. One of the characteristics symptoms of this remedy is unusual brightness of the eyes despite catarrhal condition.
Gelsemium
In the beginning of the ailments when the child is dull, drowsy and feels tired. Fever with chilliness, watery coryza which excoriates upper lip and nose, hoarse barking croupy cough with soreness of chest are some of the symptoms of this remedy. There is great itching and redness of the skin with tendency of eruptions to turn livid.
Kali bich
When there is deep, loud cough with expectoration of stringy yellowish mucus. Intense conjunctiva, stitches in the ears, watery diarrhoea with tenesmus, sore throat, swollen salivary glands. When the measles is complicated with bronchitis and Bryonia cannot control it, this remedy will be found to be of special use. Useful in sequelae of measles when ulceration or pustulation of cornea is threatened.
Lachesis
Useful in black measles when all symptoms are aggravated by suddenly awaking from sound sleep. The eruption is livid, countenance almost black, tongue coated dark brown and dry, it catches on the lower teeth and cannot be protruded coryza severe, lips and inside cheek wall sore and swollen, also useful in dipthteric symptoms.
Merc sol
Measles accompanied by swollen glands of throat and difficulty in swallowing. Indicated when gastrointestinal symptoms dominate and there is diarrhoea of slimy stool with tenesmus.
Pulsatilla
Indicated at a later stage of the disease when the catarrhal symptoms predominate. The cough is dry at night but loosens in the day time. The child sits up to cough. The eyes aggultinate and the discharge is purulent. There is much predisposition to earache. The eruptions are slow in coming out and when fully out are of a dark appearance. There is great dryness of lips without thirst and child licks constantly to moisten them. Thick yellow discharge from nose. Pulsatilla is especially useful when the chronic loose cough persists as a sequelae.
Sulphur
This remedy is useful either in the first stage when the fever and catarrhal symptoms are present or when the eruption is tardy or for the sequelae. Sulphur modifies the cough when the skin is dusky and the rash does not come out or is purplish when it appears. When the chronic caught, , chronic diarrhoea, hardness of hearing, chronic discharge from ears remain after measles or the convalescence is slow and the patient is weak and prostrated, this remedy comes in beautifully.
Zinc met
When the child is too weak to develop the eruptions and rash comes out sparingly, this remedy is called for. The child lies in stupor, gritting teeth with dilated pupils and squinting and rolling of eyes. This remedy would often modify the reactivity and help the child to go through the disease normally. One of the important symptoms of this remedy is that the child cries out in sleep and awakes from sleep as if terrified.

Some cases treated.
A girl of 8 years was exposed to measles in her school. She developed fever, coryza and watering of eyes. Earlier, she had been given Aconite 6, by another homoeopath as some of children in her neighborhood, had contracted disease. The child was dull and wanted to lie down quietly without any disturbance. She also reported headache at the base of the brain and vertigo. The mother of the child reported that she refused water even though she has great dryness in the mouth. The fever was 39°c. The child felt chilly and had considerable sneezing. The catarrhal state of the eyes and nose surely suggested the onset of measles. Based on the symptoms, Gelsemium 30 one dose every 4 hours was prescribed for two days,till the eruption came out. After 2 days the child became active and was not as apathetic as before. On the, 5 th day, the eruption were noted on the forehead and neck which spread all over the body within 24 hours. The medicine was stopped as the eruptions were satisfactory. The parents were advised to give the child milk and warm drinks not cool drinks. The measles ran its normal course without leaving any sequelae.

A, 3 years old girl with fair complexion and greenish eyes contracted measles from her elder sister. The child in its early stage was treated homoeopathically. However, the diarrhoea continued even after the successful desquamation which continued for several days. 5 does of China 30 cured her completely as well as helped her in regaining the strength as the girl was considerably prostrated after the attack of measles.

Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Teeth trouble tiny tots

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Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Teeth trouble tiny tots

Teeth trouble tiny tots
Black teeth Normally, teeth decay after they have erupted but there are certain factors which cause tooth decay from the very start.
If the mother has been exposed to X-rays during pregnancy.
If the mother or father has suffered from or is suffering from venereal diseases.
If during pregnancy mother has consumed strong drugs.

A Homoeopathic preparation called Kreosotum a drug manufactured from certain phenols, helps a great deal in controlling the decaying process of teeth it helps infants who suffers from v painful dentition bleeding gums mouth has a v offensive smell teeth start crumbling as soon as they erupt Kreosotum 30 ,four pills Tds.
Staphisagria is another remedy for the same type of teeth, but used for an infant who is v irritable and peevish. Let him have Staphisagria 30 Tds four pills one dose.
Tooth decay due to general weakness.
When the body becomes weak and anaemic it starts showing up in the bones and teeth. Plumbum met the Homoeopathic lead, helps anaemic individuals whose haemoglobin level is low. Plumbum met 30 Tds.
Tooth decay due to wrong hard brushes along with a wrong style of brushing cause injury to the gums, regular use of such brushes starts brushing off the gums and enamel of the teeth. Take a soft brush, brush teeth in a circular manner don't press too hard. Arnica 200 Tds will restore the injured gums and teeth to normal if the injury is not too deep.
The most important Homoeopathic remedy which has helped a number of teeth and gums is Merc Sol. According to the correct matching of symptoms it helps in saving the teeth at times the teeth can again become normal and healthy. The symptoms call for Merc Sol are an excess of foetid, acidic and sticky saliva in the mouth which makes the gums spongy the gums receding and bleeding an ulcer might form in the gums. Merc Sol 200 C potency Tds.
Constitutional treatment.
It had been found that certain deep rooted diseases in parents or grandparents may affect the bones and teeth of the developing child. For these deep rooted suppressed illnesses only Constitutional medicines will help.
Fluoride good or bad?
Teeth are less susceptible to caries if an optimum amount of calcium and fluorine are ingested while they are developing. Fluoride combines with some of the apatite crystals in the tooth structure to make it stronger. You get the maximum benefit when it is consumed from birth until the permanent teeth have all appeared which may be between the ages of 11 and 13 .But ingestion of excessive fluoride before eruption, while the enamel is forming, may cause permanent mottling of the enamel.
Dental tonic.
Research has still to tell us how much of fluoride is good. But as far back as 200 years ago Homoeopathic and biochemic Calc fluoride, a combination of calcium and fluoride was discovered and still being used by Homoeopaths and biochemists as a good dental tonic from the time the child is born till his first dentition is over (2yeras) Calc flour 6x contains Calcium and fluoride in the corrected dosage. Both are in a very minute dosage, but the molecules are charged by the potentised method. Therefore their absorption and action strengthen the teeth
Calc fluor 6X,3 pills twice a day is an excellent dental tonic.

Dr.Kishin Mulchandani homoeopathic physician at 06:48

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