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How do you treat high fever in toddlers?
High fever, above 101.....toddlers...2-4 yrs old...

I was reading about homeopathic Belladonna....
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I have used Homeopathic Belladonna many times with my kids when they were small. Do not be afraid to try it.

They will be very hot, maybe a little delerious or seem spooked, lips dry, eyes glassy.

It literally saved my 3 month old from going to the hospital cause if that didn't work thats where we were going becasue he had refused to eat for 3 days. . He was better in 15 minutes. Thats right. 15 minutes.

You may be interested in reading the homeoapthic column on www.healthsalon.org I have writted an article on how Homeoapthy works, called Homeoapthy explained, part 1 part 2

If in doubt with homeoapthy, give the remedy any way. There were times I gave my kids 3, 4, 5 remedies till I found the right one. Selecting the right remedy can be hard.

When my kids were small I got an emergency kit, and after a few years expaned to a 300 remedy kit, actually 600 remedies in all. 300 in 30c potency and 300 in 200c potency... best money I ever spent and its paid for itself time and again.... there is a learning curve though. You have to study it some.

There are several remedies for fever in kids. I would get Dana Ulman's book called "Everybodies Guide to Homeopathic Medicines" as a starter. It got me though some health issues and selecting a remedy. I also took the kids to a homeopath, as they got older only when I couldn't figure it out myself.
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Doesn't it depend on what is causing the Fever?
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Doesn't it depend on what is causing the Fever?
last nite, my 4 yr old had a stomach virus....
he threw up and ran a fever up to 103.....
so my wife who's an RN....gave him children's tylenol....
it brought it down to about 99.1-100

he stayed at about that temp.....and is at about 99.4 right now...this morning....

although....when he was sleeping last nite, he had pulled the covers over his face and was probably breathing in the air he was breathing out....that's my opinion as to why his forehead temp reached 103....
I caught it really quickly and as soon as I repositioned him and took a cover away his temp started falling....

she gave him a cool bath anyway and some children's tylenol...

what kind of Homeopathic Belladonna should you get?

I saw some on the boiron website......
https://www.boironusa.com/products/single/belladonna.php

I used their chestal cough medicine and it worked when nothing else would on my kids....

is Boiron good?



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They will be very hot, maybe a little delerious or seem spooked, lips dry, eyes glassy.
did they Belladonnamake them hot and lips dry?

or are you saying they were like that before you gave them
Belladonna?


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Hot and dry lips is a sign that belladonna is likely a correct remedy.

Homeopathy is complex. The great thing about it is that if the right remedy is selected then you have a cure, not just a fever reduction as tylenol gives.

https://www.healthsalon.org/80/homeopathy-explained-part-one/

You will find link to part two at the bottom of the page under related posts.

It does not matter what causes the illness most of the time. You match the presenting symptoms to the remedy picture.

Young children can get many fevers up till around age 5. This is normal as their body adjusts to all the variable pathogens in the enviroment. This builds their immune system. With my kids I did not give tylenol unless they were very uncomfortable and "suffering" from fever. One of my kids would continue to go full steam at 102 and 103. I would give homeoapthy only. Tylenol only if he were suffering.

The wright remedy should make things start to look good after about 1 hour in these types of acute cases, sometimes faster.

Fever in general is good. It reflects that the immune sytem is working on combating the pathogen. I would not give a tepid bath for 103. It is normal for children to go up to 104, 105. Seizure does not come from how high the fever go up, but rather from the fever going up very fast. This is common knownledge in pediatrics these days. 102 can be a severe fever for an adult but not for a kid.

I do know that my son that I spoke of above that was considering taking to the hospital, would have been in for a rough ride if I had.. Blood work, spinal tap and antibiotics IV just in case, no matter what. Homeopathy saved him from all of that.

Borion is good and sold in most healt food stores in the US. I have not had any issues with any of the homeoapthic companies. I generally use Bengal Allen, which come from India, and used in hospitals there. Their remedies are about $1. each, but you have to purchase a kit,
as compared to Borion which is about $6 or perhaps more now per remedy.
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I've never heard of these remedies ever lol. All I know is that my poor immune system was abused by antibiotics and cold medicine all my childhood. When I finally got older and able to refuse things, I realized nothing worked and that I had to let my body fight infections by itself. So I did and it didn't take long until I finally stopped getting sick every month!
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My 3yrs old woke up with high fever thIs morning and a very dry cough.I gave him a cool bath and gave him fruit juice and followed up with porrige.he Looks better now .Is it safe to administer lemon and honey to treat the cough??and which other home remedies for the fever to go away completely??
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My 3yrs old woke up with high fever thIs morning and a very dry cough.I gave him a cool bath and gave him fruit juice and followed up with porrige.he Looks better now .Is it safe to administer lemon and honey to treat the cough??and which other home remedies for the fever to go away completely??
In my opinion, honey and lemon would be fine to give to a three year old, especially if the honey is not raw. There are warnings not to give it to children around one year old or younger, as it may contain botulism spores, that young babies can't fight off yet. White Willow is good for fever, but only for adults, it is NOT recommended for children! In this case, all I could think of is giving a baby aspirin, and cooling him down with damp cloths.

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I have always been under the understanding that running a fever is a sign that your body is fighting an infection. Its your immune system working to get rid of the invaders that are trying to pull your body down.... So if you stop the fever, are you not stopping your body from fighting any infection????? why do we insist on bringing down fever...why do we not let our bodies work the way they are suppose to work... now granted, super high temps need to be dealt with, but lets work with our bodies and not against them...give the person a cool bath and some juice...or frozen yogurt and some vitamin C and D3. give the person natural ways to cool off...let them stay in the tub longer or take more baths....maybe just maybe if we would let the fever work its way thru, we wouldnt keep coming down with crud!!!! Granted my own 2 cents~~ aint worth much, but there it is!
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I have always been under the understanding that running a fever is a sign that your body is fighting an infection. Its your immune system working to get rid of the invaders that are trying to pull your body down.... So if you stop the fever, are you not stopping your body from fighting any infection????? why do we insist on bringing down fever...why do we not let our bodies work the way they are suppose to work... now granted, super high temps need to be dealt with, but lets work with our bodies and not against them...
Interesting opinion. I've heard this many times before. I wonder if the fever is a symptom or part of the cure. My feeling is that it is a symptom of the inflamation/infection. One reason that our nose is so close to the brain, is so that it can help to cool the brain, IMO. Same for blood circulation, among its many other function. I've also heard that it is better to sleep cool than hot. Old wives tale? It takes a much higher heat to kill bacteria (think of cooking). It takes a much lower heat to slow the propagation of bacteria too (think refrigeration). So, I think it is best to get the body's temperature back to normal.
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I have always been under the understanding that running a fever is a sign that your body is fighting an infection. Its your immune system working to get rid of the invaders that are trying to pull your body down.... So if you stop the fever, are you not stopping your body from fighting any infection????? why do we insist on bringing down fever...why do we not let our bodies work the way they are suppose to work... now granted, super high temps need to be dealt with, but lets work with our bodies and not against them...give the person a cool bath and some juice...or frozen yogurt and some vitamin C and D3. give the person natural ways to cool off...let them stay in the tub longer or take more baths....maybe just maybe if we would let the fever work its way thru, we wouldnt keep coming down with crud!!!! Granted my own 2 cents~~ aint worth much, but there it is!
I agree with you in all, but may be I have a little note that If the symptoms don't disappear after 3 days, the patient should take to the Doctor cause some of the fever harmful to our body .
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A fever is a sign of infection and is the immune system response to that infection. When fever goes up immune response is amplified and this is a good thing. This is common medical knowledge.

Do not treat a fever unless the patient is signficiantly uncomfortable.
Seizures do not happen from a high fever in and of itself. It comes from a fever risisng so rapidly that the body cannot adjust and a seizure results. It will happen so fast that you will not know to give tylenol until it is too late.
A very few kids are febrile seizure prone.

Please take this from a long time pediatric nurse!

Never give a child aspirin. NEVER!. It is linked to the deadly Ryes syndrome. Give tylenol. If tylenol does not work give ibuprofen or you can alternated them if the fever is very difficult to bring down.

103 and 104 is not too high for a toddler. This is normal. If it makes them cranky or lethargic they give tylenol. At 103 my son would continue playing, at 104 he was down and out.. different kids react differently.

A fever over 3 days does not necessarily merit a doctor visit. Look at your child. Is she eating? is she drinking? will she get out of bed? is she communicating? what other symptoms are there? is there pain? infection in the throat? a rash? The last 3 should absolutley have medical evaluation. There other symptoms you have to look at individually. Dehydration is always a concern and should not be allowed to progress.
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Well shoot, Im glad Im not crazy!!!! thank you Arrow and Dr.
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Just last week, my 3,5y old head high fever. I said to the nurse that I would like to avoid the syrup (it helps only for about 4 hours and than it goes back again) and she said that we should (I hope you will not mind if I write in Celsius) put him in bath and that the water should have 37C (normal body temperature is 36) and than by adding cold water, lower the temperature of water in the bath to 35C.

Another way to lower the temperature is also (it works for smaller kids as well) to put the cold towel on the forehead, arms and legs.
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