Children respond extremely well to homeopathic remedies, even when the perfect medicine is not always prescribed.  It is as though the intelligence in their body is so high that their internal radar is scanning for any energetic medicine that is even close to being the best one.  Famed astromer Johann Kepler once said,   "Nature uses as little as possible of anything."  The fact that children respond so well to homeopathic medicines is one further example of this.

How do you treat fever in a child?
Most often, one needs to treat the parent's anxieties and fears more than the child's fever.  The best way to treat these fears is with education about the wisdom of the body and about fever as an important defense.  I say this because physicians and physiologists today recognize that fever is a useful response of the person's body to infection.  While it is true that certain high or long-lasting fevers need to be treated or suppressed in some way, such fevers represent an extreme minority of fevers in children.

I am quite concerned about the overuse of conventional drugs to lower fevers.  Homeopaths assert that we create a lot of chronic disease when we suppress acute illness.

I am often amazed at how well and how fast homeopathic medicines work in fevers.  Because a fever is a defense, the body will make good use of additional tools that it is given to help in its defense.  This is distinct from conventional drugs, especially anti-inflammatory drugs that ultimately are obstacles to the true cure.

I can and will refer the child for immediate medical treatment if fever is experienced in newborns (within first 4 months) that does not respond to homeopathic treatment within two hours, or if a fever in any child is over 40 degree Celsius and doesn't respond to home treatment after 6 hours, or if high fever in any child leads to great lethargy and neck stiffness.

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