| Ear infections are common in small children. This is | | | | anaesthetic. |
| because babies aren't born with an immune | | | | That meant the rest of the household could get |
| system. They have to make their own. From | | | | some sleep, even if it didn't do my immune |
| scratch. So the more ailments a child has, and can | | | | system much good. |
| recover from unaided, the healthier they will be as | | | | I was a typical example of when the homeopathic |
| adults. | | | | medicine Hepar sulph would have been the best |
| It's common today to seek treatment for every | | | | treatment. The pain is just so bad, the child |
| little malady. This has the effect of knocking your | | | | shrieks and can't be comforted. |
| immune system each time you take suppressive | | | | It comes in every good homeopathic home |
| drugs. It's better to see if you can manage the | | | | prescribing kit and should accompany every |
| problem yourself. Take time off work. Go to bed. | | | | parent. Imagine a rerun of the scene of my ear |
| See if you can manage. | | | | infection. Instead of having to first locate a |
| The conditions when you really can't manage to | | | | doctor, then to drive miles to reach him. Not to |
| see it through are those ear infections that are | | | | mention the upheaval of waking the other family |
| painful. The more painful it is, the less likely you | | | | members to cart them along, for safety reasons. |
| will be able to manage on your own. | | | | Just opening the kit, locating the medicine and |
| I remember as a child, having such an exquisitely | | | | popping one dose into my mouth. Maybe another |
| painful ear infection, I woke up screaming. I | | | | a few minutes later. |
| couldn't be pacified. Even though we were on | | | | Treating ear infections at the very start, with a |
| holiday in a remote village, my parents had to | | | | treatment that will boost the immune system, |
| take me to a doctor. He knocked me out with an | | | | seems to me the most sensible option. |