Med in children

Here you find special usage of Med as a Homeopathic remedy in children

Generality

• Babies who often fail to thrive and look pale, malnourished,
• They suffer with eczema, catarrhal discharges and asthma.
• Sour or fishy smelling discharges.
• They often have a bright red diaper rash that looks like a scald.
• This is often because their urine is highly acidic.

Sleep

• They always try to roll over on the face or stomach because it makes them feel better.

• Young children will get in knee-elbow position and rock back and forth, sometimes violently.
• They will sleep with their buttocks in the air and their face down on the pillow.
• Their legs and feet are in constant motion and they are always wiggling and squirming, esp at night.
• Then they throw the covers off because their feet burn.

Mentality

• Some have behavioral problems and will be very aggressive toward other children. They are prone to violent temper tantrums and will strike, kick and bite.
• They may either love or hate animals and be very cruel to them.
• They are very sexual and will play with their genitals and have incestuous impulses.
• This makes them candidates for sexual abuse or if told that touching their genitals, etc. is dirty they become guilty.
• The little girls and sensitive boys are very susceptible to criticism, weep and feel guilty when reprimanded.
• The guilt makes them feel shame but the sex sensations gives them pleasure causing the two states to become mixed leading toward sexual confusion in later life.

Physical Sign / Symptoms

Eyes

• Ocular gonorrhea of ​​infants (Thick/ Green secretions)
• Gonorrhea + Diaper Rash
• Chronic Blepharitis, Conjunctivitis
• Loss of eyelashes
• Sensation of Sand / Sticks in the eye
• Sensing of fling in front of eyes
• Visual impairment with fever (common)

Ears

• Frequent common colds
• Otitis Media: Accumulation of large fluid in middle ear that leads to rupture of the eardrum
• Excessive itching + Dry scalp (Puls, Sil)
• Partial deafness,
• Pulsation in ears.

Nose

• Recurrent eczema, asthma and hay fever that has not responded to Lyc, Puls, Tub.
• Med 's Allergy in is very Deep / Long-lasting and can lead to asthma or sinusitis and bronchitis
• Teenagers are more prone to streptococcal infections, which is accompanied by pain and nose redness . (Like Sul)
• Whenever sour fruit is eaten, it starts itching and sensitivity
• Chronic nasal and pharyngeal catarrhs.
• Children with chronic catarrhal conditions.
• Nose dirty, tonsils enlarged, thick yellow mucus from nostrils; lips thickened from mouth breathing.

Respiratory tract

• Dyspnoea and sense of constriction; can inhale with ease, but no power to exhale.
• Incipient tuberculosis.
• Asthma, only > by lying on the face and protruding the tongue. Incessant, dry night cough.
• Cough, > from lying on the stomach. Sputa viscid, difficult to raise.
• Larynx feels sore. Lower limbs ache all night, preventing sleep.

Skin

• Burning of hands and feet; wants them uncovered and fanned.
• Sweat easy; towards morning.
• Burning heat, with sweat; wants to uncover, but is chilled thereby.
• Skin cold, yet throws off covers.
• Fiery red rash about anus in babies, “the water scalds it terribly.”
• Small pedunculated warts, with pin-heads, like small button mushrooms, on various parts of body and thigh.
• Small boils break out on face during menses.

Headache

• Headache of exhaustion, or from hard work.
• Head feels heavy and is drawn backwards.
• Intense burning pain in the brain.
• Headache, from jarring of ears. Sensation of tightness and contraction in the head.
• Feels as if she stared at everything. Tongue coated brown and thick, blistered; canker sores. Throat sore and swollen; deglutition of either liquids or solids impossible. Throat constantly filled with thick, gray or bloody mucus from the posterior nares.

GI tract

• Morning nausea. Vomiting of pregnancy.
• Rests more comfortably lying on abdomen.
• Oozing of fetid moisture from anus.
• Can pass stool only by leaning very far back. Sharp, needle-like pains in the rectum.
• Intense itching of the anus.
• Constriction and inertia of the bowels with ball-like stools.
• Diarrhoea from jarring of ears.

Urinary tract

• Severe pain in the renal region (backache), > by profuse urination.
• Renal colic. Urine flows very slowly.
• Nocturnal enuresis.
• Painful tenesmus when urinating.