Flu symptoms

[snoozybun]

My 4 year old seems to have come down with something day before yesterday. Started with a fairly persistent but lightweight cough,
fever, drowsiness and refusing a video (!!). This, mind you, is in a bright little boy who talks and sings and go-go-goes from the
moment he wakes till the moment he goes to sleep... That was Thursday afternoon. He had a quite a fever, with dry heat all over, no
thirst, no appetite. Did not want to be uncovered though temp got as high as 103.5F. Some muscle pains, and heart seemed to be
pounding very fast, but I figured that was to be expected in a fever. (We adopted him one year ago from Pakistan, and he has been
amazingly healthy -- just two short colds and now this.) Nose not stuffed, nor does the cough raise anything. Throat very sore, hard
or crunchy food (such as bread) agg. Although I first thought of Aconite (and every book pretty much says first try Acon), he did not
have the anxiousness or restlessness. I thought of Bell., but I only have it in 200 and I wanted to try a lower potency for the first
prescription. So I tried Baptisia 30, two globules in water in divided doses for a few hours, but it did not seem to affect. I then tried
Acon, and I cannot say it did much. He had fever all night, around 101.5F, but he slept and did not thrash. It would be fairer to say he
baked all night. He had fever all the next day, and slept off and on. Still no thirst. No perspiration to speak of. No delirium or
restless dreams. Amazed that he felt chilly on uncovering, though he was hot to the touch -- I tried Nux.v. Hard to tell if there was
improvement or not. (In my account here, please bear in mind that I am coming down with this thing myself now..) I resorted to a
Hyland's compound for sore throats, composed of very low potency Belladonna, Baryta c, Phytolacca, & Merc iod rub. Hard to say if
the throat symptoms improved. He hadn't coughed much since the first few hours, but swallowing was still painful. This morning, he
almost felt like vomitting, but not really from the stomach, more from sputa, but it didn't really happen. Well, I tried Baptisia 30 again
(why? I cannot remember), by olefaction from the 80% alcohol dilution. This time, there was substantial improvement. His
temperature dropped, his appetite and fluid intake improved, he started talking more, watched TV and was more his old self. He still
has a low grade fever, but he gets out of bed and has energy to move around a little. There is tenacious mucus in his lungs (judging
by his cough), but nothing has come up yet. No other stomach symptoms. I'm thinking Sambucus may be needed next, because he
sort of woke up from a nap with suffocative coughing, but I'll see.

Me, I had a strange but slight bout of fever this evening -- heat on the neck and left side of my head, and leftsided (and occipital)
headache. Both ears very hot. Weird feeling in head & neck. Had slight queasiness last night, and took a dose of Ars. Had also
taken a dose of Oscil. on day one of my son's illness. General yuckiness. What's the rubric for "general yuckiness"?

I'll keep you posted on how this thing develops, if I have the energy. None of the remedies which were mentioned as useful in a
previous poster's account seemed relevant to my son's symptoms or, so far, mine. So I don't think a "genus epidemicus" is
necessarily a good thing -- it may steer people to prescribe for the disease and not for the patient -- an easy trap to fall into, since that
is the dominant paradigm we all grew up with .

By the way, although the Oscil "dose" according to the package directions is a good teaspoon of the very tiny globules, I do not
understand why a few wouldn't be considered a dose...It's pretty expensive stuff to quaff by the spoonful.
Alia

[Julian Winston]

At 6:02 AM +0000 12/14/03, snoozybun wrote:

No idea. But the remedy is undoubtedly Yuckinum
Yup. Quaff by the spoonful and you have to buy more quickly!
I've always found that two or three granules do the job just fine--
if there is THAT job to be done.

JW

[Peggy Chipkin]

for general yuckiness you might try
GENERALITIES; WEAKNESS, enervation, exhaustion, prostration, infirmity;
and GENERALITIES; WEAKNESS, enervation, exhaustion, prostration, infirmity;
fever; during (K1417, SRII-715, G1168) (80)
Re the boy I would stay with the remedy that is working but would have
probably started with Bell (see GENERALITIES; UNCOVERING; agg. (K1410,
SRII-669, SRII-670, G1163) (100) ....
Bell is there)

[Rosemary C. Hyde, Ph.D.]

In Radar there's also :

GENERALS - SICK FEELING; vague
acon.;1;ptk1 acon-s.;1;a1 ant-t.;1;ptk1 bapt.;1;ptk1 beryl.;1;tpw5
carc.;1;mlr1 chel.;1;ptk1 cimic.;1;ptk1 cystein-l.;1;rly4 influ.;1;mp4
lach.;1;ptk1 lob.;1;ptk1 mand.;1;rsj7 narc-ps.;1;a1 narc-ps.;1;mp4
nux-v.;1;ptk1 petr.;1;ptk1 podo.;2;ptk1 psor.;1;ptk1 puls.;1;ptk1
sang.;1;ptk1 stront-c.;1;ptk1 tab.;1;ptk1 tarax.;1;ptk1

Rosemary

[Patti Mount]

Alia,

How is your son this morning after the dose of Ars?

I recently helped my neighbor with the dehydrated/weak/nauseated, nasal-congested-green-mucous but
dry-cough-from-post-nasal-drip &
excessive-whineyness-with-hold-me-but-my-skin-is-too-sensitive-so-leave-me-alone-please-keep-me-company with a
single dose of Puls 30C followed the next day because everything broke up and appetite/strength returned but
post-nasal drip increased with one dose of Ars 30C which cleared the case & mucous in 2 more days...

best Patti

took a dose of Ars. Had also
yuckiness"?

[snoozybun]

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "Patti Mount" wrote:
nasal-congested-green-mucous but
leave-me-alone-please-keep-me-company with a
broke up and appetite/strength returned but
the case & mucous in 2 more days...
Hi -- Well, you got it a little mixed up -- I took the Ars myself for
queasiness. The remedy which did the job for my son's fever and sore
throat was Baptisia. I am sure it was that, by the very obvious
improvement after olefaction and I gave him one more dose of it later
that day (Sat). Sunday he was eating and talking with continued
improvement and no fever or lethargy, and I have not given him
anything else. (Well, ok, I drugged him with "Bob the Builder"
and "Thomas the Tank Engine" videos to keep him in bed...)

Now he has a cough, coming from the chest (throat is all okay now, he
says)which does not bring up any phlegm, though I can hear his lungs
are a bit congested. The cough has no particular characteristics or
modalities, no sputa so I cannot use its characteristics for a next
prescription. His lower lip is cracked, for which I am trying to get
him to drink lots of water, and his tongue is white instead of his
usual pink. I would like to give him something to hasten the break
up of the phlegm in his lungs, to resolve this case, but I cannot
decide so I will just let the Baptisia continue to act. When I look
at the MM on Bapt, I now wonder why I gave it to him, but I must have
had enough of a sense of it to choose it...or maybe he is getting
well in spite of my doctoring! (Thank God!)

So far, I have not had any other incident of fever nor any other
symptoms. I had a sniff of Baptisia and allowed my husband to give
me a day off which I spent reading a good mystery.