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Homeopathy & kids

I'd try it out for myself if I were you - maybe it's vodka instead of water. :) Didn't people used to use whisky for teething babies? Not that I'm advocating it.
 
At least one of the homeopathic remedies on the market is made with sugar water rather than plain water. I'd think that the reason that one 'works' is that the baby gets a mouthful of sweetness and is so startled/pleased that they stop crying for a while.
 
I am not sure why but it is not the memory water. Here are some possibilities:
1) they don't work but it is just a coincidence that the signs go away
2) You believe that it works so you interpret the signs your baby has as it is working.
3) You change the way you treat your baby when it cries and your baby responds to this different behavior while the treatment is just a placebo
4) a combination of the above
 
Dogdoctor said:
I am not sure why but it is not the memory water. Here are some possibilities:
1) they don't work but it is just a coincidence that the signs go away
2) You believe that it works so you interpret the signs your baby has as it is working.
3) You change the way you treat your baby when it cries and your baby responds to this different behavior while the treatment is just a placebo
4) a combination of the above
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Judging from what he's said, 2 is out of the question. There's not much interpretation between "screaming" and "not screaming"

I really think they should try normal water.
 
The remedy you purchased had homeopathic medicines upto 6x . The medicine also contain calcera phos which allopath also prescribe. They are denying allopathic system as well.
 
We too tried a homeopathic remedy for teething for our first child a couple of years ago - the granules - and also found that they appeared to work at stopping the crying, and I've also heard plenty of anecdotal evidence to this affect from other parents.

At the time I was skeptical of Homeopathy but knew very little about it or how it was supposed to work - I just viewed it as a safe, "natural" remedy which may or may not work to some extent.

I now know much more about it and I agree with other posters that it isn't the fact that it's homeopathic that's making it work. Thinking about it now, I suspect that it is the distraction of having the sweet granules (liquid in your case) administered that has the affect. (It would be interesting to try the liquid yourself and see what it tastes like).

Also, they didn't ALWAYS work. However because they were homeopathic I think our expectation of their effectiveness was low to start with - therefore any success tended to get really noticed ("Wow, it really works!!") and any time they don't work is overlooked or forgiven as they are "only" homeopathic anyway (I'm not saying this is the same in your case but I'm sure it was with us at the time).

If you think about it this is the exact opposite of most peoples approach to real medicine (Calpol for exmple) - i.e. you really notice if it doesn't work (and are a bit put out) but just accept the successes because that was already expected. So the homeopathy has an in built advantage in this respect!

We now have our second baby who is 2 and a half months old so (unfortunately!) I may have the chance to try out the theory when he starts to teeth!
 
Take the opportunity to make a referenced test. Blinding it is troublesome, but find some other kind of sweets, and use them every other time. Write down the results. Be as objective as you can.

Hans
 
I wonder why MAS is bumping all these old threads. Is he aiming to have every thread on the front page about homoeopathy?
 
I understand that a homeopathy product is supposed to initially make the symptoms worse then cure later, rather than provide an instant cure.

When our kids had colic we would try anything and when we found something that worked we stuck at it claiming we had the secret sussed until it stopped but we soon found the real cure until it stopped and I guess you get the picture.

When you are tired is it hard not to confuse causation and correlation.

It could have been be the sight of the dropper, the coolness of the liquid, it may even have been substance that was once in some water but has probably been diluted out, although this is by a long, long way the least likely explanation.
 
Oleron said:
I share your pain on this one Thanz! My daughter is now 18 months old and is just getting her back molars now. Those who haven't been through this kind of thing with children will never understand.

It's our first child and the one thing I've learned is that babies go through 'phases'. For the first 6 months of my daughter's life she suffered from colic and didn't sleep for longer than 30 mins, day or night. We tried every remedy under the sun and nothing worked. Then one night we tried a baby antacid product and she slept for 8 hours straight! Ever since then she has slept soundly every night.

We withdrew the antacid product about a week later, mainly because we didn't want her to take it for an extended period. No change - she kept on sleeping well.

Was it the antacid that did the trick? Who knows, we were just so happy to be able to sleep for the first time in months that we didn't care. I think that it was probably just coincidental - the end of one phase and the beginning of another.

When you are a parent, even a skeptical one, objectivity goes out the window.
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Geez - get out of my house Oleron! I have an 18 month old daughter as well, and you just described exactly what happened to us. I couldn't agree with your last statement more - which makes me even angrier when I see charlatans bilking the desperate.
 
Just had to bump this up - my daughter is teething, poor thing, and while googling I stumbled on amber necklaces for teething.

Not for the baby to chew on, as I first thought, but for the amazing mystical powers of amber next to the skin! Including the ever popular 'neutralizing acid'.

I think we'll stick to the mystical powers of Baby Tylenol.
 
Stick to "Sophie"

"Sophie the giraffe", totally in gummy, can be given from a very young age (well check anyway can't remmmeber well). It always worked wonder to my nephew and nieces...
 
Thanz said:
My 7 month old baby is teething. As all parents know, this is not a happy time in a baby's life. Much pain and screaming. On the advice of a fellow mom, my wife purchased a homepathic remedy for teething pain. I have tried to point out that this "remedy" is actually water as the supposedly active ingredients have been diluted to almost non-existence. But here is the problem: it seems that it actually works.

Yes, that's right, it works. Screaming baby. Administer homeopathic remedy. Happy baby.

My question to you all: why wouls this be so? Why would there be a "placebo" effect in a 7 month old? Please do not try to tell me that studies have shown homepathy to be bunk, etc - I know all that. What I am interested in is any possible explanation for this working. I can't think of a more honest test subject than a teething baby.
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What is the solvent? If it's ethanol, I think I have an explanation.
 
Mr. MAS

Dr. MAS said:
The remedy you purchased had homeopathic medicines upto 6x . The medicine also contain calcera phos which allopath also prescribe. They are denying allopathic system as well.
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Who gives a freak about Allopathy? Allopathy died at the same time as Hanneman did.

What REAL M.D's use is REAL Medicine, you know the kind that actually work.
 
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