suddenly sick 2yo far from home, please help

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Sorry for the cross-post, and I really mean that. I don't know what else to do,

and I try to follow list rules, but I'm feeling kind of desperate right now...I

will try to be complete here, but I need to be quick as well. Please, if

acceptable, could you send emails to me directly, in addition to (or instead of)

onlist? I am not home and had to set myself to nomail on most lists, and I do

not want to miss anything. With the 24.6Kbps dialup I'm using, it is difficult

to check at .

Aidan is 27mo. He started developing a fever last night.

102.1F @ 11:40pm

102.9 @ 12:40am

103.6 @ 1:20am

104.9 @ 1:50am

At this point, he woke up shaking as if shivering, and crying, obviously

uncomfortable. His heart was pounding rapidly, but I did not count the beats.

The heartbeat especially alarmed us, and we gave him a full dose (two droppers)

of infant Tylenol even though I was originally going to do only half. I didn't

WANT to do it at all.

We were up for a while, short bath, eating ice chips, nursing on the couch, and

he fell back to sleep so we went back to bed around 2:45am.

He woke this morning at around 7:26am, fever back up to 104.8, shaking and

crying, but amazingly agreeable to everything we were trying to do for him. We

gave a half dose of Tylenol. I HATE doing that. I don't know what else to do.

The fever was so high, and he was so uncomfortable.

I know the Tylenol is bad, it's fighting his immune system, please, I need an

alternative. To make all matters worse, we are 315 miles from home, so I am not

near my chiro or my big jar of vitamin C powder. I will bring some of that on

our next trip! (The powder, not the chiro.) I don't even know our

pediatrician's phone number, but I can call my mom and have her look it up.

Aidan's just always been so healthy. And it's New Year's Day, so the chiro is

probably not at the office, but I can call and see if there's an emergency

number.

A close family friend near here is a ped, and we will probably be calling him

after 9am -- just don't want to call too early, and Aidan seems comfortable now.

But I know nothing about his practices. He may just say to give Tylenol every

four hours, and that won't help me.

Other symptoms include a runny nose and the shaking when the fever is high. No

vomiting. We haven't tried food other than breastmilk, and I don't even know

what to offer. Maybe Cheerios.

It probably doesn't make a difference, but I'll mention this anyway. He hit his

head last night at 10pm, right at the base of the skull. He cried and nursed

and started falling asleep, which made me nervous right after hitting his head,

but he WAS quite tired. An almost-finished-with-school medical student who was

there checked his eyes and said there was no concussion. I talked to her later

and she said that the head hit probably had nothing to do with the fever, but

the fever could have caused all the lethargy. He was unusually lethargic,

probably because he was getting sick.

Another thing, he's been chewing on his fingers for weeks, and we may be soon

seeing those last four molars. His first molars were rough, but they did NOT

cause fevers of nearly 105.

We are in the Rochester, NY area with dh's parents, who believe in giving lots

of Tylenol. (help!) I really want to post my cell phone number, but I won't,

but I can certainly telephone anyone who replies who thinks they can help us.

Please reply to me directly. I will try to check at YG as well, but it is very

slow. I'm now off to try to look at the files sections and websites of some of

these lists.

It is now 8:19am, and Aidan is contentedly playing with Daddy out in the living

room. No sign of wanting to go back to sleep.

Happy New Year.

dh

ds Aidan, 27mo

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I'll send to your email the Remedies that are helpful in fever since you

don't have much else to go on

One of those should match - hopefully you can get some on NY Day.

I encourage all to travel with Castro's homeopathy book, homeopathy kit and

Vitamin C (Sodium Ascorbate form)

Sheri

t 01:20 PM 01/01/2004 GMT, you wrote:

>

>Sorry for the cross-post, and I really mean that. I don't know what else

to do, and I try to follow list rules, but I'm feeling kind of desperate

right now...I will try to be complete here, but I need to be quick as well.

Please, if acceptable, could you send emails to me directly, in addition

to (or instead of) onlist? I am not home and had to set myself to nomail

on most lists, and I do not want to miss anything. With the 24.6Kbps

dialup I'm using, it is difficult to check at .

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Where can I get the book and the kit? I " m back to working (yes, back to

nursing, which I hate, but we need a decent income and I " m the one with

skills til hubby gets out of school) and can now afford the kit.

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-- Re: suddenly sick 2yo far from home, please help

I'll send to your email the Remedies that are helpful in fever since you

don't have much else to go on

One of those should match - hopefully you can get some on NY Day.

I encourage all to travel with Castro's homeopathy book, homeopathy kit and

Vitamin C (Sodium Ascorbate form)

Sheri

t 01:20 PM 01/01/2004 GMT, you wrote:

>

>Sorry for the cross-post, and I really mean that. I don't know what else

to do, and I try to follow list rules, but I'm feeling kind of desperate

right now...I will try to be complete here, but I need to be quick as well.

Please, if acceptable, could you send emails to me directly, in addition

to (or instead of) onlist? I am not home and had to set myself to nomail

on most lists, and I do not want to miss anything. With the 24.6Kbps

dialup I'm using, it is difficult to check at .

--------------------------------------------------------

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Classical Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

$$ Donations to help in the work - accepted by Paypal account

vaccineinfo@... voicemail US 530-740-0561

(go to http://www.paypal.com) or by mail

Vaccines - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm

Homeopathy On-Line course - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm

ANY INFO OBTAINED HERE NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS MEDICAL

OR LEGAL ADVICE. THE

DECISION TO VACCINATE IS YOURS AND YOURS ALONE.

******

" Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down.

Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy

knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information

and religions destroy spirituality " .... Ellner