Homeopathic Medicine & Treatment for Scarlet Fever

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Scarlet FeverA highly infectious bacterial streptococcal

infection which causes a very sore throat together with a light pink or

red rash of fine raised spots. It most commonly affects children but can

occur in any age group. It is a notifiable disease in the UK (i.e. you

should report it to your doctor). A mild dose of scarlet fever is called

SCARLATINA.

Symptoms

A very sore throat. Young children may also complain of tummy ache,

as the lymph glands swell in the abdomen. This is a normal response when

the body's immune system is fighting an infection. Raised temperature. Your child will probably not feel like eating. Rash feels like scratchy sandpaper. Headache; sometimes with vomiting. A bright red (scarlet) rash appears in the groin and behind the

knees; then spreads to trunk and extremities. It can look like sunburn. Swollen red " strawberry " tongue. Cheeks are flushed (scarlet red). The incubation period is 2-4 days. After about 7 days, the skin peels or flakes.

Complications

Complications are uncommon but may include tonsillitis or throat

abcess; rheumatic fever or kidney damage due to immune reactions in the

heart, joints and kidneys following infection with streptococcus

bacteria. Conventional treatment prescribes penicillin for 10 days; however,

the illness can also be treated with homeopathic remedies. Always seek

professional homeopathic advice if you are unsure or wish to avoid

antibiotics. A throat swab is needed to confirm diagnosis.

General advice: gargle with HyperCal® tincture (3-4

drops in warm water); take extra vitamin C to boost immune system; take

warm drinks - lemon and honey may help. Also helpful are bee propolis,

echinacea and zinc. Lower the temperature by removing clothes and

sponging the body with tepid water. Ensure your child has enough to

drink. Don't worry about giving food during the acute stage.

Homeopathic Medicine & Treatment for Scarlet Fever

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#Belladonna. [bell]

this remedy corresponds to the asthenic type, with a bright red

rosy hue to the skin,a bright red throat, pain in the epigastrium, the

strawberry tongue and the glandular swellings. Thus it is seem that it

corresponds to the smooth bright red,Sydenham variety of scarlet fever.

It has no correspondence with a miliary rash or with malignant symptoms.

There are usually present in a well-marked Belladonna case symptoms of

cerebral irritation, such as delirium, twitching of muscles, uneasy

sleep. Mercurius will be indicate in certain epidemics by its

characteristic throat symptoms, but Belladonna is more often called for.

Aconite may be needed at the onset if its symptoms be present, though

this remedy usually finds no place in the treatment of conditions due to

a poisoned state of the blood. Hahnemann's discovery that Belladonna is a

prophylactic in scarlet fever has been abundantly verified in practice.

Sulphur is also a most useful remedy to use in scarlet fever, but its

especial field is for the sequelae bursting forth upon a scrofulous

diathesis.

#Gelsemium. [Gels]

Here the patients are quiet and listless; they are prostrated and

stupid; the pulse is throbbing but compressible, and at the onset of the

disease it suits cases where neither Aconite nor Belladonna re indicated.

The asthenic form, with great prostration is more often met with in

poorly nourished children, and here Gelsemium is often the remedy. If the

case develops any special malignancy of symptoms other remedies will be

needed.

#Bryonia. [bry]

Bryonia is a remedy often of great value. When we recall its

headache, white then brownish tongue, the characteristic thirst, the

sharp pains in the tardy development of the rashes, occurring perhaps sin

blotches and resembling that of measles, or a disappearing rash with

possibly delirium on waking, Bryonia will do good service.

#Ailanthus. [Ail]

This is a most potent antidote to malignant scarlet fever and

suits especially severe cases. The patient lies in a stupor, the rash is

imperfect, dark and purplish;swollen, livid throat and infiltration of

the cellular tissue about the neck; excoriating nasal discharge,

drowsiness and prostration, violent vomiting, severe headache and

dizziness, small quick pulse, the stools thin, bloody and offensives and

there is much foetor to all the discharges. It will save life oftentimes

in the most desperate cases. Arum triphyllum has excoriating discharges

from the nose,swollen tongue, sore throat; the child is restless and

irritable, he tosses about. The extreme soreness of the throat is

characteristic of Arum ;the lips and nose are irritated and the child

picks at them until they bleed.

#Rhus toxicodendron. [Rhus-t]

A most useful remedy in adynamic forms of scarlet fever. Here the

child is restless, drowsy, has a red and smooth tongue, oedematous

fauces, the parotids are especially apt to swell or suppurate, the

eruption does not come out well, and when it does come out is is miliary.

The great depression, weakness and bodily restlessness and the

supervening of rheumatic symptoms late in the disease will serve to

indicate Rhus. Apis mellifica must be carefully distinguished from Rhus.

This remedy has high fever, restlessness and nervous agitation; the mouth

and throat are red and the tongue blistered; there is early prostration

and scanty urine, drowsiness, miliary rash. It is a remedy ;only

occasionally useful in scarlet fever; it stands midway between Belladonna

and Rhus toxicodendron; there will generally be present an oedematous

condition of the skin and throat, and the skin will prick and sting. It

come in well, however, in albuminuria following scarlet fever.

#Lachesis. [Lach]

This remedy suits forms of the disease having a malignant

tendency; the child is drowsy and the rash comes out imperfectly and

slowly, is dark interspersed with a miliary rash; the throat is inflamed,

the cervical glands are swollen, the tongue is dirty yellow. It suits

cases core adynamic than those calling for Rhus. Hydrocyanic acid is also

sometimes indicated in scarlet fever o;f a malignant type, and Muriatic

acid suits malignant cases oftentimes better than either Rhus or

Lachesis. With this acid the rash comes out sparingly and is interspersed

with petechiae or bluish spots; the child is restless, throws off the

bedclothes; the skin takes on a purple hue and there is great weakness

and prostration, delirium, a rapid intermitting pulse, foul breath, acrid

nasal discharge and sore, bleeding ulcerations in the mouth. Under

Arsenicum the rash comes out imperfectly; the child is thrown into

convulsions and then relapses into a stupor.

#Ammonium carbonicum. [Am-c]

This is also a useful remedy in scarlet fever. The throat is

swollen internally and externally,the glands are enlarged, the tonsils

are swollen and bluish and the child is drowsy. The drowsiness, miliary

eruption and dark throat will distinguish from Belladonna.

#Zincum. [Zinc]

Zincum will be needed in certain enervated children who become

restless and delirious, or else are quit and unconscious and very weak,

too weak in fat to develop an eruption, and as a result of this

non-development of the eruption brain symptoms, such as meningitis with

sharp pains through the head, supervene. In these cases it will often

bring out the eruption and safe the child. Cuprum may be needed in

troubles from a suppressed rash and Calcarea carbonica must be thought of

for scrofulous children with an undeveloped or receding rash. Kali

sulphuricum is a remedy for the stage of desquamation.