Managing fever/illness in a toddler

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Hi all,

This is a question about my own family... My toddler (2 years old) does

high fevers - whenever she gets sick, we never seem to get away with

less than 39C... At the moment, she's had a vomiting thing with

conjunctivitis, cough, cold and fever. I think the vomiting has more or

less abated, but she's not eaten really anything since saturday

morning. She's surviving on sups of apple juice (with echinacea in it)

and water. I try to avoid calpol as much as possible but last night she

really did look like an extra from Night of the Living Dead and her temp

was up to 40 so we calpoled her. Temp this morning was down to 37.5 and

stayed that way till this afternoon when it started to rise slowly to

38.5 by about 5pm. Then started to go up more rapidly and reached 40.1

by about 7.30pm. At this point, she was again looking like death

warmed up and we calpoled her and put her to bed.

What does anyone else do in this situation? Do you use other herbs? Do

other people use calpol or avoid it like the plague?? This wee one, I

have to say, is a nightmare to get herbs into. I can disguise echinacea

in apple juice but most other things won't be taken at all. She will

take homeopathic pills (nice sugary things!) and has taken belladonna

for fever but it just doesn't seem to have enough effect.

Any thoughts?

Oh and, while I'm at it, I'm worried that the younger one (8 mos old and

mostly breastfed) is going to get the same thing - do you get enough

effect from herbs if given through mums milk??

Thanks all!

Schia

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Schia MNIMH MIMHO

Medical Herbalist

Cambridge

www.cambridgeherbalist.org.uk