Stories from our community: One Friday afternoon when I was picking my 16 month old son up from daycare, my daycare provider notified me that a little girl at the daycare had developed Hand, Foot, and Mouth (HFM) disease that week and to be on the lookout for HFM symptoms in my son (as you parents might know, its incredibly contagious). A quick search online told me to watch for fever, red spots on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, and red spots around his mouth. Within 24 hours of that warning I saw the spots starting to appear and he started to develop a fever. At first I thought I would just let the course of the illness ride itself out (my Googling had told me that it usually resolved on its own in about a week), but after a few days with no break in the fever I decided I wanted to try an intervention. I turned back to my friend Google to find out which homeopathic remedies I should try for HFM – and there was surprisingly little information on remedies for that particular illness online. But I found one article buried on a website that listed 2 remedies as helpful for HFM. After reading their descriptions I decided to give him Antimonium tart, which I did right before he went to bed, still very feverish. But the next morning, when I went to get him from his crib, he sat up smiling, his rash was already starting to fade and his fever was completely gone, never to return. -Audrey T., Washington, DC Submit your own story at: bit.ly/1iyQ6uD
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:05:00 +0000
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