Natural remedies for Winter illnesses


NATURAL REMEDIES FOR WINTER ILLNESSES

As the parents of toddlers, autumn and winter has always posed rather a challenge when it comes to keeping the kids healthy. As the summer holidays come to an end and just as they are getting back into the flow of it all, the first of a seemingly endless series of colds and other illnesses starts. Those once happy little cherubs morph into needy, miserable wretches with snot streaming down their noses stuck at home boring themselves silly and driving us, their usually loving doting parents to drink and distraction.


In an effort to steer clear of the pharmacy as much as possible we started to look for safe natural remedies. Below is a compendium of those that we have found to have worked best for us in the past as well as how or where to obtain them.

Whilst these have worked for our kids they may not be suitable for your children so please use your common sense or talk to a doctor before choosing to try them.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Earache

Earaches can be very painful and usually happens at the worst time of the night, therefor a having a quick easy and natural ear pain relief can really save you.

  1. Chop an onion into small pieces and stuff them into a thin children cotton sock or something similar.
  2. Warm it up either with a blow dryer or boil some water in a pot with a lid and put the sock with onion on lid until onion feel a bit soft.
  3. Let the onion bag cool down to body temperature.
  4. Place the warm onion bag on the painful ear and keep it in place with a cotton/woolen scarf or hat.
  5. Leave the bag for 15 to 30 minutes depending sensitivity and use it 2-3 times a day (always chop a new, fresh onion.
Relief should happen fast, within the first 10 minutes.
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