Homeopathic Treatment for Summer Ailments for Children

What is Summer Ailments for Children?

As summer arrives, children are the most likely to be affected by the extreme change in weather and intolerable heat. Waterborne diseases like diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, and jaundice are prevalent everywhere. Several other problems like sunstrokes, boils, sun and heat allergies, and food and mosquito-borne diseases are also most rampant in children during summer.

The main reason for such diseases is exposure to extreme heat and high temperatures. Normally, the body cools itself through sweat evaporation, but in high humidity this mechanism is less effective — water vapour in the air prevents sweat from evaporating quickly, preventing the body from releasing inner heat rapidly.

This is especially true for children on summer vacation who are continuously involved in physical activity like playing, causing them to sweat more and lose fluids faster.

Symptoms

• Nausea and vomiting
• Headache and dizziness
• Fainting due to sunstroke
• Rashes and dryness of the skin
• High body temperature
• Nose bleeding
• Skin burn or tanning
• Poor appetite
• Passage of small stools and watery motions
• Fever with a hot head

Causes

• Moving out in heat without proper hydration, leading to sudden heat exposure and heatstroke
• Sudden increase in body heat due to high temperatures, giving rise to boils
• Bacteria flourishing in moist, warm environments — leading to high rates of food infections and food poisoning
• Poliovirus — a summer virus causing throat infection and slight fever in children

Homeopathic Treatment Approach

Homeopathic medicines act gently and ensure relief for children from all sorts of summer ailments. The chief remedies prescribed are: