Earaches of Kids
How long will the pain last?
To answer this question, I, Ellen Madono, will always ask three questions:
How many times have you have this earache?
Did you use medication? What kind? For how long?
And how long have you had this earache?
What happens next?
We work together filling out a questionnaire and you tell me about yourself. If you are bringing a child, then you tell me about yourself and your child.
I give you a remedy bag, sometimes if I am not sure, I give you two or three bags. If the ear is very painful, I will ask you to call me before bedtime. I want you (or your child) to be able to sleep so I talk to you on the phone to find out if I gave you a working remedy. If not, I choose one of the other remedy bags that I have given you.
Can I take the antibiotics that the doctor gave me?
I am not a medical authority and I will not oppose your choice to use medication. Homeopathic remedies can work through side effects of medication. The only problem is I will have trouble reading the signs that the medications are suppressing. That is, our bodies act in varying ways to stress such as the pain of an earache. I use those stress reactions to choose a curative remedy. In other words, if a strong medication is taken for several months, I will have trouble reading you bodies signs. Individuals vary in their resistance to drug suppression. So, not everyone will suppress problems in the same way.
When the remedy works, what should I expect?
Within a few hours of taking a working remedy, it should begin decreasing the pain.
Sometimes when I am interviewing parents, I find out that their child has behavioral problems (fighting, problems doing school work, disobedience, withdrawal and etc.). Even if the parents forget to tell me about the "terrible twos" or the "fearsome fives", with the right remedy, these problems also decrease. Over time, they disappear.
If parents tell me about these emotional improvements that occurred since taking the remedy, then I may ask them to continue treatment even after their earache is cured.
Another more shocking surprise is the rare earache that appears during treatment for other problems unrelated to the ear. The typical scenario of this reappearance of earaches is the adult patient remembers that as a small child, his/her earaches were suppressed. That is, the earache never healed but the pain went away. If the immune system is weakened by further medication, the right remedy will strengthen the immune system. In that case, the immune system will quickly heal an ear problem that was suppressed even in childhood. To heal a problem, the patient has to experience it. Usually, the experience is much milder than it was as a child, and it also heals very quickly. When this happens, contact me to discuss what should be done while avoiding disrupting your curative remedy.