INFANTS EMERGENCY CASES

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Its chief characteristic is that the vesicles contain a honey-like sticky matter forming crusty scales when they are broken. Its eruptions are of phlegmonous type spreading erysipelas, shifting from place to place in an irregular course. Considerable prostration of strength; anguish cry and restlessness manifesting the burning pain that the child is suffering from are some of its close associates. Dr. Jahr advises to depend on Bryonia and Cuprum-met. when the eruptions disappear suddenly or are suppressed from some local applications.

SPECIAL FEATURES:.

Rhus-tox is the chief remedy for vesicular erysipelas and next is Apis, while in some cases Graphites too may be required. Other possible remedies are Euphorb., Bell., Lach.

Erysipelas appearing first on the right side and thence spreading towards the left: Apis and Graph. And extending from left to right Rhus-t. is the first medicine and Lach. next.

Erysipelas in association with jaundice; Merc-s., and Hep-s.

REMEMBER: Belladonna has a bright red swelling; Apis, pale red or pinkish; Rhus-t., dark-red; and Lach. bluish or purplish red.

Belladonna is the first medicine to begin with and in cases where it fails Rhus-t. has a greater chance to bring success than Apis, while Graph. has to be tried only when all the three prove ineffective.

TETANUS NEONATORUM.

This condition has been given third place in our discussion not because it is less dangerous than the preceding too. On the contrary it is a more dangerous disease often proving fatal within the first two or three days; only in rare cases it prolongs for a longer time rendering a cure possible. We have given it the third place and only a casual deal firstly because new-born babies are less liable to this infection than elderly ones and secondly because its symptoms and treatment are the same as for the grown-ups.

Tetanus is more commonly known as “Lockjaw” as the early manifestations of the disease are stiffness of the throat-muscles and difficulty in swallowing, followed by the lower jaw becoming tightly fixed (trismus) and soon the spasm involves the rest of the face, the neck, the trunk and the limbs; which also become fixed likewise (tonic spasm). When the head is drawn back it is called ophisthotonos condition. The spasm may, however, relax temporarily from time to time to be renewed readily from a noise or bright light. The cause of the disease is said to be an infection with drum-stick (tetanus) bacillus through some wound.

Here are some of the possible remedies for this conditions:– Acon., Arn., Bell., Camph., Lyco., Merc., Nux-v., Stram.

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