Childhood Diarrhea - HomeoSource

Choose a remedy: Choose the most prominent childhood diarrhea symptoms. If symptoms change, take a remedy that matches your new symptoms.

Dosage: Give one 12X or 30C dose after each round of diarrhea. Doses automatically become less as diarrhea decreases.*

If no improvement after a few doses, try a different remedy that more closely matches symptoms

Notes:

Infants can easily become dehydrated. Seek professional help if your infant’s diarrhea continues and fluids are not tolerated for more than 12 hours. In an older child, seek help if diarrhea goes for longer than a week or if there is exhaustion and loss of skin tone/sunken eyes and urine output is diminished.
Seek help if there is diarrhea with abdominal pain that is getting worse or there is bloody stool.
If a self-selected remedy – however well indicated – doesn’t help and symptoms are more serious than you expect, you need to seek medical expertise. A doctor will provide a diagnosis and/or a professional homeopath can evaluate your symptoms in the context of your whole person.

Symptoms	Remedy
Diarrhea caused by exposure to cold wind View Remedy	Aconitum napellus
Anxious, restless Afraid to be alone Weak and tired Chilly Thirst, but only drinks small sips Diarrhea burns the skin/anus smells like rotten eggs Causes: virus food poisoning too much fruit Worse: around midnight – 2am when given cold foods/drinks View Remedy	Arsenicum album
Large gushes of painless diarrhea Stools are watery yellow, smelly may have undigested food May alternate with constipation Loud rumbling or gurgling in abdomen Does not act sick Thirsty for lots of cold water If an infant, passes stool after eating/drinking or during bathing More frequent in a.m. Causes: excitement teething eating too much fruit View Remedy	Podophyllum
Irritable – nothing pleases them rejects the toy they just asked for Better when carried Diarrhea is green, slimy and offensive may have white and yellow mucus looks like spinach and eggs rotten egg smell May also have colic draws legs up toward abdomen One cheek may be red and the other not Cause: teething View Remedy	Chamomilla
Offensive smelling and irritates skin smell like rotten eggs red ring around anus Worse: 5-6 am View Remedy	Sulphur
Lots of painless, oozing diarrhea Very thirsty for ice-cold water Increased sweating at night Weakness Water is vomited up as soon as it warms in the stomach Startles easily View Remedy	Phosphorus
Cause: eating sour fruit drinking cold drinks when overheated Worse: slightest movement View Remedy	Bryonia
Grass green stools in infants or greenish yellow putrid odor May have nausea and vomiting Pale face Cause: overloading the stomach View Remedy	Ipecacuanha
Burning pain with stools in infants Bloody stools Green, slimy, smelly, yellow stools Sweating before and after a stool Loudly passes gas Weakness Worse: cold evening night after a stool View Remedy	Mercurius solubilis
Stools are changeable Greenish-yellow, slimy, watery Whiney, sympathetic, crave comforting Better: fresh air Worse: warmth night View Remedy	Pulsatilla
Diarrhea with colic Diarrhea follows smallest amount of food View Remedy	Colocynthis
Diarrhea due to overfeeding May strain without result May pass only small amounts at a time View Remedy	Nux vomica
Milk allergy Worse: milk teething hot weather View Remedy	Aethusa

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