Nursing Issues - HomeoSource

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

Dosage: Unless otherwise recommended below: 3 doses of 30X, 6C, 12C, 30C over 24 hours; or see the Dosage Chart

If relief is given but not completely, spread out doses for up to several more days.
Stop when very much improved.
If no improvement after twelve hours/overnight, try a different remedy.

Note:

The mother can take a remedy recommended for the nursing infant – it will pass to the baby.
See your provider if problems persists, or if you have a fever.
Nothing in this list is a substitute for regular visits or a call to your provider if you are worried.
If a self-selected remedy – however well indicated – doesn’t help, you need to seek medical expertise. Your provider will diagnose you and/or a professional homeopath can evaluate your symptoms in the context of your whole person.

Symptoms	Remedy
Infant can’t nurse due to damage to facial nerve Exhaustion View Remedy	Arnica montana Given to mother and infant (dissolved in water and rubbed into baby’s skin)
Pain from engorged breasts In mother who is not breast feeding Stony hard Hot and painful breasts View Remedy	Bryonia 9C -plus- Apis Mellifica 9C
Suspected Mastitis View Remedy	See Mastitis section
Sudden excess milk production Mother is young, healthy View Remedy	Aconitum napellus 30C Four times/day for up to 3 days
Engorged breasts Nipple pain shoots to uterus Weepy and timid crying helps Emotionally fragile/mild mannered Changeable moods Uterus stays large Thirstless Worse: hot, stuffy rooms Better: open air consolation View Remedy	Pulsatilla 30C 4 times/day until engorgement passes
Engorged breasts Poor quality milk Baby may dislike mother’s milk Very sensitive to cold Cold sweats Tendency to overweight View Remedy	Calcarea carbonica 30C Every 4 hours until engorgement passes
Milk production stops or slows first remedy to try View Remedy	Agnus castus 6C 4 times/day up to 3 days
Milk production stops or slows after exposure to cold Breasts swollen, sore and sensitive Agnus castus did not help View Remedy	Dulcamara 6C 4 times/day up to 3 days
Milk production stops or slows If Agnus castus and Dulcamara don’t help View Remedy	Choose the best fitting remedy below: 6C four times/day up to 3 days Pulsatilla Ignatia – due to grief Chamomilla – due to anger Aconitum napellus – after severe fright Hyoscamus – due to jealousy Coffea – after extreme joy
Exhaustion from breast feeding due to loss of fluids View Remedy	China (Cinchona)
Nipple pain latching on Breasts full and hot Mother may be chilly or have fever Mother may be nauseous Mother may have flatulence Worse: smells motion View Remedy	Colchicum
Stitching/aching breast pain Pain opposite breast when nursing Scanty flow of milk Better: compression View Remedy	Borax
Nipple pain splinterlike pain Sensitive to both heat and cold May be bleeding from nipple View Remedy	Hepar Sulph
Nipple pain Sore, chapped nipples Deep fissures at the base Bleeding nipples Pain burns like fire View Remedy	Sulphur but, if no relief, try: Calcarea Carbonica
Sudden fever Red, hot, swollen breast But, milk dries up View Remedy	Belladonna
Breasts full, stony hard and painful Nipple pain shoots to all over body Cracked nipples Sore nipples May have desire to clench teeth View Remedy	Phytolacca
Nipples sensitive, sore, cracked View Remedy	Graphites
Painful nursing Pain goes from nipple to uterus Callused, cracked, swollen nipples Bleeding nipples Baby may refuse to nurse baby has sweaty head or feet baby thin with large head Blood may seep from vagina when baby nurses Mother is chilly and exhausted Inverted nipple These women tend to be thin Better: Warmth View Remedy	Silica
Nipple pain Shoots towards the back View Remedy	Croton Tiglium
Vomiting of milk assumes baby has been burped well Weakness, distressed Projectile vomiting with sweating and weakness Diarrhea is yellow, green, slimy View Remedy	Aethusa mother can take the remedy it passes to infant

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