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Growth Disorders

If your child’s height or weight lies outside the acceptable range for his or her age, consult your medical doctor. Transient fluctuations in height and weight are common, since growth tends to take place in little spurts. Some weight loss after illness is also quite usual. Weighing your child once a month or once every 2 months should enable you to keep tabs on his or her development.

The causes of abnormal growth range from the hormonal to the congenital. Excessive growth may be diagnosed as Obesity or gigantism, stunted growth as dwarfism, hypothyroidism, (see Thyroid Problems), cystic fibrosis, coeliac disease, Still's Disease, Thalassaemia, sickle cell Anaemia, or a congenital heart defect (congenital disorders). Conventional treatment is by surgery, hormones, or anti-hormone drugs. Homeopathic treatment is constitutional, although the remedies listed below may produce some improvement.

Specific remedies to be given every 12 hours for up to 10 days, then keep child under observation for 1 month; if no improvement, consult your medical doctor

  • Child stunted, suffers from chronic catarrh, improves markedly at seaside Medorrhinum 30c
  • Immaturity associated with constant tonsillitis, swollen neck glands, and emotional insecurity Baryta 30c
  • Child flabby and overweight, prone to sour-smelling head sweats, late in walking, fontanelle late in closing Calcarea 30c
  • Child thin, with a large head, sweaty head and feet, sweat very pungent Silicea 30c

Self-help: Extra zinc may produce some improvement.

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Ailment & Diseases

  Anaemia
  Obesity
  Still`s Disease
  Thyroid Problems
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Remedies

  Baryta carb.
  Calcarea
  Medorrhinum
  Silicea
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Nutrition

  Zinc
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Organisations


Related to Child Ailments & Diseases
  Children's Hearing Assessment Centre (CHAC)
  National Asthma Campaign
  National Autistic Society, The
  National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society
  Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust
  Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (ASBAH)
  International Autistic Research Organisation, The
  Association of Child Psychotherapists
  Down's Syndrome Association
  Hyperactive Children's Support Group
  National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
  National Deaf Children's Society
  Association of Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children


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