In this podcast, we cover:

0:56 Acute versus chronic condition

7:02 Otoscope for diagnosing ear infections

12:20 Examples of chronic conditions

20:30 The use of remedies after antibiotics

25:55 Protocol for all

Can you treat only acute illnesses or are families able to root out chronic problems too?

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You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.com where nationally certified American homeopath, public speaker, and author, Joette Calabrese, shares her passion for helping families stay healthy through homeopathy and nutrient-dense nutrition.

 

Jendy: Hello! This is Jendy and I’m here again with Joette Calabrese. This week, we are going to talk about the difference between treating chronic conditions and acute illness with homeopathy. Of course, I’m going to get another homeo tip from her that I can use right away and other moms can as well. So stay and listen to the whole interview with us. Hello, Joette! How are you?

 

Joette: Hi! I’m well, Jendy. Nice to talk to you again.

 

Jendy: First of all, let’s start off. Can you tell us the difference between acute illness and chronic conditions?

 

Acute versus chronic condition

 

Joette: Yes, an acute illness is something that has a natural beginning and a natural end. It actually finishes.  So a fever would be an acute illness. A fever when a child shows vitality in an illness which we actually call that vitality, a fever presents. The fever gets good and high. I will also say that good is good. It’s important in fevers. We do want a nice show of vitality through a good high fever. Then if you just left it alone and did nothing but just kept your child hydrated, and warm, and clean, etcetera, the fever would just go away. It would take maybe four or five days, maybe 10 days but it would just finish. That describes an acute condition in which it ends on its own.

 

Now let’s say the child gets an ear infection and this is the same thing. An ear infection is an infection. It comes. If you did nothing as they often do in Europe, pediatricians don’t treat ear infections. They just left them be. Give something for the pain. That’s about it. They don’t give antibiotics generally. But in any way, you would just let that ear infection come to fruition and make the child comfortable. Make sure she’s hydrated, et cetera and watch the ear infection go away.

 

However in this country, the US, we often see where the pediatricians can’t keep their hands off those kids with their infection so they give them antibiotics. What that does is it forces the ear infection to be suppressed. So it kills the antibiotics but it hasn’t gone to the essence of the propensity for it to occur in the first place. So we give the child an antibiotic and it looks like okay it’s done. But then more often than not, I don’t know the statistics. I used to know them but I don’t remember them now. Very frequently, the child gets a second ear infection. It appears as though it’s isolated. But it isn’t. It’s really the same ear infection that’s just come back again because it was ill-treated. Only the bugs were killed. We didn’t get to the illness or the aspect of getting these kinds of illnesses. We didn’t root out the problem. So the child’s given antibiotics again and again.

 

It looks as though we’ve resolved the condition. Everybody happily goes on except now, six months’ later another ear infection. So now what we’ve got here is chronic otitis media. We’ve got an ear infection that keeps coming back.