Herbal Remedies - Help coxackie's disease in 2 1/2y.o.

March 31, 2004

In a message dated 3/30/2004 7:48:11 PM US Mountain Standard Time, irma16 writes:

Sorry!!! This is going to be a bit long but there are a couple of things going on and I need to explain the whole picture. Just wondering if anyone has any information for treatment of coxackie's disease. (hand,foot,mouth disease) I took my 2 1/2 y.o. daughter to the doctor (she had to be really bad for me to do this) as she has a combination of things going on. She has a very moist cough, her lungs sound clear (triggered from who knows what/she had whooping cough around Thanksgiving last year/probably a post nasal drip). She has yellow drainage from her eyes(her sister had pink eye last week for which we used MSM eye gtts. and has worked wonders for both of them; doctor agrees with me that it is pink eye and believe it or not agrees with the treatment as I told him that I prefer not to use antibiotics.) and finally she has these white patches in her mouth with a few blisters (which the doctor believes is coxackie's disease). It started with about 4 canker sores on her tongue. (She has also been stressed out due to a change in sleeping arrangements-she has slept with my husband and I for the past 2 1/2 years and we finally got her a bed of her own and she is just not too happy about sleeping in it without me/she still nurses at nap time and bed time/I've laid down with her until she falls asleep but she somehow knows I am not there in the middle of the night/this I know will take time) She does complain that they do hurt her. The past few days she has survived only on cheerios and diluted juices and water. Anything else seems to bother her alot. She does swish the MSM in her mouth and swallows it and does also take the superfood with the diluted juice once a day anyway. Is there anything else I can do for her as I know that the latter of the three runs a viral course of about 2 weeks? Thanks in advance!Blessings!Fern

Fern here is some info on it...

I would get her to dilute a bit of tooth & gum tincture and swish around in her mouth and get some all heal poultice on the external areas... You could also put castor oil on the external areas...Very healing.

Give her fresh made organic juices to help detox the virus and keep her strong.

God Bless,

Jamie in AZ

Infections

Coxsackie and Echovirus

Coxsackie and echoviruses belong to a class known as enteroviruses. Enteroviruses are transmitted orally (by ingestion of contaminated food) through what is known as the faeco-oral route. Enteroviruses are the most common cause of aseptic meningitis and nonspecific febrile illnesses of neonates. Certain clinical syndromes are more likely to be caused by certain serotypes, but there is much overlap.

Nonspecific Febrile Illness (Summer Grippe) The most common clinical manifestation of enterovirus infection is a nonspecific febrile illness.

Generalized Disease of the Newborn Neonates often present with an illness resembling bacterial sepsis, with fever, irritability, and lethargy.

Aseptic Meningitis and Encephalitis Enteroviruses are the cause of up to 90% of cases of aseptic meningitis in children and young adults in which an etiologic agent can be identified. Patients with aseptic meningitis typically present with an acute onset of fever, chills, headache, photophobia, and pain on eye movement. Nausea and vomiting are also common.

Pleurodynia (Bornholm Disease) Patients with pleurodynia present with an acute onset of fever and spasms of pleuritic chest or upper abdominal pain. Chest pain is more frequent in adults, and abdominal pain is more common in children.

Myocarditis and Pericarditis Enteroviruses are estimated to cause up to one-third of cases of acute myocarditis. Coxsackievirus B and its RNA have been detected in pericardial fluid and myocardial tissue in some cases of acute myocarditis and pericarditis. Most cases of enteroviral myocarditis or pericarditis occur in newborns, adolescents, or young adults.

Exanthems Enterovirus infection is the leading cause of exanthems in children in the summer and fall. While exanthems are associated with many enteroviruses, certain types have been linked to specific syndromes.

Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease Patients with hand-foot-and-mouth disease present with fever, anorexia, and malaise; these manifestations are followed by the development of sore throat and vesicles on the buccal mucosa and often on the tongue and then by the appearance of tender vesicular lesions on the dorsum of the hands, sometimes with involvement of the palms. The vesicles may form bullae (ballooning of the skin) and quickly ulcerate. About one-third of patients also have lesions on the palate, uvula, or tonsillar pillars, and one-third have a rash on the feet (including the soles) or on the buttocks. The disease is highly infectious.

Herpangina Herpangina is usually caused by coxsackievirus A and presents as acute-onset fever, sore throat, dysphagia, and grayish-white papulovesicular lesions on an erythematous base that ulcerate.

Acute Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis Patients with acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis present with an acute onset of severe eye pain, blurred vision, photophobia, and watery discharge from the eye.

March 31, 2004

I would use garlic cloves in udo or olive oil to rub on the bottoms of her feet... Do this several times a day to get the garlic up into her system.

Also I would be adding echinacea tincture to her juice... maybe even some total tonic if you can get her to take it with juice.... remember the 150 rule.irmadoodle <irma16 wrote:

Sorry!!! This is going to be a bit long but there are a couple of things going on and I need to explain the whole picture. Just wondering if anyone has any information for treatment of coxackie's disease. (hand,foot,mouth disease) I took my 2 1/2 y.o. daughter to the doctor (she had to be really bad for me to do this) as she has a combination of things going on. She has a very moist cough, her lungs sound clear (triggered from who knows what/she had whooping cough around Thanksgiving last year/probably a post nasal drip). She has yellow drainage from her eyes(her sister had pink eye last week for which we used MSM eye gtts. and has worked wonders for both of them; doctor agrees with me that it is pink eye and believe it or not agrees with the treatment as I told him that I prefer not to use antibiotics.) and finally she has these white

patches in her mouth with a few blisters (which the doctor believes is coxackie's disease). It started with about 4 canker sores on her tongue. (She has also been stressed out due to a change in sleeping arrangements-she has slept with my husband and I for the past 2 1/2 years and we finally got her a bed of her own and she is just not too happy about sleeping in it without me/she still nurses at nap time and bed time/I've laid down with her until she falls asleep but she somehow knows I am not there in the middle of the night/this I know will take time) She does complain that they do hurt her. The past few days she has survived only on cheerios and diluted juices and water. Anything else seems to bother her alot. She does swish the MSM in her mouth and swallows it and does also take the superfood with the diluted juice once a day anyway. Is there anything else I can do for her as I know that the latter of the three runs a

viral course of about 2 weeks? Thanks in advance!Blessings!Fern