HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR MEASLES

Measles is a childhood infection caused by a virus. Once quite common, measles can now almost always be prevented with a vaccine. Signs and symptoms of measles include cough, runny nose, inflamed eyes, sore throat, fever and a red, blotchy skin rash.

Also called rubeola, measles can be serious and even fatal for small children. While death rates have been falling worldwide as more children receive the measles vaccine, the disease still kills more than 100,000 people a year, most under the age of 5.

Cause-The cause of measles is a virus that replicates in the nose and throat of an infected child or adult.

When someone with measles coughs, sneezes or talks, infected droplets spray into the air, where other people can inhale them. The infected droplets may also land on a surface, where they remain active and contagious for several hours.

You can contract the virus by putting your fingers in your mouth or nose or rubbing your eyes after touching the infected surface

Symptoms-Measles signs and symptoms appear 10 to 14 days after exposure to the virus. Signs and symptoms of measles typically include:--Fever, Dry cough, Runny nose, Sore throat, Inflamed eyes (conjunctivitis), Tiny white spots with bluish-white centers on a red background found inside the mouth on the inner lining of the cheek — also called Koplik's spots, A skin rash made up of large, flat blotches that often flow into one another

HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES

MORBILLINUM 200- Start treatment with this remedy

ACONITUM NAPELLUS 30- In the beginning on appearance of catarrhal symptoms. The patient demands water at night. Chilly and restless

BELLADONNA 30- After Aconite this remedy should be given.There is sore throat , headache, cough and swollen face

BRYONIA ALB 2X- It isan excellent remedy for measles . It aborts the diseases and definitely cut short its course. It prevents lung complication , which isa common complication

CAMPHORA 1X- If the eruption do not appear or are deficient in appearance this medicine should be given

CUPRUM ACETICUM 30- When there are convulsions during the disease

HYDRASTIS CAN 30- For weakness remaining after measles

KALI BICHROMICUM 30- Measles complicated with respiratory troubles. The throat is swollen with pain from throat to earsThere may be catarrhal deafness

NATRUM MURIATICUM 30- Blisters remaining in the mouth after measles are cured

PULSATILLA NIG 30- It is useful in early stages of the diseases with coryza and profuse lachrymation

MERC SOL 30, SILICEA 30- After the fever cough remains

EUPHRASIA 30- Inflammation of the mucous membrane of eyes and nose. Sneezing with bland discharge from the nose and acrid discharges from the eyes It turns measles in to simple form , bringing out the eruptions controls the fever and relieves the cough

PREVENTION

PULSATILLA NIG. 1M – An excellent preventive

MORBILLINUM 200, MALANDRINUM 200- Another preventives