Croup

We recommend our Combination Formula:

Croup & Hoarseness Formula

Relieves a loud, dry, barking, cough in babies and children, loss of voice and hoarseness, which may be accompanied by a feeling of suffocation and panic.

 

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Emergency steps for handling croup (a dry, barking, suffocating cough)
1. Give Rescue Remedy – children get very panicky when they struggle to breath and this will have a calming effect.
2. Give Aconitum – immediately and again 5 minutes later.
3. Steam – turn on the hot tap of the shower and allow the bathroom to become steamed up. Hold the child on your lap in the bathroom (away from the hot steam) and allow him/her to breathe in the steamy air. Keep the door of the bathroom closed to keep the steam in.
4. Hepar Sulph & Spongia. Alternate these remedies every 5 minutes until the child is breathing easily and is calm. When the child is relaxed, stop the steam treatment.
5. Thereafter, continue with the Croup Trio of Remedies which work very well together at any time for croup. These are Aconitum, Hepar Sulph & Spongia.
At the first sign of croup (a dry, barking, suffocating cough) alternate with these three remedies, for example Aconitum at 1.00pm, Hepar Sulph at 1.30pm, Spongia at 2.00pm, Aconitum at 2.30pm, Hepar Sulph at 3pm, etc. If the symptoms change, stop using the current remedy and select another remedy that describes the new symptoms.