Onions, along wth garlic and other naturally occuring vegetables extracts and whatknot, contain strong antibiotic properties..also antiviral antifungal and antimicrobial. That being said, A few of you may have heard about our recent trip to the pediatrician and then the ER with our baby..
Here is what ensued on that fateful day:
Bailey was running a feaver, I noticed it at Lowes and went straight home,...it was 102.somthing
so. I began to semi panic because she never really has been sick. She was tugging at her right ear and I assumed it was an ear infection
So we went to her pediatrican (who has now been fired btw)
Me: So? Is it an ear infection?
Dr. Evil: Yes, (as he removes odoscope from babys ear)
Me: Antibiotic then?
Dr. Evil: Well....She has an ear infection but I want to make sure she dosent have a urinary tract infection.
Me: What are the odds of that happening at the same time? Im pretty sure her fever is from the ear infection
Dr.Evil: Well If she has a urinary tract infection...she may have a very rare kidney disease.
Me: ....so what do you want to do?
Dr:Evil: well If you want a clean urine sample...we will have to cathe. Nurse, Get the catheter!
Me:...are you crazy? (yes I blurted that out...heat of the moment, people..) No way we are doing a catheter on a 7 month old baby who already has an ear infection and feels like crap.
Sooooo. It progressively went down hill from there. He yelled how irresponsible I was ...I yelled how crazy he was..and insensitive..and so all in all we wound up trying to catch urine in a sterile bag...but the urine never came.
All that being said...
Bailey has another ear infection as of yesterday with the same fever and symptoms.
But instead of rushing off to the dr...Ive been putting onion juice in her ears every hour or so.
Have you ever tried to get juice out of an onion? 'taint easy.
Anyway...we've been doing that and putting garlic packs on her ears while she sleeps.
and guess what?
No fever this morning. No symptoms...no nothing...happy baby with onion juice and cotton taped to her ears :) and it took less than 12 hours from beginning to end!
AND no aggrivating Dr....or antibiotics...or anything! PRAISE GOD.
So....if you have a child with an ear infection By all means...save yourself some trouble and use onion juice and garlic....it sounds crazy....but so is doing an unnececary cathe.
Instructions for Extracting Onion Juice and Utilizing it for curative perposes.
Step one: Brace Yourself....this is gonna be a long ride.
Step two: Peel and onion and grab your lemon zester, carrot peeler, cheese grater, or what have you.
Step three: Grate , dice, slice, food process etc...untill you have onion in the consistancy of pretty liquidy grits the onion chunks need to be a little on the biggish side...bigger than grits granuals anyway.
Step four: place said liquidy onion into a medical syringe and SQUEEEZE.. this may take anywhere between 5 min and 2 hours. Times and onions and arm strength may vary.
Step five: Suck up the juice....(NO ONION PARTICLES IN EARS) into a eyedropper or baby medicine dropper...
Step six: get your cotton and medical tape ready ...you will need 4 strips of tape aprox 4 inches long...bigger if your kid has big ears:)
Step Seven: Proceed to hold said kid down and their side and drip in half of your collected onion juice....4 drops per ear or so...you will be able to tell when the canal is full. Do this in both ears if you dont know which one is infected.
Step eight: After keeping them on their side as long as possible...put cotton in large part of ear...not in the canal and tape it down.
Step nine: After an hour or so...maybe two remove ALL cotton and dry ear...repeat process for a while even after the sympoms are gone...so you dont have a relapse...
Thank god for his healing creations!
Later!
Faith
Kayaking Blackwater Creek
9 months ago
5 comments:
WOW, this is an awesome idea! I am totally going to try it next time, and avoid the antibiotics. Violet was given a catheter once.......the night before Ben left for Iraq. :( **shudder** That was an awful, awful night. *more shuddering*
BTW, when they get older you can give them those little garlic gel caps to suck/chew on. They're sugar-coated or something, 'cause she loves them! I pop her a few of those any time she's feeling feverish or snotty-nosed. WOrks like a charm! Between that and ecchinacea drops, she hasn't been sick more than 2 times in her short life so far. :)
I am so PROUD of you! (Not meaning I had anything to do with it. But hey, everybody! This terrific girl homeschooled herself in MY HOUSE! Oh, well...) Takes a lot of gumption to research things like this and go against the flow. But it is totally worth it, as you can testify.
Another hint: eliminating sugar, white flour, and processed fat from the diet will do a lot toward never getting the infection in the first place. (Not that it's ever perfect.) Raw milk has a lot of "protectors " in it, too. I know you know about some of this from Nourishing Traditions, but it's good to pass the word along when the opportunity arises.
Hey! You rock, Mama! Good job! I used garlic juice straight from the gel-tabs once with Sofi. You can also simply tape the onion slice to the ear of an older child (who won't be trying to pull it off) and the vapors will do the trick. Think weepy eyes while slicing-- same thing going on. Judah also loves the echinacea drops and the garlic tabs :)
My sympathies on the run-in with the snotty doctor. We had similar issues with our decision to delay vax. People seem to assume that if you don't cow-tow to the medical profession, you must be ignorant and dangerously stubborn.
BTW, you never did say how/why you ended up in the ER?
We ended up in the ER due to a terrible allergic reaction to the antibiotic...she was swollen up and and welty...very uncomfortable...
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