Found these great home remedies at AOL Health Following are a few of the remedies listed with a few of my own remedies added in. If you want to see the complete list follow the link AOL Health.
Home remedies for a headache:
Lay down in a darkened room. You can also take a hot bath using a few drops of lavender essential oil or you can simply inhale the scent of the lavender oil. Alternatively you can rub the area between your thumb and pointer finger, and/or open your mouth wide several times to relieve jaw tension. Headaches can also be caused by dehydration or dehydration can make your headache worse. So make sure to drink plenty of fluids. Drink an electrolyte solution such as Gatorade if you are very dehydrated.
Home remedies for nausea:
Drink lemon water, peppermint tea and/or suck on a peppermint to reduce your stomach pains. You can drink ginger tea or sip ginger ale, but be sure to get the kind with real ginger from a health food store.
This remedy comes from one of my favorite books called “More Home Cooking – A Writer Returns To The Kitchen” by Laurie Colwin. Laurie says “When you or a loved one is sick with the flu, a very good remedy is:
Hot Lemonade Recipe
Take one big water glass. Into the bottom of it put 1 large spoonful of honey and 1 cinnamon stick. Slice a half a lemon into thin slices and put those in too. Now squeeze the remaining lemon half, and 1 more lemon, and put the juice into the glass. Fill with hot water, stir, and serve to the sick person with the glass wrapped in a napkin.
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Recently the Food and Drug Administration recommended that cough and cold medicines not be used in children under the age of 2 because of rare but serious and potentially life-threatening side effects, primarily caused by dosing problems. In response to the FDA’s recommendation, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, the makers of cough and cold medicines, announced that these over-the-counter formulas would now have labels warning parents not to give the products to children under 4 years of age.
The American Academy of Pediatrics encourages physicians not to prescribe cold and cough medicine for children younger than 6. They base this advice on several studies that have shown that the medicines are not effective at treating cold symptoms in this age group. The FDA is continuing to look into the efficacy of medicines for children 2 to 11 years old.
So what’s a parent to do with flu and cold season already upon us. Here are some sugggestions from Dr. Richard Ball, a pediatrician with 27 years of experience, and many other pediatricians recommend:
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