Teaching your child from an early age how delicious fresh whole food is will set up a lifetime of good eating habits!

It is difficult to see your child feeling sick. When they have a cold, the flu, an ear ache, or colic we are as miserable as they are. And often we simply take them to the doctor right away to get antibiotics in the hope that their illness will be shortened by a day or maybe two and we won’t miss any more work days. We wonder if this helps, and the Centers for Disease Control has begun a programs asking all M.D.’s to ask the parents of sick children to wait 48 hours before beginning antibiotic medications. They have done this because they realize that a majority of these illnesses will clear up on their own in that span of time, and also (more importantly) that children who have had multiple antibiotic regimens build up a resistance to antibiotics that they might very well need as adults.

So what’s a parent to do? We can inform you of many options that have helped children with acute diseases like colds and flus and ear aches; from certain herbal teas that have been given to children for centuries to little things you can do to make them more comfortable and help them recover and have a stronger immune system in the end. There are other applications that have been used for centuries that we’ve simply forgotten in this modern age; none of them harmful, many of them free, and most of them allow you to be an active part of your child’s increasing health.