Incubation period: 7-14 days.
Infectious period: 4 days before, and 4 days after the rash appears.
Measles is the most serious of the childhood illnesses, typically lasting about 2 weeks in total. Children need careful nursing during each stage of the illness to reduce the likelihood of complications developing.
Measles is also highly contagious: the most contagious of all the childhood illnesses. It is spread by ‘aerosols’ from a child who coughs or sneezes droplets into the air and they can hang around for hours.
It starts with a fever (usually a high fever or 103/104) with cold-like symptoms (runny nose and a cough), and sore, red eyes (conjunctivitis) for 3-7 days. After about 2 days you will see tiny white spots (with a red base) inside the mouth (inner cheeks or lips). These are Koplik’s spots, and they confirm this is measles. They last 2-3 days.
As the Koplik’s spots start to fade the characteristic rash comes next and this lasts 5-7 days. It consists of flat or raised red spots and bumps that start on the face and spread down the body. They can grow and merge, forming larger splotches.
The recovery stage (convalescence) usually lasts about a week, as long as there are no complications. These include ear infections (otitis media), severe coughs (including pneumonia), and encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), and secondary bacterial infections such as strep throat.
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Yes, homeopathy can help. Most home homeopathy kits—including this affordable, Basic Remedy Kit that has just 18 remedies including all 6 of these lovely, healing remedies in them.
You’ll notice the following remedies all overlap so you want to pay attention to more than a couple of symptoms. For example, you would hesitate to give Aconite to a child who has a sudden onset, a high fever, restlessness, and no thirst. People who need Aconite are very thirsty so that symptom goes against the remedy! Belladonna has the sudden onset, the high fever, restlessness … and a lack of thirst so it’s a better fit.
What will happen if you give Aconite I hear some of you saying? Nothing bad that’s for sure. There’ll probably be a little healing stimulus so your child may show a few signs of improvement but they won’t last. Belladonna on the other hand will have an amazing healing response that will be noticeable to everyone. People may say “What did you give your child? Can I have some for mine?”
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According to Dorothy Shepherd (Homoeopathy In Epidemic Diseases—Kindle Edition): “Protection against measles is usually found in Pulsatilla 6 or 30, nightly from the third or seventh day after contact, until after the danger of infection is past; that is on the fifteenth or sixteenth day. I have found this to answer extremely well in various nursery schools where we had to deal with toddlers under the age of five, the most susceptible and dangerous age. … Morbillinum 30 has been used as a prophylactic in measles.” This should be given at monthly intervals unless a child is incubating the measles or might be doing so.
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