Home remedies · Children & infants
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Pick the child up, speak calmly, distract; cool small injuries and stay there.
Attention measurably lowers pain perception. In infants breastfeeding, skin contact or something sweet on the tongue also works — well studied for blood draws.
Comfort does not replace pain treatment with real injuries.
No restriction. “It’s nothing” does not help — taking it seriously and staying does.
At once: any fever in an infant under three months, a child who is apathetic or has stopped drinking, skin bleeding that does not fade under pressure, breathlessness or drawn-in ribs. A first seizure is always looked at. Refusing to drink for hours counts for more than the temperature.