Colostrum
Sarcode
Colostrum is suited primarily to nursing infants during dentition who suffer from profuse, offensive diarrhoea with sour-smelling stools and excoriation. The infant is either extremely irritable or listless, with a pale face and a characteristic sour odor of the whole body.
Key symptoms
- Green, watery or yellow watery stools in nursing infants
- Mucous, bilious, profuse, sour-smelling, excoriating stools
- Colicky pains in hypogastrium during stool
- Great nervous irritability or listlessness
- Pale face; tongue coated white or yellow
- Vomiting of sour or bitter substances
- The whole body smells sour
- Emaciation with fever
Worse (aggravation)
- In nursing infants
- During dentition
The milk first secreted after childbirth. Solution.
Clinical
Diarrhœa.
Characteristics
The symptoms of Colost. are purely clinical. Its use in diarrhœa was probably suggested by the purgative effect of Colostrum on the infant. Bell gives the indications as follows:─STOOLS: Green, watery; yellow; watery; mucous; bilious; profuse; sour-smelling; excoriating. AGG.: In nursing infants; during dentition. DURING STOOL: Colicky pains in hypogastrium. Accompaniments: Great nervous irritability, or listlessness. Pale face. Tongue coated white or yellow. Vomiting of sour or bitter substances. Loss of appetite. The whole body smells sour. Fever. Emaciation.
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