Case of post vaccination cough and fever treated with SILICEA (homeopathy)

A 15 year old child received covid vaccination a month and a half back. He started suffering from evening temperature rise and an irritant productive cough which was preventing sleep. He also used to develop vesicular itchy eruptions every summer in his palms and feet for last 4-5 yrs, which came back after vaccination, in winter, for the first time. His hands and feet perspired profusely and toes will develop sores on prolonged use of shoes. He was given Silicea 200 one dose and was asked to report after a week. The mother reported an immediate decline and then relief in a day, in cough. he no more suffered from evening rise of temperature. He was kept on placebo for another month. The reaction to next dose of vaccination is yet to be seen.

Explanation

This is an interesting case as generally when the person is suffering from a chronic ailment (he has had sweating palms and feet with summer appearance of vesicular eruptions), the exciting cause calls for an acute remedy. In this case even after an exciting cause(vaccination), the indications of remedy remained same (productive cough and fever after vaccination). Silicea settled the case.

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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This was a case of old lady 87 yrs with multiple comorbidities who was under my
treatment for various troubles that she was facing from time to time despite her
conventional treatment. She was bedridden and developed bed sores. I had not
seen the patient; it was her son who spoke to me and showed the pictures of
herlesions. Apart from bedsores the lesions were also in the non-pressure areas.
The distribution of these ulcers was mainly in lower part of the body. Paeonia
30/bid for a week was prescribed. A week later the ulcers were much better and
were almost healed. The medicine was stopped immediately.

Explanation
There are many medicines for bedsores/ pressure sores. Paeonia however has
ulcer distribution mainly in the lower part {chronic ulcers on lower parts of body,
leg, foot, toe, also breast, rectum. Ulcers in general, from pressure, bedsores, etc.
(Boericke Materia Medica)}.

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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I feel a sense of pleasure writing about his case. Today I received this child, now 8 yrs in age, whom I had first seen when he was 4yr old. The parents came with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, labelled by a highly prestigious institute, where he also had been evaluated on various parameters. The child had learning difficulties, delayed developmental milestones, and was very aggressive and restless. The child was speaking single words barely, he had no eye contact and had no control over urination even at night. The bowels were severely constipated. He desired cold drinks, which he would ask using sign language. The mother had been treated for tuberculosis just before her pregnancy. Tuberculinum 10m 1 dose was administered. During the next few months, he gradually started making eye contact, started speaking two letter sentences, and calmed down remarkably. For acute complaints he was given various short acting medicines in between. By the time he was 5 and 1/2yrs old, the father admitted him in a regular 1^st standard despite advice otherwise, he nevertheless coped decently in his class and was compatible with peers. He was given cal phos 1m, 1 dose at this point for some headaches that he complaint.  Further follow up was lost for 2 yrs due to coronavirus pandemic. When the child turned up in OPD today, not only did he greet confidently, he shared his new found interests with me. There is still a stammer in the voice and the child is finding languages (he is learning 3 languages simultaneously in school) difficult to pick up. He, however has a keen analytical mind, is very good in mathematics and has highly developed analytical thinking (according to the father he is able to solve puzzles which he himself cannot solve). There have been few advices given to parents related to his academics, and furthering his interests in computers and mathematics. Notwithstanding, it was a delight to meet the child and marvel at the science of homeopathy, something which we haven’t been able to still figure out as to how it works. Is it a gene expression modulation!!

Explanation

A history of tuberculosis, delayed and disharmonized development, great desire for cold drinks were few of natural indications for Tuberculinum. It has not completed the whole cure but did definitely nudged the development in right direction. The child still needs treatment and lot of supportive therapies but he has come a long way from where we started.

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
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A 65 yr old male with hypothyroidism came with complaint of cough for last 15 days. He was not able to describe the cough in any manner. No modality, no character was described. He had covid 20 days back for which he took allopathic treatment. After lot of questioning, he mentioned that that phlegm flew out of his mouth every time he coughed. On this limited detail Badiaga 30/ 3 doses /od were given, with instruction to stop medicine as soon as amelioration sets in. He was asked to come after 3 days for follow. After 3 days he reported that he took all the 3 doses but felt much better after the first day itself. He was given placebo for another week with complete resolution of cough.

Explanation

The prescription in this case was done on very limited information provided by patient. That information however was very characteristic of the medicine (mucus flying from mouth and nose on coughing). The patient should have stopped the medicine after 1^st dose as it gave relief, but sometimes this does not happen in practice and he took all the 3 doses. Luckily the later doses did not do much harm. (Repetition of dose when none is needed can spoil the case).

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
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57 yr old male with no comorbidity came with severe conjunctivitis of left eye. It started suddenly after riding a bike. He was given aconite 200 4 pills 2 times a day for 3 days.

Explanation

Sudden onset, severe inflammation and complaint starting after exposure to cold air(causation) led to the prescription of aconite, with complete resolution of the inflammation in 3 days.

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
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A mother contacted over phone for her 3 yr old child who was crying for last 1 hour continuously for no apparent reason. The child had no fever, no cold, cough or any other complaint. There was no problem on urination and child had passed motion previous day. Thirst was normal. When questioned the child was holding stomach and was sitting on couch. When the mother tried to carry the child, she refused to be moved. On this basis Bryonia 200 one dose was given to child. Within 2 min the child stopped crying, became comfortable and started playing.

Explanation

The child was probably having a colic. We generally think of colocynth, mag phos, cham etc in such cases. I too thought of them. However, the modality that the child did not want to be moved and was sitting still, led to the prescription of Bryonia (motion agg).

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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A 45 yr old lady came with cardiac anxiety. It started after a scare about an accident of her only son. Though nothing happened to the child, she developed these anxiety attacks every time she heard anything out of ordinary. She was in a constant state of tension. There were constant eructations, more so when she was empty stomach. She complained of leaving things here and there without remembering them, after that incidence. She was given one dose of Laurocerasus 200. Follow-up after a month resolved her complaint to a large extent. She was given kali phos 6x for another month.

Explanation

After a sudden fright, we usually think of medicines like aconite. This case with its sudden onset, fright, and anxiety was also taking me towards prescribing aconite. However, the unusual manifestation of memory loss struck me and made me search further. The memory loss after a fright (cause and effect) led me to laurocerasus (sudden loss of memory, from pain, fright, etc. (Boger Synoptic Key)). The result spoke for itself. I, nevertheless wonder what would have been the action of aconite in this case. Only if there was a parallel universe.

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
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This is a case of a 35 yr old male, obese with no other comorbidity, c/o heel pain b/l for last six months, and an unspecified eroded lesion of 3 cm diameter on left heel. His serum uric acid was normal and the X-Ray heel advised by the previous doctor did not show any abnormality. He had severe pain in getting up in the morning and keeping his foot down on the floor, which reduced after some time as he moved out of the bed and walked around. His tongue was deeply coated white. He was given ant crud 1m/ 3 doses, and silicea 6x 3 tabs twice daily for a month.

The next follow-up revealed a healed lesion and no pain.

Explanation

I encounter heel pain as presenting in many patients but most of them have no reason to which it can be attributed. Some may have uric acid levels raised or some may have a calcaneal spur which might be causing a plantar fasciitis. This patient had a whitewashed tongue which (heel pain and white-coated tongue) prompted me to give ant crud and since the pain was acute, a moderately high potency in repeated doses was given. A biochemic was added as a supportive. His heel pain and lesion healed completely on the follow-up.

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
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A 67 yr old male came with pain in rt leg with a localized area of redness. On examination, it was found that he had varicose veins in the leg and one of the superficial veins had thrombosed and gotten inflamed (on examination one could appreciate the cord-like structure running along the length of the vein). He has a standing job and never took any treatment for varicosity. He was on antihypertensive medication. He was given Vipera 30/ 3 doses/ od with local application of arnica Q and asked to come back with venous doppler study of both the legs, to see the extension of thrombosis (a thrombosis in the deeper vein can embolize to lungs causing acute/ subacute or chronic pulmonary embolism). He came back three days later with the report showing evidence of superficial thrombosis only. The extent of thrombosis had reduced almost by 90% (on palpation only a small area of thrombosis was left) and the superf. inflammation of the skin gone. Vipera was stopped and local application was continued till another 3-4 days when the thrombosis resolved completely.

Explanation

Vipera is one of the main medicines for inflamed veins- phlebitis. Along with this the bursting sensation that the patient complaint pointed towards Vipera (veins thrombosed, bursting sensation).

Since nothing else could be found a lower potency was chosen with limited repetition and a local application.

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/