DIARRHOEA OF INFANTS [Children diseases - Diarrhoea of infants]:

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Abrotanum [Abrot]
Cross, marasmic infants, diarrhoea and constipation alternating; food passes undigested, emaciation, mostly of legs; appetite often ravenous, while emaciating; skin flabby and hangs loose.
Aconite [Acon]
Watery diarrhoea; stools like chopped spinach, with colic, which no position relieves; skin hot and dry; restlessness.
Acetic-ac [Acet-ac]
Old chronic cases with bloated abdomen; oedema of lower extremities, undigested stools, intense and constant thirst; stools liquid, profuse, offensive, light-colored; large quantities of pale urine passed day and night; poor sleep; face waxen, pale; great prostration and emaciation.
AEthusa-cyn [Aeth]
Green, thin, bilious stools, or bright yellow and slimy, with violent tenesmus before and after stool; excessive griping pain in abdomen, with drowsiness after stool; child restless and irritable; pale and drawn face; excessive prostration.
Agaricus [Agar]
Grass-green, bilious stools, liver involved; prickling itching in rectum and anus, as from worms; diarrhoea (<) mornings. Antimonium-crud [Ant-c] White-coated tongue; diarrhoea after nursing, stools watery, profuse, with little hard lumps, or containing undigested food; foul flatus; cries when washed with cold water, (>) in warm water; feverish heat; peevish and fretful.
Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]
Cutting colic before watery, slimy, bloody or offensive stools; desire for cooling things; vomiting forcible, long lasting until becoming faint; face pale and sunken.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Anus wide open and involuntary escape of faeces; frequent, painless, watery diarrhoea.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Much loud flatus passing with the stools, which are dark brown, green like spinach flakes, watery, foetid, (<) at night; pains in stomach after eating, (>) from belching up wind; DIARRHOEA AS SOON AS THE CHILD DRINKS; child is very fond of sugar or the nurse used too much; urine profuse and watery, or scanty and nearly suppressed; uneasy sleep, or drowsiness and stupor with dilated pupils; child looks prematurely old, feels and looks prostrated.
Arnica [Arn]
Languor and drowsiness; pale face, sunken features; head and chest warm, abdomen and limbs cold; involuntary mucous stools mixed with blood, resembling brown yeast, or accompanied by great urging and straining at stool; foul flatus; scanty urination, staining the napkin a yellow brown.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Much exhaustion and rapid emaciation; copious excoriating diarrhoea, smelling like rotten eggs, or profuse greenish, muddy stools or of undigested food, (<) after midnight and immediately after nursing, from motion, with profuse sweat, anxiety, tossing about; when nurse chilled her stomach by taking cold substances, particularly ice-cream. (Ars. iod.). Baptisia [Bapt] Very offensive diarrhoea day and night; the child can swallow nothing but milk, even the smallest quantity of solid food gags; foetid breath; PROSTRATION MORE PROFOUND THAN THE SEVERITY OF ATTACK JUSTIFIES. Benzoic-acid [Benz-ac] In children, especially during teething, light-colored, copious, watery, very offensive stools, whose smell pervades the house; urine very strong smelling, scanty, deep red and becoming easily turbid; much exhaustion; cold sweat on head; CHILD WANTS TO BE NURSED IN THE ARMS, CRIES IN CRADLE OR BED. Bismuth [Bism] Vomiting and diarrhoea; flatus and stools of a cadaverous odor; desire for company, child holds on to the mother's hand to give it company; frequent waking as if in fright; fluids are vomited as soon as taken; diarrhoea during teething. Borax [Bor] Hot head of infants, with heat of moth and palms; pale clay- colored face; aphthae in mouth, on tongue and inside of cheeks, so tender that they prevent child from nursing; greenish stools day and night, with pitiful crying; abdomen soft and wilted; stools brown, watery, containing yellow lumps and smelling like carrion; apathy, refuses nourishment; soporous sleep, or starting from sleep with anxious screams, throwing the hand about and clings to its mother; legs jerk when falling asleep; emaciation so that hard and swollen mesenteric glands can be felt. Bryonia [Bry] Putrid diarrhoea, smelling like old cheese, (<) or only in the morning during hot weather, (>) in cool weather; mucus and blood preceded by hard stool.
Cadmium-sulph [Cadm-s]
Irritable stomach with frequent slimy stools; greenish discharges and greenish gelatinous vomiting; GREAT DESIRE TO KEEP QUIET; extreme irritability and exhaustion; coldness with cold sweat, especially of face.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Milk sours on stomach and is either thrown up or passes downward in white curdled lumps; involuntary, foetid, sour diarrhoea, (<) evenings, gray, frothy stools; great thirst at night; ravenous appetite, bloated abdomen and emaciation; urine pungent, foetid, clear and passed with difficulty, flabby, alkaline child with longing for eggs; open fontanelles; head sweats so as to wet the pillow. Calcarea-phos [Calc-p] Peevish and fretful children who had diarrhoea for some days and who want to nurse all the time; LONGING FOR BACON, HAMFAT; frequent stools, nearly every hour, green and loose, sometimes slimy or hot and watery, or white and mushy; offensive flatus; soft stools passed with difficulty; mentally stupid. Carbolic-acid [Carb-ac] Rice-water discharges of a very offensive odor, like rotten eggs; great thirst, but vomits everything taken; collapse. Carbo-veg [Carb-v] Where Bry. seems indicated and fails; rawness and chafing children during hot weather; moist, offensive flatus; faeces escape with flatus. Castoreum [Cast] Watery or green mucous stools in delicate, nervous children, who weaken under summer heat or during dentition, and who will not rally under the usual remedies; yawning, chilliness, bad smell from mouth; great thirst. Chamomilla [Cham] Stools watery or greenish, or like eggs beaten up, with the odor of rotten eggs, and are excoriating, (<) towards evening; during dentition; moaning in sleep, with hot sticky sweat on forehead; child wants to be carried, is cross, feverish and very thirst; milk thrown up is cheesy. China [Chin] Painless and undigested putrid stools; very copious, with much flatulence, which does not relieve, (<) at night, after meals (Fer. while eating), every other day; craving appetite; great exhaustion; night-sweats; from its long continuance threatening hydrocephaloid; child stubborn, disobedient, longing for dainties. Cina [Cina] Stools of green and white mucus, the latter looking sometimes like small pieces of parched corn, with slight tenesmus and moderate fever; pale face, especially around nose or mouth; will not sleep without rocking; grinds teeth. Colchicum [Colch] Watery stools, containing large quantities of white, shreddy particles; painless, involuntary, excoriating, or with griping colic and tenesmus; AFTER STOOL THE CHILD FEELS SO EXHAUSTED THAT IT FALLS ASLEEP ON THE VESSEL AS SOON AS THE TENESMUS ceases; great thirst; AVERSION EVEN TO THE SMELL OF FOOD. Collinsonia [Coll] Chronic diarrhoea of children; pure mucous stools, or mucous stools mixed with dark substances; before stools severe pain in lower part of abdomen, during stool tenesmus, little pain after stool; vomiting, (<) during day. Colocynthis [Coloc] Child has colic, (>) by bending double (Bell. (>) by hard pressure upon abdomen, Rhus (>) by lying on abdomen) or by carrying on stomach; stools during or right after nursing, and undigested; stools small, bilious, frothy, frequent, preceded by severe colicky pains; coming on in paroxysms, causing child to writhe and twist and double up with every stool.
Colostrum [Colos]
Great nervous irritability, listlessness, pale face, tongue coated yellow or white, sour vomiting; watery diarrhoea with colic; sour watery stools; the whole child smells sour; excoriating diarrhoea, watery, green yellow, with colicky pains in hypogastrium; fever; emaciation from the profuse watery diarrhoea.
Croton-tigl [Croto-t]
Constant urging to stool, followed by sudden pasty discharge, which is shout of rectum, of a dirty green color and offensive; each stool seems to drain the child dry, but notwithstanding, VERY LITTLE PROSTRATION, passages every half hour, from morning till evening, none at night; (<) from drink and food; colic (>) from hot milk.
Dioscorea [Dios]
Morning diarrhoea; stools light-colored, frequently slimy, flaked with mucus; the child drawing in the abdomen while straining with pain radiating to different parts.
Dulcamara [Dulc]
Every cool change of the weather excites the diarrhoea, also exposure in cold, damp places; stools changeable, yellow, green, watery, sour-smelling; nausea with desire for stool; ischuria, with discharge of mucus from urethra, milky urine; prostration.
Elaterium [Elat]
Olive-green stools, watery, gushing, frothy, with feeling in rectum as if more remained (Nux v.); overlapping of cranial bones and emaciation.
Ferrum-phos [Ferr-p]
Frequent stools, greatly weakening the child, green, watery or hashed, mixed with mucus, scanty; straining at stool, also retching, (<) from midnight till morning; child rolls its head and moans; eyes half open; face pinched; urine scanty; pulse and respiration accelerated; stating in sleep. Ferrum-pyrophos [Ferr-py] Painless and involuntary diarrhoea, with undigested food, while and after nursing, worse at night, with much flatulence; bulimia alternating with loss of appetite; pale, bloodless features; emaciation. Gamboge [Gamb] Water, slimy, undigested stools, like curdled milk accompanied by colic, (>) by the stool, which is forcibly expelled; profuse flatulency, (<) at night and (>) after morning stools.
Geranium-mac [Ger]
Constant desire to go to stool, with inability for some time to pass any faecal matter, then the bowels move without any pain or effort; mouth dry, tip of tongue burning.
Gnaphalium [Gnaph]
Cross and irritable children; rumbling of bowels, colicky pains; watery, offensive morning diarrhoea, with repeats itself often during the day; urine scanty; appetite and taste lost.
Graphites [Graph]
Very frequent and small stools, with eruption on the skin, from which oozes a gelatinous fluid; soft, dark, half-digested, very offensive stools, followed by great, but transient, prostration; sour stools; excoriating the anus.
Guaco [Gua]
Thin, watery diarrhoea of teething children, continuous and exhausting, with indications of cerebral effusion.
Guaiacum [Guai]
Diarrhoea commencing in the morning, with great emaciation, CHILD SOON LOOKS WITHERED AND OLD; skin dry, chilly.
Helleborus [Hell]
Stools consisting solely of clear, tenacious, colorless mucus, preceded by colic and (>) after every stool, with burning and smarting in anus; gurgling in abdomen which feels peculiarly cold; urine scanty and dark, with often floating black specks, or containing a deposit like coffee-grounds; (<) evening, (>) in open air.
Hepar-sulph [Hep]
Child had a sour smell; stools-colored, green, slimy, sour, foetid, (<) during day, after eating, or drinking cold water; enuresis nocturna; from irritation of teeth, (<) mornings. Ignatia [Ign] Great nervous erethismus and tenesmus, occurring only after stool; child wakens from sleep with piercing cries and trembles all over, sobbing and sighing continue long after the crying ceased; diarrhoea from fright (Gels.). Iodum [Iod] Morning diarrhoea of scrofulous children; stools watery, foaming whitish with pinching around navel. Ipecacuanha [Ip] Yellow or green, painless, fermented stools, with constant nausea, especially in fat, pale children, particularly indicated at the PERIOD OF WEANING, when food disagrees. Iris-vers [Iris] Brown and very offensive diarrhoea, with cutting, colicky pains, nausea and vomiting; emission of very foetid flatus; (<) about flatus; (<) about 2 to 3 A.M. Jalapa [Jal] Watery, sour-smelling stools, (<) at night; child is quiet all day, but screams and tosses about all night; general coldness with blueness of face. Kreosotum [Kreos] Children struggle and scream during act of defaecation, they seem to go into fits; diarrhoea in nursing infants during dentition; stools watery, green or brown, cadaverous smelling. Lactic-acid [Lac-ac] Frequent green diarrhoea with almost constant nausea and gagging, but not much vomiting; stools undigested, curdy, watery, mixed with bright grass-green mucus, great jerking of muscles, rush of blood to head and face. Lachesis [Lach] Excessively offensive stools; sudden diarrhoea, with great urging; thin, pasty, frequent stools during hot term; child always awakens with distress. Lycopodium [Lyc] Thin, brown faecal, mixed with hard lumps, (<) after meal, after cold food, after suppressed eruptions (especially scabies); before stool chilliness in rectum. Child sad, listless or nervous, irritable and unmanageable; putrid breath in the morning; canine hunger, (>) after eating a little; sleep disturbed, child springs up terrified and shrieking, is angry and cross; cold feet.
Magnesia-carb [Mag-c]
SOUR SMELL OF THE WHOLE BODY; green, watery, frothy, sour- smelling, often with cruds of milk, resembling the scum of a frog-pond; straining during stool, during which the child does not wish to be touched; night-sweats; sour vomiting with colic; lienteria of sucklings; extreme and rapid emaciation.
Mercurius [Merc]
Much pain before stool, (>) by lying down; great relief immediately afterwards; stools frothy, slimy, bloody or dark green, with much straining; the child's thighs and legs are cold and clammy, particularly at night; sour-smelling night-sweat, especially on forehead, which feels cold; aphthae, salivation; glandular swellings (Calomel).
Muriatic-acid [Mur-ac]
Very sour stomach, sour eructations and hiccough, nausea and vomiting; pain and tenderness over region of stomach; painful griping and fermentation over whole abdomen, colic with much flatus, (>) from discharge of flatus; thin, watery diarrhoea with soreness and extreme tenderness of anus; stool passes when urinating; itching and soreness of anus as if from pinworms; chilliness and shivering; prostration; cold extremities; dry mouth; restless sleep with frequent waking.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
CHRONIC DIARRHOEA OF CHILDREN; marasmus, emaciation of neck, greasy appearance of face; longing for salt; salt fish; violent thirst with dry, sticky tongue; map tongue; herpes labialis; stools profuse, gushing, grayish, greenish, watery; RAVENOUS APPETITE AND STILL EMACIATION; child cross and irritable; slow in learning to walk.
Natrum-phos [Nat-p]
Diarrhoea from excess of acidity; stools sour-smelling, green, with yellow, creamy coating of tongue; vomiting of sour fluid, of curdy masses.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Emaciation, especially on upper arms and thighs; putrid smell from mouth; green, mucous, bloody or putrid stools; exhaustion; mercurio-syphilis.
Nux-moschata [Nux-m]
EXHAUSTING DIARRHOEA WITH INDOMITABLE DISPOSITION TO SLEEP; dryness of mouth and still thirstlessness; stools offensive, copious, (<) at night, soft but expelled with difficulty, rectum inactive; (<) from summer heat, cold, damp weather, cold drinks. Nux-vomica [Nux-v] Indigestible food, even when taken by the nurse, causes diarrhoea of child; stool frequent, small, painful, with fretfulness. Oleander [Olnd] Frequent soiling of clothes when passing flatus; rolling and rumbling of bowels, with emission of much (foetid) flatulence; food passes undigested; stools thin, yellow, faecal. Opium [Op] Diarrhoea from fright; involuntary evacuations of stool and urine; stool thin, frothy, profuse, followed by great relief; foetid stools. Paullinia-sorbilis [Paull] (Guarana).- Green, profuse, INODOROUS stools. Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac] LONG-CONTINUED DIARRHOEA FAILS TO WEAKEN THE CHILD a great deal; dark-yellow, undigested, very offensive stools, or of yellow water, with meal-like sediment, (<) night and morning, after eating; much flatulence, bloated abdomen; voracious appetite. Phosphorus [Phos] Child drowsy, wants to sleep all the time (Nux m.); vomits water as soon as it gets warm in the stomach; stools profuse, watery, pouring away as if from a hydrant (Crot.), painless, like flesh- colored water, (>) after sleeping; paralysis of upper and lower extremities following exhausting cases.
Podophyllum [Podo]
Great desire for large quantities of water, but none for food; the head sweats much during sleep; gagging or empty retching, vomiting of green frothy mucus or of food; stools larger than could be expected from the amount of food taken; foul-smelling stools, profuse and gushing, each seeming to drain the patient dry, but soon he is full again; violent cramps of the feet, calves and thighs, prolapsus ani AFTER EACH STOOL FROM GREAT WEAKNESS OF RECTUM; the child lies upon the mother's lap or a pillow, constantly moaning, eyes half closed, and rolling its head from side to side. The little Phos. sc. patient is playful and laughing, while a stream of liquid stool will overflow the diaper. (Sulph. ac. follows well.)
Psorinum [Psor]
Dark-brown, thin, fluid stools, very offensive, like rotten eggs or carrion; great debility; profuse perspiration from the least exertion and at night; dirty, sallow, greasy skin, with a partially developed eruption on forehead and chest; constant fretting and worrying; sleeplessness; body has a filthy smell, even after a bath.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Irresistible desire for fresh air; colic and diarrhoea, (<) at night; changeable stools, no two alike. Raphanus [Raph] No emission of flatus by mouth or anus for a long time; yellow, brown, frothy, undigested stools, copious and passing our with much force; violent thirst; nausea, vomiting preceded by shuddering over back and arms; great weakness and languor. Ratanhia [Rat] Thin, foetid stools, burning like fire in the anus. Rheum [Rheum] Brown, sour-smelling stools, with great urging; the whole child smells sour; pasty, sour-smelling stool, accompanied by shivering, and followed by renewed urging in intestines; diarrhoea, arising from improper food, colds, and generally accompanied with excessive acidity in the bowels, cutting colic and NIGHTLY COMPLAINTS; sour, flat, slimy taste; copious diarrhoea, with vomiting and great debility; all food is repulsive; milk tastes bitter and the babe rejects the breast. (Calc. phos.: milk tastes salty.) Ricinus [Ric] Aphthous diarrhoea, especially among children improperly fed; frequent and griping stools; varying in color from greenish- yellow to dark grass-green, then becoming more liquid, and mixed with slimy and gelatinous masses mixed with blood; each stool accompanied by pain and tenesmus; mouth dry and aphthous, belly tumid and painful, anus inflamed; the child becoming more and more feverish, emaciated and somnolent. Secale-corn [Sec] Profuse undigested stools, watery, very offensive and discharged in fits and starts, followed by intense prostration. Senna [Senn] Dark-colored water, with cutting pains, flatulency, but less severe than in Jal. (which has copious watery discharge, accompanied by screams and restlessness). Sepia [Sep] Almost constant oozing from bowels; green or sour-smelling diarrhoea of children; rapidly EXHAUSTING DIARRHOEA ; stool, having a putrid, sourish, foetid smell, expelled suddenly and the whole of it at once; prolapsus ani; fontanelles open; (<) from taking boiled milk. Silicea [Sil] CHILD VERY MUCH EMACIATED BY LONG CONTINUANCE OF DIARRHOEA; it nurses well, but the food passes through it undigested and fails to sustain it, alternating with loss of appetite and vomiting; open fontanelles; much perspiration about head; great thirst; emaciation; cold hands and feet, with cold sweat on them; rolling of head; suppressed secretion of urine; watery, very offensive stools; aversion to milk, refuses to nurse and if it does, vomits; feet very dry and smell like those of an old person. Stannum [Stann] Stools green and curdy, with much colic, (>) only by carrying the child against the point the shoulder; rectum inactive, much urging even with soft stool; deficient urging to urinate, from insensibility of bladder, which feels full, yet secretion is scanty; hemiplegia occurring during the course of the disease, paralyzed parts are constantly moist from perspiration.
Staphisagria [Staph]
Diarrhoea associated with stomach ache, tongue and gums white and spongy; cutting pains before and after stools, with tenesmus of rectum during stool and escape of hot flatus smelling like rotten eggs, (<) by every attempt to take food or drink.
Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]
Diarrhoea with great debility, stools watery, very offensive, looking stringy or chopped, bright yellow, with aphthae and great irritability.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Particularly in children of delicate parents; the discharges are slimy, brown, green, or white, often marked with slight streaks of blood; redness around the anus and excoriation between the thighs; hot palms and soles; dysuria; worse in the morning.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Stools profuse, watery, frequent, with thirst and vomiting, baby looks much exhausted after each stool; cold sweat on forehead from the least movement of the body.
Zincum [Zinc]
Feet constantly fidgety; on awaking, the child appears frightened, and its head rolls from side to side; during sleep it cries out (Apis), starts and jumps; painless, papescent diarrhoea for many days, but some colic after stools and emission of flatus.