The BABY with EVENING COLIC.

Recently I was called upon to examine a baby about a month old, who
used to cry ( scream, actually ) towards late evening.

He was otherwise a very healthy and placid baby, born of a normal delivery and a normal pregnancy. He was being adequately nursed by his mother, and had a normal sleep
pattern.

As a rule, he was an uncomplaining child, happy to be in the world he had just come into.

But something seemed to overtake him at sunset, for every evening, he would refuse to sleep, and instead would begin screaming, intermittently and angrily at first, progressing over an hour to a constant barrage of piteous screams, which it seemed would never stop!But stop they did, when night fell, out of exhaustion or relief, his mother did not know.

I observed this behviour one evening and it was apparent to me that all this hullabaloo was on account of 'evening colic', a euphemistic medical term that hides behind it the fact that medical science is not fully agreed upon what causes it and what it actually is all about

We only know that there seems to be some 'colicky pain' in a baby's tummy, which stops on its own by the time the baby grows to about 3 months or so.
But until it gets to that age, it's a daily drama of a varying spell of tightly-clenched fisty screaming!

Well, I have found that giving chamomilla and stopping all other medicines often gives the best results.

So I told this baby's mother to put away the dozen or so bottles of prescription and other medicines which she'd acquired over the past one month, and give instead, a globule of chamomilla ( 6 x potency ) dissolved in 5 ml water, 1 ml at a time, every 10 mins, until the baby
stopped screaming and unclenched his fists.

As expected, the baby stopped his incessant crying after about 30 mins.

I told her to give this remedy every day until required.

A week later she phoned in to say that the baby was quite all right and hardly needed any treatment now!

Dr. Jayashree Joshi, MD

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