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Welcome to the Simply Pediatrics Podcast, simplifying holistic health care for infants and children. We're so glad you're here. Join Jennifer Zeffner, holistic pediatric nurse practitioner and holistic mom of three on a mission. Listen in as she shares the answers to the most asked questions from parents in her practice every day and offers parents practical strategies and actionable steps to support their child's health and well being. Enjoy this insightful, delightful episode of the Simply Pediatrics Podcast and stay tuned for more information at the end of the podcast. Today's episode, essentials to have on Hand.
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Hello and welcome. I'm so happy to be here with you today. Today I'm going to talk to you about some of my favorite products and also things to keep on hand in your home to help your little one if they come down with the first signs of an illness. So first, I'm just gonna tell you right here, I'm not being paid by any of these products that I'm gonna talk about right now. I just truly, truly love them and think that they're really, really helpful. Easy for parents to use, easy for parents to get. And yeah, I mean, I talk about them all day long. So here they are. Okay, so some of the amazing products that are out there that can be used for our children really young from like 10 pounds and up. Dr. Green mom has an herbal line of products that is beautiful. They are herbal, they are healing, they are for all different symptoms that can be commonly found in a child who's getting sick. And her products start from 10 pounds and up. So she gives you advice on how to use it and how much to dose your child, which I find really helpful for so many of my families. So keeping some of her products on hand in your house is excellent. Other products that I love is Herb Farm Kids. They also start at a young age and the dosing is on the package. Earthly Makes Beautiful. Also herbal remedies for children and Child Life. Child Life a lot of families don't know about and I find it really handy and really helpful because Child Life you can find in most of your health food stores. So up here by us in New York, that's Wild by nature or Whole Foods or other really good health food stores carry Child Life. Many of them carry Herb Farm Kids too. And also Gaia Gaia Kids is another herbal remedy that you can find in your health food stores. The earthly and the Dr. Green mom, least by us, we can't find in the stores, so those would have to be ordered special online Other products to keep on hand in your home are teas. You've heard me talk about teas in other podcasts. I think it's an amazing ritual habits get into with your children. If you can do it once a day, even once a week, make a little tea party for your kids and get them acclimated to the bitter kind of different tastes of teas. Ideal teas for children of almost every age are going to be chamomile, catnip, fennel, marshmallow, licorice. If you want to get those in your pure forms, or if you want to get them as like a glycerite drops or just tea, like just go to your grocery store and buy some teas and depending on the age of your kid, you might want to dilute those out a little bit. I can add some more information at the end of this podcast about like dosages, but really any age child can have a lot of these teas that are helpful for a variety of different common childhood illnesses like runny noses, coughs, fever, digestion. Keep some bone broth on hands. If you're not a cook, if you're like me and you're not a cook, because I am not, I do keep the best organic unsalted bone broth I can on hand all the time, especially in the cold and flu season, so that I can get that rate up and going at the first signs of a cold and do with that whatever you'd like. I strongly encourage putting some proteins in it, putting a little bit of vegetables in it. A secret in our household is keep frozen spinach, which you can eat, or kale that you can easily crush up and get it into that soup. And children don't protest because it's such tiny pieces of spinach or kale that are in there. And it adds a great bonus of health for kids, especially at the start of an illness. Epsom salt, super easy, super cheap. Keep it on hand, helps the body to detoxify. So you're talking about your child with a flu, a cold, congestion, ears, throat. Epsom salt bath does ease up some of those symptoms. Castor oil. People forget about castor oil. Using castor oil in like a little pack on a child's chest that's going to be age dependent. They obviously have to handle some of that warmth. You want to make sure it's not too hot for their skin and it kind of is soothing. Can open up the airways on the lungs, on the back, can be placed on the belly if we have a belly ache as well so castor oil capped with like, you know, some cloth, some essential oils, keep on hand. Safe essential oils for our kids is eucalyptus and lavender for the most part. If you like some of the blends that are out there, that's fine as well. You're just going to be careful not to overuse those. Those need to be diffused or diluted for the most part. A good trick to get some of these herbal remedies into our children is to keep an ice cube tray or an ice pop tray on hand. Many times our children will not accept the herbal remedies because they don't like the way it tastes or they won't drink the tea because that's not their thing. If you take some of these remedies, the herbal remedies especially, or even some of our vitamins that we use, you can freeze them into like a little herbal ice pop. So take an ice cube tray, put your remedies, your, your, your vitamins or herbs in there with a drop of juice and kind of free, and then freeze it and then slush it up and the, the, any of the bitterness of the herbs really dissipates once it has been frozen. So that's a really easy, quick trip, quick trick. I do encourage giving your child these herbal ice pops while they're in the bath because an icy cold drink into our bodies when we either have a fever or cold isn't really soothing. So if they're submerged in that warm water and then they're having that icy herbal pop, much more comforting for them. Some homeopathy to keep on hand. There's so many. My goatees would be aconite, belladonna, arnica, allium, cepa, spongiatosta. Keeping them on hand so that if you have the first signs of an illness, you can get those kind of going. Also, last but not least, everybody's favorite, Manuka honey. Manuka honey, as you probably know, is super medicinal. It is very expensive. Keep it on hand and reserve it for when you have illnesses. And that comes from anything from a sore in the mouth to a sore throat to a cough to a sore on the outside of the mouth of a child. Of course, over the age of one, applying it to the skin is also healing for them. I myself am not a big fan of honey. So if you have a child that's not a big fan of honey, first of all, do not give a big spoonful. A tiny little fingertip amount every couple of hours is helpful also. Instead, if you want to make it more savory, and even more, you know, loaded with with healing properties. Take some onion rings in a jars, put some honey in there and then leave it for a few hours. It does produce a little syrup. That's honey infused with onion and sometimes kids enjoy that taste better and it is also very medicinal for them. Other foods to keep on hand would be turmeric root, ginger, onion, garlic, miso, the bone broth that we already talked about, the teas. Okay, moms and dads just want to get this information out there. Big question I'm asked often, so here it is. I hope it was helpful for you. Parenting is a journey. You're doing an amazing job. Stay curious and keep learning and I will see you next time.
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