Children's Health

Oriental Medicine easily and effectively treats and helps prevent many common childhood ailments such as coughs, colds, glue ear and tummy upsets as well as chronic conditions such as sleep problems, asthma, eczema and ADD/ADHD. This is achieved using gentle acupuncture techniques, herbal medicine, therapeutic massage and simple modifications to the diet.

In many ways children's bodies and immune systems are immature until they are about 7-8 years old. During these early years children are prone to many common ailments. Using Oriental Medicine for both prevention and treatment is ultimately strengthening and supportive of their developing immune systems. Oriental Medicine sees our life force as being produced from the energy of the food we eat and the air we breathe. Once imbalances are addressed the combination of a good diet, adequate exercise and sufficient rest ensures that you are on your way to a happy, healthy child.

Although children are easily susceptible to illnesses, they also bounce back to health quickly and easily so it often takes only a short course of treatments together with appropriate life style changes before improvements are evident. As a mother of two young children Tania directly understands the challenges involved in working with children and has first hand experience of the benefits of Oriental Medicine. She has taught infant massage for many years and as a wholefood counsellor has excellent weening and dietary advice.

Paediatric Digestion: Constipation, diarrhoea, teething, abdominal pain and colic, parasites and worms, vomiting and reflux, childhood nutritional impairment, oral thrush and mouth ulcers, allergies

Paediatric Respiratory Disorders: Fever, colds and flu, acute and chronic cough, asthma, bronchiolitis, hay fever, nose bleeds, low immunity

Paediatric Insomnia and Night Terrors

Paediatric Skin Problems: Eczema, ringworm, nappy rash, urticaria

Paediatric Urinary Problems: Urinary tract infections, bed-wetting, acute nephritis

Miscellaneous Illnesses: ADD/ADHD, autism, birth trauma, childhood depression, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, cranio stenosis, failure to thrive, growth and development issues, learning difficulties, precocious and delayed puberty

Paediatric Infectious Diseases: Measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, chicken pox, croup, tonsillitis, conjunctivitis, styes, otitis media, chronic ear infection (alternatives to grommets), impetigo, hand foot and mouth disease, slap face, scarlet fever

Pre and post Vaccination support: including treatment of vaccination side effects - For further information see Australian Vaccination Network in LINKS at the top of this page.

Links

1. AVN

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