Trying something new

Starting Saturday afternoon, Glorianna started running a fever. It was only low grade, but she was very , very mellow and just wanted to sleep and lay around all day. That is very unusual for her. I just kept Motrin down her to keep the fever away, and rocked her a lot. She didn’t run a fever at all during that night and seemed to be fine in the morning , so I went ahead and went to church.

She seemed to be fine most of the day except for a low grade fever in the afternoon and being very mellow again. Well, Trevor and I thought maybe she was starting to come down with an ear infection. But since the doctor wouldn’t open again till Monday, there wasn’t much i could do.

Anyway…Sunday night was horrible.

Since she had slept most of the day, she didn’t get to bed till 11. Then she woke up around midnight screaming to the top of her lungs. She continued to scream even with either Trevor or I walking the floor with her. She seriously sounded like she was in pain. So I decided to call the doctor come Monday morning. Well Trevor took the day off since neither one of us had much sleep…(she finally did go to sleep about 1 but then got up again every couple hours. No more screaming fits , but she still moaned in her sleep).

Monday morning starting at 8:30, I tried calling the Doctor. But of course with it being Monday, the line was busy. I tried several more times until about 9:30, then had an idea. I remember reading on a friend’s blog about how she used garlic for ear infections. So I thought why not give it a try. I called her up and talked to her about it. She said that she puts a clove of garlic in some olive oil and heats it till its just barely warm. The uses a med dropper to place a few drops in each ear. She also had a link to another friends blog who had a link to the garlic site she got the recipe from. SO I looked it up on that site to see what all it talked about.

According to this site www.bulkherbstore.com you can use garlic for just about any infection. Its very amazing. Go to the site and look under the garlic section to see for yourself.

Anyway…so I thought “its all natural and it wont hurt her if it doesnt’ do any good, so why not give it a shot?” I placed a few drops in each ear as well as rubbing some around her earlobe and neck/gland area. She seemed to start feeling better with in a couple hours. I gave her some more drops and another rubdown before she went to bed. She still woke up a few times during the night but didn’t have any more screaming fits and no more fever. I had given up on calling the doctor after trying till 11:30 with no luck at getting thru. Then they were on lunch.

Well, to make this long post a little longer…I gave Glorianna 2 more doses today and she is now sleeping. She’s been acting fine all day. A very happy girl. I don’t know for sure if she had an ear infection, but something was definatly wrong. The garlic oil seemed to help cure whatever it was and I’m very thankful. So thank you, Sharon, from the bottom of my heart for letting me know about this wonderful herb.

Now I just need to know how long to keep this up. I’m starting to get a little tired of the garlic smell on my baby. LOL!! She reminds me of garlic bread and it makes me hungry.