The Medicine Cabinet, the E.R. or Plain Water Therapy?

I know December is probably the colds season of all colds seasons, but guess what, March is also a colds season! It’s just the heat here (we don’t have spring in the Philippines), which reminds us it’s summertime. It can easily heat 40 degrees out and we are most susceptible to this because we live in an urban area (not many trees to make it really breezy).

AJ has colds, and luckily, the hubby is always here to tell me not to rush to the emergency room, or ransack the medicine cabinet. It’s the paranoid mom in me that panics, really. I’m usually very calm and collected.

No parent ever wants to see her child sick. I’ve often heard it said that a parent would rather get sick instead of his or her kids, and this is true. Their discomfort is painful to parents because:

1. they don’t understand why they feel so miserable, and
2. they go into a series of bad moods, which make it extremely difficult for parents and yayas to take care of them.
3. when sickness invades the home, it passes from child to adult and back

Plain Water Therapy

Our water source, by the way, delivers the best tasting, cleanest water ever! For this reason, I don’t mind the higher price (compared to the other water vendors in our vicinity). We drink a lot lately, and our consumption has doubled, but the good news is, it really is the “first aid” for colds and coughs.

Our first instinct is usually to find a quick cure, and we either bring the med kit out or rush to the hospital. I’ll tell you what: in the Philippines, they still make you sponge bathe your child inside the emergency room and their job is to take the child’s temperature every 15 mins. That means, you paid for something you can do at home.

Also, with plain water, AJ got over his colds faster. Maybe it’s his age (kids heal faster than adults, amen!), or because I make him drink a lot of water. I really don’t want his immune system to get used to medicines. Make those little white blood cells work!