Why Should You Give Calcarea Phos to Your Baby?

Calcarea Phosphorica is especially used in defective nutrition and hence often finds itself useful in childhood, puberty and in extreme old age. 

For those who understand chemistry, it is Calcium Phosphate alternatively termed as phosphate of lime/ tricalcic phosphate. Commercial Calcarea Phosphorica that you purchase from the market is "a mixture of the basic and several complex Calcium Phosphates-produced by adding dilute Phosphoric acid to lime water and trituration of this reaction mixture." -Materia Medica

What does Calcarea Phosphorica do?

A homeopathic physician will recommend Calcarea Phosphorica for your child in following cases:

1. A baby/child who is malnutritioned, is pale, thin, scrawny, very underweight, mental and physical underdeveloped, slow at learning to walk, hardly able to talk, has tottery legs, a belly, a very unstable nervous system and is very restless.
2. A child suffering from bronchitis and tonsillitis 
3. Babies facing problems with the formation of bones and /or are likely to suffer from bone diseases and bone pains.
4. When the head bones are slow in formation and are not at par with child's growth, the fontanelles don't close on time or reopen (The skull is often thin and soft, gives way under pressure and there are pain in the skull bones).
5. Skeletal and dental problems in fast growing children because the children grow very rapidly the nutrients required to support such growth is inadequate. These problems include lateral curvatures at the spine, hydrocephalus: acute or chronic, rickets, diarrhea, cholera infantum in emaciated children, caries, easy decay of the teeth, especially at the first teeth, late or slow dentition along with a gamut of teething complaints such as cough, diarrhea and spasms without fever.
6. Symptoms of spina bifida
7. Enlarged tonsils and adenoid growths
8. Sensitivity to cold and jarring
9. Discontent baby, moaning (especially during sleep) and the restlessness, peevish, fretful and ill humored
10. Poor memory and dread of mental exertion
11. Headache in school children

Does your infant need it?

There are many conditions which will make you decide if your baby needs Calcarea Phosphorica. These are;

1. Thin and emaciated with flabby abdomen
2. Large head, both fontanelles open
3. Cranial bones are unnaturally thin and brittle
4. Teeth develop tardily
5. Curvature of spine, spine is weak and cannot support the head
6. Child vomits persistently (both breast milk and cow milk formula)
7. Suffers from colic
8. Stool are often green, slimy and lienteric
9. Pale face, prominent body parts are cold
10. Mentally depressed child

How much and in what form?

Available as gel, ointment, dental paste, capsule or powder. Chewable tablets are available especially for children. The recommendation is for 4 tablets thrice a day or as directed by your physician.