Sleep

Natural Child Immunity: Complete Parent’s Guide If you are a parent, you probably know the exact feeling: another autumn, another round of runny noses, nights with a thermometer in one hand and a worried sigh in the other. The child comes home from daycare with a cold, passes it to a younger sibling, gets a little better, and a week later is back to sneezing. You start to wonder if something is wrong with their immune system, if you are doing something wrong, or if you should be giving them vitamins, supplements, or that mystery syrup a neighbor swears by. The truth is both comforting and a little frustrating: recurrent colds in childhood are, in the vast majority of cases, perfectly normal, and the immune system is not failing. It is learning. ...

Natural remedies for sleep paralysis IMPORTANT: Occasional sleep paralysis, once every few months, is considered a benign phenomenon and does not require medical treatment. However, if it occurs frequently (several times a week), is associated with excessive daytime sleepiness, sudden sleep attacks, or muscle weakness triggered by emotions (cataplexy), you need to be evaluated by a sleep medicine physician (polysomnography). These symptoms may indicate narcolepsy or other sleep disorders. The natural remedies below are adjunctive for occasional cases and for optimizing sleep hygiene. ...