There’s a great advantage to having a few natural therapies for earaches in your medicine chest, as they can often help relieve pain even more quickly than antibiotics. The most effective long-term results are often found with lifestyle and dietary changes, and also in strengthening your kids’ immune systems so their healthy microbiome (an inner terrain not altered or reduced from antibiotics) is able to robustly respond to viral and bacterial pathogens.

Mothers & babies sometimes struggle with yeast or thrush infections after birth. These fungal overgrowths are much more common now than even in the last decade, due in large part to the routine use of antibiotics at birth at least 30% of the time. While yeast is not usually a ‘serious’ problem, it can cause a very serious level of discomfort and pain for mothers and babies both. The infant’s digestion may be disrupted over the long term, and if they are being breastfed, mama’s commitment to breastfeed may also erode.