Hot Lemon Honey Water.
Apr. 8th, 2019 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crazychicknladyFill small mug, 3/4 full, with water. Nuke for 1 minute. Squeeze in juice from 1/4 lemon. Add in small spoon full of honey. Stir till everything is dissolved and evenly mixed.
I ended up making two batches of that at four in the morning after being woken up by the boy complaining that his neck hurt like crazy, but he couldn't say exactly where.
Given the confusion of unexpectedly finding myself awake in the middle of the night, and C's initial inability to answer questions like, "does it hurt to swallow?" with useful answers, I defaulted to going outside to pick a lemon and make him some hot lemon honey water. It helped him a little, and eventually I woke up enough to figure out how to ask better questions to narrow down the most likely sorce of his pain*.
This morning he woke up generally sick, but in better spirits. Plus, the specific pain had subsided.
*It didn't hurt when he clenched his jaw, it wasn't originating in his ear, it was the spot on the neck directly below the jaw line that I associate with "swollen glands". It helped C relax more, once we could rationally identify the likely culprit, so once he finished his hot lemon honey water, he took a shower and put himself back to bed.
I ended up making two batches of that at four in the morning after being woken up by the boy complaining that his neck hurt like crazy, but he couldn't say exactly where.
Given the confusion of unexpectedly finding myself awake in the middle of the night, and C's initial inability to answer questions like, "does it hurt to swallow?" with useful answers, I defaulted to going outside to pick a lemon and make him some hot lemon honey water. It helped him a little, and eventually I woke up enough to figure out how to ask better questions to narrow down the most likely sorce of his pain*.
This morning he woke up generally sick, but in better spirits. Plus, the specific pain had subsided.
*It didn't hurt when he clenched his jaw, it wasn't originating in his ear, it was the spot on the neck directly below the jaw line that I associate with "swollen glands". It helped C relax more, once we could rationally identify the likely culprit, so once he finished his hot lemon honey water, he took a shower and put himself back to bed.
