December 21, 2004
Life in Holland just continues to amaze me. I got a call this morning from Anna, an American woman I have met through In Touch. She has borrowed our humidifier as Harrison has croup. She recently went along to the consultatiebureau for a checkup and they discussed remedies for a croupy cough, she had used a cold air humidifier in the US but had not brought it over.
Humidifiers apparently, are not customary here and you cannot buy them but they did recommend three other methods to treat him, one of which involves a raw onion. Anna tells me the other options were worse – how can that be?
Katja, a Belgian woman, also met through In Touch tells me it is an old remedy that says you must leave a raw onion in the cot with baby and the fumes from the onion help the breathing. She personally hasn’t used it as she thinks it is too awful to consider. I agree.
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