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- From: wsadjw@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem Nienhuys)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Homeopathy
- Message-ID: <6752@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 09:31:59 GMT
- References: <1h7peoINNk5q@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM>
- Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
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- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- In article <1h7peoINNk5q@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> greg@antizen.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
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- >I've also had wonderful results in treating my 5 month old daughter for
- >teething irritability and pain with homeopathics.
-
- A condition that is rather subjective, and "teething irritability" will
- go away by itself, I guess. Pain in little children (is my experience)
- can be influenced strongly by parental attention.
-
- >
- >Here's my experience with Homeopathy so far;
- >
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- Extensive report about Greg's asthma.
- Summary: He had it as child, and it came back when he was older (a very
- common occurrence).
-
- >My asthma
- >has been at a manageble level for the last year and I have been
- >off all systemic
- >medications for that long. I do abuse my Albuterol inhaler quite a lot however.
-
- > However Saturday,
- >I used my inhaler 1 time in the morning (1 puff is half a dose) and another
- >single puff in the evening. Even on a good day, I normally use it 4 to 6
- >times, a total of 8 to 12 puffs.
- >
- >Yesterday I didn't use it until 3 hours after waking (I ALWAYS use
- >it about 5 to
- >10 minutes after waking) and then only because I exercised at the gym. Today,
- >again I've only had one puff just before lunch. This all followed a severe
- >respiratory infection I've been fighting the last 2 weeks.
- >Not that the infection
- >is clearing, my asthma appears to be lifting, for the first time in 2 years.
- >
- >In short, it appears that I may be able to be asthma free, as opposed to being
- >stuck with it for the rest of my life. Considering that Western medicine claims
- >that asthma is incurable and can only be managed, I pretty happy with the
- >results of the last 3 days.
- >
-
- I would like to advise Greg to consult a lung doctor, instead of relying
- on Emergency Room treatment and an inhaler. There are nowadays quite a
- lot of efficient drugs against asthma, and prednison (as far as I know)
- isn't used that much anymore for long term treatment. From what I know,
- asthma goes up and down (I've had it for 50 years), so a couple of
- weeks with less complaints isn't that special. Controlling asthma with
- an inhaler might not be such a good idea, after all, each attack does
- a little bit of damage to the lungs, and in the long run a wrongly
- managed asthma may result in emphysema (an irreversible loss of
- elasticity of the lungs, which reduces the volume of air that one
- can breathe). But somebody "in the current information flow on
- asthma" might know that. I would immediately consult *my* lung doctor
- if I were too need chronically more than a few puffs (of anything) a
- day.
-
- JWN
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