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Complementary and alternative medicine use in Irish paediatric patients.Low E, Murray DM, O'Mahony O, O'B Hourihane J Department of Paediatrics, Mercy University Hospital, Cork, Ireland. evvv2888@yahoo.ie BACKGROUND: Although very little scientific data exists on the efficacy and side effects of complementary and alternative medicines, their profile and availability is increasing. Use among Irish children is unknown. AIMS: To determine the nature and prevalence of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) use in our paediatric population. METHODS: Parental questionnaires were distributed in 13 paediatric settings over a 4-month period. RESULTS: There were 57% of parents reported using CAM for their child. Use was significantly higher in the 2-4 years age group (34/105, 32%, P = 0.005). The commonest medicinal CAMs used were vitamins (88%), fish oils (27%) and Echinacea (26%). The commonest non-medicinal CAMs used were homeopathy (16%) and craniosacral therapy (14%). Use varied between paediatric specialties, with the highest in neurological patients (23/25, 92%, P = 0.005). Only 13% of parents had informed their Paediatrician of their child's CAM use. CONCLUSIONS: More than half of the children surveyed had used some form of CAM, usually without their Paediatrician's knowledge. Published 14 May 2008 in Ir J Med Sci, 177(2): 147-50. Articles on Evening Primrose Oil published 5 May 2008: A review of the clinical efficacy of evening primrose. Holist Nurs Pract, 22(3): 171-4. The oil obtained from the evening primrose (Oenothera biennis) plant is usually taken orally in a gel cap form. This herbal supplement is most commonly used for the treatment of mastalgia and atopic dermatitis. While recommending this supplement to patients for many years for the treatment of mastalgia, this author was interested in researching the plant and the evidence supporting its use for this complaint and its other potential uses. The oil is rich in omega-6 fatty acids, which are ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Articles on Evening Primrose Oil published 28 April 2008: British media attacks on homeopathy: are they justified? Homeopathy, 97(2): 103-6. Homeopathy is being attacked by the British media. These attacks draw support from irresponsible and unjustified claims by certain teachers of homeopathy. Such claims include the use of 'dream' and 'imaginative' methods for provings. For prescribing some such teachers attempt to replace the laborious process of matching symptom picture and remedy with spurious theories based on 'signatures', sensations and other methods. Other irresponsible claims have also been made. These "new ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Modern or post-modern? Local or non-local? A response to Leick. Homeopathy, 97(2): 100-2. Most debates in science and the humanities that cannot be settled are not about truth, nor about data, but about beliefs and world views. Philippe Leick's comment on entanglement models of homeopathy are a good example. Because of this, no argument, however, convincing to some, will settle that debate. The only thing that can resolve it is a large cultural shift. My own ideas about non-local models, for a whole category of possibly similar events of which homeopathy is but one example. [Abstract] [Full-text] Treating Leick with like: response to criticisms of the use of entanglement to illustrate homeopathy. Homeopathy, 97(2): 96-9. In criticising papers which recently appeared in Homeopathy, Leick claims that no double blind randomised clinical trials (DBRCTs) show that homeopathy is efficacious, and that specific effects of substances diluted beyond Avogadro's limit are implausible. He states that generalised entanglement models should be able to improve the design of experiments to test ultra-high dilutions, and disparages the authors' understandings of quantum physics. The paper responds to those criticisms. Several ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Truth, proof and evidence: homeopathy and the medical paradigm. Homeopathy, 97(2): 89-95. The study and practice of medicine, in its most personal and intimate functions, its most sophisticated scientific and technological manifestations, and its philosophical and ethical ramifications, are central to our understanding of the human condition. Homeopathic medicine: its insights, the questions that it begs, and the scientific and philosophical challenges it presents, has a significant contribution to make to this process. To be actively and seriously engaged with homeopathy is an ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Medicine, rhetoric and undermining: managing credibility in homeopathic practice. Homeopathy, 97(2): 76-82. This article examines homeopathic practitioners 'real life' accounts, and illustrates the ways in which they negotiate their homeopathic practices as contingently formulated ongoing social events in research interview settings. Interview transcripts were analysed in a qualitative framework using discourse analysis. The findings show that practitioners construct homeopathy and defend their own individual practices either by 'alignment-with-medicine' or by ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Homeopathy and complementary medicine in Tuscany, Italy: integration in the public health system. Homeopathy, 97(2): 70-5. The healthcare programmes of the Region of Tuscany, Italy have contained references to various types of non-conventional medicine since 1996, and the last three Regional Health Plans have includes a chapter on non-conventional medicine that arguably represent the greatest degree of integration of such therapies in the public health care system achieved thus far in Italy. The Plan aims to guarantee definitive integration in the Regional Health Service of types of non-conventional medicine which ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Effects of homeopathy in mice experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. Homeopathy, 97(2): 65-9. AIM: The aim of this study was to evaluate the action of homeopathic treatment on mice experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. METHODS: Eighty adult male C57BL/6 inbred mice were randomly allocated to five groups treated with biotherapy (nosode) of T. cruzi 12dH (12x) pre- and post-infection; Phosphorus 12dH post-infection; infected control treated with control solution and uninfected control. The biotherapy was prepared by the Costa method from the blood of mice experimentally infected ... [Abstract] [Full-text] © 2004-2008 Evening Primrose Oil Research Today. All Rights Reserved. |
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