alternative medicine for seizures
alternative medicine for seizures


alternative medicine for seizures
Does alternative medicine kill children?


A new report suggests that it does: http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=15075

It would appear that deluded but well meaning parents “….can be misguided by the 50 million alternative medicine websites. The children are victims of lots of nonsense and false claims.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12060507

“One child had multiple seizures after complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) were used instead of anti-seizure drugs due to concerns about potential side effects.”

“Another death involved a 10-month-old infant who presented with septic shock following treatment with homeopathic medicines and dietary restriction for chronic eczema,”

While we always here so much about how alt med is ‘natural’ with ‘no side effects’, it appears that using alt med in place of real medicine is leading to the deaths of children!

Is this report just starting to scratch the surface of the alt med death toll?

Yes it does.

This quote from the article points out the main concern: “Many of the adverse events associated with failure to use conventional medicine resulted from the family’s belief in complementary and alternative medicine and determination to use it despite medical advice.”

And yes it is just scratching the surface, because this study did not look at the adverse effects and deaths from vaccine preventable diseases – the majority of alternative medicine proponents actively promote anti-vaccination, and homeopaths go as far as promoting their own ‘vaccinations’, which are water or sugar pills only and have no effect.

Furthermore the study only analysed data reported to the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit between 2001 and 2003. A small time span, a small population, and who knows what wasn’t reported.

“Warning over alternative remedies”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jqVDxQNRyVQVup3qpYA9-JWYtA4g?docId=N0286781293025358978A

And in this forum we have quacks almost everyday doing their utmost to convince people to avoid all conventional medicine, while asserting that what they offer works when it doesn’t, and it is perfectly safe when it isn’t. Skeptics have much work to do.

PS: I see thenose has already posted a “Does conventional medicine kill children?” question comeback. Not brave enough to answer this question perhaps? Not brave enough to allow skeptics to answer either?


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