Children
As parents we all have hopes and aspirations for our children. Before they are born or even conceived, we have ideas about what they may look like, what gender they may be and we plan a wonderful life for them. But what is the single greatest gift you can give your child? Vibrant good health of course.
Children know instinctively how to get better and what they need from the parents is nurture, support and care to guide them through. Sick children sleep a lot, eat very little, run a fever to kill off bugs and use their energy to kick-start the body’s own healing processes. But in our increasingly busy and stressful society we have forgotten the art of just allowing events to take their own course.
As parents, we are under huge pressure not to take time off work to care for our children, or for our children to be off school, so there has become a need to get our children well as quick as possible. The ‘quick-fix’ solution to any illness is not always the answer.
However, Homeopathy can usefully support recovery and children love the taste of the tiny ‘sugar pills’ which the homeopathic preparation comes in, making it easy for children to take. Certainly my children all of whom have been treated homeopathically from the day they were born, find the tablets easy to take and pleasant tasting.
FACT: Conclusion: The trial suggests scientific evidence of the effectiveness of homeopathy in the treatment of attention of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, particularly in the areas of behavioural and cognitive functions.
Homeopathic treatment of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled crossovcer trial.
Frei H, Everts R, von Ammon K, Kaufmann F, Walther D, Hsu-Schmitz SF, Collenberg M Fuhrer K, Hassink R,Steinlin M, Thurneysen A 2005, European Journal of Pediatrics, 164:758-767. Abstract. For the full report go to:
http://www.heinerfrei.ch/downloads/Downloads%20Publikationen/ADHD_DB_Trial_engl.pdf
FACT: Homeopathy versus conventional treatment in recurrent acute Rhinopharyngitis in Children.
In a prospective pragmatic study, a comparison of homeopathy versus antibiotics in the treatment of recurrent acute rhinopharyngitis in children (18 months to 4 years) over a 6 months period, results showed that homeopathy was signigicantly better than antibiotics in terms of episodes of rhinopharyngitis (1).
FACT: Hayfever, Asthma and Perennial Rhinitis
Reilly and colleagues conducted a series of trails in patients with hayfever, asthma and perennial rhinitis. Patients were given skin tests and remedies were chosen on the basis of reactivity. The results demonstrate a significant difference between the placebo and homeopathic group which is reproductible (2).
1. Trichard M, Chaufferin G, Nicoloyannis N.Pharmacoeconomic comparison between homeopathic and antibiotic treatment strategies in recurrent acute rhinopharyngitis in children. Homeopathy. 2005Jan;94(1):3-9 Anon.
2. Reilly’s challenge (editorial). Lancet 1994; 344: 1585.Reilly DT, Taylor MA. Potent placebo of potency? A proposed study model with initial findings using homoeopathically prepared pollens in hay fever as a model. British Homoeopathic Journal 1985; 74:65-75.