<p>For instance- what if the baby is a newborn getting a chiropractic adjustment?
What if the alternative practitioner’s advice conflicts with a conventional doctor? What if parents never take the child to a "real" doctor?On the other side of the coin, what if the "real" doc isn’t helping?
All questions I was thinking to myself today. Interested to hear your thoughts.
I agree with Penn Gillette.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1-vIaNcIsc
If you don’t want to watch, look at the 2 sentence discription to the right of the video screen.
6 Responses to “Do you agree with alternative medicine (chiropractors, iridologists, naturopaths, etc) for babies and children?”
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It depends on the doctors. In general, I prefer to get to the root of the cause of the problem instead of masking symptoms. For instance, my son has eczema. Doctors prescribed him all sorts of creams and ointments and lotions and steroids, which masked the symptoms sometimes, but didn’t HEAL him. I did my own research and looked into possible allergies. We have recently discovered that he is allergic to dairy, eggs, bananas, and mangoes. I have cut these things out of my diet and he is doing much better, without any medications.
ETA: My son was born at home, so I guess that is "alternative" as well. I would use a lot more alternative medicine, but Tricare will not cover it and I end up paying out of pocket.
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I personally think a chiropractor is OK. I don’t personally like naturopaths for babies and children but respect people that do. Is a very personal decision.
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I use a combination depending on what feels right. I went to the doctor with my son at 3 weeks old and got meds for acid reflux, they didn’t really help so I took him to a chiropractor that did help. If he seems to be having ear issues but not quite an infection we see the chiropractor. If I’m sure he has an infection, fever and all, we go to the doctor. If I had known about chiropractors for babies before I would have started there for acid reflux as well but I didn’t find out until after we started the meds.
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I try homeopathic/natural treatments before going with the ‘western medicine’ route. BUT things like chiropractors and the like are much more expensive, at least where I live. I wish they were covered by insurance. I think that it’s better to go the natural way ALWAYS, before trying more conventional medicine. for example, a lot of people say reflux can be fixed by a chiropractic adjustment instead of prescribing medication for it. if I had problems with a baby with reflux, I’d try to bring him to a chiropractor first, rather than give him ranitidine or prevacid or whatever daily. if a conventional doctor recommended AGAINST doing that and would rather give my baby medication, I’d do research and find another doctor and I’d be worried about the doctor’s motivations. if my real doctor wasn’t helping, of course I’d find some other way to help my baby.
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I go to a chiro for a pinched nerve and he always wants to do an adjustment on my daughter and i use to let him but i never got the point. Plus I think he was "scamming" my insurance. I have state health insurance as does my daughter and its free for her to see him (i dont have a copay of a bill) but he still makes money from the state. And he wanted to adjust her twice a week and it seemed unnecessary. I do think some of the alt. med. is all in the mind but i would give it a shot. never tho would i stop seeing a "real" dr
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I agree with Penn Gillette.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1-vIaNcIsc
If you don’t want to watch, look at the 2 sentence discription to the right of the video screen.
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