Alternative remedy can have dangerous, and maybe fatal, side effects, particularly for vulnerable groups like children, Australian health expert say. Researchers say parents occasionally think alternative treatments are "more natural" with less side effects than conservative drugs, but children given option remedies can have unfavorable reactions, a study print in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood said.
In almost two thirds of 39 cases in a study of incidents connecting children and exchange remedies by the Australian Pediatric Surveillance Unit between 2001 and 2003, the side belongings were rated as severe, life threatening or fatal. The incident concerned children ranging from babies to 16-year-olds. In 30 cases, the problem were "probably or definitely" related to matching medicine, and in 17 cases the patients were measured to have been harmed by a failure to administer conservative medicines, the study said.
"Many of the adverse actions associated with failure to use conventional medicine resulted from the family's belief in matching and alternative medicine and determination to use it although medical advice," the study author from the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne said. "Children don't take decisions themselves about their treatment; very often it is their parents, and parents can be mistaken by the 50 million option medicine websites," says Edzard Ernst, Professor of balancing Medicine at Exeter University in the United Kingdom.
In almost two thirds of 39 cases in a study of incidents connecting children and exchange remedies by the Australian Pediatric Surveillance Unit between 2001 and 2003, the side belongings were rated as severe, life threatening or fatal. The incident concerned children ranging from babies to 16-year-olds. In 30 cases, the problem were "probably or definitely" related to matching medicine, and in 17 cases the patients were measured to have been harmed by a failure to administer conservative medicines, the study said.
"Many of the adverse actions associated with failure to use conventional medicine resulted from the family's belief in matching and alternative medicine and determination to use it although medical advice," the study author from the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne said. "Children don't take decisions themselves about their treatment; very often it is their parents, and parents can be mistaken by the 50 million option medicine websites," says Edzard Ernst, Professor of balancing Medicine at Exeter University in the United Kingdom.
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