To be looking so differently now at Drs, schools etc etc

Yes, I think it was arnica.

It's literally water. How do you think it's doing anything for inflammation?

Its difficult to say anything if we don't know what your DDs problem was. It might be something that comes and goes and coincidentally it has been better while using the homeopathy alongside traditional treatment. It may be the traditional treatment has taken a while to kick in and in the meantime you started homeopathy so it looks like that was the cure. It may be something that eventually gets better by itself.

I believe in acupuncture, homeopathy I find very difficult to believe in because the 'medicine' has virtually no active ingredient, and the less the better apparently so plain water should be best of all.

A month? Oh well, there you go.

Good luck, anyway, OP. Hope your daughter's health stays well, and that's sincere.

It hasn't. @ImthatBoleyngirl is talking out of his/her backside.

Sorry to derail the thread a little, but my Dad suffers from Parkinsons and needs round the clock care. He has Lewy Dementia and very limited mobility (sometimes he can walk/feed himself, sometimes not). How has AI cured PD? It's so painful watching him deteriorate every day, so any info would be wonderful!

Then I'd suggest asking for referals, being pushy, and everything else we as parents need to do when their child is unwell in some way. Relying on a placebo will only blanket the problem.

But, your child, as you say.

Not all of Mumsnet at all.

@Loveafridaynightchippy

What kind of treatment is it, OP and for a condition of what kind?

Shouting doesn't make you right, people!

Came to say exactly the same thing.

When I've got a cold, I don't blitz my soups. I leave them chunky with broth. Why? Because my brain tells me it's more nutritional. This is, in fact, utter horseshit. I feel better while I'm eating it but it doesn't actually fix my cold. Nor does the soup. It's just soothing.

Take your child to a doctor, OP.

PLACEBO EFFECT!

THATS WHY!

@Thepeopleversuswork throughout this thread there has been repeated conflation of homeopathic, holistic and naturopathic therapies.

Homeopathy and holistic therapies do no actual harm. Holistic therapies can do a lot of good. The caveat is so long as they are used alongside conventional medicine.

So I wouldn't want to see them banned though I believe they should be regulated.

Naturopathic remedies on the other hand can be a menace. Herbal remedies sound harmless but they can be very dangerous with no true control of dosage of powerful chemicals.

I take shed loads of warfarin for a blood clotting disorder. If I were to start taking natural remedies either alongside or instead of my warfarin it could kill me either by causing clots or by causing uncontrollable bleeding.

🤣🤣🤣 piss ears!

I think if someone put hot piss in my ears I'd be reluctant to admit to any future earaches as well!

I think you'll find that all the NHS homeopathic hospitals now do other things, they don't do actual homeopathy, including that one in Glasgow. There will always be doctors who are guided by their wallets, sadly, those are the ones who offer homeopathy privately.

@Outofthere
Period pains too !

@TempestTost

I think you are too gentle on conventional medicine. It's not just that it can seem cold and impersonal, it can be practiced this way, it can be damaging, doctors can ignore the actual outcomes and health goals of patients.

Thats certainly true. There’s much that is structurally problematic about the infrastructure of health. There are well documented problems with resource. The medical establishment is conservative, patrician and doctrinaire. And actually accessing conventional medicine is really soul destroyingly difficult.

But the thread of your argument is really problematic. It pushes people to believe that quackery like homeopathy is a solution because patients feel like they are being “heard”.

Its really not OK. Feeling that the medical establishment doesn’t hear them should not be an excuse for people who are at best naive and scientifically illiterate and worst manipulative to sell useless and potentially dangerous products to sick people.

I understand the shortcomings of conventional medicine but this is a dangerous dichotomy and it drives more people to seek out this sort of nonsense.

Why is homeopathy not illegal? As far as I can tell it’s not even regulated. I think it’s an absolute scandal tbh.

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We used to have an actual NHS homeopathic hospital in my city, and there is still the NHS centre for integrative care (former Glasgow Homeopathic hospital)…you’d be surprised that rational medical professionals do sometimes do use it!

No. I like knowing that there's proper medical care out there for my children if and when they need it.

DS had a milk and soya allergy and reflux as a baby. Even when the milk allergy was under control, his reflux was so bad he was vomiting as he was feeding. It was fucking horrendous; his mouth was so inflamed from the acid and I can't imagine what his insides must have felt like.

The wife of one of DH's friends was into this homeopathy nonsense. Telling me I should be offering a two month old baby all sorts of "cleanses", sending me links to herbal treatments. Fuck that. He got put on liquid omeprazole and was a different child within a week.

Equally, I have coeliac disease and I've had these sorts telling me it'll all be cleared up with charcoal, apple cider vinegar, raw milk, and marshmallow root or whatever other ingredients. No. I have a lifelong disease only managed by not eating gluten. Which I found out about because the nice doctor shoved a tube down my throat and inspected my insides.