ebm and eye infection

[kiskidee]

dd has conjunctivitis and I started treating her with ebm on boxing day. last nite I also developed symptoms so I dropped some in my eyes . it works. I took dd to the eye clinic as her symptoms were worse and would scream when I put the milk in her eyes. it turns out it stings so with her being worse must have stung more.

told the opthamologist what I did and got this reaction. So I added that it is well known in bf circles as a remedy. So he said as an opthamologist he would not recommend doing that. I got on my soapbox and said that he ought to do a bit more research as it all the bf charities advise it as a remedy and which may explain why her eyes were not in worse shape as i noticed symptoms on Christmas night. [insert smug and stroppy emoticon here]

Anyway, it works but now dd screams if I come anywhere near her eye to put in medication.

* her symptoms were already worse than mine when I started to treat her ** but had improved since boxing day. (not v. clear that bit)

He would have got short shrift from any Maori women - What does an opthamologist know about breast milk anyway?

Well, if it wasn't in his text book at college, it can't be true!!

kk - yes I agree that eye doctor was talking rubbish. Typical of any of some of these so called mainstream medical people to think that natural remedies don't work. I wonder if he had read that laboratory tests have shown that placing breastmilk on cancer cells, KILLS the cancer cells ?

I got the same "you silly, old wives tale, housewife" look from a surgeon friend when I said my son had a funny looking ring-worm like rash all over his trunk and because my GP didn't know what it was, I had rubbed breastmilk into the rash

My grandfather was a surgeon who worked all over Central Asia and despite his "western" medical education also was an expert in "herbal medicine" for things like cuts and bruises and other minor illnesses. Because he worked in poor, rural villages where medicine was difficult to find or buy, he would go into the mountains and fields and pick herbs to use on his patients. Guess what ? He was very successful with his remedies and his patients loved him.

He died in 1960, so unfortunatly I never got the chance to met him, but I think if I had asked him about the qualities of breast milk, he would have totally agreed that it is an excellent natural remedy against infection and bacteria !