Antibiotics not working - has anyone had any success with alternative medicine??

[choucroutegarnie]

Our little boy (4) has had a severe skin infection for nearly a year. It's been diagnosed as a bacterial (strep) infection but four courses of different antibiotics have failed. The paediatrician is now saying they are reluctant to prescribe any more - "we'll have to manage it somehow".

DS is in tears every night and every morning. It's very upsetting and frankly very worrying.

Has anyone had any success with alternative therapies where conventional medicine failed over a bacterial infection? I'd be really grateful for any clues.

Thanks

lololol at Mercola being referenced as a defence of your slightly bizarre claims - tune in next week for the Pope on "Catholics - nice or evil?".

The ginger website claimed in the course of several thousand somewhat rambling words that ginger was warming several times, and several more that it promoted an increase in peripheral circulation and sweating. Both of which cool the body.

Nowhere did it mention how ginger "stimulates" the liver to expel "toxins" - which in itself begs the question as to what the liver actually does in those poor misbegotten individuals whose diet is ginger-poor.

comment noted bux.....what advice do you have then to help the op with alternative treatments.

I will look for a better ginger link.

Popular Body Cleansing Herbs
Garlic--blood cleanser, lowers blood fats, natural antibiotic
Red clover blossoms--blood cleanser, good during healing
Echinacea--lymph node cleanser
Dandelion root--liver and blood cleanser, diuretic, filters toxins
Chaparral--strong blood cleanser
Cayenne pepper--blood purifier, increases fluid elimination and sweat
Ginger root--stimulates circulation and sweating
Burdock root--skin and blood cleanser, diuretic, improves liver function, antibacterial and antifungal properties
Sarsaparilla root--blood and lymph cleanser, contains saponins that reduce microbes and toxins
Oregon grape root--skin and colon cleanser, blood purifier, liver stimulant
Goldenseal root--blood, liver, kidney and skin cleanser; stimulates detoxification

I had my herb wrong, but ginger stimulates the system in order to sweat out toxins.

As I said previously the OP ASKED for ALTERNATIVE so why would i not use mercola as they are ALTERNATIVE. She has done the conventional route and it has not worked, it has FAILED. So why are people so upset with alternative, I can tell you why, because modern medicine is a 'scared cow' and to infer that it does not work is too much.

LOL a Sacred cow.

How?

What toxins?

What are toxins?

Ta in advance...

Although the effects of ginger are varied...there is evidence that it is anti-inflammatory, anti-oxident, anti-cancer in various scientific reports, and there appears to be quite a lot of evidence that it is positive for health in many many situations, just not i neliminating toxins via the liver. There is some implication that via stimulation of the gut that it helps eliminate toxins from teh digestive tract, just not via the liver.

Those which I have specifically looked up relating to the liver suggest that it inhibts uptake of toxins into the liver and inhibits the main class of enzymes which break down toxins. This suggests that it prevents the elimination of toxins from the body. My literature searching has by no means been thorough though, and there may be other aspects of liver function I have missed.

Anyway. This was not really the point of the thread. Sorry for dragging this up.

I'd also recommend contacting the professional body, the national institute of medical herbalists:

www.nimh.org.uk

They can put you in touch with a qualified medicinal herbalist on your area.

NIMH herbalists generally take a holistic approach - e.g. they spend some time establish things such as whether there are environmental factors, or other existing conditions which are causing / contributing to the problem (rather than simply treating the symptoms). Seeing a practitioner is more than just getting a remedy prescribed - they may well suggest lifestyle changes etc aimed at addressing the cause first and foremost, and then prescribe remedies.

Alternatively if you want to learn about it yourself, the City Lit do some good evening classes. It's years since I did a class there but this one - Herbal remedies for common complaints -
looks like the nearest to the one I went on.

I'm also thinking about taking their course Herbal medicine: children's health

Some interesting points here. Someone has mentioned candida as an issue. I hadn't thought of this in terms of my own dd's problem. So will be busy resarching that too now.