Children: Higher Expectations Help Fight Asthma
By Eric Nagourney
Published: October 13, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/health/research/14chil.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
To the Editor:
Having suffered asthma myself I can tell you that the best way to raise parents’ expectations for their asthmatic children is not by having them accept that asthma is a chronic ailment and administer drugs more aggressively as suggested in Mr. Nagourney’s article but to offer them the hope of curing the illness without the use of drugs at all. I cured my asthma using acupuncture, naturopathy, and homeopathy after the conventional doctors had given up on me. They told me that my asthma would be chronic and debilitating and the best I could look forward to was a lifetime using steroidal drugs and inhalers. Refusing to accept those terms, I sought and found relief and a total cure elsewhere. I’ve not had an asthma attack since 1995.
Unfortunately, conventional doctors have a limited bag of tricks when it comes to many so-called “chronic” illnesses. Worse yet is that they won’t admit to their limitations and leave you uninformed that there may be options for a cure with which they are unfamiliar. My asthma was so severe that had I not sought alternative ideas for healing, I might not be alive today.
Asthma in children is particularly difficult for many reasons. These children tend to miss school, must opt out of activities that could bring on an asthma attack, and have drugs administered at school all of which bring physical and psychological hardship upon the child. In addition, the drugs themselves could be doing more harm than good by causing a cascade of physiological events that can further debilitate the child. Not to mention the hardship of having to experience the inability to breathe. This is a tough way to start out in life.
For parents who are interested in a cure, there are two books I recommend they read to inform themselves of their options – one is the newly published The Allergy and Asthma Cure: A Complete 8-Step Nutritional Program
Sincerely,
Lynn M. Klein
Certified Holistic Health Counselor
Filed under: Letters Tagged: | Acupuncture, Alternative Medicine, Asthma, Children, Holistic Health, Homeopathy, Naturopathy
