Upon meeting the homeopath I noticed many key differences between him and our GP.
First, he talked to my baby boy (who promptly smiled straight away).
He mentioned how thrilled he was that we had brought our son to him because any case in a young child was often complex and interesting.
He asked for mine and my husbands family histories.
He told me that I made the right decisions when I explained my parenting choices to him.
He actually touched the skin and looked at it up close instead of making a judgement from across the room. He knew what it was by the feel of it. He is retired now but all those years of experience give me great confidence in his abilities.
My exact thoughts were mirrored in his words "God put everything that we needed on this earth at the beginning and it was us that stuffed it up."
He said he would do a urine test just to make sure his assumption was correct before starting his recommended treatment.
He told us that stopping any steroid cream straight away (which is what our doc told us to do) would just exacerbate the problem and that we needed to wean our son off it slowly.
He came up with a plan of action rather than just a lets-see-if-this-works approach
I told him some of my thoughts and he actually made my convictions stronger by explaining in depth some of the things I suspected. When I told him that our GP looked at me like I was an idiot when I brought up the research I had done, the homeopath said to me "you know more than you think you do madam"
It was so refreshing to have a stimulating intellectual conversation with someone that didn't take me for a fool simply because I questioned the pharmaceutical status quo.
He also backed up my thoughts on baby lead weaning. The idea being that you just give your baby normal food instead of purées. Babies have a very strong gag reflex which diminishes around 8 months. This is around the time that society accepts as the age for introducing bigger lumps into babies food. We teach them first to swallow and later to chew. My thoughts are, teach them to chew first while their gag reflex is still awesome and then they can swallow without choking later on. The homeopath took this one step further and said the reason there is an increased incidence of needless ear infections now is because chewing develops the Eustachian tubes. Back in the day the baby used to be given a leftover bone to gnaw on. Now that we are in the age of the blender they don't have to chew even though they are created with perfectly hard gums.
Isn't it funny that we still take modern medicines word as law even though every thing doctors are taught is overturned about 10 years after it is first researched.
The only medicine that is being practised the same way it used to be is natural medicine.
200 years ago: "Here, eat this root"
100 years ago: "No that root is no good! Here, pray this prayer"
50 years ago: "That prayer is rubbish! Here, take this pill"
10 years ago: "That pill is poison! Here, take this antibiotic"
Now: "That antibiotic is dangerous! Here, eat this root"
We are seeing him again next week for a catch up and to implement stage two. I plan to tell him of our decision not to vaccinate so it will be interesting to get his opinion on that.
My boys face is looking better already. Lets hope the progress continues.
