Research
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Kozyrskyj, A.; Pierre, E. and Becker, A.
Increased Risk of Childhood Asthma From Antibiotic Use in Early
Life.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/560029.
2007 July 20.
These 2 studies look at the
relationship between antibiotic usage in the first year of life and
the development of asthma in childhood.
Both studies found a correlation between the two, with the
highest likelihood of developing asthma being after receiving four
or more courses of antibiotics.
More research is needed in this area but this study is a
starting off point for further research.
Antibiotic usage in infancy is
generally used for ear infections.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) the
management of children with suspected ear infections should be watch
and wait. Often time
ears infections are caused by a virus, in which case antibiotics
wouldn’t help. There
are many ways to treat an ear infection without antibiotics.
Please ask your chiropractor how.
- Wiberg, JM, Nordsteen, J, Nilsson, N.
The Short-term Effect of Spinal Manipulation in the Treatment of
Infantile Colic: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial with a
Blinded Observer. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1999 Oct;
22(8):517-22.
This study was designed to test the
theory that chiropractic manipulation has an effect on decreasing
the symptoms of colic.
The study was done on infants in a chiropractic practice and at the
National Health Service’s health visitor nurses in the suburb
Ballerup (Copenhagen, Denmark).
One group was given chiropractic adjustments.
The other group was treated with the drug dimethicone, both
for 2 weeks.
Results: By trial days 4 to 7,
hours of crying were reduced by 1 hour in the dimethicone group
compared with 2.4 hours in the manipulation group.
On days 8 through 11, crying was reduced by 1 hour for the
dimethicone group, whereas crying in the manipulation group was
reduced by 2.7 hours.
From trial day 5 onward the manipulation group did significantly
better that the dimethicone group.
A statistical significance was found in chiropractic care
helping reduce symptoms of infantile colic over the medication
dimethicone.
- Boline, PD, et al. Spinal Manipulation
vs. Amitriptyline for the Treatment of Chronic Tension-Type
Headaches: a Randomized Clinical Trial.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1995 Mar-Apr;18(3):148-54.
The purpose of this study was to
compare spinal manipulation and a medication amitriptyline in the
treatment of chronic tension headaches.
Amitriptyline is an antidepressant and therefore should help
reduce tension.
Results: During the treatment
period, both groups improved at very similar rates in all primary
outcomes. In relation to baseline values at 4 wk after stopping
treatment, the spinal manipulation group showed a reduction of
32% in headache intensity, 42% in headache frequency, 30% in
over-the-counter medication usage and an improvement of 16% in
functional health status. By comparison, the amitriptyline therapy
group showed no improvement or a slight worsening from baseline
values in the same four major outcome measures.
Also, 82.1% of the particpipants in the medication
group reported side effects that included drowsiness, dry mouth and
weight gain. In
comparison on 4.3% of the spinal manipulation group reported side
effects which included mild neck soreness and stiffness.
Chiropractic care is more effective
in the long-term outcome of chronic tension headaches than the drug
amitryptyline.
