Infantile Colic Improved with ChiropracticThe National Health Service in Ballerup (Copenhagen, Denmark)
conducted a study involving 50 infants with diagnoses infantile colic.
Half of the group was given the drug dimethicon while the other half
was given chiropractic care. In this study nine of the 25 taking the
drug dropped out of the study because the infants were getting worse.
These infants were then not counted in the final results which would
have shown a worse result for the drug than published.
Even with the removal from the tabulations of the infants who got worst
using the drug, the results showed a significant improvement in the
group that were under chiropractic care. By days 4 to 7 of the study,
the infants remaining in the drug group had reduced their hours of
crying by only one hour while the entire chiropractic group had reduced
crying hours by an average of 2.4 hours. The results after 8 to 10 day
into the study continued to show the drug therapy infants at a one hour
improvement while the chiropractic group further improved to 2.7 hours
less of crying. The researchers noted that the removal from the study
of the infants that got worse from the drug made the results from the
drug look better than they actually were.
Chiropractic Care Conquers ColicThe
above title appeared in the December 1998 issue of Country Living's
Healthy Living, beginning on page 53. The article details the concerns
of a mom whose new baby was suffering from colic. The article featured
the mother’s account of the situation starting from her initial phone
call to the pediatrician. "When I phoned my doctor to ask if he thought
it was safe (to see a chiropractor), he was ambivalent: Chiropractic
would neither harm nor help. He told me that if it was colic, it would
run its course in three months."
After this
advice, her next stop was to take the child to the chiropractor. She
recalled that the first visit was an extended one with a lot of time
spent caring for the child and the parents. Following the first
adjustment, the child seemed to be more reactive and colicky, but she
followed the instructions given her by the chiropractor and the baby
calmed right down. "We had five more sessions with the chiropractor.
Each lasted 20 minutes and Lucy (the infant!) really seemed to enjoy
them. It completely changed what was fast becoming a nightmare. I'd
like to recommend to everyone with a colicky infant see a chiropractor.
It certainly worked for us."
Infantile ColicProbably
one of the most frustrating situations new parents find themselves in
is having to deal with a child that is suffering from colic. For these
parents a recent study conducted in South Africa
offers some good news. In a study by Mercer and Cook, thirty infants
who had been diagnosed medically with colic were randomly divided into
two groups. One group received chiropractic care while the other group
did not. All infants in this study were newborn to 8 weeks old and had
been diagnosed with colic by a pediatrician. For the purposes of this
study, the infants in the chiropractic group received care for a
two-week period with a maximum of six adjustments. The results of the
study were very impressive. In the group that received chiropractic
care, there was complete resolution of symptoms in 93% of the infants
within the two-week period. Even more impressive was that in a follow
up survey performed one month later, none of the infants had
experienced a reoccurrence of problems from colic. The chiropractic
care rendered in this study was spinal adjusting.
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