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In reply to the discussion: Woman charged for not giving her son prescribed medication for disease [View all]Lionessa
(3,894 posts)of what the truth is.
More importantly how a child with such a problem not have seen a real doctor along the way, such that even if alternative was attempted, it was properly monitored by a professional.
With some of the pharma side effects, I can understand why some situations might require an alternative. My daughter for example, couldn't handle formulas, just couldn't. She would throw up more than she drank. After discussing with pediatrician about just going start to pap and cows milk he indicated that cows milk is too hard on infant tummies. With that data, I suggested the newly available acidofolous milk with yogurt cultures. He said fine but go in for weekly anemia tests to determine if she was having any gastric bleeding, we did that, there was none, and we found an alternative to a forced feeding tube.
So excuse me if I'm not always ready to discount all non-pharma options just out of hand. Yes, kelp sounds suspicious, but it is a pretty amazing plant from what I read not related to pharma, so I wouldn't be entirely surprised if it had some amazing pharma recognized properties some day.