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Homeopatia em pediatria

Authors: Pinto, Ana Isabel Alves;

Homeopatia em pediatria

Abstract

Numa sociedade em constante processo de formação e de informação, não conhecer determinada terapia não pode ser a resposta de um profissional de farmácia ao seu utente. A divulgação massiva de tratamentos naturalistas, alternativos e baseados em saberes ancestrais, frequentemente entram em conflito com as prescrições médicas e aconselhamentos farmacêuticos. Com as medicinas alternativas a ganhar terreno paulatinamente, como se observa com a utilização da acupunctura e de fitoterápicos, a homeopatia volta a ganhar o terreno que perdeu no século XX. E se a controvérsia científica sistematicamente esgrime acusações de “propaganda enganosa” em relação à homeopatia, a verdade é que pela resiliência que este tipo de terapêutica não convencional tem demonstrado, através da reprodutibilidade dos efeitos terapêuticos homeopáticos, tem obtido resultados consistentes nos tratamentos efetuados. Pelo simples fato de não haver técnicas que possam medir a efetividade das diluições homeopáticas, não se pode atribuir a certeza de “falso medicamento”. O que se procurou conseguir com este trabalho foi, através de uma revisão bibliográfica, perceber até que ponto, a utilização de preparados homeopáticos são úteis no tratamento crianças, assim como, perceber que estudos dão suporte a este tipo de terapêutica, que resultados apresentam, e de que forma esta terapêutica se complementa com as terapêuticas convencionais. Podemos concluir que a homeopatia é procurada como alternativa, pelos pais das crianças, ainda que os pediatras assumam não possuir conhecimentos suficientemente sustentados, para aconselhar neste sentido terapêutico. No entanto, a reprodutibilidade dos efeitos terapêuticos encontram-se bem fundamentados por diversos estudos de investigação científica, o que leva a uma procura cada vez mais acentuada deste tipo de terapêutica não convencional. In a society in constant process of training and information, not knowing a particular therapy may not be the answer of a pharmacist to its client. The massive dissemination of naturalistic treatments, alternative treatments and treatments based on ancestral knowledge often conflict with the medical prescriptions and pharmaceutical advice. With alternative medicines gaining ground steadily, as observed with the use of acupuncture and phytotherapic medicines, homeopathy is gaining back the ground they lost in the twentieth century. And if the scientific controversy systematically wield accusations of "false advertising" related to homeopathy, the truth is that the resilience that this type of therapeutic procedure have demonstrated by the reproducibility of the homeopathic therapeutics, have obtained consistent results in the treatments applied. The simple fact that we presently don’t have any techniques that measure the effectiveness of homeopathic dilutions can’t be assumed as an affirmation of "fake medicine". What this study seeks to achieve, through a literature review, is to see the effectiveness of homeopathic preparations on pediatric treatments, as well as gather studies supporting this type of therapy, and how this therapy is complemented with conventional therapies. We can conclude that homeopathy is sought as an alternative, by parents, even when pediatricians assume that do not have enough sustained knowledge to advise this therapeutic option. However, the reproducibility of therapeutic effects is well substantiated by several scientific studies, leading to an increasingly strong demand for this type of therapeutic procedures.

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