Acid Reflux / GERD & Colic

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Homeopathy for Heartburn

For chronic colic, GERD or acid reflux, constitutional homeopathic treatment is recommended. Or, book an acute homeopathic consultation for occasional episodes of heartburn, GERD or colic.

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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Example of Cured Case of GERD and Vomiting with Homeopathy

An infant, N. 54 days old, was vomiting milk and could not retain milk even of small quantity. There was incessant and intractable vomiting.

A provisional diagnosis of gastro-esophageal reflux was made at the hospital and a scan was done to rule out aspiration.

Good tracer accumulation seen in the stomach. Tracer seen to rise until the upper esophagus intermittently starting immediately following the radioactive meal.

Scan evidence of intermittent moderate Gastro-esophageal Reflux seen. No scan evidence of Aspiration seen.

It was impossible to put the baby on its back for sleep for fear of aspiration and was advised to keep the baby in propped up position day and night.

The baby did not vomit so long it was in the propped up position. Baby was observed arching his back.

This modality was translated to > bending back which is so characteristic of homeopathic Dioscorea. This was administered in 0/1 potency 4-to 5 times a day with improvement.

The remedy was continued till 6.8.2001 when the baby was able to sleep on his back or sides.

The baby is 2 years 8 months now with no problem.

Colicky babies seem to be inconsolable…but homeopathy can help says Dr Tim Robinson

Infantile colic is a common problem in babies, especially up to around sixteen weeks of age. It is characterised by incessant crying, often inconsolable, usually in the evenings and often through the night. Having excluded underlying pathology, the standard advice given by GPs and health visitors is winding technique, Infacol or Gripe Water. These measures are often ineffective but for­tunately there are a number of homeo­pathic medicines that may be effective. In my experience Colocynth is the most successful; alternatives are Carbo Veg, Chamomilla and Nux vomica.

Why colocynth?
Recently I have treated two cases of infantile colic in my surgery. By coinci­dence they attended within a few days of each other. They both responded rapidly and spectacularly to Colocynth.

Ruby
Baby Ruby was presented to me at nine weeks old. She had been bottle fed from birth onwards. At four weeks she started to get colic; between 6­-9pm each evening she cried incessantly and inconsolably. She drew her legs up and was difficult to wind. She woke every 1­2 hours throughout the night, was difficult to feed and settle. At four weeks she was given Infacol which made no difference to her colic and made her gag each time she had it. I saw Ruby for her eight week check; by this time she had been suf­fering with her colic for four weeks con­tinuously. I prescribed Colocynth 30c three times daily before feeds.

Sleep easy
I reviewed her one week later and was delighted to learn that Ruby had slept every night since starting the Colocynth. The first night she slept eight hours and subsequent nights five hours each. She was now feeding and winding well. She was no longer drawing her legs up. I advised her mother to slowly wean her off the Colocynth but restart it in the same way if the colic returned. Ruby’s mother was so impressed; she looked so much happier and fresher. The nicest thing she told me was that she was now ‘enjoying’ Ruby so much more.

Amelia
The second case of infantile colic was young Amelia, also nine weeks old. She was breast fed from birth. At two weeks of age, she started to have colic. During the day she was unsettled, frequently cry­ing, drawing her legs up to her chest. She would only settle if she was being held. Each evening she would cry between 6pm and midnight. She needed frequent feeds to be pacified and didn’t want to be put down. She woke every night, at 1am, 3am and 5am. She would feed and fall off to sleep, but then wake as soon as her mother attempted to put her in her cot and so the cycle would continue.

I deliberated between Colocynth and Chamomilla. I decide against the latter on the grounds that she did not have the angry, irritable features characteristic of Chamomilla. As before I prescribed Colocynth 30c three times daily.

Dramatic change
I reviewed her one week later. Amelia was ‘a completely different little girl’ according to Dad. Grand­mother also noticed a dramatic change in her, having seen her before and since the treatment. She was now settling after feeds, winding much more easily and hav­ing only brief bursts of crying during the evening. According to Mum, dur­ing the day she seemed ‘much happier and more contented in herself’. She now lay willingly on the floor, needed very little comforting or holding. Each evening she had fed frequently but was now able to be put down without screaming. She was now sleeping for long stretches; on three nights she had slept from 11pm to 6.30am. The difference in Amelia had been noticed the day following the start of Colocynth and had continued from then onwards. Having had six weeks of colic and crying on a daily basis, Amelia’s mother had certainly noted the difference, as had all the family! She her­self was familiar with homeopathic treat­ment (her pregnancy nausea and heart­burn was more effectively treated with Nux vomica than Gaviscon). She had already reduced the frequency of the Colocynth to twice daily and had con­tinued to enjoy its benefits.

Reply to critics
I wanted to share these cases for a num­ber of reasons. They reminded me of how helpful homeopathy can be in the GP setting for conditions in which there is no conventional treatment or when conventional treatment has been unsuc­cessful.

Homeopathy critics would undoubt­edly say that infantile colic is a self limiting condition and the babies got better for that reason. I don’t deny that it is a self limiting but note that both of them, aged only eight weeks old, had suffered from colic every day and night over the previous 4­-6 weeks and had got better immediately upon taking the medicine. I’m sure even the staunchest critic would find this difficult to comprehend, explain and dismiss.

No placebo
It is clear that the immediate improve­ment couldn’t have been a placebo response. The babies did not know that they were receiving treatment with homeopathic medicine. At that age they are only just distinguishing faces and making eye contact. They are not old enough to visualise and comprehend the fact that they are having powdered remedies on a teaspoon twice daily.

Equally I don’t believe that the mother’s behaviour, willing the medicine to work was somehow being transmitted and received by the babies.

If our critics really wanted to be convinced that the response wasn’t placebo or natural resolution perhaps they should interview the mothers to hear their story, they couldn’t help being convinced.