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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Maybe, but this is strep throat, and doctors will recognize that 9 times out of 10 because it presents way different from a cold or a flu.
Normally Strep throat will clear up in a couple of days, so there had to be something else wrong with the kid especially since it sounds like he was bed ridden and then had seizures.
The mother was a stupid cow, if your kid and most kinds have amazing immune systems isn't getting better is three or four days then you take them to the doctor, it doesn't matter if the doctor rolls his eyes, at least he's going to take a look just to avoid a lawsuit later.
Feeding him herbs and roots and seeing him get sicker and not doing anything is not a rational act for a parent.
I've always said that these people that sell natural medicines should have to have the same kind of educational requirement as at least a pharmacist.
That would separate the quacks from the cons trying to make a quick buck.
They should also have to carry malpractice insurance.
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My favorite "herbal" store story:
A very thin 30 year old diabetic comes to my counter asking for some insulin. As I'm filling the request, I look at his pharmanet profile (a complete history of all meds filed in BC) and notice he hasn't bought strips ever.
I chat with him and ask his history. He is a newly diagnosed type 1 diabetic. He doesn't feel he needs to check his sugars, he knows when they're high. As we are talking, he's actually quite hostile towards me. As I discuss the importance of testing and ask about his diabetic training and find out he was diagnosed by the walk in clinic and sent to the diabetic center for training, dietician, etc, but he never went.
He told me how he recently had gone to a natural health store on Kelowna, where a salesman told him that insulin and glucose machines were pharma's way of keeping him in the system. The answer to all the problems was a special $100 bottle of fenugreek extract that naturally controlled blood sugar.
After doing the "research" on his own, he couldn't believe we would do this to people when the cute was right there. He was going to get it when he had money.
Now I'm not sure what happened to him, but a type 1 diabetic who doesn't test their sugars and stops taking insulin, will die a hundred times out of a hundred. I hope that after he bought it he recognized his high sugars and went to the hospital