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Whats in a cold. Not a lot. |
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| Posted by: richard |
Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:37:31 GMT |
Eloise has made a remarkable recovery. Crusty nose is all thats left. Now it could be I got the diagnosis wrong and the runny nose, watery eyes and coughing were something else.
Because if my diagnosis is right and children can recover from a cold with out using the shelves and shelves of potions one sees in most chemist shops I may be onto something, unfortunatly there is no money to be made from doing nothing.
Every day I see people come into my office after beeing prescribed all sorts of chemicals for pain relief. Despite the dangers the billion dollar drug Vioxx is back on the market because people suffering were told there is no allternative, they question theyshould be asking how were people allowed to end up in such chronic pain, dependent on these drugs.
Any one who watches sport may have noticed that injured athletes never reach for a jar of pills, they allways put ice on their injury because it dilates the blood vessels reducing inflamatatory chemicals around damaged tissue and the cold sensory stimulation has the added effect of reducing pain sensation. I have yet to meet a patient who has been advised by their medical doctor to use ice. WHY?
Perhaps because salesmen are not doing the rounds selling frozen water, frozen water would not do much for the share price and the share holders allways come first in corporate health care. |
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