I do agree that the child died due to negligence or the lack of urgency when it came to the extent of the childs sickness. Yes, there are times that alternative medicine would work better than modern medicine BUT in this case, maybe the fact that Gloria wasn’t getting better would have been a sign for them to at least consider bringing her to a hospital before it was too late.

It wouldn’t hurt to deviate from your beliefs/practices. You’ll never know when and what may help you.

Reading so much trash has been extremely exhausting.
All the stupid sarcasm and slanderous slurs are utterly disgusting.
Some claim mankind has “evolved”, but most bloggers here are very immature.

Obviously, the whole holistic war here was started by the media, whose AGENDA,
evidently, for writing this propaganda piece, was stirring up a hornets’ nest of sheer
emotionalism [hate] – and they, apparently, succeeded in fooling these followers.

Many so-called “homo sapiens” eagerly jumped on the bandwagon to join in the WITCH HUNT. This angry, vigilante lynch mob dogmatically repeat their delusions endlessly –
so sickening. Their “wishful thinking” is that by calling us [knowers] LIARS,
they [magically] alter reality.

After being tortured by [modern] medicine all my life, and constantly deteriorating,
Homeopathy SAVED my life. I’m still disabled and can’t afford the traveling and doctoring
that state Medicaid and other insurance, unfairly, won’t cover, because they are all in bed together. So, I bought the best books I could afford, and have been treating myself ever
since then. Nothing has ever really helped any condition, except energy medicine,
especially Homeopathy. I, also, initially read in a [biased] dictionary that the remedies
are diluted down to “nothing”. Fortunately, with GOD’s help and my superior intelligence,
I learned true science regarding Homeopathy.

By the way, true science, by definition, means to SEARCH for truth until it is thoroughly proven, not – as has been the reality in 99% of its history – seeking evidence to “prove”
one’s [desired] outcome. Furthermore, the word “skeptic” does not mean disbeliever;
but, like the word “agnostic”, it means that one does not know what s/he believes yet,
and they keep looking for genuine answers.

Naturopathic herbals contain [molecular] ingredients. Since, Homeopathy is not chemical reactions, but, rather, ENERGY medicine, the remedies consist of activated water, without [gross] ingredients. In addition, ignoramuses don’t realize that modern drugs came from original herbals like foxglove; and the vaccines they so proudly tout, were merely [modern] medicine’s attempt
to copycat the action of Homeopathy’s Law of Similars,
in order to cash in on the market of Homeopathy; because, in the 1800’s it held the popular appeal. Unfortunately, for humanity, the AMA was set up, as a means to start bullying their competition and crushing all of their rights, in order to form their own profitable MONOPOLY.

No, I’m not stupid, and will not fall for your tricks. My disabilities and experiences are my business. The few obsessive-compulsives who check this blog everyday, so they can continue being argumentative, and try to relentlessly drum their false dogma into some sucker’s head,
like the domineering bullies they are, can never alter reality or truth,
like they delude themselves they can. Do they, really, believe their own lies? And, I don’t intend
to write a book on this site. There are many books to learn from if anyone is sincere, and wishes to improve their health and lives. I will not waste my time, trying to reason with unreasonable people with personality disorders. This summary of important facts is only for the sake/benefit of any innocent and open-minded readers who might happen upon this blog site, as I did,
sometime in the future.

And, GOD bless you, Joey; you are the epitome of godlike wisdom, order, and justice.

P.S.: Like most here, I don’t know all the real facts, just the blogging statements.
However, without knowing the full story, I must presume the parents’ natural love.
As a reasonable person, I expect that loving parents really did their best, in a very trying,
exasperating situation, with a number of doctors, diagnoses, prognoses, treatments,
and other advice, all battling one another for attention, belief, and support.

Above all, understanding the immense virtue and value of gentle, curative Homeopathy,
in contrast to suppressive, harmful allopathy; I would, certainly, do everything
in my power to see that Homeopathy was given a chance to work; even though,
both Homeopathy and allopathy can run into complex cases with confusing symptoms
and incompetent doctors.

Just how many people have we heard about, who have spent years, even traveling; seeing
dozens of doctors, even dozens of specialists, and having hundreds of repeated, expensive, dangerous, and painful tests, by allopathic physicians; all in their desperate efforts to find
a diagnoses and/or a treatment for their illness? None of you want to put these people
in prison, when their efforts fail and they end up sicker and/or dead; simply because,
they didn’t “know” that the first doctor was “right”, and blindly follow his orders,
without question, worshipping the first allopathic physician they saw, like a god.
You hypocrites.

Simply washing the skin and applying calendula cream would have prevented infection and death.

Both of your questions have been addressed multiple times in previous comments, so I’m led to believe that you won’t read my answers to them, either.

If a parent gives their child a clinically-tested, FDA-approved medication, two things have happened. First, it has been tested and shown to explicitly treat that particular illness or problem such that it is highly unlikely that improvement in the condition that comes after using the medication is a chance occurrence. Second, every FDA-approved medication comes with very clear indications of side effects that were seen during the course of prolonged testing — including death in some cases — for a given medication. If the parent is acting in their best faith to treat their child and the child dies from the medication itself, then the parent has done nothing except become the victim of unfortunate chance. In the Sams’ case, the parents are being held accountable for the death of their child because they were grossly negligent. Their homeopathic remedy was very clearly not working, and instead of trying any number of different remedies that are currently available for treating eczema (Jesus Christ, *eczema*. I still can’t believe this.), they chose to allow their child to suffer and succumb to a bacterial infection that could have very easily been prevented. It is negligence, pure and simple.

Answering your second question is inextricably tied into the answer to the first. Everyone who takes a medication is told of the risks inherent in doing so. If they decide to take it anyway, they are taking into their own hands the possibility of unfortunate side effects — again including death — to occur. Drugs, by definition, alter the workings of a system in your body. This has the potential to end badly. There is absolutely no denying that people die from prescription drugs. That said, the vast majority of people who take them gain some benefit from them, and the benefits outweigh the risks.

If you want to take homeopathic medicines and crow about how radically they’ve changed your life for the better, go for it. I’ll tell you how happy I am for you that you feel great and mean it with every ounce of my being. But if your unwavering adherence to an unproven (anecdotal evidence is NOT EVIDENCE, despite its name, folks) method of treatment is resulting in the active harm of someone who is too young or mentally incapacitated to reject it in favor of something that works, you are doing the wrong thing. If they die, you are a murderer, period.

Eur Respir J. 1998 Jan;11(1):229-33.
A childhood asthma death in a clinical trial: potential indicators of risk.

Warner JO, Nikolaizik WH, Besley CR, Warner JA.

Child Health, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, UK.

A 9 yr old girl with a history of eczema and asthma was admitted to our specialist asthma service and recruited into a trial designed to investigate systemic as well as therapeutic benefits of inhaled corticosteroids. Eight months after referral the patient died from an acute asthma attack. This childhood asthma death during an inhaled steroid trial has facilitated identification of risk factors. Despite good clinical response to inhaled corticosteroids, the patient was distinguishable from the other patients by: increased variability of the morning and evening peak flow rates; increased reactivity, though not sensitivity, to histamine; and an unprecedented rise in serum soluble interleukin-2 receptor levels immediately after commencing inhaled steroids. The immunological basis for corticosteroid resistance and immunohistochemical studies on postmortem specimens from asthma deaths suggest that T-cell activation markers may be indicators of the fatality prone asthmatic.

And please, the “they’re killing babies!” routine sounds just like the Reverend Mrs. Lovejoy on “The Simpsons,” and is every bit as LAME! It certainly does not enhance your case.

Consider convention medicine where medical error is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. with hundreds of thousands of people die every year just in the U.S. because of appropriately prescribed drugs. Or consider autopsy surveys in the U.S. and U.K. which show that 1/3 of all patients that die in hospitals are being treated for something other than the disease which killed them.

It is swine flu season. Why isn’t Discover publishing an article that describes how less that a few percent of homeopathic patients died in the 1918 flu pandemic where conventional treatment lead to deaths of about 20% of patients. This includes millions of children unnecessarily dead.

Real science does not include disinformation wars using emotional stupidity and incompetence as a reason to discard a method of treatment that kills far fewer people than conventional treatment.

If you insist on emotional stories to make your decisions, how about this one. It is a true story from the leading homeopath in the U.S.

Patient: My son died yesterday.
Doctor: Any unusual things happen prior to death.
Patient: Yes, he got his routine vaccinations the day before he died.
Doctor: (after doing complete history) The vaccine may have precipitated and immune response that caused the death.

Patient: (A few weeks later) My second son died yesterday.
Doctor: Any unusual circumstances?
Patient: I took the second son in for routine vaccinations the day before he died. My pediatrician told me to do it. (after he killed the first son)

Does this mean we should avoid pediatricians? I spent 11 years on the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Medicine training these physicians on how to interpret medical studies and how to treat their patients. Many of the them are very good and my children and grandchildren are visiting them. Should we avoid vaccinations? Not on this evidence alone as it is well know that vaccinations kill a small percentage of those vaccinated and public health officials think it is worth it to save the lives of many more.

Please realise that many people choose not to vaccinate for ethical, moral and spiritual reasons. For example, the rubella vaccine is cultivated on the cells of an aborted human foetus which is abhorrent to some people. Also, year book statistics do not support the myth that vaccines caused the decline in diseases… improvements in living standards caused the majority of the decline (up to 90% for some diseases).

I thought so….

BTW, I am not a traditional homeopath, although I have used and prescribed homeopathic remedies with great success.

…oh, and my wife is a doctor.

Nuff said….