Doctors warn: no remedy immunize against influenza A
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A retired teacher Mary Ellen (not her real name), 58, was confused when the employee of a pharmacy called his home warning that the homeopathic her against influenza A was ready. "I was surprised. I had not ordered anything, "he says. Dr Sidney (real name) was also baffled when a patient of his told him that another doctor had recommended the flu vaccine to protect against common swine flu, charging a 75% higher than usual.
In times of influenza A, where the death toll from the disease grows in geometric progression, the population does not know what to do and what to believe. And when the health authorities seem to fail, the output sought is whatever comes first. One example is the recipe for this tea, star anise that ran the Internet, through e-mails, and caused the plant to become the new Tamiflu in its popular version, only because both contain a substance similar in composition. Even without scientific evidence of its effects, the anise tea is now recommended by word of mouth, lack of brand-name drug to combat and prevent the new flu.
It is precisely at times like this, however, that people should be more vigilant, experts say. "That's when the smart ones will abuse the faith of the people," the president of the Paraguayan Infectious Diseases and a member of the Regional Council of Medicine of Parana (CRM-PR), Alceu Fontana Pacheco.
This week, the report came into contact with a pharmacy of Curitiba and commissioned as homeopathic flu A. The information passed by the attendants is the medicine was being prescribed, at the request of a physician, for all their patients as a means of prevention. Without any difficulty, reference was made and the two bottles, one with the substance and the other with Influenzinum Colibacillinum, totaling R $ 15.80, were caught the next day without any prior consultation, prescription or confirmation of information.
According to the president of the Homeopathic Medical Association of Paraná, Jayme Simoes, there is no homeopathic flu A. However, he said, homeopathy can be used as a means to redress the balance of the body of the individual. These substances, as used in the prevention and treatment of common cold, stimulate the body's defenses and thereby enhance immunity against various diseases.
The crux of the issue, however, is to improve the immunity of a patient does not mean that he will be immune. "If homeopathic medicine is used correctly, the individual is less susceptible to disease and tend to get influenza A and other is smaller, but strengthen the body does not mean that the individual is immune," said Simoes.
The correct homeopathic treatment, according to Simões, provides individuality in therapy. "There is no magic formula that can be given to everybody," he said. Individualization also happens in the production of the drug. According to the coordinator of the Health Surveillance, Rosana Zappa, the pharmacies can not produce scale. "The medication has to be done under medical prescription, a patient patient," he says.
According to Simoes, to prescribe the medication, yet it is necessary for the physician to assess which patients are alert or not and what the specific remedy for each one. The idea that "it does not hurt" falls to the ground, according to Simões. According to the doctor, homeopathic medicines are misused, yes, bring serious side effects.
Vaccine
In relation to the vaccine, it must also be well informed. For Pacheco, the fact that patients feel that they are immunized against influenza A to be vaccinated against common flu can be dangerous. "This can disarm people," he opines. Despite some papers raise the possibility that the vaccine for common flu can bring some protection against influenza A virus by means of a cross-reaction, there is no scientific evidence to that effect.
"I am the proof that the seasonal flu vaccine does not protect against the pandemic," said Pacheco - the doctor had laboratory confirmation that got the new flu virus, even though they vaccinated against common flu. According to Pacheco, every physician, however, has the right to have an expert opinion on the subject. "What is there can be no economic interest behind it," he explains.
If there is suspected, the patient should seek the CRM-PR and file a complaint. An inquest will be opened to investigate the facts. So far, the CRM-PR did not register any complaint against the professional approach to the prevention and treatment against influenza A suspect
Source: Gazeta do Povo
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