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My wife became insane and nearly died after taking a very ordinary malaria tablet.
I hope she recovered. I think I've heard of such side-effects.
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My wife became insane and nearly died after taking a very ordinary malaria tablet.
I had not heard of him, but had heard of some of his work. I will check him out more, but so far he sounds good. Thanks for the introduction.You are in good company there - know about David Healy?
I find it somewhat disappointing that for example, the value of B12 shots has not been studied as far as I know.
That is what I call common sense psychological support. Doing whatever you think you can to make life bearable. I guess it shows sympathy. And I have always thought one could be 'optimistic' without any need for a 'spin'. It helped a lot when my sister in law, who had once had to do the caring I was having to do, just said 'hang in there, you will get through', which could have meant anything, but picked me up off the floor. But I agree that the canned stuff is lethal.
The Open Medicine Institute successfully crowdfunded a study on this at the beginning of the year - haven't seen an update.
My wife became insane and nearly died after taking a very ordinary malaria tablet.
This was most like Larium (which may have another name in the UK vs. US) and is a fluoroquinolone. It is the most toxic of all the quinolones and can cause acute psychosis. This has occurred to many in the military after being forced to take Larium and also to many traveling to Africa for a vacation or safari and became psychotic, violent, suicidal and has led to many deaths. And I am talking about people with absolutely zero prior psychiatric history before taking Larium.
And even if you can handle it for yourself you don't want to be the one who made the recommendation when someone else comes to grief.
One of the best pieces of advice on using more experimental treatments is "Start low and go slow". I have seen this many times, indeed I was promoting it from about 1999, though not stated so succinctly and eloquently.
I myself have spoken positively of 'meditation' and 'mindfulness'. I try to do so in a very cautious manner, but really, I have no more evidence that these things are of any value than any of the weird and not-so-wonderful biological interventions that occasionally get promoted.
This was most likely Larium (which may have another name in the UK vs. US) and is a fluoroquinolone. It is the most toxic of all the quinolones and can cause acute psychosis.
Once I sat down and read the naturopathic textbook. It had a good deal of woo mixed in with better chapters on detoxification, etc. While I like that naturopaths are rigorous about supplements the fact that they still teach and use quackery diminishes their credibility.
I've seen this logic used by some traditional doctors on the web to discredit integrative or natural medicine.
I think that you mean 'conventional' (i.e. modern) doctors rather than traditional. Traditional medicine is based on natural compounds and non-pharmacological/non-surgical treatments (e.g. TCM).
In the US, it means those following big pharma's and the AMA's recommendations.
Not according to most of the hits I get from an internet search.