Are We Overmedicating Our Children?

Everyday more than 5 million American kids take some form of prescription drug against an array of ailments. How much of it is necessary? Statistics show that nearly 70% of pediatric visits are for childhood ear infections. Recent research has revealed a growing body of evidence that antibiotics are virtually ineffective for otits media (childhood ear infections). The studies basically state that only the most stubborn cases require antibiotics and that a majority of cases resolve without any treatment! (Imagine the body's own immune system rising to the call).

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is responsible for reviewing drug company tests on new drugs. Did you know that drug companies carry out most of their tests on adults. Relatively few tests are done on children: yet once the FDA approves a drug for adults, doctors are free to use it on anyone! The problem is they don't have good data on correct doses for children or on serious side effects. "More that 80% of all drugs are not (specifically) approved for use with children".

Some claim the reason more children are being medicated is that the environment has gotten worse. If it is the air that is the culprit then why aren't all children medicated? Why is it that poor air quality only resulted in 7,279,000 prescriptions for anti-asthmatic drugs in 1995 for children under 15 years of age? What allows those children who don't take the medication to survive? Obviously, they don't require the drug, it must be something within them which gives them the ability to filter out the harmful air and adapt to the environment. This critical process of adapting is the key to a healthy individual, child and adult.

The key to environmental adaptation is a properly functioning nerve system. The nerve system is responsible for how the body reacts. If you were to eat food that had gone bad, you would expect your body to respond appropriately! Nausea, fever, vomiting and diarrhea would be a normal response, even though most would call that being sick. If the body were not functioning well, that food with all its toxins would stay in your body to do their dastardly deeds, the end result would be an extended period of "dis-ease", or less that optimum function.

Chiropractic is a non-invasive approach to restoring the bodies immune function. It is clinically proven effective on thousands of children everyday in Chiropractic offices all over North America. There is no danger of an overdose and the end result is a child functioning at his or her capacity!

Parents who are aware of the importance of a properly functioning nerve system automati-cally want their children checked by a Doctor of Chiropractic.

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Last modified: May 11, 2001, Friday.