Baby's
Crying? Take a Trip to the Chiropractor
The most widely accepted
definition of "colic" is uncontrollable
crying in babies, especially from the ages of 0-3 months, and
often lasting for more than three hours a day, more than three
days a week for three weeks or more.
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No matter
how long the condition lasts, parents know that struggling
with a colicky child can be frustrating and exhausting.
But there is hope, and it could come from your doctor of
chiropractic. A recent study divided 50 infants with colic
into two groups. The first group received chiropractic spinal
manipulation for two weeks; the second group received traditional
drug treatment (dimethicone) over the same two weeks.
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Results revealed
that the chiropractic group improved more than
the drug group (less hours spent crying) after the first five
days
of the study. After day five, the dimethicone group showed little
or no reduction in average colic hours per day.
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Days 4-7:
Hours of crying were reduced by a total of 2.4
hours in the manipulation group compared with only one
hour in the drug group.
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Days 8-11:
Hours of crying were reduced by 2.7 total
hours in the manipulation group, compared with one hour
in the drug group.
Even more revealing,
five infants in the dimethicone group
dropped out before the end of the study, described by their
patients as having "worsened" or "much worsened"
colic.
The authors suggest that if these severe cases had been
included in the results, drug intervention would have appeared
even less effective than chiropractic for reducing the symptoms
of colic.
Reference:
Wiberg JMM, Nordsteen
J, Nilsson N. The short-term effect of spinal
manipulation in the treatment of infantile colic: a randomized
controlled
clinical trial with a blinded observer.Journal of Manipulative
and
Physiological Therapeutics, October 1999: Vol. 22, No. 8, pp517-22.
For more information
on chiropractic care for your child, go to:
http://www.chiroweb.com/find/tellmeabout/colic.html
and
http://www.chiroweb.com/find/tellmeabout/earaches.html
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