Re: Killing Patients with Ritalin

Of course not all incidents of illness are due to anti-depressants. but it
is something to be aware of. Some years ago, I put an ad in the paper
stating the cause as I knew it of crohns disease. A doctor in the then
County Hospital of Chicago called me and asked if that applied to embryos,
while the child was still unborn. I replied I did not know, as I did not
know. She went on to say that the babies born to mothers on stimulants had
rumination and had to be taken from the mother and given to a surrogate care
taker so they could be well. She said they were having the rumination
because they were trying to bond with the mother but could not on account of
the stimulants. The action of taking the babies from the mother was
correct, but her reasoning was not. It was simply a matter of the
stimulants being harmful. I believe the mothers may have been on hard
drugs, but the result can be the same with any stimulant, anti-depressants
being the most common. In another case in the newspaper, a six month
old child died of supposedly child abuse by a caretaker for 2 parents, one a
medical doctor and the other not a medical doctor but a professional in the
field. The caretaker had a very famous lawyer but was sentenced to 50
years inprisonment. The headline screamed The mother was not ashamed to
say she was taking anti-depressants. Somehow I realized that the baby
could have had a seizure and died not by the hand of the caretaker. I
went to the lawyer and told him what I thought. He listened and said he
knows she is not guilty as he had her confidence. He was going to appeal
even before I came, and the appeal was successful and she was freed. I
doubt he used my theory, as it is barely believable, but the outcome was
fortunate. The parents of course were devastated, but for an innocent
person to be imprisoned for fifty years would have been a terribe injustice.
These are my experiences, knowing them and many others, I cannot help but
make others aware of what I know, whether they choose to believe it or not.
The telling factor is, is someone close to the child or person on a
stimulant, then it is time to wonder. If the answer is no, of course there
are many reasons for illness. And what is the harm of ceasing
anti-depressants for a day or two, to see if the situation exists. It
costs nothing and has saved lives though the doctor should be informed.
Gail

"HCN" <hcn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"news.chi.sbcglobal.net" <kureforcrohns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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To a certain extent I can prove the cause, but do not feel free to do so
and yes, my mind is closed on this subject.
.. ^^^^^^

Exactly.


Gail, you are a very sweet lady. But please, please stop telling people
that the cause of many problems (like their children's seizures) is caused
by other people thinking about them.

When I was a new mom I was very upset when my newborn baby spent his first
week of life in a hospital due to seizures. I know now that there could
be a large number of reasons, helped by good organizations like Rite-Care
(http://www.scottishrite.org/what/phil/ritecare.html ) and
http://epilepsyfoundation.org/ ... and by a well qualified child
neurologist. I also know I could have been vulnerable to many interesting
ideas.

Which is unfortunate, but very common.

Fortunately my oldest son is almost 20 years old, and I did not succumb to
many of the interesting ideas on Usenet and the Internet because they did
were then not in my realm of reality.

So please, do other young parents a favor:

Prove it!

Or in other words:

Put up or shut up!



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