Re: HERBAL PILL RISK DURING SURGERY
From: marianne bolding (ojowojo@yahoo.com)
Sat Jul 14 15:21:40 2001
This is true...but don't confuse herbs with vitamins.
Certain vitamins are absolutely a neccessity.
--- KathFindlay <klfindlay@adhesions.org.uk> wrote:
> HERBAL PILL RISK DURING SURGERY
> Up to one in three patients undergoing surgery could
> be risking their
> health by taking herbal supplements, according to a
> new study.
> Scientists at the University of Chicago found that
> taking so-called
> ‘natural’ remedies can have potentially serious
> consequences. They
> found that garlic, gingko and ginseng increase the
> risk of
> haemorrhage, echinacea can interfere with wound
> healing, ephedra can
> adversely affect the heartbeat, ginseng lowers blood
> sugar, kava and
> valerian potentiate the effects of anaesthetics, and
> St John’s wort
> can reduce the effect of traditional drugs by
> increasing the rate at
> which the body eliminates them.
> Writing in the Journal of the American Medical
> Association, the team
> suggests that little information is available to
> patients about the
> dangers of herbal medication, yet the eight remedies
> they studied
> accounted for more than half of all single herb
> preparations sold in
> the US. Doctors should also take an interest –
> report author Dr
> Jonathan Moss said: ‘Physicians should be familiar
> with all
> medications – conventional or herbal – their
> patients are taking.’
> (The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent)
>
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/news/index.asp?y=2001&m=7&d=11#id56197
>
> FAIRER AND FASTER NHS SETTLEMENTS
> Compensation claims against the NHS for negligence
> could become
> easier and quicker to settle under proposals
> announced yesterday, by
> the Health Secretary, Alan Milburn.
>
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/news/index.asp?y=2001&m=7&d=11#id56198
>
> LONG-LASTING MALE CONTRACEPTIVE: British scientists
> are developing a
> hormone injection that could block sperm production
> for up to three
> years.
>
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/news/index.asp?y=2001&m=7&d=11#id56195
>
> EXPECTATION AFFECTS ACUPUNCTURE’S EFFECTIVENESS:
> Acupuncture is five
> times more likely to work if you believe it will,
> according to new
> research.
>
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/news/index.asp?y=2001&m=7&d=11#id56194
>
> POST-NATAL PATCHES: Hormonal skin patches to
> counteract the ‘baby
> blues’ suffered by new mothers have been developed,
> the annual meeting
> of the Royal College of Psychiatrists heard
> yesterday.
>
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/news/index.asp?y=2001&m=7&d=11#id56201
>
> In Friendship
> Katherine Findlay
> United Kingdom Adhesion Society
> mailto:kath.findlay@adhesions.org.uk
> http://www.adhesions.org.uk
>
> http://www.adhesions.org/forums/listcmds.htm
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