Guest guest Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 I have some experience in treating hyper-emesis which generally seems to respond well to acupuncture. I now have a client whom I have seen for three sessions who was in a cycle of hospital admission every three to four days for iv rehydration and anti-emetic intervention, who after the first two sessions of acupuncture managed to be feeling much improved for 10days. This seemed encouraging with the return of a hearty appetite, the pattern then kicked in however and she was readmitted to hospital as above and has been there for 7 days, this time not responding so well to the rehydration and with steroids added to the treatment picture. I have been using fairly conventional support of Liv Kid and Spleen and using P6 to help regulate the flow of Qi in mid and upper jiao, while also following other signs and symptoms as they appear. Are there any other ideas people might have adjacent to this as safe supplemental or herbal intervention in their experience bearing in mind the caution of use in pregnancy and obviously the additional stress on her system here. Retrospectively the 'hearty appetite' should may have been paced a bit more since this may have pushed her system beyond a limit to relapse, and may be informative in itself. Ingestion of anything is only possible when she is in remission from the nausea vomiting because of the severity of the hyper-emesis condition which I'm sure you all know to be more than simple morning-sickness. I'd appreciate opinions. Many thanks Bernadette Reed Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 With prolonged steroid use, I've seen the cumulative " moon face " edema that accompanies it. A Jap.-style for reducing the facial edema would be KD 9-LI 15 with 21 moxas or heat lamp, with " tweaking thrusts " every 5 minutes during a 25-minute needle duration. The patient should feel an urge to urinate, and the face should be leaner after the treatment. I don't believe these pts are contra-pregnancy pts. They don't grab the root, but the patient with edema will be VERY happy about it. JG --- Bernadette Reed <bdetteon1 wrote: > I have some experience in treating hyper-emesis > which > generally seems to respond well to acupuncture. I > now > have a client whom I have seen for three sessions > who > was in a cycle of hospital admission every three to > four days for iv rehydration and anti-emetic > intervention, who after the first two sessions of > acupuncture managed to be feeling much improved for > 10days. This seemed encouraging with the return a > hearty appetite, the pattern then kicked in however > and she was readmitted to hospital as above and has > been there for 7 days, this time not responding so > well to the rehydration and with steroids added to > the treatment picture. > > I have been using fairly conventional support of Liv > Kid and Spleen and using P6 to help regulate the > flow > of Qi in mid and upper jiao, while also following > other signs and symptoms as they appear. Are there > any > other ideas people might have adjacent to this as > safe > supplemental or herbal intervention in their > experience bearing in mind the caution of use in > pregnancy and obviously the additional stress on her > system here. > > Retrospectively the 'hearty appetite' should may > have > been paced a bit more since this may have pushed her > system beyond a limit to relapse, and may be > informative in itself. Ingestion of anything is only > possible when she is in remission from the nausea > vomiting because of the severity of the hyper-emesis > condition which I'm sure you all know to be more > than > simple morning-sickness. > > I'd appreciate opinions. > > Many thanks > Bernadette Reed > > > > > Search - Find what you & #47976;e looking for faster > http://search. > > > Membership requires that you do not post any > commerical, swear, religious, spam messages,flame > another member or swear. > > To change your email settings, i.e. individually, > daily digest or none, visit the groups?homepage: > Chinese Medicine/ > click & #47735;dit my membership' on the right hand side > and adjust accordingly. > > To send an email to > <Chinese Medicine- > > from the email account you joined with. You will be > removed automatically but will still recieve > messages for a few days. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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