Advantages and Disadvantages of Complementary Medicine in Otitis Media in Children

Abstract

As people, equally patients or medical professionals, increasingly turn their attention towards unconventional therapeutic methods, it becomes a logical and interesting approach to research whether these methods are useful or not, or if they are even dangerous to the patients involved. In a time when information is increasingly available to and acceded by people, we must be able to respond to this increasing interest of patients and students. As medical and teaching professionals, it is our duty to have an opinion and a competent attitude toward unconventional medical approaches. As no kind of medicine, as known up to this time, is perfect, an objective, impartial, and as scientific as possible attitude is to be adopted. This study aims to compare the efficacy and safety of complementary therapy methods and allopathic therapy in acute otitis media in children. The results of the study lead to the conclusion that acute otitis media in children is healed equally fast by homeopathy and allopathic therapy, but the latter can reduce its recurrence, with the right evaluation and follow-up.