Tamara Cullen, ND Working with infants and children can be a rewarding yet daunting task. They are so fragile in their first year of life, and then surprisingly they can be remarkably resilient. As an ND, you will be held to the same standards of diagnostic workup as...
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Chronic Sinusitis: Beyond the Neti Pot
Approximately 14% of the US population suffers from chronic sinusitis (CS).1 Chronic sinusitis is defined as inflammation in the sinus area for longer than 12 weeks.2 In 2003, the mean medical cost for treatment of this condition was approximately $923 per patient.3...
How Do Blood Type, Stress, Emotional Alignment, and Cell Membrane Health Influence Susceptibility to Infections?
How Do Blood Type, Stress, Emotional Alignment, and Cell Membrane Health Influence Susceptibility to Infections? Emily Chan, ND The internal environment of the body highly affects susceptibility to infection. How can one person develop influenza, while a...
The Kneipp Cure
Sussanna Czeranko, ND By pouring water on the patient a quicker reaction is brought on than by bathing; pouring was Father Kneipp’s special method. Bauergmund 1908, 71 ‘The Kneipp Cure’ is one of these therapeutic innovations that, starting with an obscure priest in...
PANDAS: An Immune-Mediated Mental Illness
Steven Rondeau NMD BCIA-EEG PANDAS is an acronym for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus infections. It refers to a subset of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and/or a tic disorder who have presenting or...
The Wound That Does Not Heal
Kelly Marie Fitzpatrick, ND, BSN, MPS Acute inflammation by definition is a finite self-limiting presentation.1,2 The phases of acute inflammatory healing include the inflammatory phase, proliferative phase, and maturation phase,1,2 which lead to the repair of an...
Food Introduction Controversies
Michelle Gerber, ND, CPM Early parenthood is filled with difficult decisions, one of the most potentially fraught being that of food — how to introduce it, when to introduce it, and what to introduce. And few things seem more fundamental to naturopathic medicine than...
IV Therapeutics for Disease and Pain Control
Virginia Osborne, ND As NDs we are often confronted with chronic diseases that precipitate, or are precipitated by, inflammation. These are the cases that often lead us to determine that IV (intravenous) therapeutics will be useful in the treatment plan. With basic...
Acne Vulgaris Yes, Diet Matters
Alan C. Logan, ND, FRSH Introduction Almost one quarter of all child and teen visits to generalized naturopathic clinics are for skin conditions.1 Rising teen and adult acne rates, now described as a worldwide epidemic, increases the likelihood that naturopathic...
Sociocultural Impact of 2009 Influenza A H1N1
Marie-Sabine Thomas, ND, LMP Ibukun (Ibby) Omole ND, LAC Karen Hurley, ND As another winter season approaches, the medical community across the world faces the multitude of concerns and questions regarding the seasonal flu shot and, most recently, the pandemic of...