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*The use of complementary and *alternative medicine* (CAM), such as * probiotics*, *herbal* *treatments* and osteopathy, *for children* has almost doubled in the past decade, according to *new research*.*

Head of the University of Otago, Christchurch’s Paediatric Department, Associate Professor Andrew Day, researched the use of probiotics among patients of a paediatric outpatient service. He found 67 per cent of patients had been given CAM.

This was almost double the number of patients using CAM compared to a similar study in 2002. CAM therapies include traditional Chinese medicine, herbalism, homeopathy, aromatherapy, chiropractic, massage, nutritional therapies, osteopathy, probiotics and reflexology.

Associate Professor Day and his team found the most commonly used CAMs were probiotics and nutritional supplements. The main conditions patients were receiving treatment for were reflux and constipation.

Ref and Read more: http://www.healthcanal.com/alternative-therapies/18252-Alternative-and-complementary-medicine-increasingly-used-treat-children.html

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