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- Title
Complementary and alternative therapies in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
- Authors
Hawthorne, A. B.
- Abstract
Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are treatments that fall outside conventional science and medicine. Users of these therapies may consider them more 'wholesome' than modern pharmaceuticals, and relevant to approaches of holistic and individualized care. While up to half of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients use CAM, the number of high-quality trials of CAM in IBD is extremely limited. Alternative therapies cannot be ignored, explains AB Hawthorne, as patients will continue to use them in chronic conditions such as IBD which are difficult to control through conventional drugs. Health professionals should be well informed about available CAM, and the evidence (if any) of benefit or harm.
- Subjects
ALTERNATIVE medicine; INFLAMMATORY bowel disease treatment; ALTERNATIVE treatment for chronic diseases; MEDICAL protocols; CROHN'S disease
- Publication
Gastrointestinal Nursing, 2010, Vol 8, Issue 3, p32
- ISSN
1479-5248
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12968/gasn.2010.8.3.47653