Create Alert Acupuncture makes a difference in the lives of children and adolescents

The Brazilian population has an important ally to improve the quality of life of children and adolescents: acupuncture. The technique was created more than three thousand years ago in China and, since 1995, it has been recognized as a medical specialty by the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM). Available for citizens served by the unified health system and health plans, the treatments are indicated for the most diverse diseases, such as asthma, headaches, musculoskeletal pain, hyperactivity, gastrointestinal problems. intestinal, depression, anxiety, among others. Another possibility of treatment and still uncommon is the child care with acupuncture, working on prevention, not to let the healthy child get sick. In this case, he tries to save the doctor's role as a preventative, trying to change the doctor's research culture only when one is sick.
Acupuncture does not only see the disease, it is considered a complete being, acting on the direct and indirect symptoms. In this way, it improves the behavior, the emotional and with that, often reduces the incidence of chronic attacks of certain diseases. Emotional ailments are also treated as an illness, so take care of the individual as a whole, including the environment in which he lives and the social and behavioral factors of the family, preventively.
In addition to taking preventive measures, acupuncture has excellent results when the child is already sick, especially in the case of chronic diseases, pain, gastrointestinal problems and emotional. Acupuncture can also help rebadure the child, improve sleep, and even cramps that bother babies in the first months of life. Even therapy has shown good results even in cases of illness. skin like vitiligo, among others. During the care, all these factors (psychic, emotional, social and environmental) are observed and are part of the anamnesis. The possible disease factors according to the precepts of acupuncture are then identified. Therefore, the most appropriate treatment is: needle application, auriculotherapy, in addition to changes in eating habits, changes in the child's routine, focus on the emotional, etc. .
The role of the mother is also worked and saved mother-child bond. Pediatric care can not only look at the child must look binomial "mother and child" and the family universe in which it is inserted. The mother leaves the consultation with dietary guidelines, habits of life, behavioral and even with notions to mbadage certain points (Acupuncture) of the child, all this helps in the treatment of the direct form. In the case of pediatric oncology, acupuncture helps a lot in combating the unpleasant effects of chemotherapy and reducing pain, thus improving the quality of life of these small patients.
It should be noted that the practice of acupuncture can only be done by professionals in medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry – each in his or her field of action, also defined by the law. The application of acupuncture by any other professional is illegal and can cause serious harm to the patient's health. In the case of pediatric acupuncture, it is important that in addition to Acupunturiatra, the professional is also a pediatrician. Acupuncture, when practiced responsibly, allows the child to be treated preventively and in the universe in which he lives. Healthy children are a good way to generate healthy individuals.

Dra. Márcia Yamamura, doctor specialized in acupuncture and pediatrics, vice-president of the Brazilian Medical College of Acupuncture (CMBA)