Treatment of acute childhood diarrhoea in NicaraguaThis trial involved 81 children aged from 6 months to 5 years in a randomised, double-blind trial of
intravenous fluids plus placebo versus intravenous fluids plus homeopathic remedy individualised to
the patient. The treatment group had a statistically significant decrease in duration of diarrhoea.
Jacobs J. Treatment of acute childhood diarrhoea with homeopathic medicine: a randomized clinical
trial in Nicaragua. Pediatrics 1994; 93: 719-725.
Treatment of acute childhood diarrhoea, repeated in NepalIn a replication of a trial carried out in Nicaragua in 1994, 116 Nepalese children aged 6 months to 5
years suffering from diarrhoea were given an individualised homoeopathic medicine or placebo.
Treatment by homoeopathy showed a significant improvement in the condition in comparison to
placebo.
Jacobs J., Jimenez M., Malthouse S., Chapman E., Crothers D., Masuk M., Jonas W.B., Acute
Childhood Diarrhoea- A Replication., Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 6, 2000,
131-139.
A meta-analysis of childhood diarrhoea trialsThis meta-analysis of 242 children showed a highly significant result in the duration of childhood
diarrhoea (P=0.008). It should be noted that the World Health Organisation consider childhood
diarrhoea to be the number one public health problem today because of the millions of children who
die every year from dehydration from diarrhoea.
J. Jacobs, WB Jonas, M Jimenez-Perez, D Crothers, Homeopathy for Childhood Diarrhea: Combined
Results and Meta-analysis from Three Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trials
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