Methods of alternative and complementary medicine in pediatric rheumatology
Abstract
Many patients suffering from various chronic diseases turn to complementary and alternative medicine methods, the use of which is not always based on the principles of evidence-based medicine, although many of them are often used in real clinical practice. In the Russian scientific press, there are isolated publications devoted to the methods of complementary and alternative medicine in pediatric rheumatology, mainly review articles summarizing the experience of using various diets and dietary supplements in the treatment of rheumatic diseases in children. At the same time, many parents of young patients suffering from rheumatic diseases independently seek additional help from complementary and alternative medicine methods, or ask rheumatologists questions about the possibility of using certain complementary and alternative medicine methods in the comprehensive treatment of their child. Whereas practitioners do not always have answers to these questions that meet the current state of scientific knowledge about this problem. The purpose of this review is to summarize the available foreign publications on the use of complementary and alternative medicine methods in the treatment of rheumatic diseases in children.
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