{"id":241,"date":"2017-01-16T07:51:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T07:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=241"},"modified":"2017-01-17T07:55:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T07:55:15","slug":"colicky-baby-why-not-give-acupuncture-a-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Colicky Baby? Why Not Give Acupuncture a Try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>&#8220;Infantile colic is common, and there is no medical treatment, causing desperate parents to seek complementary medicine like acupuncture,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Colic is a catch-all term for otherwise healthy babies who cry for more than three hours a day, three or more days a week. The cause of colic is typically unknown. As many as 20 percent\u00a0of babies may have colic, the researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>No specific treatment or medicine is available. Typical treatment usually consists of comforting the baby by rocking, singing, talking or giving a warm bath.<\/p>\n<p>Acupuncture treatment usually involves the insertion of multiple thin needles at specific points &#8212; called acupuncture points &#8212; on the body.<\/p>\n<p>Because acupuncture is associated with relieving pain, restoring stomach function and calming, the Swedish researchers wanted to see if it might also relieve crying in colicky babies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Normal crying can be overestimated by tired and worried parents,&#8221; Landgren said. &#8220;If the baby cries more than three hours a day, a cow&#8217;s milk-free diet should be tested, as many infants with colic benefit from that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Infantile colic heals spontaneously, but causes suffering in the infant and stress in the family while it lasts,&#8221; Landgren said. &#8220;Acupuncture shortens this stressful period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Acupuncture is not usually offered by pediatricians, according to Dr. Alisa Muniz Crim, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Nicklaus Children&#8217;s Hospital in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is good evidence, however, that acupuncture is safe for infants, and it&#8217;s something that families can consider,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.healthday.com\/alternative-medicine-information-3\/acupuncture-news-5\/for-a-colicky-baby-you-might-give-acupuncture-a-try-718741.html\">Health Day<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Infantile colic is common, and there is no medical treatment, causing desperate parents to seek complementary medicine like acupuncture,&#8221; she&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acupuncture","tag-acupuncture","tag-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}