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Liver injury: the therapeutic dilemma of homeopathy – a case report from Bangladesh
Despite the lack of scientific evidence supporting its effectiveness, homeopathic treatment is increasingly being used as a form of alternative medicine, with many people taking homeopathic remedies instead of drug therapies. It is based on the principle of ‘like cures like’, meaning that a remedy s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10328680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37427238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000000918 |
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author | Shrestha, Abhigan B. Karki, Bikash Acharya, Prakash Kafley, Shashwat Shrestha, Nabaraj Karki, Shailendra Acharya, Surya K. |
author_facet | Shrestha, Abhigan B. Karki, Bikash Acharya, Prakash Kafley, Shashwat Shrestha, Nabaraj Karki, Shailendra Acharya, Surya K. |
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description | Despite the lack of scientific evidence supporting its effectiveness, homeopathic treatment is increasingly being used as a form of alternative medicine, with many people taking homeopathic remedies instead of drug therapies. It is based on the principle of ‘like cures like’, meaning that a remedy similar to the illness can be used to treat it. However, there have been several reports suggesting the risks of homeopathic remedies, among which homeopathy-induced liver injury is widely discussed. Here, we report a case of a 35-year-old well-oriented male patient with a typical clinical presentation of liver injury as presented by yellowish discoloration of sclera and skin along with generalized body itching following the use of homeopathic medicine for musculoskeletal pain. Laboratory reports of increased liver markers along with bilirubin were also suggestive. Excluding other differentials like viral hepatitis, alcoholic hepatitis, hemochromatosis, Wilson disease, and standard drug and toxin-induced hepatitis, the recent use of homeopathic remedies was a contributing factor in leading to the diagnosis of homeopathy-induced liver injury. He was then treated with the discontinuation of homeopathic medicine and supportive care. This case highlights the need for public awareness of the possible complications such as headache, tiredness, skin eruption, dizziness, bowel dysfunction, allergic reactions to acute pancreatitis, renal failure, neurological dysfunction, possible liver injury, and even mortality in those patients who pursue homeopathic treatments and health care professionals should take this into account when making a differential diagnosis in patients with liver injury. |
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spelling | pubmed-103286802023-07-08 Liver injury: the therapeutic dilemma of homeopathy – a case report from Bangladesh Shrestha, Abhigan B. Karki, Bikash Acharya, Prakash Kafley, Shashwat Shrestha, Nabaraj Karki, Shailendra Acharya, Surya K. Ann Med Surg (Lond) Case Reports Despite the lack of scientific evidence supporting its effectiveness, homeopathic treatment is increasingly being used as a form of alternative medicine, with many people taking homeopathic remedies instead of drug therapies. It is based on the principle of ‘like cures like’, meaning that a remedy similar to the illness can be used to treat it. However, there have been several reports suggesting the risks of homeopathic remedies, among which homeopathy-induced liver injury is widely discussed. Here, we report a case of a 35-year-old well-oriented male patient with a typical clinical presentation of liver injury as presented by yellowish discoloration of sclera and skin along with generalized body itching following the use of homeopathic medicine for musculoskeletal pain. Laboratory reports of increased liver markers along with bilirubin were also suggestive. Excluding other differentials like viral hepatitis, alcoholic hepatitis, hemochromatosis, Wilson disease, and standard drug and toxin-induced hepatitis, the recent use of homeopathic remedies was a contributing factor in leading to the diagnosis of homeopathy-induced liver injury. He was then treated with the discontinuation of homeopathic medicine and supportive care. This case highlights the need for public awareness of the possible complications such as headache, tiredness, skin eruption, dizziness, bowel dysfunction, allergic reactions to acute pancreatitis, renal failure, neurological dysfunction, possible liver injury, and even mortality in those patients who pursue homeopathic treatments and health care professionals should take this into account when making a differential diagnosis in patients with liver injury. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10328680/ /pubmed/37427238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000000918 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
spellingShingle | Case Reports Shrestha, Abhigan B. Karki, Bikash Acharya, Prakash Kafley, Shashwat Shrestha, Nabaraj Karki, Shailendra Acharya, Surya K. Liver injury: the therapeutic dilemma of homeopathy – a case report from Bangladesh |
title | Liver injury: the therapeutic dilemma of homeopathy – a case report from Bangladesh |
title_full | Liver injury: the therapeutic dilemma of homeopathy – a case report from Bangladesh |
title_fullStr | Liver injury: the therapeutic dilemma of homeopathy – a case report from Bangladesh |
title_full_unstemmed | Liver injury: the therapeutic dilemma of homeopathy – a case report from Bangladesh |
title_short | Liver injury: the therapeutic dilemma of homeopathy – a case report from Bangladesh |
title_sort | liver injury: the therapeutic dilemma of homeopathy – a case report from bangladesh |
topic | Case Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10328680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37427238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000000918 |
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