Chicago Special Parent Magazine 2008 - (Page 25) Amy Nelson shares a smile with daughter Abbey, 14. Liz DeCarlo/Chicago Parent What do I do? Navigating the maze of traditional and nontraditional treatments BY POLLY STANOCH RIX Diet, oxygen therapies help teen my and Michael Nelson didn’t anticipate there would be complications with the birth of their third child, Abbey. Their two older children, Johnny and Nicole, were active, bright toddlers who had no medical issues. But something went wrong at some point in the hours leading up to Abbey’s delivery and a lack of oxygen resulted in brain damage, the Downers Grove mom says. Abbey, now 14, has I f doctors are supposed to know everything how is it that they don’t know how to help your child? When conventional methods aren’t working, often parents begin to research other options. But how do you know what is right for your child? Dr. Allen Lewis, medical director for Pfeiffer Treatment Center in Warrenville, says complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) doctors practice a form of medicine that existed before pharmaceutical therapies. “Most physicians don’t believe Complementary Alternative Medicine has any value. But some doctors will discuss it. Ask your doctor how he feels about it, ask ‘Does this keep us from having a working relationship?’ ” he says. Lewis, a former pediatrician who was skeptical of alternative treatments, knows firsthand how biomedicine can change lives. “My son was diagnosed with autism. We were told, ‘There’s nothing you can do.’ Thankfully his mom heard about dietary treatments,” he recalls. “Now he is mainstreamed and in third grade. He’s still a little quirky but he’s a far cry from what was predicted.” A Who is right for my family? The Elk Grove-based American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents 50,000 pediatricians, acknowledges that today’s parents increasingly are turning to complementary and alternative medicine. continued on page 26 continued on page 28 ChicagoParent.com | Specıal Parent 2008 CHICAGO | 25 http://ChicagoParent.com
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