Children in Scotland may be put at risk by the widespread prescribing of homeopathic medicines which will do them no good but may do harm, a leading child health care expert has warned…

“There is a real drive to use rational and proven medication and the whole thing about homeopathy is it is totally unproven and totally irrational as well…

“It is difficult to know why children are being prescribed homeopathy. If one assumes homeopathy works because of the placebo effect, and I personally do believe that, you can’t do that with children under one year old,” added Dr McLay…

He said many doctors had told him they use homeopathic remedies as placebos in children to pacify the parents.

Source: The Herald
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