Huang Wei Ling
Introduction: Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) is common in the pediatric population. Most cases represent physiologic GER and as the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) matures and a solid diet is introduced, many of these patients (>65%) experience spontaneous resolution of symptoms by two years of age. Those who continue to have symptoms and develop complications such as failure to thrive, secondary respiratory disease, and others are classified as having gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Purpose of this stud: To demonstrate that gastroesophageal reflux can be controlled quickly with auricular acupuncture in a new born baby without the necessity of using any kind of medications. Methods: a case report of a new born baby girl, with symptoms of vomiting constantly after days of birth. The parents were very worried about this situation because the baby was losing weight and cannot breastfeed adequately. The Chinese medicine´s doctor only did one session of auricular acupuncture in the right ear of the patient using mustard seeds.
Results: with only one session, the baby can feed adequately and don´t want to intake any other medications to control this symptom of gastroesophageal reflux.
Conclusion: the conclusion of this study is that gastroesophageal reflux can be treated using Chinese medicine´s tools such as auricular acupuncture in a new born baby and the adequate orientations of this patient parents regarding the exposition of the external pathogenic factor and what the mother of the baby need to eat, is an important tool to control this symptom.
