Wei Ling Huang
Wei Ling Huang, Medical Acupuncture and Pain Management Clinic, Brazil
Title: Can hospital Osteomyelitis be treated without the use of antibiotics?
Biography
Biography: Wei Ling Huang
Abstract
Statement of the problem: Osteomyelities is a bone infection which can reach the bone by traveling through the bloodstream or spreading from nearby tissue. Once considered an incurable condition, osteomyelitis can sometimes be successfully treated by surgery to remove parts of the bone that have died and antibiotic treatment. The purpose of this study is to show why the treatment of osteomyelitis is so difficult and often considered incurable. We show that to reach improvement, we need to look at the patient as a whole, not only at the disease. The methodology is presented in two case reports: the first one showing an infection resulting from knee fracture surgery done after a motorcycle accident that had been treated with the use of a large spectrum of antibiotics without any improvement. The second case was another hospital osteomyelitis after a postprosthesis infection in the knee which had been treated profusely with antibiotics with no improvement. Findings: Both cases were treated successfully taking out all the anti-inflammatory and antibiotic drugs, together with the use of Chinese dietary counselling, auricular acupuncture associated with apex ear bloodletting, in order to balance Yin, Yang, Qi, Blood energy and removing Heat retention following the theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In these two cases, the osteomyelitis symptoms were being maintained exactly by the aggressive intake of antibiotics, and its side effects, according to TCM reasoning. Conclusion: According to these two case reports, hospital osteomyelitis can be treated without the use of antibiotics.