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In healthcare, you will come across patients that prefer to use natural therapies instead of traditional medicine. Some patients would rather use natural therapy only, some with be open to using natural therapies and traditional medicine. We as nurse practitioners must always respect our patients’ decisions while helping to guide them and to educate them. Naturopathy is a type of medicine that incorporates both contemporary and traditional treatments. Alternative, natural treatments to contemporary medicine are included. The focus of naturopathic treatment approaches is on prevention and education. Diet, exercise, and stress management are frequently emphasized. Individual treatment programs are created using a set of principles and ideas in naturopathy (Millar, 2020).
       When it comes to dealing with children that are sick, they are more delicate than adults and we must be very careful when treating them. If a family believes in natural therapies for the child, we as nurse practitioners can work with them to treat the child’s illness but we need to know what therapies that they believe in. We need to know all the alternate therapies because it might interfere with the prescription that we may prescribe. Now if a parent now willing to do traditional medicine and want to solely depend on natural therapies and the child is extremely sick, then the decision will be out of the parents’ hands and into the states because they must protect the well-being of that child since the child is not old enough to make their own decision. So, it depends on the situation.
       To incorporate the family’s beliefs into the treatment of a child with an acute upper respiratory infection, we as nurse practitioners must educate the patient first and let them know that natural therapies don’t always mean that it is safe and can make the child worse instead of better. With that said, the parents and the nurse practitioner should go over what natural remedies the child with respiratory problems can still use. There is no treatment for upper respiratory infections. They are immune to antibiotics. Antibiotics can aid in the treatment of bacterial infections. Your URI, which is a viral infection, will not be treated. The most common treatment for an upper respiratory infection is to alleviate your symptoms. Rest well, drink plenty of water, and simply wait it out.
       The nurse practitioner and the parents can go over remedies that are safe for the child with upper respiratory tract infection such as using normal saline to help clear their nasal passages, humidifier, fluids, and honey (Brennan, 2021). These remedies are safe to incorporate with any traditional medication that may be given such as antibiotics.
       To incorporate the family’s beliefs into the treatment of a child with leukemia the nurse practitioner should find out what are the beliefs of that family when it comes to sickness and healing. The nurse practitioner should collect as much information as possible about a natural treatment that the family usually uses and whether the child has any allergies. Next, parents need to be educated about what leukemia is. There are certain natural remedies that patients with leukemia should not take since their bodies are not able to fight as much anymore. While some natural treatments appear to be effective in reducing side effects, others may be harmful. Some herbs are considered to have a detrimental impact on how chemotherapy medicines are metabolized in the body. Garlic, ginkgo, echinacea, ginseng, St. John’s wort, and kava are among them (Markman, 2021).

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Brennan, D. (2021, February 12). What are the best home remedies for an upper respiratory infection? MedicineNet. Retrieved October 21, 2021, from https://www.medicinenet.com/best_home_remedies_for_upper_respiratory_infection/article.htm. 

Markman, M. (2021, September 21). Natural supplements to avoid. Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Retrieved October 21, 2021, from https://www.cancercenter.com/integrative-care/naturopathic-support/natural-supplements-to-avoid. 

Millar, H. (2020, June 15). Naturopathy: Definition, uses, and benefits. Medical News Today. Retrieved October 19, 2021, from https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/naturopathy#seeing-a-naturopath.