I started massaging my 18 month infants back to get him to go to sleep,
about 5 years ago. Worked a treat. Trouble is he still wants me to massage
his back and shoulder girdle even now he's coming up seven. Not sure about
the Immune Response. They've all had more than their fair share of
antibiotics.
Maybe we are just naieve and all the T-lymphoctyes actually reside in the
trapezius.
JW
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> From: Tom James <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: BABY MASSAGE AND IMMUNITY
> Date: Tuesday, 3 September 1996 11:22
>
> >Our HV is keen on doing some research on baby massage and immunity.
MEDLINE
> >has only one small reference on it. Anyone know otherwise?
> >
> >
> 'scuse my cynical streak, but I suspect this may be another scientific
way
> of proving that mom & apple pie are "good".
>
> baby massage is generally seen to be "a good thing", as it is drug-free,
and
> gives parents something usefulish and possibly comforting to do whilst
thier
> infant grizzles the small hours away.
>
> boost immunity is also seen to be a good thing. Look along the shelves
of
> your average health food shop (or read the cards advertising alternative
> therapies in the shop window), and they all claim to boost immunity. Now
> how do we prove this is so?, or otherwise?
>
> As I remember it there are all these white cells floating all over the
> place, and just when you get to grips with T-cells and B-cells and killer
> cells and macrophages. Then someone invents ways of re-classifying them
as
> mucosa-associated lymphoid sub-circlation, and give them all sorts of
> suffices and prefixes. Not to mention all the immunoregulatory modifying
> messengers such as interleukin and tumor necrosis factor and all the
> hismamine and blah blah. Imagine having a print out of the serum values
of
> all that to wade through after a busy morning surgery.
>
> And what will we say to our health visitor or parents of the colicky
child?
>
> (thinks - yikes this is terribly complicated) yup, it seems to be
boosting
> the immunity all right.
>
>
> Greetings from Gisborne NZ Tom James
>
> not always a knocker of plausible wholistic theories, typing with one
hand
> whilst I massage my daughter's tummy (clockwise) with the other.
>
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