I have come across bad practice with the use of antispasmodic medications. Antispasmodic abuse. Being resorted to as first aid for relieving stomach pain. This can lead to potentially more injurious and deathly results. I will explain.
Intestinal spasms are there… for a purpose. Our bodies are very intelligent. It is the quacks resorting to antispasmodic medications for first aid who are below this intelligence.
Intestinal spasms happen for many reasons. There is something wrong. And the body would like to correct that “something wrong” with intestinal spasms. So intestinal spasms is a healing process, something the body wants to do, is trying to do, to fix itself. Say it consumed poison, something indigestible, something is stuck, intestines are clogged, etc.
Antispasmodic medications will abruptly stop this healing process which where the patient could wind up worse. Poison remains, the indigestible item remains, the stuck item remains, the intestines remain clogged, etc.
Now why would you do such a thing? Because in the paradigm of quick relief BS going around, masking the pain NOW is financially rewarding? Oh, but people may die because of these actions.
Let’s take the case of my own son last year when he suffered from intussusception or telescoping of his large intestines and we wound up in the hospital. He was in total blinding pain and bleeding rectally every 20 minutes for 48 hours. One of medications scheduled to be given him was an antispasmodic. This went through my eagle eyes of approval or disapproval. I saw this antispasmodic medication and outright disapproved it and signed the waiver.
To cure my son’s intussusception, I administered castor oil orally, then virgin coconut oil enema and then olive oil enema to clear my son’s bowels. He got well. And without the recommended surgery that would have cut his large intestines and replaced with a plastic tube and the docs said his chances for survival was a mere 50%.
What if the antispasmodic had been delivered? There would have been a false sense of security. Left alone, my son may have bled to death. If surgery would have gone through the best scenario was a plastic tube for his colon. And the possibility of death: 50 percent!
So the next time you get a recommendation for anti-spasmodic medications… stop and think for yourself. Clear the bowels first. Get something like 60ml of castor oil in the drug store and clear out everything… 30ml for children. True first aid is clearing the stomach down to the intestines.