Homeopathy Treatment for Neurofibrom
Neurofibrom/Neurofibromtosis/Peripheral Neurofibromtosis/Von Recklinghausen’s disease/Von Recklinghausen’s Neurofibromtosis/Neurofibromtosis (NF)
A Neurofibrom is a benign nerve sheath tumor in the peripheral nervous system. Usually found in individuals with Neurofibromtosis type 1 (NF1), a genetically inherited disease. Neurofibromtosis (NF), or von Recklinghausen disease, is a genetic disease in which patients develop multiple soft tumors (Neurofibroms). These tumors occur under the skin and throughout the nervous system.
In Neurofibromtosis, a genetic defect causes these neural crest cells (Neural crest cells are primitive cells which exist during fetal development) to develop abnormally. This results in numerous tumors and malformations of the nerves, bones, and skin.
Neurofibromtosis occurs in about one of every 4,000 births. Two types of NF exist, NF-1 (90% of all cases), and NF-2 (10% of all cases).
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Causes of Neurofibromtosis
Both forms of Neurofibromtosis are caused by a defective gene. NF-1 is due to a defect on chromosome 17; NF-2 results from a defect on chromosome 22. Both disorders are inherited in a dominant fashion. This means that anybody who receives just one defective gene will have the disease.
It is interesting to note that only about half of all cases of Neurofibromtosis show a family history of the disease. The other cases of Neurofibromtosis occur because a specific gene spontaneously changes its structure (mutates). A person with this type of spontaneous mutation can then pass that gene onto his or her offspring. There is a 50% chance that a parent with Neurofibromtosis will pass the gene on to a child.
Symptoms and Diagnosis
To be given the diagnosis of NF1, an individual must have at least two of the following features. Some people with NF1 have only two, while others can have several of these features:
- Six or more cafe-au-lait spots, or coffee-colored birthmarks, each measuring over an inch in adults (1/4 inch in children).
- Two of more benign skin tumors called Neurofibroms or one diffuse tumor of the soft tissue called a plexiform Neurofibrom.
- Freckles under the arm or in the groin region.
- A tumor of the nerve to the eye called an optic glioma.
- Two or more spots on the iris of the eye called Lisch nodules.
- A problem of one of the bones such as bowing of a leg, with or without a fracture.
- A parent, brother, sister, or child with NF1.
Features of NF2
Individuals with NF2 have fewer outward signs of the condition than individuals with NF1. To be given the diagnosis of NF2, an individual must have the following features:
- Benign tumors on both sides of the head involving the nerves for hearing and balance, called acoustic neuromas or vestibular schwannomas.
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Family history of NF2 (a first-degree relative, i.e. mother, father, brother, sister, or child, with NF2) AND one of the following:
- An acoustic neuroma or vestibular schwannoma on one side of the head before the age of 30, or
- Any two of the following: meningioma, glioma, schwannoma, juvenile posterior subcapsular lenticular opacities/juvenile cortical cataract.
Treatment of Neurofibrom
Homeopathy can save you from the surgeon’s knife and the other symptoms of the disease can effectively be taken care of with homeopathic treatment.
Homeopathy is not against surgery, but it often minimizes the use of this painful and terrifying procedure.
Diseased tissue (tumors) is not the cause of disease and its removal from the body will not prevent the recurrence of the disease after the surgery. Homeopathy treats the cause and not the effect. After the proper treatment not only, diseased tissue will be healthy, but the recurrences can be prevented as the immunity is raised by the homeopathic medicines.
The tumors start regressing in size and are gradually removed with the proper homeopathic medicines. Also, the other skin symptoms, the spinal symptoms, freckles etc. can be managed easily with the homeopathic treatment.
Homeopathic treatment can be started on seeing the early signs of the disease like café au lait spots and its progress can be stopped in the beginning only.