[H] Galactase deficiency/Galactasemia

[vtyekkirala]

Hi,
I have no experience in this. I dug the following from EH.
with best wishes,
V.T.Yekkirala
a1 - Kalium iodatum - Eye] - Peculiar state of the eyes;pupils dilated, and
both eyes were in a state of incessant motion;these motions strongly
resembled those of a child who had congenital cataract, that is, constant
oscillation;he found himself quite unable to fix them on any object, [a5].
bn3] A little girl, 5½ years of age, was placed under my professional care
on December 11, 1884, for defective development of eyes and brain,
apparently from constitutional delicacy, and then originating from the
effects of a fall. It is not easy to gauge the effects of a fall; usually
the point is really this: What is the quality of the person who falls ? In
this case the patient is the coal-black variety of the strumous; her
forehead was low and projecting; she was blind from double cataract, due
probably to shock in the first instance, and then the lenses gradually
silted up. The child was dull, nervous, readily frightened by the least
noise, and she had been vaccinated in the usual way successfully. I
proceeded first against the vaccinosis with Thuja 30, and this seemingly
caused a bout of vomiting, whereupon improvement in the vision set in.
[bn3] January 5, 1885. -Grinds her teeth at night.
[bn3] Rx Luet. CC.
[bn3] February 1. -Pupils less dilated; decided general amelioration, and
notably in the state of her nerves; she is less irritable, and much more
amenable to reason. Thuja C. then followed, but apparently did no good,
when Luet. CC. was repeated.
[bn3] March 24. -Sight and temper better; sleeps well; she has, and has had
for long, ill-smelling foot-sweats; she can now see large capital letters,
as well as at a greater distance; and, for the first time in her life, her
bowels act well of themselves.
[bn3] The treatment was continued very irregularly till June 1888, since
when I have no further information, and the condition then reported to me (I
did not see her) was thus described by her father,--" She sees better, and
walks about with increased confidence."
[bn3] The principal point of interest to me in this case was the very
decided good effects of Platanus occidentalis ø, which was given for a
number of months with very evident benefit to the nutrition of the child's
lenses, and consequent improvement in her vision. The dose was five drops
night and morning.

bn5 - Eruption on scalp - cataract] Towards the end of the year 1880, a boy
of four was brought to me from the South of England. His sight was good
until he was about two years old, when he had incipient cataract in the
right eye, then in the left one, and at the age of three he was blind.
[bn5 - Eruption on scalp - cataract] I elicited the following note-worthy
anamnestic point : He used to have great irritation of the skin ever since
he was a few months old; when between eight and nine months old he was
treated for it with "sulphur ointment, a lotion, and medicines."
[bn5] PAGE 29
[bn5 - Eruption on scalp - cataract] After the first medicine which I
ordered him an eruption came on his skin, and more particularly on the
scalp, and he began to see ! His mother reported that he altered in his
gait, for whereas he formerly looked straight out before him fixedly at the
light, now he bends forward. He further astonished his parents by remarking
that there was a certain colour in the painted ceiling, pale green. There
was also slight but evident change in the opaque lenses themselves.
[bn5 - Eruption on scalp - cataract] Now, although I had given to the
parents, as my opinion, that the cataract was a direct consequence of the
cured (suppressed) skin affection from which the child had suffered, still,
no sooner did my medicine begin to bring back the eruption to the scalp than
the mother forthwith applied some zinc ointment she had in the house ! The
zinc ointment did its work very promptly and effectually; the eruption
disappeared, and so did the returning vision, - i.e. , the boy went quite
blind again, and remained so. He also began to talk, laugh, and cry in his
sleep again as he had previously done.
[bn5] PAGE 30
[bn5 - Eruption on scalp - cataract] The further course of this case showed
most conclusively that the opacity of the lenses, and the scalp eruption,
stood in causal nexus, - that is to say, they had a common cause. Orthodox
medicine cured the eruption with ointment, then came the cataract, which is
again cured by operation. Truly, we live in an age of wisdom and
enlightenment.

"A girl, aged 12, had been affected since her earliest recollection with
flocculent cataract (probably congenital) of both eyes. She had had an
operation performed about four months ago, without the least benefit; four
doses of Magnes. Carb. 200 were also give, without any benefit. Five months
later she received Euphras. 200, in water; a tablespoonful once a day was
followed by some improvement of the left eye. The Euphrasia was continue for
four months with steady improvement; as soon as the patient ceased to
improve Sulph. 200 was given followed by Magnes. Carb. 200, one dose every
week for five months, at the end of which time the circumferences of the
cataracts in both eyes were only just observable. Euphras. 200, Silic. 200,
and Acid. Nitr. perfected the cure. The use of spectacles for cataract
assisted, however, very much to increase the sight of the child."

c1 - Platanus orientalis] - In this case Platanus í was given (five drops
night and morning) for a number of months, "with very evident improvement in
the nutrition of the child's lenses."
[c1 - Platanus orientalis] - [Burnett names the remedy Plat occ.; but his
tincture was made from the London tree, which is Plat. acer.

[isali]

I would add to the thought with agreement that we may not be able to change
any part of the gene structure with internal medicine, but, what is
palliation if not the presentation of proteins which come in an infinite
variety of self determined configurations that determine function. This is
terrain where I believe all medical paradigms meet. We become indebted to
the industrial age and the allopathic intention to identify quantifiable
aspects of energetics. And if that model is correct then I feel the
obligation to find a reasoned way to meet there from my paradigm of
practice.

I would seek to advance the argument to treat the patient, not the disease,
is the preferrable path.

[Maria Hristova-Kazmierski]

Hi Dr. Roz,
You wrote: Galactosemia is a very specific disease, ......One of the major symptoms is a cataract in newborns.
Could you give more information about cataracts in newborns, my son was born with inner cataract on his right eye? THANKS. Maria
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[Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD]

Oh boy.... that is not in my field of competence, I am not a
paediatrician and do not have the time to do an extensive search in my
books right now.

I suggest that for a start you go to www.merck.com this is the Merck
Manual on line, and have a look there..........

Sorry.....

Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".