ADD ON HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES ALLEVIATED SCHIZOPHRENIA SYMPTOMS IN HAEMOPHILIA B PATIENT: A CASE REPORT
Abstract
A psychiatric disorder like paranoid schizophrenia as a concomitant with haemophilia B (Factor IX deficiency) is extremely rare combination. Genetic mutation in the F9 gene leads to deficiency in factor IX synthesis which in turn causes prolonged bleeding from various organs. This patient is 1 out of 564 haemophilia patients treated at Homoeopathy in Haemophilia Nashik center. In this case report, homoeopathic management of a patient with haemophilia B along with paranoid schizophrenia is presented. Inferiority feeling lead to suspicious behavior towards his wife which was the major cause to develop schizophrenia. The patient underwent homoeopathic treatment for 4 months. After closely assessing the patient's condition, individualized homoeopathic medicine was prescribed on the basis of characteristic concomitant symptom. Homoeopathic medicines greatly alleviated the schizophrenic symptoms, and also reduced the pain and swelling in the limbs. The scale used for the assessment was PANSS (Positive and negative syndrome scale), its score before the treatment was 144, at first follow-up was 45, and after 4 months of treatment was 54 respectively. Although annihilation of the disease to its whole extent was not possible because of the maintaining cause i.e. his genetic disease, still substantial improvement occurred in schizophrenic symptoms and developed a better coping with his environment and family. In this case, homoeopathy as an add-on therapy caused miasmatic descent for better adaptation.
Keywords: Paranoid schizophrenia, psychiatric disorder, Haemophilia B, Homoeopathy, Case report.
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