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Ms Sufferer Swears by Bee Sting Therapy
A mother-of-two who suffers from multiple sclerosis claims 36 bee stings a week help to improve her condition. Paula Cooke, 40, endures the treatment three times a week and is stung up to 12 times each session. She began the unconventional treatment three months ago after her father spotted it on the internet.
Mrs Cooke, of Terrington St Clement, Norfolk, who has battled with MS for 15 years and has no movement from her waist down, credits the bee venom therapy with helping her to regain some movement. She recently found she could move some of her toes. The bees are collected in a jar by her mother, Jillian Fisher, from a local beekeeper. Ice is placed on her back and legs to dull the pain and then the bees are taken from the jar with tweezers and put on to her skin.
Mrs Cooke now wants other MS sufferers to know about the benefits of the bee sting therapy. But experts warned that the treatment could be dangerous, causing allergic reactions that could prove fatal.
An MS Society spokesman said anyone tempted to try the alternative therapy should consult his or her doctor first. "No clinical trials have been carried out into the treatment and there is no scientific evidence to support it," a spokesman for the MS Society said. MS is a very variable condition. Its symptoms can vary or change and so therefore sometimes its difficult to know whether or not the intervention is responsible for the change or whether it's part of the natural disease process. "Anybody who is looking to try this, or any other alternative, unconventional therapy, should first check with their doctor or neurologist before they embark on it," he said.
It is thought that the treatment works by stimulating the body's immune system which produces the natural painkiller cortisol and reduces the effect of an existing condition.
Courtesy www.news.scotsman.com