Of Side Effect Realities of Allopathy and Of Dangerous superficial googling knowledge

Getting meagre time to sit on net these days . Visiting Apollo hospital @ greams road, Chennai with appa almost became a daily routine last week. Appa had some problem with haemoglobin percentage. Doctor in our locality suggested consulting a haematologist in Apollo hospital. After almost three weeks which we spent in taking blood tests and bone marrow test(test which is prescribed for detecting blood cancer) doctor came to a conclusion that appa is in a safe zone right now but has to intake medicines to avoid getting in to the dangerous zone. Thank god we went there at the right time .What doctor told us after seeing the reports of bone marrow test is that, the bone marrow which is responsible for producing blood corpuscles and releasing correct percentage of iron to produce haemoglobin is not functioning properly. The shocking fact is that the bone marrow’s malfunction is due to the medicine called ,”Eptoin” which appa has been taking for the past four years as he had a mild fits kind of disorder ..Not a very serious disorder but he gets unconscious once in four years due to the presence of small scratch kind of stuff in brain. This Eptoin has very well cured the fits but has affected the bone marrow which when not treated for long time results in blood cancer.

I am not aware of the facts of other type of medication such as homeopathy, siddha,unani etc and I am not into comparing allopathy with other medications but just thought of sharing the info so that when ever we take some treatment we will also have to check if it has some serious side effects too.

Now coming to the ignorance part of mine. We had to wait five days after every blood test.Meanwhile ,I use to google why this test is necessary and after I get the reports of the tests I will cross check if the next test prescribed by the doctor is really needed .Actually after taking blood test to see the % of blood constituents like WBC,RBC,platelets ,lymphocytes etc (which costed 12k Rs),doctor told us this test is not enough and suggested to take bone marrow test which may give a clear picture. We took the test(which costed 6k Rs) and after returning home I googled why bone marrow test is taken. After reading first two sites, I came to a conclusion that only if the WBC and platelet counts are abnormal one has to go for bone marrow test. I thought doctor is just doing things for money as appa had absolutely fine percentages of WBC s and platelets. Only after consulting the doctor, we came to know that without taking bone marrow test we would not have deciphered that he is in a safe zone but has to undergo medication to prevent getting into the dangerous zone.Googling is fine but superficial knowledge from googling and jumping to conclusions blindly like me may be dangerous. Thanks for reading.