The enuresis treatment with moxa in children. Cárdenas 2003-2004

Abstract

The enuresis is one of the most disconcerting problems at the paediatric and integral general doctor's consult. The reviewed bibliography states that this is solved, in some cases, with the western therapy, although this therapy has lost value, because it does not solve the problem in some percentage of cases. Natural and traditional medicine has being applied in different ways, and it has being efficacious in the enuresis elimination. We made a longitudinal, prospective study of the patients presenting enuresis at the policlinic “José Antonio Echeverría”, of Cárdenas, during 2003. We made a study to compare the obtained results with both kinds of treatment; to precise the sensibility threshold to the moxa exposition and to determine the most effective treatment time for the enuresis elimination. As sample we chose 25 5-to-14-years-old children, divided in three groups, in dependence of the treatment place. Indirect moxa was applied. All of these children were previously treated with western therapy. The obtained results with both treatments, registered in the clinical records, were processed in a Pentium 4, using absolute and percentage frequency. We found that darker skin children resist heat more time; enuresis is more frequently in male sex; a good answer to the treatment, with enuresis disappearing or bettering when applying moxibustion, in a shorter period than when the western therapy is used in all the studied cases.