Roger Daltrey reveals son's medical scare

In a new interview with the Times Online, The Who frontman Roger Daltrey explained the reasons behind his belief in alternative medicine.  During a health scare with his then 9-month-old son Jamie, now 27, Roger says that a homeopathic treatment regimen ultimately saved his life.  Jamie developed unexplainable gastrointestinal issues to such an extent that he "turned into skin and bone," Roger recalled. 

At the hospital, they did every test to him, and in the end they just handed him back to me. My wife and I were in bits. My poor baby. The kid was dying. It was terrifying. I thought, there’s got to be something. I’d heard of homeopathy, so I found a local guy in the Yellow Pages and took my boy there. He gave him some powders. Within two weeks he was putting weight on, keeping the food down. The trouble recurred periodically for a couple of years, but he’s now 27, a fit and healthy young man.

Roger’s faith in homeopathy was reaffirmed recently when a friend shared a similar experience.

He thought he was about to lose [his baby]. But I recommended homeopathic remedies, and he recovered too. That’s God’s honest truth. Now I bet doctors would say, ‘Oh they’d have got better anyway’. But I can’t believe that.

Roger, 65, and his wife Heather have been married for 37 years. 

Source:  Times Online

Comments

Homeopathy is one of the ways we are treating our sons underlying issues that accompany his autism.
I am a great believer in it!

- Christine on May 3rd, 2008

Wow, a 37-year marriage is impressive for anyone, especially a rock star! Good for them!

- Michelle on May 3rd, 2008

I’ve always used homeopathy for minor ailments and the underlying emotional issues of illnesses, but when I’m seriously sick I always return to modern medicine. I’m careful about combining the two methods though because some combinations mean overmedicating even though half is natural. I think part of it, like all medicine, is the placebo affect. This is why for minor problems, I’d rather be using natural products while my mind does its thing than a man-made chemical cocktail.

Mind is a powerful thing. My mum needed a major operation but is allergic to the painkillers they give after surgery, so she undertook self-hypnosis lessons beforehand and ended up recovering faster than the two women who’d had the same op on the same day. I probably wouldn’t go the same route but it worked for her.

- Lilybett on May 3rd, 2008

I’ve had some very good expierence with homeopathic medicine myself, when I was a child I was very nervous and anxious, and also underweight. my mother had taken me to see the doctor so many times but nothing ever worked finally she took me to homeopathic therapy and the doctor there gave me two pills the size of crums, which changed my life. I imiiediatly started to gain weight, and became more out and easy going. my mother always told me it was like they gave her a different child.

- carla on May 4th, 2008

My husband is very wary of Western medicine and I was raised the daughter of an RN who relies on it. At first, my husband and I bonked heads about vaxs and meds, but after much reading and research, we’re a homeopathic family and have even brought my mother, the RN, into the fold. Breastmilk cleared up my son’s sinus infection within two days, Hyland’s teething tablets are all we’ve used for teething (3 molars at once are NOT fun) and echinacea is a wonderful thing. There’s obviously so much more, but that’s just a little tidbit of what we use.

- Marie on May 5th, 2008