By the time she died, she was the weight of an average three-month-old, her body was covered with angry blotches and her once black hair had turned completely white.
Gloria had developed eczema when she was four months old, a condition she probably inherited from her mother, which flared and subsided throughout the rest of her short life.
But the couple, who were raised and educated in India where homeopathy is accepted as equivalent to conventional medicine, were steadfast to their homeopathic remedies and ignored completely or quickly discarded other treatment.
Eczema. She died a horrific, painful death from an easily treatable skin condition. Of course, the father still believes in the non-medicine.
But even after Gloria died, Thomas Sam adhered to his belief that homeopathy was equally valid to conventional medicine for the treatment of eczema.
He told police: "Conventional medicine would have prolonged her life ... with more misery. It's not going to cure her and that's what I strongly believe."
Reality smacked this family upside the head in the worst possible way and yet they still believe.
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It's amazing to me how many people resort to things like acupuncture when there is absolutely no basis for its being effective. I can understand how people can get desperate, though, because there are still many things for which conventional medicine doesn't have an answer and, frankly, the medical care system is often indifferent to things that it doesn't really understand. I have had stomach problems since high school which caused me a lot of discomfort for many years but most doctors just wrote it off to nerves--and they still do.
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