Supplementing Surgery
Complementary therapies can help ease side effects, speed healing.

By Susan Weiner

   For Ellen Marshall, it all came down to a bedsore that wouldn’t heal. Following gastric bypass surgery, the East Windsor, New Jersey homemaker awoke from an induced coma with her lower back shrouded in a nine-inch bedsore. Doctors prescribed antibiotics and other healing agents, but the sore only worsened.
   “For months I was in a reclining chair with pillows propped up behind me. It was a constant burning pain,” recalls Marshall, 50. “One day a visiting nurse suggested I try aloe vera gel. Within days it felt much better and began healing.” After adding capsaicin ointment, derived from the seeds that give chili peppers their heat, to her routine, Marshall’s bedsore vanished...


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