Health department: Gecko can’t cure Aids, asthma
July 16, 2011
THE Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday expressed alarm over the persistent folkloric practice of using geckos or (locally called “tuko”) as cure for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (Aids) and asthma.
In a statement, Health Secretary Enrique T. Ona said geckos frenzy is now the department’s serious concern even as health officials do not recommend using lizards as cure to said ailments.
“The use of geckos as cure, which is unproven and have no scientific basis, could be dangerous because patients might not seek the proper treatment for their diseases like asthma, which could become more serious and later, require hospitalization and other more complications as well as more expensive treatment. Further, this is likely to aggravate their overall health and put them at greater risk,” Ona said.
For diseases like asthma, he said there are now very effective treatments available at affordable prices that can provide relief from this ailment.
“With regular treatment, asthmatic persons can successfully control the symptoms and live a comfortable and healthy life,” he said.
For patients infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Ona said antiviral medications that can control the progress of the disease are now also available.
However, the DOH did not categorically admit that there is a cure to such deadly disease.
Melda (family name withheld), a single mother who resides in a hinterland barangay of Cagayan de Oro, said she finds hard to look for a job until she was contacted to secure live geckos weighing 300 grams for P10 million each.
Beside her house situated at a semi-forested area, Melda caged two geckos weighing 200 grams each feeding it with cockroaches, rice and monggo.
“If it can make me rich and live a decent life, why would I refuse to find geckos?” she said.
She claimed that a European national tapped a Manila man to contact her for the said “big business.”
Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/local-news/2011/07/16/health-department-gecko-cant-cure-aids-asthma-167139
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