Erythema nodosum induced by the synergism of acupuncture therapy and flu-like in

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Dear Group,

We have explored acupuncture as an EN treatment.

Here is a relatively new Japanese EN study that shows a correlation

between acupuncture and developing EN.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=pubmed & dopt=Abstra\

ct & list_uids=16043927 & query_hl=8

<<Erythema nodosum induced by the synergism of acupuncture therapy and

flu-like infection.

Inoue T, Katoh N, Kishimoto S.

Department of Dermatology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto, Japan.

A 32-year-old female patient developed erythema nodosum-like lesions

at needle prick sites after acupuncture therapy. Over the next few

days, she developed similar new lesions over the extremities, trunk

and face along with flu-like symptoms. There were neither genital

ulcerations nor eye lesions. A skin biopsy specimen from an extremity

lesion showed the characteristic findings of erythema nodosum.

Treatment with oral potassium iodide at a dose of 750 mg/day was

effective, and there has not been any recurrence to date. We diagnosed

this case as erythema nodosum induced by a synergism between

acupuncture therapy and a flu-like infection.>>

Here is a study where I question the results. The patient had no flu

until she got sick after the needle puncture. Since many of us

experienced flu like symptoms concurrent with our EN outbreak, I would

think the introduction of pathogen through the acupuncture needle was

the culpret, not the flu.

Love,