Chocolate ice cream for a boy with a sore throat – 05/30/2023 – Cozinha Bruta

What would you prescribe for a child with a sore throat?

Doctor Marcos Wesley Silva, from a health center in Osasco (SP), prescribed analgesics, antibiotics, corticosteroids, video games and chocolate ice cream. He was fired.

The patient was a 9-year-old boy who, according to the city of Osasco, arrived with acute nasopharyngitis, but not seriously.

The boy’s mother claims that the doctor did not examine him and did not guide her on the use of medications.

At one point, Marcos would have asked the boy if he preferred chocolate or strawberry ice cream (the answer, obviously, was chocolate).

The patient’s family denounced the doctor, who was dismissed.

If carelessness is confirmed, punishment is applicable; just the ice cream episode, however, does not justify the removal. Quite the opposite.

By prescribing chocolate ice cream, the doctor created an emotional bond with the boy. He indicated a food that the patient would accept – he had a sore throat and vomiting, eating was a pain. And that, contrary to popular belief, it does no harm.

It is astonishing that, in 2023, there are still so many people who believe that catching a cold gives you the flu and that eating ice cream makes colds and sore throats worse.

In the case of the throat, the opposite occurs: ice cream relieves pain and helps with healing. Everyone who has had tonsil surgery (me, for example) has gone home with a prescription to eat lots of ice cream.

Ice cream is older than artificial refrigeration and, as you might imagine, it could only be made where there was ice. In cold countries, it is common to eat ice cream in winter; here, they think it will cause pneumonia and kill the person.

If I were an ice cream maker, I would run an awareness campaign. And he made Dr. Marcos the poster child.

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