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Research method.

To medical doctors, professional researchers, and academicians.

This research examines three issues:

  1. Hot water massage of the head of a baby (done from birth till 2 to 6 months).

  2. The misuse of the ROBB ointment on the head of the baby after the massage.

  3. Cognitive development of a child in school (age 3 to 8 years).  

There is no clear connection between the first and the second factors issues to the third one. Firstly because there is a significant time difference between the age the baby pass the massage with the hot water and the smearing of the Robb on his or her head and the age in school when cognitive ability can clearly be seen. in addition many other factors may come into play and so it is hard to prove cause and effect between the first two issues and the third one.​ Also, in evaluating their performance in a manner of a case-control study it will be difficult to retrospectively find a population of children that passed hot water massage to their head and a population that did not pass that treatment. This is because though people mostly continue to do it despite the doctors in the maternity ward telling them not to do it, they are mostly not truthful about it.

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Furthermore, prospectively it is unethical to ensure that the test group indeed undergoes the massage, when the examination of the medical evidence evaluated in this research indicates that it is damaging to the child, and so we cannot make a cohort study following these babies.

The connection between hot water massage to the head of a baby, the application of Robb ointment on his or her head, and the cognitive performance of the baby as a child in learning at school years later is therefore done indirectly. This research is an evidence-based medical research type, and it is based on a review of examines studies in neurology of the brain and how it was affected by exposure of embryos to heat. These studies exposed offspring of mammals to heat. They also checked offspring embryos of human pregnant women that had a fever during their illness or in the case that the mother went to hot spa.

Regarding Robb ointment, this research is based on a review of the effect of some of the ingredients on the neurology of the brain The fact that heat and some of the chemicals in the Robb ointment destroy neurons give rise to the very realistic assumption that a damaged neural system reduces the cognitive performance of a brain in comparison to an unaffected brain that its neuron are not damages.

We think that the information gathered in this research is sufficient to recommend the end such custom practice because on one hand the practice obviously does not fulfil the reason those doing the practice believe it does, and on the other hand this research shows that there is a high probability that the practice causes neural damage. So in short, if an act has no positive effect but negative potential effects, it is wise not to do that act.​

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