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Date published: July 29, 2003 |
© By Lena Sanchez When my oldest son was 4 weeks old we rushed him to the hospital with a fever that I thought was not good. I wish I had known then what I know now and I would not have been so hasty to rush him to the hospital. He ended up in the hospital for weeks and no answers were ever forthcoming as to why? The week after leaving the hospital the reason became apparent and would have been a lot sooner had we not kept him hospitalized and his fevers down. That was the beginning of my learning about fevers and why not to lower them in my children or myself.
Fever is a necessity to the immune systems cleaning department. Without it serious illness can occur. The physicians are geared to relieving a parent’s anxiety and therefore force the fevers down interrupting the immune systems work and setting the body up for illness either then or later.
I have always been a very inquisitive person in that I could not do a job of any kind unless I knew as much about it as I could. Being a medical office nurse was the same and gave me an education that was interesting and exciting as I watched, did my own studies and paid attention to every single doctor and how they thought, taught and practiced medicine. To the point that several doctors have told me I was much better at diagnosing than they were and they would ask my opinion on some things. I was given the honor of handling patient calls and triaging for the doctors in every office I worked in over that 20-year period. I was sometimes sent to a patients’ home to evaluate and advise, which has always made me feel so honored to have their trust.
No, this is not to brag but to let you know I am not talking through my head or that I haven’t been there and know whereof I speak. I about five years into my profession I soon learned that there were home remedies that worked much better than the prescription meds and I would tell the patient who was open minded. I also informed the patient that it was not the doctors’ recommendation but mine and if the doctor knew I would probably be fired. To this day I still read and am watching with dread what has happened to medicine since I started 26 years ago.
A leading cause of fevers in children today comes after immunizations! A problem already exist with too many vaccines being pushed into our children upsetting their immune system and now another one is looming on the horizon and I am fearful of the outcome. A vaccine for Chicken Pox is being touted as a means of saving our children. First off there have been no deaths directly from Chicken Pox only from the so-called cure given to them by the medical profession! Antibiotics and anti-inflammatories. This is found in the CDC’s own records http://www.cdc.gov/ - May 15, 1998/Vol. 47/No. 18 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR, their official publication). It was entitled, "Varicella-Related Deaths Among Children.
I remember the dozens of calls I use to get from mothers panicked because their child had a fever of 103 or 104 as soon as the fever came on they were on the phone scared to death. I was sometimes able to tell them that the fever was good and unless it went above 103 or 104 not to do anything, some listened and some didn’t.
I worked for a few smart pediatricians in which three of them knew that fever was good. But the sad part is that 4 of the 7 pediatricians did not think that way and their children would end up more sick or at least the problem would last longer than the other three’s patients. So I had to walk a tight rope with each doctors’ parent calls and guide them accordingly and not what I felt was always in the patients best interest, but I could only do what I was told by each individual doctor until I found a way of helping both.
Left alone, a fever will not exceed 106 degrees, unless it is a life threatening bacterial germ, which is extremely rare and I only saw maybe one or two a year in the hundreds of children that were treated my the pediatricians.
And only about 4 percent of children experience fever-related convulsions, with no serious after effects.
A fast (on distilled water, or at least diluted vegetable juices) should be continued for twenty-four hours after the temperature has returned to normal.
A good rule to remember is that the bowel can be cleared of toxins by enemas in twenty-four hours; the blood in three days; the liver in five days, providing no food is eaten. Shingles (“adult chicken pox”) that occurs in adults may require about a week-long fast to completely clear up.
The liver, the major organ fighter of the immune system, is much too busy with eliminating the problem that it perceives to be happening to be bothered with the task of food digestion.
Great strain can be taken off that organ if no food is given. Not only does fasting lower temperature, relieve the distress and facilitate elimination, but it also lessens the strain on the liver and prevents serious complications, such as middle-ear disease, mastoiditis and meningitis.
It appears then, that fever, dreaded because misunderstood, is really nature’s attempt to help. It is discomforting, but never does harm; never is attended with serious aftereffects and almost NEVER SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED with anti-inflammatory drugs or fed with food. I have seen many a case of flu pushed into a pneumonia because some anxious mother or grandmother insisted feeding “to give the child strength”, such as chicken broth or a thin starchy gruel, both liquids, of course, but protein and starch-just what the liver cannot handle at this point. Yes I am aware that chicken soup is good for illnesses. (That study was backed by the chicken industry so what else could they say?) All the while the child or adult doesn’t want to eat and that is the body saying to them STOP LOOK AND LISTEN to me!
So called “infectious” diseases like chicken pox, measles, or whooping cough are actually inflammatory diseases. Not bacterial or viral as we have been told by the media as of late. The symptoms during such illnesses should be viewed as eliminative crises. Meaning it will pass with time to a healthy child/adult, with no after affects!
They may be very painful, but they’re a necessary self-limiting process in which an accumulation of retained metabolic waste (dead cells that become toxic), and the residues of undigested, unassimilated foods are being purged from the body through vicarious (abnormal, inappropriate) channels such as the skin or lungs.
So the familiar runny nose, cough, stiffness, fever, and numerous rashes, swellings, lesions, and eruptions through the skin are all manifestations of the same cause, which are not pathogenic microbes.
Microbes like bacteria, for example, act as scavengers to consume the toxic wastes and the dead cells following inflammation. Their formation and growth do not precede the diseased state in the host, but rather emerge in its wake; and not exogenically, from say, an “infected” person, but rather endogenically, from the genetic material contained in a cell’s nucleus after the cell’s death and decomposition.
Fortunately, a wide range of bacterial strains, or their genetic “blueprints” inhabit our bodies all the time in titers low enough that their waste products do not affect us.
*** Meet the author Lena Sanchez's at http://www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/lena.htm Editor of “Natural Environmental Health & Facts & Your Home Business Coach Ezine.” Subscribe at http://www.envirodocs.com/newsletter Get One of Lena's books at http://www.antibiotic-alternatives.com for more secrets to a healthy life that she learned in her twenty years as a medical office nurse!
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