One mom’s experiences with the treatment of infectious disease:

Rubella. They just got better on their own, though they both spiked high fevers so quick that they projectile vomited. By high, I mean 105. Ian once hit 106. 105 was standard for our oldest, and the fevers would last 3-8 hours. The youngest used to spike at around 103-105, and if his were 103, they would last longer than if they were 105. 101’s would go on for ages. The lower the fever, the less the influence. Fevers switch the immune system into a higher gear to get rid of the problem. I was somewhat ignorant in those days, but I did know one thing. Never ever use Tylenol, Ibuprofen or Paracetamol for fevers, ever, ever, ever, ever! It suppresses the immune system, and there is just heaps of medical articles which show that it makes all viral infections so much more serious, and can turn chickenpox into necrotising fasciitis. It also does the same with meningitis infections, and I believe that the standard reflex action of mothers to give Tylenol is one reason for the increase in serious meningitis infections of any type. Animal studies seem to indicate the same.I turned the fan on low, slept them on the sofa or rocked them in the rocking chair and was an extended breastfeeder, so there was that too. Though they both got rubella at around a year old.

Next up was measles. It was a breeze for my oldest. The youngest got bronchitis and a red eardrum and took it quite hard. Vitamin C, cod-liver oil (switches off photophobia in about 20 minutes, which is caused by the virus pulling vitamin A out from the retina and causing sensitivity to light), breastmilk and love.Dosage: Vitamin C - 375mg per kg body weight over the waking hours. If it causes diarrhoea, back the dose up until it doesn’t.  Vitamin A is guided by sensitivity to the light. When it returns, give more.  Oldest needed a bit, the youngest needed gallons. Breastmilk and love on demand.

Whooping Cough: You have to understand whooping cough. It is caused by a bacteria which lodges itself in the hairs of the bronchials, squats down, adheres to a cell, and starts to release a toxin, which chops off the hairs.  These hairs are responsible for the circulation of fluid on the mucus membrane - or mucus if you will. It is normally in constant motion, circulating around the lungs, up the bronchials and swallowed etc. If it didn’t, we would constantly die of superimposed bacterial infections. The other thing this charming little toxin can do, is get into the circulation and get to the brain. However, when we had the boys with whooping cough, I got a phone call from a US doctor, who was prattling on when David gave a wonderful noise sample of the classical whoop, which stopped this doctor in his tracks. I thought - oh no, third degree coming up here - but no, he asked what I was doing, and I told him. I had the kids on low doses of vitamin C, because I didn’t know much about toxin mediated diseases and like a chump thought vitamin C only applied to viruses. This doctor faxed me a ACAD of Sci article about Vitamin C being the treatment of choice for toxin mediated diseases, and told me to get real, and give a weight related dose, as you would do for an antibiotic. So I did. And within 8 hours that cough was down to nuisance value only. The main thing I did with Whooping Cough was to manage it properly. The key thing to know is that eating will trigger coughing. In the absense of eating, the natural time span is about an hour.  This is because it takes this long for a good glob of mucus to pool at the base of the brochi. This is the mucus that would normally be swept up and away. So the child/baby is forced to cough it up, since there is no other way. It depends on the age of the child as to proper management. With little babies, it is very important to sit them up, and using your hands give them abdominal support so that when they cough, they use less effort. Try it yourself. Cough with relaxed tummy muscles (we know how to control ours, they don’t) then cough again making your hands into a shield around your front providing light pressure for the muscles to push against. When breastfeeding, often the first few sucks will provoke a coughing fit. Sit them up, support, catch the glob if you can before it decorates the floor, and straight away, resume the feed. They will not cough again for another hour, once the mucus is up. So you must make sure, even with older ones that they eat a little, do their coughing and if they lose the contents of the tummy as our youngest did occasionally, fine. Just tank them up again, straight away. The biggest problem with the whooping cough was the lack of sleep, and I broke my toe.  The rest was easy - I just went onto autopilot....

Chicken Pox: We were on holiday, the kids (12 and 10) were a bit sleepy for 6 hours, then unstoppable. We walked nearly 20 miles the next day - as the conference we were at banned us since the kids were “seriously ill”, so we went to an adventure park and science museum. And I fell asleep before they did that night. Again, Vitamin A for light sensitivity, and Vitamin C to zap up the immune system. We used a different cream to calamine, which stopped the kids scratching. Use a natural soap - not one that strips the oil away - do a phrase search on “castile soap” requiring that phrase. Look at the sites for homemade soap. Modern antiseptic soaps are another reason im my opinion for an increase in Strep A + chickenpox, - that and Tylenol assures a bad outcome.... Also take full photo proof with close-up lenses - doctors might not believe your words, but have no choice with photos.

Mumps: Weelllll, this was funny. I have never had mumps. Oldest got them first, and was sleepy with lovely “bumps” under his chin. Made quite a spectacular photo comparison before and after... Again, Vitamin A (the kids always get light sensitivity with any virus), Vitamin C standard for me, but also with the mumps the kids craved heaps of ordinary tea. Don’t ask me why.  Which of course sent them on constant trips you know where. Then my husband got it, which was really funny. At 63, as an ex teaching principal, having his second family you would have thought - but no... he got it. His bumps were quite spectacular, but he only stopped to loosen the strap on his bike helmet, and that was it. He had bumps for 3 weeks and no other symptoms. Oh yes, he did. He was thoroughly grotty at the constant teasing he got about being into his second childhood.That’s the immunable diseases I think. They got measles twice, and the oldest got rubella again at 17.

Other things

My kids never eat when sick, and it is criminal to make them do so. They can eat if they are hungry, but not if they are not. My kids just wanted water, water, and more water, or tea.... Weak tea that looks like dishwashing liquid and is an apology for a decent cup of tea....Apart from the antibiotics forced on oldest at birth, he has had no others. Youngest has never had any at all.So read, read, read, and learn how to manage the various diseases before you need to encounter them.Here is a website which you should have a good look at. The first URL is from the same website, but more specific.

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Also try to read a book called “Medical Pioneer of the 20^th Century” by Dr.  Archie Kalokerinos. I have had the privilege of working with Archie for many many years - he cured my vaccine-induced arthritis with Vitamin C as it was an antigen/antibody complex - he is just fantastic on medicine as a whole and infectious diseases and their proper prevention and cure....If you can’t track it down, its worth buying blind. The publisher is Biological Therapies Publishing Pty Ltd Australia, and the e-mail is biol@biol.com.au Ask for Dr.  Ian Dettman, and get a good read....

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