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THE POST - VACCINATION SYNDROME DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT PREVENTION
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PREFACE
'Post-vaccination syndrome'
has for several years now been an increasingly common diagnosis in my daily
practice. By degrees I have established an effective method for treating this
syndrome. I now consider it a duty to publicize my findings: for doctors,
parents and any other persons interested in or concerned with this matter.
Conscious of the real significance of this new diagnosis and also of the
sensitive nature of the subject, I have compiled this booklet with great care.
Before proceeding to
publication I made several sometimes substantial changes in the text to
incorporate the opinions of a number of doctors about the content and
presentation of this matter, without however detracting from the its essence. I
should therefore like heartily to thank everybody for their suggestions, naming
in particular paediatrician Yvonne Pernet, classical homoeopath Peter Guinée,
health care-centre practitioner Noor Prent-Tromp, general practitioners Adriaan
van de Sande and Martin Wyers, homoeopathic doctors José Vermeulen and Hans
Reijnen, parents Ellen and Johan Huiskens, Mart and Marjet van PoppelCEJFl and
Yvonne Wijers, Wilma Bloemsma and last but not least my son Gaël, medical
student.
It gives me pleasure to
dedicate this booklet to all children who, consciously or otherwise,
experienced adverse effects resulting from vaccination, and their parents, who
were confronted with so many uncertainties and unanswered questions. It is
hoped that its publication may help reduce much unnecessary suffering and in
this way play a meaningful part in the prevention and treatment of the
post-vaccination syndrome.
Dr. Tinus Smits
Waalre, September 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Table of contents
Summary
Introduction
Basic
description of the 'post-vaccination syndrome'
The
homoeopathic method
General
principle
Diagnosis
Treatment
Prevention
Injury
to the general defence mechanism
Misconduct, changes
in mood
Possibility
of heightened risk in succeeding generations
Implied obstacles to
the acceptance of the post-vaccination syndrome
Research
Recommendations
Conclusions
Further
illustrations of the post-vaccination syndrome and supplementary case histories
Glossary
Literature
SUMMARY
Purpose. The recognition of a new syndrome*
in medicine, the 'post-vaccination syndrome'*. Also an account of its
diagnosis, method of treatment and prevention.
Scope. The findings are a consolidation of
accurate observations over a number of years based on discussion with
children's parents and patients and experience acquired from the treatment and
prevention of this disorder.
Method. Homoeopathic techniques, including
the use of carefully potentised and diluted vaccines for the confirmation of
diagnoses, therapy and prevention, were applied.
Results. The results achieved by the use of
potentised vaccines in the diagnosis and at the same time the treatment of PVS
(post-vaccination syndrome) appear so consistent and successful that the method
can be used to provide a conclusive answer to the sometimes vexed question of
the presence or absence of post-vaccination syndrome in a patient. This will
become clear from the description of more than twenty case histories. The
extent to which unequivocal results for the preventive employment of potentised
vaccines to impede the occurrence of post-vaccination syndrome can be furnished
will have to be demonstrated by means of a parallel research* project.
Recommendations. The insights obtained from careful
observation and the use of potentised vaccines have led to a number of
recommendations with respect to Dutch vaccination policy, as formulated in the
chapter Recommendations.
Conclusions. The 'post-vaccination syndrome'
diagnosis has unquestionably earned a prominent place in paediatrics. The
condition can at the same time be treated successfully by the use of potentised
vaccines as described in this booklet.
INTRODUCTION
My interest in vaccination
and its adverse effects dates from the time, some 20 years ago, that my own
children were small. Throughout the intervening period I have collated
information and, mainly during the last ten years, have recorded the testimony
of my own practice.
Homoeopathic practice has
recognized that chronic complaints can develop following vaccination ever since
the general introduction of smallpox vaccination in the 19th
century. For many years Thuja was acknowledged by homoeopaths as the proven
remedy for these complaints, whose treatment by homeopathic means however
appeared to me to be less than satisfactory. About ten years ago I acquired the
book La médecine retrouvée3 by my colleague Jean Elmiger,
which caused me to change my methods of treating post-vaccination disorders and
my feelings of helplessness began gradually to disappear. The method he
described was simple and easy to use both for treatment and prevention. I made
a habit of enquiring about each child's vaccination history and a grateful
mother would frequently exclaim: "It's just what I've always said, but
nobody would believe me; they said those complaints couldn't have anything to
do with the vaccinations."
Vaccines appear to have
more side-effects than has hitherto been accepted. It must be recalled that
vaccines are composed of weakened, dead or divided germs or toxins* with their
additives, to which impurities (aluminium phosphate, aluminium hydroxide,
neomycin, thiomersal (a mercury compound), formaldehyde, 2-phenoxyethanol,
chicken protein) always cling.
My discussion will show
that vaccinations can be responsible for both acute and chronic health problems.
I should like to bring this
booklet to the attention of all doctors, parents, patients and any others who
have in any way been involved with the consequences of vaccination.
My review covers
consecutively: the post-vaccination syndrome, the homoeopathic method,
confirmation of the diagnosis, possibilities for treating PVS, prescription,
preventive measures, weakening of the general defence mechanism,
recommendations for further research, recommendations for vaccination policy
and conclusions.
For ease of readability I
have gathered the case histories as far as possible together in a separate
chapter at the end, to which the reader can refer at his convenience.
BASIC DESCRIPTION OF THE
'POST-VACCINATION SYNDROME'
The symptoms united in this
syndrome originate from two sources. On the one hand a large number of these
symptoms are frequently cited in the literature as post-vaccination symptoms;
other symptoms are my own observations. It must be stressed in this context
that any symptom that manifests itself following vaccination and only
disappears after treatment with the potentised vaccine is caused by the vaccine
concerned.
The PVS can be divided into
an acute and a chronic syndrome. The following are the main symptoms of the acute
syndrome: fever, convulsions, absent-mindedness, encephalitis and/or
meningitis, limbs swollen around the point of inoculation, whooping-type cough,
bronchitis, diarrhoea, excessive somnolence, frequent and inconsolable crying,
penetrating and heart-rending shrieking (cri encéphalique),
fainting/shock, pneumonia, death, cot death (since the Japanese delayed the
whooping-cough vaccination to the age of two years, cot deaths has been
practically obliterated in Japan1).
By carefully studying and
recording the cases we arrive at the following catalogue of chronic
post-vaccination symptoms: colds, amber or green phlegm, inflamed eyes, loss
of eye contact, squinting, inflammation of the middle ear, bronchitis,
expectoration, coughing, asthma, eczema, allergies, inflamed joints, tiredness
and lack of vigour, excessive thirst, diabetes, diarrhoea, constipation,
head-aches, disturbed sleep with periods of waking and crying, epilepsy,
rigidity of the back, muscle cramps, light-headedness, lack of concentration,
loss of memory, growth disturbances, lack of coordination, disturbed
development, behavioural problems such as fidgeting, aggressiveness,
irritation, moodi-ness, emotional imbalance, confusion, loss of will-power,
mental torpidity.
This list must needs be
incomplete as the symptoms of post-vaccination illness can be extremely varied.
The diagnosis is based not so much on the actual symptom as on the point of
time of its appearance.
To add to the complication
it is not possible to attribute certain individual symptoms of the PVS
specifically to the DKTP*- or DTP* vaccination, others to the MMR-vaccination
and yet others to the HIB* vaccination. In practice it must be accepted that
each vaccine can be responsible for several of the symptoms named and also for
additional symptoms that have not been mentioned.
There is also no clear
demarcation between acute and chronic complaints as the acute conditions are
often the beginning of chronic suffering.
The fact that someone has
displayed no direct or acute reaction to a vaccination does not necessarily
exclude the possibility of the vaccine being the cause of chronic complaints.
These complaints usually become clear only after one, two or even more weeks
have passed and dismissing a diagnosis of PVS in chronic cases because of
the time-lapse between the cause (vaccination) and the appearance of the
condition is fundamentally wrong. Ellen, case 12, page 29
demonstrates this. It is often only after the second, third or fourth
administration of the vaccine that problems suddenly occur. A good example of
this is Jurgen (case 1, page 14).
THE HOMOEOPATHIC METHOD
Diagnosis, treatment and
prevention are all carried out according to the homoeopathic method. A basic
knowledge of homoeopathy is therefore necessary. Homoeopathy was discovered and
promulgated worldwide 200 years ago by the German Samuel Hahnemann.
The principles of
homoeopathy are based on the law of similars, which is to say that
patients should be treated with medicaments that produce in healthy individuals
symptoms that are similar to those present in the patient. Such properties of
medicaments are published in materia medica. The homoeopathic remedy
acts on the deeply seated energetic disturbance that is the cause of the
disorder. It will be clear that complaints can only become chronic if the
injected substance - I am limiting my arguments here to problems associated
with vaccination - has brought about such an energetic disturbance or directly
caused tissue damage. The injected substance is quickly excreted from the body
and can only be the cause of continuing disorders when tissue has been damaged.
Chronic conditions associated with PVS are therefore mainly based on energy
disorders.
Material remedies are too
coarsely structured to work directly on the energetic disturbance. Homoeopathic
curative methods therefore make use of strongly diluted and potentised
remedies. Our starting point for the treatment of PVS is a one-in-a-hundred
dilution in pure water of the vaccine, strongly shaken 100 times (potentised).
This yields the 1C potency. One part is then mixed with 99 parts of
water and potentised 100 times to produce the 2C potency. If we
repeatedly use the same flask, the single-glass method, we refer to a Korsakov
or K-potency. If we use a separate flask for each dilution, the multiple-glass
method, we refer to a centesimal Hahnemann potency, or CH- or C-potency. By
carrying out this procedure 30 times we obtain the 30C or 30K. To
eradicate an illness completely it is often necessary to apply remedies of
differing energy levels. The higher the potency the finer the structure of the
remedy. It has been shown experimentally that particular potency levels lead to
the best results so for years we have sequentially used the 30C, the 200C,
the 1M (1,000C) and the 10M (10,000C). I personally always use
K-potencies though it is equally possible to achieve the same results with
C-potencies. When one-in-ten rather than one-in-a-hundred dilutions are made we
refer to decimal or X-potencies. X-potencies are also frequently used in the
Netherlands.
A 30C could be defined as a
purely energetic remedy that has been serially diluted thirty times (100-30)
and potentised 30 x 100 times (10030).
If a vaccine is the cause
of an ailment, the same vaccine in a homoeopathic dilution (for example DKTP
30K) is the perfectly correspondent remedy (similimum) and can therefore be
applied both as remedy and as diagnostic agent.
NB The author uses
K-potencies, so you will find 30K, 200K, MK and XMK, corresponding with 30C,
200C, 1M and 10M.
GENERAL PRINCIPLE
How can it be claimed that
homoeopathic dilutions of a vaccine can cure an ailment that has itself been
caused by that same vaccine? In reality the vaccine propagates the ailment and
homoeopathy has ever since its beginnings used agents which cause disease,
after dilution and potentiation, as remedies. Remedies such as tuberculinum
(tuberculosis), syphilinum (syphilis) and medorrhinum (gonorrhoea) were
successfully applied in the 19th century and today are still
frequently used homoeopathic remedies.
Once a complaint has
penetrated to the energetic level - we are considering chronic ailments - it is
possible to use the potentised cause of the complaint (the homoeopathic remedy)
to cure the ailment. Such ailments are not only caused by vaccines but also by
other medicines. The course of Peter's illness, case 2, page 25 is a
clear example of this.
Naturally occurring
diseases such as chicken-pox, influenza, glandular fever and cytomegalovirus*
etc. can equally cause chronic symptoms long after the actual ailment has
disappeared.
See case 3, Henri,
page 25.
DIAGNOSIS
PVS is essentially
diagnosed on the basis of carefully chosen questions directed to the patient or
his parents. The practitioner should always consider seriously a diagnosis of post-vaccination
syndrome whenever the complaints started at the time of, or in the period
following, vaccination and a treatment according to the method in this booklet
should be implemented as a first line of approach. This is to obviate an
endless and ill-fated stream of examinations and therapies. Where positive
results are achieved the suspected diagnosis of PVS is confirmed. Only as a
second resort, if the patient does not benefit fully from the treatment
implemented, should a follow-up diagnosis be made. The following case history
illustrates how wearisome this process can be.
case 4
Luuk was born in early
November 1994 and received his first DKTP/HIB on the 15th of
February 1995. A few days later he first became ill; he had shortage of breath
accompanied by noisy breathing. The GP prescribed Bricanyl* and Clamoxyl* but
this appeared unsatisfactory and Luuk was given a second course of Clamoxyl. On
the 11th of April his lungs were
finally completely clear
and he was given the second DKTP/HIB. Two days later he contracted diarrhoea
which lasted a week, for which the doctor prescribed Diarolyte*. On the 11th
of May followed the third DKTP/HIB and on the 16th of May Luuk was
again short of breath and the doctor represcribed Clamoxyl, this time together
with Deptropine*. However, Luuk's condition did not improve and halfway through
June he was given Atrovent* and Erythrocine*. On the 23rd of June he
was given Erythrocine again with Zaditen* and on July the 13th (four
months after the beginning of his complaint) he visited the paediatrician, who
did not offer a diagnosis but suggested stopping the treatment. Luuk's
condition improved gradually. On the 21st of November the fourth
DKTP/HIB was given. On the 26th of November his nose started
running, he began to cough and he had trouble breathing. Luuk was visiting his
grandparents in a different town at the time. The mother consulted the local GP
on duty, who suggested PVS and referred Luuk to me. The following Monday I saw
Luuk, who had breathing difficulties and was heavily congested. I prescribed a
solution of DKTP/HIB 30K. Within 24 hours the breathing problems were
noticeably improved. For several days he continued to cough and expectorate and
in the following week the phlegm was completely cleared. To complete
elimination of the disturbance by the vaccines he was given a further series of
potentised vaccines from 30K to XMK on four consecutive days. Since then (a
period of nine months) Luuk has no longer been ill.
Because of its high degree
of reliability and efficacy, this method offers an excellent opportunity for
establishing the cause of certain illnesses. One can trace step by step the
vaccine, medicine or illness that has caused the complaint. This scheme also
allows us to find the cause of the often- discussed 'Jungle syndrome', a
syndrome which has claimed so many young soldiers as victim and for which
traditional medicine can offer neither an effective diagnostic procedure nor a
satisfactory therapy. The case of Johan, a 19-year-old seaman, is a clear
example of such a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure. See case 5, page
26.
TREATMENT
Treatment is with
potentised vaccine. Usually the best method for chronic PVS is to administer
this remedy at four different potencies on four consecutive days; the first day
30C, the second day 200C, the third day 1M and the fourth day 10M. In each case
about 10 globules ( 6.72) are introduced directly into the mouth without any
fluid to be drunk. The granules dissolve completely within one minute. It is
advisable not to eat or drink or brush the teeth for half an hour before or
after this administration to allow the medicament to act without interference.
If the symptoms are aggravated after one of the four potencies it is always
necessary to wait until the reaction is over before continuing treatment. In
such cases the same potency is then repeated. This procedure is continued as
long as necessary for the patient's reaction to cease, normally after one or
two repeat doses. The series is then completed. It is also possible to treat a
severe reaction with a solution of the 30C. For this, ten globules are
dissolved in half a glass of water which is administered, a sip or teaspoonful
at a time, for one or two days. The most common reaction is fever, which does
not require further treatment. If the child is vulnerable, as for example as a
result of serious vaccine-related complications or if oversensitivity is
anticipated, each potency can be administered weekly. Severe reactions can
similarly be treated by weekly repeats of the same potency until no reaction is
clearly discernible. If the disorder has not completely cleared up after three
weeks, the whole series can be repeated. One to three series is usually
sufficient.
In acute cases the
treatment is largely similar, differing only in that the preference in acute
cases is given to aqueous solutions of a 30C or 200C as described above. This
solution is administered at the rate of a sip or a teaspoonful an hour for a
number of days; three doses are usually sufficient. See case 6, Ragma,
page 26.
Even where the
post-vaccination syndrome is of several years' standing it can still be treated
successfully, as is shown by case 7 (page 27), where the patient had
suffered for eleven years, and case 8 (page 28) with a prehistory of 17
years. In both cases the complaints were effectively fully cured.
PREVENTION
Homoeopaths used to
recommend, and sometimes still do, Thuja 30C before vaccination. Personally, I
have had unfortunate experiences with this and have never been able to confirm
its efficacy. Paediatrician Yvonne Pernet has recommended Thuja 30C to the
parents of all the children she has vaccinated for several years. When she
stepped over to the preventive use of potentised vaccines the difference in the
results was indisputable. There were patently fewer side-effects to vaccination
with this novel method. In fact, the energetic level becomes safeguarded
so it can no longer be disturbed by the vaccine. It is as if the organism is
warned of the approaching 'artificial' illnesses and can therefore better
maintain its balance. It must be remembered that chronic complaints can only
occur because the deeper levels of our energy have been disturbed.
The procedure is as
follows: two days
before vaccination, give the potentised vaccine (e.g. DKTP) at 200C, about 10
small granules (globules), and repeat after vaccination, on the same day. The
granules are of lactose and are absorbed quickly in the mouth. If there is to
be no further vaccination for the time being, it is a good idea to administer
the potentised vaccine a month later in increasing potencies of 30C, 200C, 1M
and 10M on four consecutive days in order to correct any possible disturbance
to the deeper energy levels. If, as can never be completely excluded,
complications still occur despite these preventive measures, it is recommended
that a solution in water of the 200C be given for three days at the acute stage
and to repeat the whole series several weeks later. See case 9, Lisette,
page 15.
INJURY TO THE GENERAL
DEFENCE MECHANISM
Whereas the body's specific
defences against certain diseases can be increased by means of vaccination,
which is obviously the effect intended, practice shows that the defences as a
whole can also be significantly broken down.
We see a group of children
previously in good health suddenly develop all manner of infections after
vaccination, or children in whom existing complaints worsen. The case of
Ragma's pneumonia already discussed (case 6, page 26) is an example of
this. Weakened natural defences often manifest themselves in chronic colds, ear
infections and bronchial infections (sore throats, bronchitis, pneumonia).
Generally speaking the family doctor and, at a later stage, the paediatrician
will prescribe antibiotics. In such cases the weakened defences are already
discernible: antibiotics suddenly appear to be less effective and several
courses need to be given consecutively. Even then infections often linger for
weeks or even months. Moreover, the general defence mechanisms can deteriorate
further after this repeated treatment. This weakening of the defences can
possibly be ascribed to a shift from a defensive system at the cellular level
(aided by white blood corpuscules) to an essentially humoral defence (brought
about by antibodies). Vaccination strengthens humoral defence and weakens
cellular defence. If this happens while children are but a few months old and
their cellular defences are still being built up, a serious loss of natural
defences with consequent sensitivity to infection can be the result.
Johan E. Sprietsma2
is of the opinion that the body's immune system, by shifting from a cellular to
a more humoral defence mechanism, becomes a lot less effective and diseases
consequently take on a chronic character.
The WHO (Geneva, April
1977), too, has confirmed an enormous increase in the incidence of infectious
diseases. This is explained as a result of the self-sufficiency of rich
countries and the deplorable conditions in poor countries. But are the
conditions in poor countries any more deplorable now than they always have
been? Malaria and tuberculosis are becoming increasingly difficult to combat
and are returning to many parts of the world. Also plague, yellow fever,
diphtheria and cholera are on the increase. The WHO considers this to be a
consequence of mankind's penetration into previously uninhabited areas and of
urban overpopulation. The collapse of the former Soviet-bloc countries and the
enormous increase in air traffic (more than 50 million people annually) are
also given as causes. However, living conditions in many countries have not
seriously changed for several decades, and the improved conditions in rich countries
cannot be seen to have led to reduced sensitivity to infection; on the
contrary, infectious disease is on the increase in these areas. The WHO can
also explain this: ageing, migration and tourism, industrial food production.
This last cause must certainly not be underestimated. It has gradually been
established that we in the opulent west are becoming undernourished owing to
the structure of our whole food-production chain of cultivation, reaping,
preservation, production and preparation. The belief that a varied diet ensures
adequate nutrition has long been questioned and has now been overthrown by the
results of scientific research. But the WHO disregards the fact that the
populations of rich and poor countries alike display poor defences and have therefore
become increasingly susceptible. A person with good defences need scarcely
worry about infectious diseases. Traditional medicine attributes the incidence
of infection to external contamination, whereas in reality the individual's
general defences play the leading part. The only cause that really affects the
whole world population is the multiplicity of vaccines that are administered to
the new-born, often within a few days of birth. I have for many years been able
to substantiate that it is precisely these vaccines that cause the drop-off in
resistance to all sorts of infectious disease. I have observed this both in the
Netherlands and in Nepal, where I worked for several months as homoeopathic
doctor. In the poor countries especially, where general defences are low owing
to malnutrition and inadequate living conditions, mass vaccination programs
have led to a fundamental increase in human health hazards and it follows that
all sorts of infectious diseases, both old and new, can spread very easily. For
example, newly born Nepalese are given a BCG injection, and so infected with
tuberculosis, before they are a day old, while as long ago as 1979 the WHO
itself published the results of a very extensive parallel research project into
the effectiveness of the BCG vaccination in Southern India, in which 260,000
people were involved and which had a seven-and-a-half-year follow-up12.
Two tribes participated and the results demonstrated that the BCG-vaccination
was entirely without protective value. 'The distribution of new cases of
bacillary tuberculosis among those not infected at intake did not show any
evidence of a protective effect of the BCG vaccines.') A year later, in an
article Does BCG vaccination protect the newborn and young infants?,
H.G. ten Dam and K.L. Hitze assert that there is little direct evidence of
the efficacity of BCG vaccination against infant tuberculosis13.
It is incomprehensible that in Nepal, and also in many other countries,
children are given a BCG-vaccination at birth: it is certainly not in the
child's interest to be infected with tuberculosis at such a tender age, which
serves to injure his general defence mechanism. If exposure to a genuine
tuberculosis infection does not provide resistance against later tuberculosis
infections, how can a weakened form be expected to?
It is high time for serious
consideration to be given to the effects of vaccination on immunity by those
whose interest in, or dependence on, vaccination is not financial. Hans Rümke,
for example, paediatrician at the RIVM*, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, who is
responsible for the quality and production of vaccines in the Netherlands - and
is also a member of the side-effects committee! - speaks of the present
publication about the post-vaccination syndrome as 'dangerous rubbish' because
'he is seriously concerned about what could happen if the post-vaccination
syndrome were to receive wider recognition'7 Here, too, we see this
confusion of interests. The time is ripe for an independent side-effects
committee which is in no way involved with vaccination policy as such. At
present the side-effects of vaccination are seen as a threat to a specific
vaccination policy and a critical approach, even one based entirely on
practical experience, is laughed out of court as 'dangerous rubbish' without
any attempt on the part of those responsible at serious research.
One researcher, Viera
Schneibner, who has conducted a colossal amount of research into the
consequences of vaccination based exclusively on orthodox medical research material,
makes her conclusion immediately clear in the title of her book: Vaccination,
100 years of orthodox research shows that vaccines represent a medical assault
on the immune system.11 I have arrived at the same conclusion in
my own practice entirely independently of her investigations.
The following example
demonstrates how a small child's resistance can be almost imperceptibly
weakened as well as the high level of competence necessary to recognize and
treat this process as post-vaccination syndrome.
case 26
1. Sabina was nearly two
when I saw her halfway through March 1997. Her disorder began in November '96
when she started attending day-nursery. She was subject to nasal catarrh,
coughing fits, vomiting and diarrhoea. She had been given three courses of
antibiotics (November, December, January). She contracted chicken-pox at the
end of November. Before this her life had been unproblematical. The pregnancy
ran its course without much trouble and she was born by Caesarean section. She
was breast-fed for seven months. She received her vaccinations at the normal
time. Following the first DKTP/HIB she had her first cold and her last
vaccination (MMR), to which she showed no noticeable reaction, was in July '96.
The problems did not start until three months later, when she was attending
day-nursery three times a week. Her mother described her as 'a real nuisance',
a pusher, who quickly got cross when things went wrong and then started
throwing things. She was eager to learn, happy, boisterous, she had trouble
eating and sleeping. She was a chatterbox, reacted violently to pain and could
not leave things alone. She loved being cuddled and liked sucking her dummy.
She was pale, ate hot meals with difficulty but would eat bread without
trouble. She drank a lot, and still more when she was not well. She needed to
eat a lot between meals. There is a history of cancer in the family (PM / MPM /
MMM) and diabetes mellitus (MP). The father's side tends to obesity. Expressed
in homoeopathic terms, this child clearly displayed a Saccharum-pattern and I
therefore prescribed Saccharum officinale 200K, once every two weeks.
This child's defences had
clearly been undermined. She is an only child and had had little contact with
other children. That is why the trouble revealed itself at the day-nursery. Ten
days after the treatment had been started the mother rang because the ailments
had worsened and Sabina was running a temperature of 40C. I prescribed
Saccharum officinale 30K in water, a sip an hour, but the next day she was worse
and the mother was in a panic. We made an appointment for Sabina to see me and
it appeared that she had an infection in both ears. Her lungs were clear. I
concluded that another layer was blocking the efficacy of the constitutional
remedy (Saccharum officinale), a layer that was screening her Saccharum layer.
The Saccharum was not able to improve her defences and their weakened state
must have had its origin in something other than a constitutional cause.
Experience has taught me that vaccines are the most common source of such
problems, and there had been little else in her short life that could so
clearly have weakened her defences. I therefore started immediately to combat
the MMR administered three months before the illness started. I prescribed a sip
every hour of MMR 30K and the next day Sabina was free of fever, had had a good
night's sleep and was visibly improving. The neutralization of the MMR was
continued with higher potencies in the following weeks, after which the DKTP
and HIB were counteracted. This way Sabina was completely cured of her PVS and
it was only then that her mother realized that Sabina had actually been
unsettled before attending nursery, but that had not come out in the form of
infections. Her enjoyment of life has greatly increased; she is once again a
delightful and contented child liked by everybody.
case 27
2. Sanne's case is also
interesting. She is seriously handicapped and is especially prone to epileptic
attacks and pneumonia. I have been treating her for seven years and in all that
time she has not once been hospitalized, though it was sometimes a near thing
and a large share of the credit for this must go to her parents, whose courage
and competence have greatly influenced her well-being. I have only seen her
occasionally during recent years and a number of consultations by telephone
together with a good collaboration with the GP, who has kept an eye on the
medical background, have been sufficient to control the pneumonia and prevent
aggravation of the epilepsy, using Opium or Cuprum metallicum. And so she
reached her ninth birthday and at the instigation of her parents was given a
DTP and an MMR, not on the same day, but still... At the end of February the
mother rang me because pneumonia was imminent so I prescribed for Sanne the
usual Opium but this time it did not help and even with increased potencies
there was no improvement to be seen. The new GP wanted to hospitalize her, but
mother refused: she set up a drip-feed for the child herself and at her wit's
end we decided to give a course of antibiotics even though this had never
really helped her in the past. She showed some improvement but three days after
the ten-day course she was in the same state again with obvious pneumonia. We
conferred with the previous GP. I then prescribed Cuprum metallicum and Cuprum
sulphuricum, without success. And so a further course of antibiotics followed,
again without success. Nothing seemed to help. Then I personally made a
thorough examination of Sanne and discovered that she had had an MMR in October
and a DTP half a year before that. I started immediately with a sip of MMR 30K
hourly, and the next day Sanne had a splendid Opium-pattern back. She slept all
day, could not be woken and rolled her eyes back up. Sanne was reacting and could
therefore be treated. Then she recuperated fully within one week, first thanks
to Opium, followed by Cuprum metallicum. The reactivity was restored once the
DTP had been further deactivated.
This shows clearly how a
'constitutional' remedy that for seven years had given outstanding results can
fail when the patient has been inoculated, and how antibiotics then also fail
to help. It is necessary to restore the immune system by counteracting the PVS,
so that both homoeopathic remedies and possibly antibiotics can function
effectively. The following cases are also clear examples of such diminished
general defences: case 10, Patrick, page 28, case 11, Hanneke,
page 29 and case 12, Ellen, page 29.
MISCONDUCT, CHANGES IN
MOOD
It is to be expected that a
child with a cold, some irritation or whose hearing has become impaired will be
abnormally peevish, difficult or tearful. We still see a number of children who
display behavioural disorders after vaccination, which cannot be characterized
as restlessness or 'the fidgets'. Up to the present, nobody has paid any
serious attention to disturbances of this kind and nobody, apart from a handful
of 'initiates' suspects that vaccination can completely interfere with the
character of children, let alone of adults. Parents regularly say to me after
vaccines have been neutralized: "It is unbelievable, but my son/daughter
is just as he/she used to be, he/she now enjoys life as much as before the
inoculations. My child has stopped complaining and it is now a pleasure to
spend time with him/her where it had become more like a heavy chore." It
is significant that in most cases the parents had not complained particularly
about the child's behaviour; they had come because of a physical complaint. People
do not generally complain to the doctor about their children's behaviour; in
those serious cases where they do the cause of the problem had never been
associated with vaccination. I am convinced that the two most important causes
of disturbed patterns of behaviour in children are, first, disorders in
carbohydrate (sugar) metabolism and, secondly, vaccinations. (I am currently
involved in research into the first subject, results of which will in time be
published.)
case 1
Jurgen provides a good
example of this. He was exactly one year old when his mother first appeared at
my practice. When he was three weeks old he contracted a cold that had still
not disappeared. Up to six months he was lovable and quiet, but this suddenly
changed: he became restless and noisy and often had one-day fevers, ten times
in that year. It was as if he was a different child, said his mother. Nothing
pleased him any more, he refused to sit on mother's lap, even for a game or
nursery-rhyme. He had his vaccinations exactly on time 'with absolutely no
problems' according to the mother, except that after the fourth DKTP/HIB a
month ago he had a one-day fever. He has also had abnormal trouble with
teething, with a raised temperature and diarrhoea. His colds were characterized
by a watery running nose, expectoration and noisy breathing: 'you can always
hear something,' his mother said. From six months he was given vegetables and
fruit juice as well as the bottle. 'What is the matter with him? He has
suffered colds since he was three weeks old so he very probably has an innate
tendency to infection and weak defences. But the enormous change in Jurgen's
character at six months is the most noticeable part of this tale.'
Theoretically this could be caused by the change in diet, but it is most
unlikely that this could cause the change in character. These changes can
however easily be explained by a post-vaccination syndrome. His total lack of
reaction to the various vaccines is more likely to be a sign of his poor
general defences than of the harmlessness of the vaccinations.
This means for Jurgen
that we will in all probability have to reverse the change in character by
giving him a series of potentised DKTP/HIB. His weak defences (which are shown
by his constant colds) will remain to be treated later, as this was present
before the vaccination period. After the DKTP/HIB 30K, which he was given in
the evening before going to bed, he cried at night incessantly for four hours,
after which he was noticeably more content. He also had diarrhoea that day. The
30K was therefore repeated a few days later, after which the series was
completed. After three weeks I saw Jurgen again. Mother said that his behaviour
had improved beyond measure. He was now much more content and remained on her
lap, and expressed real pleasure (for example when his parents came home). He
played more happily, and no longer ran from one thing to another. He had become
calmer. Since the treatment he often had diarrhoea and he slept fitfully,
waking at night and wanting to play as if to make up for lost time. He yelled
whenever his mother went away. I prescribed a repeat series of potentised
DKTP/HIB, to which he reacted with three days of fever of up to 40C., a runny
nose, coughing and inflamed eyes. This was followed by almost constant
diarrhoea, rejection of his food and continuing colds. Then came a period with
bodily disturbances from teething difficulties, expectoration and squeaky
breathing. It seemed as if he was bothered by something other than his
vaccinations so I decided on the basis of his symptoms to treat him with Cuprum
metallicum after which he finally recovered. He sleeps peacefully, no longer
has diarrhoea, the colds and inflammation of the eyes have disappeared and
Jurgen is fully recovered.
case 9
Following the DTP-jab at
four years, Lisette showed an enormous decline in her development despite the
preventive measure of DTP 200K two days before the vaccination and later on the
same day: she started eating badly again, was very tired and reverted to baby
behaviour: she talked gibberish, wanted to be fed and to revert to
bottle-feeding. She became listless, spent a lot of time lying on the ground
and wanted to be cuddled a lot as well as developing oversensitivity to pain. I
gave her a complete series of DTP 30K, 200K, MK and XMK over four days, after
which the complaints completely disappeared and her development continued
normally.
case 25 (extra)
Lotte's mother rang me
on the 20th of November, 1995 because her four-year-old daughter had
started coughing on holiday. She was also weary and miserable. The symptoms had
not yet gone and her mother suggested this might have to do with the unusually
hot weather and because she had just started primary school. From answers to my
questions I learned that Lotte had had a DTP-jab on the 26th of
June, without having become unwell immediately. She started coughing about a
week later. The most likely cause for her trouble is therefore not the hot
weather or school, but the DTP-jab. I treated her for four days with a series
of DTP 30K - XMK. Ten days later (November the 30th) her mother rang me to say
all the symptoms were gone. Lotte was no longer coughing and was the happy,
active child she had always been. She told me that after the third dose (DTP
MK) Lotte had had a temperature (385C). She therefore waited a day, repeated
the third dose (DTP MK) and when there was no reaction she gave her the last
(DTP XMK) dose the following day.
POSSIBILITY OF
HEIGHTENED RISK IN SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS
When the parents themselves
experienced problems after vaccination, which may often have passed unnoticed,
there is an increased likelihood of their offspring suffering from PVS. The
fact that several children in the same family have suffered illness in the
vaccination period can be a pointer to this.
case 13
Ralf's case is an
example of this state of affairs. He was one-and-a-half and had had eczema from
the age of seven months. For a week following both the DKTP/HIB's and the MMR
he awoke shrieking and screaming and did not want to go to bed in the evening;
he was in a state of panic and had to be nursed to sleep. After the third
DKTP/HIB he also started to vomit and had fetid stools. His eczema seriously
worsened after the MMR and he became aggressive and tense and started throwing
things. His mother spoke of a breakdown. Whereas he had been thoroughly content
for the first half-year, he had now for six months been restless and prone to
regular colds. From his seventh month he drank a lot at night and, since the
MMR, during the day. Treatment with a series of MMR 30K, 200K, MK and XMK was
started and three weeks later he was given a series of DKTP/HIB 30K, 200K, MK
and XMK. After the MMR series he became much happier and when the DKTP/HIB
series was finished he was 'the little boy she once knew' as the mother said.
He became talkative again, happy and full of grit. However, his night-time
thirst remained undiminished and he would not calm down until allowed to drink.
In addition he had a bad cold and watery, slimy faeces. I gave him a repeat
series of MMR, following which for three days he woke up screaming and was
afraid to go to bed in the evening, just as after the MMR inoculation.
Otherwise there was little to report. Two weeks later the DKTP/HIB series was
repeated and he reacted to this similarly as to the MMR; this also lasted for a
couple of days. Then his excessive thirst at night disappeared within a few
weeks, he slept increasingly peacefully and for three months the eczema could
be observed to decrease without additional treatment. All symptoms arising
following the vaccinations have completely disappeared.
Not all children are
disturbed this clearly as a result of vaccination, but here is one of the
fortunate few who was able to profit from a planned programme of recovery. Ralf
is part of a family that has a history of adverse reactions to vaccination. His
mother visited Indonesia on holiday in 1983 and was given two each of cholera,
DPT and typhoid and one -globulin* injections. Since then she has suffered from
fatigue for 11 years long (case 7, page 27). Her father had previously
also been to Indonesia, on military service, and had the necessary injections.
Ralf is thus the third generation displaying vaccination problems.
IMPLIED OBSTACLES TO THE
ACCEPTANCEOF THE POST-VACCINATION SYNDROME
To accept that a connexion
between vaccination and its consequences can only be verified if the malady
becomes apparent within three times 24 hours is to disavow the reality of the
PVS. This period of three times 24 hours would only allow for the possibility
of an acute PVS so the most pronounced and at the same time most important
manifestation of the PVS, the chronic cases, would necessarily be excluded from
consideration. This acceptance shuts out what should in reality be the
fundamental subject-matter of the study. The available statistics about the
side-effects of vaccination then become completely meaningless, especially when
(as is the case in The Netherlands) those responsible for the implementation of
the vaccination policy are included in the side-effects committee and disorders
have to be explained by word of mouth. A large part of the damage develops
almost unnoticed and can only be established at a later date when the symptoms
only appear weeks or even months after vaccination.
This situation is well
exemplified in the case of Sabina, case 26 in the previous chapter. The damage
only became evident when, three months later, a demand was made on her immune
system when she started at day-nursery. Only then did it emerge that her
natural defences had been weakened by the MMR vaccination, which up to then had
given no discernible problems. But it is typically instances of this sort that
are seized by opponents to the recognition of the PVS to suggest that the
culprit is the contact with other children rather than the vaccine. No
consideration is given to the fact that good defences were originally present
or that a child needs to be able to rely on these defences in order not to
become ill as a matter of course at each infectious contact once he starts attending
a crèche, day-nursery, school or some other social meeting-place where bacteria
and other germs can be passed on. Administration of potentised vaccines has
shown that in the majority of cases such weakened defences can be restored so
such social contacts are merely the provocation, not the cause,
of the malady. It is now easy to explain the world-wide incidence of all sorts
of infectious diseases. We must ask ourselves - and accurate independent
research is needed to answer the question satisfactorily - if we are not
actively destroying an indispensable mechanism that is of vital importance to
our survival in a world where germs are part and parcel of the environment. For
a long time we have effectively attempted to counteract atrophied general defences
by antibiotics, but it seems that a satisfactory natural immune system is
becoming increasingly important. However good medical remedies may seem at
first, they always exhibit inadequacies.
It is therefore essential
to see what happens not in the first three days following vaccination, but what
happens after that. The use of potentised vaccines can play an essential part
here. This method provides excellent opportunities for confirming or rejecting
a diagnosis. This is invaluable and can help achieve a clear insight into the
real extent of the problem.
The following case
demonstrates how lightly and irresponsibly acute cases can at present be
regarded.
case 28
Anita received her third
combined DKTP/HIB vaccination at five months. The same evening her temperature
had risen to 40C, she cried incessantly and appeared to have stomach cramps.
Her mother was concerned and consulted the doctor next day, who examined the
child and advised waiting to see what happened. He did not actually exclude the
possibility of an acute post-vaccination syndrome but was not able to treat
this. Anita did not improve and a second visit to the doctor produced neither
new opinions nor treatment. When the mother on the third day approached the
clinic where her daughter had been inoculated for advice about these
post-vaccination disorders, a nurse told her that the vaccinations could not be
the cause as any effects would be worn out within 24 hours. Then the mother
rang me, whereupon I immediately prescribed a solution of DKTP/HIB 30K, after
which Anita fully recovered within 12 hours. When I later contacted the doctor
responsible at the health-care centre to complain about the advice given, I was
treated to a meaningless albeit diplomatic answer that is nothing but a direct
disavowal of the post-vaccination syndrome: Most complications do not last
longer than 24 hours. But Anita could quite easily have contracted an infection
that had nothing to do with the vaccines given and which spontaneously cleared
up just at the time I prescribed the DKTP/HIB 30K. And once again reality
is denied and attributed to coincidence...
RESEARCH
The next step in relation
to the above should be to initiate a thorough large-scale parallel research
project in which one group of children is given a preventive 200C dose of
vaccine two days before vaccination, as described above, and another group a
placebo*. Immediately following vaccination the same procedure (200C or
placebo) would be repeated. A carefully tabulated record of the child's state
of health before the commencement of vaccination and its reaction to the
inoculation should be kept: fever, crying, sleeplessness, convulsions,
meningitis, epilepsy, growth-pattern disturbances, behavioural disturbances,
infections such as inflamed ears, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, eczema, along
with motor development and mental development. The project should cover the
age-group from three months to 18 months. This way the differences in reaction
between children treated and those not treated with a homoeopathic dilution of
the vaccine can be charted. This work would gain an extra dimension as a
similar comparison between vaccinated and unvaccinated children has never been
made anywhere in the world despite the massive scale on which vaccination is
carried out. No other medication would be allowed on the market under these
conditions.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Besides the preventive
measures using potentised vaccine in the 200C dilution as described above,
other means of prevention can lessen the risks from vaccination. In the first
place this means being alert to signals from the child following vaccination.
All too frequently it is assumed that all will be well and a following vaccine
is administered unadvisedly.
case 14
In the Tijdschrift voor
Jeugdgezondheidszorg4 for 1994 is an interesting illustration. "The
commission considered the case of a girl who is now two years old whose mental
and physical development was very seriously retarded. She had undergone a
normal development since her full-term* birth at normal weight. She became
seriously ill following the second DKTP, with a temperature of 41C. and
symptoms that clearly suggested whooping cough: six weeks later it was obvious
that her mental development was retarded. Following the first DKTP she had also
been ill with a temperature of 40C., coughing bouts with tightness in the chest
and vomiting, but less seriously than after the second inoculation.
"The committee
recognizes that whereas a causal* connexion with both inoculations cannot be
ruled out, this must be considered unlikely owing to the particularity of the
course of the illness and against the background of the corpus of scientific
literature relating to such a connexion."
The commission's opinion is
in fact not very interesting here, although it does underline how such problems
are generally tackled. What is much more relevant is the question as to the
grounds on which it was considered that the responsible person or organization
should go ahead with the second DKTP. At the very least it should have been
decided to leave out the whooping-cough vaccination because of the coughing and
oppression and 40C. temperature following the first DKTP. For another example,
see case 11, Hanneke, page 29.
It would be unjust to
conclude from the above that the various organizations responsible do not
seriously consider reports of ailments. The problem is double-edged. First,
most cases of PVS do not reach the commission because doctors and
paediatricians are not trained to recognize a post-vaccination syndrome, so the
parents are told that the vaccination has nothing to do with the ailment.
Secondly, the commission does not possess the means of establishing a definite
relationship to the vaccine when a post-vaccination syndrome is reported, which
leads to parents being fobbed off with unsatisfactory conclusions characterized
by such phrases as "It is unlikely that..." It is after all only
possible from a scientific viewpoint to confirm something on the basis of a
definitely established relationship, which up to the present has not been
possible. However, the method described in this booklet provides an excellent
possibility for doing that, which can mean the end of the annoying uncertainty
while at the same time offering some prospect of recovery for the patient.
Dr. Jean Elminger declares
in his book La médecine retrouvée3 that:
1. vaccination is
carried out too early;
2. too many vaccines are
administered together;
3. vaccination is
carried out too frequently; and
4. vaccines cultivated on
animal proteins are used, which also contain chemical additives that can excite
allergies.
It is clear that some sort
of preventive action can be undertaken against these situations.
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Vaccination is carried
out too early in
the sense that the new-born baby is building up his own cellular (general)
defence and will pay for a shift towards humoral defence with a weakening of
its immune system as a whole. It is interesting to note in this context that
cot deaths have practically been eradicated1 in Japan, where the
whooping-cough vaccine is not given before two years of age.
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case 15
A good example of too
many vaccines being administered together is provided by Marieke. Her
fourth DKTP and HIB were postponed and at 15 months she had to receive another
DKTP, HIB and MMR. She was given them at the same time, a total of eight
vaccines. Her mother's anxious question whether that was all right was answered
in the affirmative: the child was quite strong enough. Nevertheless she reacted
to the first three DKTP's and HIB's with a temperature above 39C. and by
shrieking inconsolably (especially the first time). The ninth day after this
massive inoculation she had a seizure with rattling respiration accompanied by
slimy expectoration and her right side became completely rigid. Her temperature
rose to 412C. She was admitted to hospital where she was given a lumbar
puncture and further blood tests, but no infection was diagnosed. After two
days she appeared completely recovered but at eight o'clock on the third morning
she had a serious epileptic attack which lasted until towards evening. Marieke
was no longer Marieke. Her speech was reduced to hmm, hmm... She constantly
rocked backwards and forwards and up and down. There was no longer any eye
contact; it was 'as if she's looking straight through you'. All warmth, joy and
feeling of happiness and sorrow had disappeared. She had become an invalid baby
that needed help feeding, could not crawl, walk or talk. Her growth practically
ceased.
Marieke appeared to have
lost her sense of balance; she waved her arms when walking and by now had had
two months of physiotherapy and speech therapy. She only said 'mummy' and
'daddy'. But there was no repeat of the epileptic attacks and the medication
was reduced after three months.
Now two-and-a-half, her
condition had never been diagnosed as a post-vaccination syndrome. Her
paediatrician repeatedly enquired if her mother still believed it came from the
vaccinations, and the mother replied that she was 99% certain it did. Actual proof
of a causal connexion would also in this case have to come from the potentised
vaccine, however. We started the treatment carefully with just a MMR in
homoeopathic dilution with a week between each administration. It was not
certain that Marieke would still be able to recover fully. This misery could
probably have been avoided if such vaccine-cocktails had been a thing of the
past.
Treatment was started on
April 22nd and I saw her again on the 14th of August,
nearly four months later. She had been given each potency of the MMR twice
because her condition worsened each time. The last dose (XMK) was given three
weeks previously.
Marieke had changed
enormously. She immediately got a runny nose and went through a highly
emotional period during which she cried about literally everything and held on
to her mother, just like when she was in hospital. But by now she feels safe
again with father and mother and she can safely be left with people she knows.
Her mother calls her describes her as radiant; she is freer, approaches people,
is decided in what she wants. Her coordination has improved beyond measure. Her
bearing is no longer that of a baby, her muscular control and balance have
improved by leaps and bounds. She can walk normally again without waving her arms.
Her pupils are no longer dilated and function normally and her oversensitivity
to light is much reduced. Her digestion has improved; there is no undigested
food in her faeces, which smell more normal. Her speech has improved; she uses
some new words but in this is still backward for her age. Generally speaking
she is about half a year behind her actual age, which means she has caught up
about one-and-a-half years in four months. A consultation with the
welfare-centre doctor who gave her all the vaccines together has not proved
very satisfactory. She maintains that she acted correctly and says that she
would do the same in similar cases in the future.
I decide to eliminate
the disturbances from the other vaccines (DKTP and HIB) after one treatment as
Marieke is far healthier. If necessary the whole procedure can be repeated. It
looks as if Marieke, too, can recover completely from her post-vaccination
syndrome. This treatment has at the same time definitively shown the cause of
the bodily and mental retardation to be post-vaccination syndrome.
Economic considerations
have dictated for several years now that an increasing number of vaccinations
be given at the same time, e.g. MMR-D(K)TP or DKTP-HIB. Six or seven different
vaccines at one time brings added risks; after all, one would not naturally
contract six or seven diseases at the same time.
The original notion was to
give the HIB separately from the DKTP as a combination of the two would
overburden the child. In practice this created organizational difficulties so
it was decided to give DKTP and HIB together. Three-month-old babies are
therefore given 15 vaccinations in two months. The child's defence mechanism at
this age is undeveloped and vulnerable. The defences passed from mother to
child are slowly breaking down and the child has to develop its own defences.
It is therefore not surprising that the child experiences difficulty in coping
with the heavy stimulation of its specific defensive mechanism caused by the
combined disease germs, foreign proteins, chemical pollutants and additives all
being pumped into its body within a short period. Consequently all sorts of
chronic complaints stemming from weakened general defences occur at this time.
This way the child is forced to concentrate on the specific defence against the
administered diseases and is not given the chance to develop its own more
general defence mechanism. The general defences can even be seriously broken
down, as is shown by the cases described.
The necessity for
vaccinating so young and so frequently in a period of vulnerability has never
been demonstrated. Generally speaking, two D(K)TP vaccinations and one booster
six months later should be sufficient for the first four years of life.
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case 16
Owing to an unnecessary
repeat of the whooping-cough vaccine Saskia has adverse reactions after
each vaccination. At three months she was given her first DKTP/HIB and fourteen
days later she contracted whooping cough from an infected child. The
paediatrician diagnosed whooping cough, which lasted nearly five months. But
even after that she was constantly unwell: colds, 'flu, diarrhoea and any other
illness she came into contact with. Nevertheless, at eight months she was given
a DKTP/HIB despite the parents' direct query about the necessity of K
(i.e. whooping cough). She developed a high temperature and was very ill for
two days. A month later the third DKTP followed, after which she was ill
for a week with a high temperature. Only then was it decided to drop the
superfluous whooping-cough vaccine at the next inoculation. She hardly showed
any reaction to the DTP/HIB vaccination, but her further development had
clearly been disturbed. At nearly two, Saskia still did not talk and would only
take minced food. Her back and neck were strained and she crawled with her body
to one side. She hardly walked and constantly supported herself on whatever was
to hand. Now, three months after starting on the recovery programme with
DKTP/HIB 30K, 200K, MK and XMK and with Pertussin (whooping cough) 30K, 200K,
MK (she did not have the XMK), Saskia is a different child. The improvement
started slowly, but it became increasingly obvious that she was recovering. The
results can now be called spectacular. She has completely made up lost time.
She can now walk normally and even run, jog, climb stairs and walk backwards.
She crawls symmetrically. Her speech is satisfactory and her articulation has
much improved. She is energetic, less dependent on her mother and no longer
panics if she cannot see her. She needs less sleep and no longer takes
medication. A cold with green phlegm cleared up for the first time without
going on to her lungs and without any wheezing. She is content and is a joy
every day, reports the mother. Saskia is practically cured of the detrimental
effects of the DKTP/HIB and the whooping cough.
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The preparation of safer
vaccines without animal proteins or chemical additives is no easy
matter. One possibility would be the fully synthetic preparation of vaccines.
The first fully synthetic vaccine (against malaria), originating in Bolivia, is
already being used on a small scale.
Summing up I should like to make the following
recommendations concerning vaccination policy.
1. To implement
vaccination later. Hold back vaccination until the child has built up its
cellular defences (general defences) sufficiently.
There are enough variations
worldwide in the age at which children receive their first vaccination for a
preliminary balance-sheet of the advantages and disadvantages to be made up. A
useful example is the whooping-cough vaccination in Japan, which is not given
before two years1. A comparative study could be made by for example
not vaccinating children from a particular region before ten months and
following their progress compared with a control group of children vaccinated
from their third month.
2. To administer
vaccines separately where possible. In the first place the HIB can be given
by itself again, as in the USA. Moreover the DKTP or DTP should never be
combined with the MMR, as now happens with nine-year-olds. Vulnerable children
who displayed strong reactions to an earlier vaccination should as a matter of
course be given a DTP instead of a DKTP. Research6 shows that DKTP
gives more cause for complaint than DTP.
3. Increase the
intervals between vaccines: two months instead of one month. This is less
troublesome to the child and is more efficacious.
4. Reducing the total
number of vaccinations to three from four for the D(K)TP and HIB, the first
two with an interval of two months and the third after six months, as is
already the case for children of foreign origin.
5. Keeping a careful
record of the child's reactions to the previous vaccine before further
vaccinating the child. A more stringent and cautious policy than the present
one towards complications needs implementing.
6. No further
vaccinations before complete recovery from post-vaccination symptoms.
Children with a suspected post-vaccination syndrome require treatment and cure
with the potentised vaccine. Following this, full or partial vaccination should
be abandoned and preventive measures with the vaccine at 200K need to be taken.
7. Systematic protection
with potentised vaccine at every vaccination if the comparative study (see
page 18) yields positive results.
8. Specific instruction
concerning PVS to doctors, nurses and parents.
CONCLUSIONS
Armed with potentised
vaccines we have an efficient weapon in the fight against post-vaccination
syndromes. It is a proviso that doctors recognize these conditions for what they
are. This booklet has been produced to open the way to this recognition. We are
confronted by an ailment that has almost never been diagnosed up to the
present. Nevertheless, a correct diagnosis can lead to a simple treatment. For
this reason it is important for the parents to be able to report to the doctor
or at the welfare centre on the reactions of their child. Their diligence can
mean the finding of an effective treatment.
The treatment of PVS with
potentised vaccine confirms or disproves the diagnosis. If a doctor believes he
has a case of PVS, he can check his diagnosis with the potentised vaccine. If
his diagnosis is correct the complaint will disappear or improve with this
therapy. Where no improvement is observed it will be necessary to check that
there is no more recent cause for the complaint or its aggravation. The most
recent disturbance must always be treated first. If, for instance, the
complaint started after the fourth DKTP but the child has had MMR in the
meantime, it can be advisable, even necessary, to eliminate the MMR disturbance
before the DKTP. If this does not effect a cure, a different diagnosis must be
sought.
FURTHER ILLUSTRATIONS OF
THE POST-VACCINATION SYNDROME AND SUPPLEMENTARY CASE HISTORIES
GENERAL PRINCIPLE
case 2
Peter, 10 months old,
was suffering from colic and stone-hard stools and could scream dreadfully for
hours on end following his first DKTP. Mother, who is a 'DES-daughter'*, has
Crohn's disease* and took Salazopyrine* during and after pregnancy so could not
breast-feed her child. Peter has had hard stools from his sixth week and always
needed two days to expel his faeces. He turned red, perspired over his whole
body, got cross, shrieked and kicked. After his first DKTP/HIB he had fever for
a day and his whole thigh became swollen 'like a sausage'. He screamed
incessantly for nearly five hours. After the second DKTP/HIB he again developed
a fever with a swollen, red leg. Growth disorders were also observed. The third
vaccine was injected into his arm, after which he again developed a fever, with
a swollen arm.
The following potentised
vaccines were administered: DKTP/HIB 30K, 200K, MK and XMK on four consecutive
days; after the MK Peter cried all day and then started to recover. After two
weeks he fell back into his old pattern of ailments. The DKTP/HIB 30K and 200K
were then repeated and again he recovered. Mother speaks of a miracle; Peter is
happier and no longer screams. The drop in his weight curve started to rectify
itself. He still suffered from hard stools, which was to be expected as this
was the case before vaccination.
Two possibilities can be
considered: he either has a predisposition to intestinal problems or these
manifested themselves before birth as a result of his mother's use of
Salazopyrine during pregnancy. If the latter is the case the problem could
relatively easily be solved. My initial tentative diagnosis was chronic
constipation caused by the mother's use of Salazopyrine during pregnancy. If
this diagnosis is correct the ailment should be cured and eventually entirely
disappear after treatment with potentised Salazopyrine. I prescribed
Salazopyrine 30K once a week. After two months the constipation was fully
cured.
case 3
Henri is a small boy who
for six months had been peevish. At first his mother did not associate this
with the chicken-pox he had had, which passed off without further
complications. After careful questioning it appeared that everything had
started at the time of this children's complaint. I therefore gave him
Varicellinum 200K (chicken-pox). A large eruptive spot appeared on his chest,
after which he was fully cured.
THE 'JUNGLE SYNDROME'
case 5
Johan reported for duty
with the marines in August 1993 and was given a Mantoux* injection on the 13th
of August, on the 20th of August a DTP- and typhoid jab and on the
16th of September a booster typhoid vaccination. He gradually
deteriorated, as he says himself. He was overtired, had serious difficulty
concentrating, became very forgetful and had a strained left knee. At night
particularly he had belly-ache, a burning feeling in his stomach and
palpitations. After three months he was discharged from service. He went back
to his former employer, but could hardly work. For a year-and-a-half he was
very poorly, then he ended up in the summer of '95 on social security. A
rheumatologist declared him 'in perfect health'. After that he sought help in
the alternative medicine circuit and ended up visiting me. He told me that he
felt fluey all day, perspired heavily, had to drink a lot and urinate very
frequently. At night he was thoroughly exhausted. He felt too weak to ride his
motor-bike. He got stomach cramps and felt ill from two glasses of beer. His
problems were almost certainly due to one of the vaccinations. Any other
explanation seems simply untenable. Treatment with Typhus 30K up to XMK on four
consecutive days was started without any success. Three weeks later the DTP
series 30K to XMK was given, again without any improvement being recorded. As
suspicion still fell heavily on one of the vaccinations I repeated both series,
again without result. What was left is the Mantoux. Immediately following the
potentised Mantoux series he felt better and was again able to work whole days.
Although he felt a lot better he was still a long way from being what he was.
The Mantoux series was therefore repeated several times, each time after an
interval of three weeks. He now anticipates a full recovery from this.
And what must we think
about all the children worldwide who are given a BCG*, which is many times
stronger than Mantoux, in the first few days of their life! In the Netherlands
BCG is never given to children, however. Nevertheless, the incidence of
tuberculosis in the Netherlands is the lowest in the world.
It must be clear from this
that this method offers good prospects for recovery to all those troops who
have been felled by jungle syndrome. But it would not be realistic to conclude
from the above case that the Mantoux-jab is solely responsible for the jungle
syndrome. In every case the patient will have to be examined individually for
the vaccine or medicine responsible for the complaints (Lariam* can also
possibly cause these symptoms).
THE ACUTE
POST-VACCINATION SYNDROME
case 6
Ragma was a one-year-old
girl. In the early morning on the 4th of May, 1992 a worried father
rang me because his daughter was quite seriously ill. Both of Ragma's parents
were homoeopathic family doctors and knew the dangers of vaccination. They had
chosen to have their daughter only partially inoculated at a later date to
avoid vaccination risks as far as possible. As they both enjoyed long-distance
travel they decided to give Ragma a DTP at 13 months. Up to then she had been a
healthy child. She had occasionally had coughing fits but these had
spontaneously disappeared. The day following the vaccination Ragma became very
listless. After a week she began coughing and vomiting with a temperature of
38-39C. She did not want any food or drink beyond her single daily breast feed.
She woke frequently and only began to sleep properly at about 5 o'clock in the
morning. She was prone to frequent crying fits, especially at night. Her
parents gave her Thuja C1000 after she had been coughing and had had a fever
for four days. She did not react to this. Her condition worsened and five days
after the beginning of her illness she clearly had an infiltration* in the
lower lobe of her left lung. Her temperature was 395C., she would neither eat
nor drink and vomited as a result of her coughing fits. Her parents were
worried about dehydration and feared hospitalization. The family doctor
involved pressed for an immediate course of antibiotics. When the father rang
me on that May morning I advised him to start immediately with the
administration once an hour of a teaspoonful of a solution of DTP 200K. I
arranged to see Ragma at the end of the afternoon. Her condition was then
essentially unchanged. Crepitations* were clearly audible in the lower left
lung; there was (as yet) no sign of dehydration but we clearly had a seriously
ill child. We agreed to continue with the treatment and to postpone further
decisions until the next morning. The next morning I received an enthusiastic
telephone-call from the parents. Ragma had slept better, her temperature was
379C., she was coughing a lot less, had stopped vomiting and was more active.
The treatment (a sip of DTP 200K every hour) was continued.
The next morning Ragma
was full of beans. The fever had abated completely, her appetite was first-rate
and she was drinking normally. Her facial colour was back to normal. Medication
was stopped and the lungs healed without problems.
I dared to tackle
Ragma's case because I had had ample experience of treating PVS-complaints with
potentised vaccine and had built up my faith in the efficacy of this method.
Antibiotics would almost certainly have worked too slowly to prevent
dehydration and hospitalization, whilst the DTP 200K not only very effectively
cured the post-vaccination syndrome but also restored the general defences.
TREATMENT OF THE
LONG-TERM POST-VACCINATION SYNDROME
case 7
This 38-year-old woman
is the mother of Ralf (case 13). In 1983 (at 28 years of age) she went to
Indonesia and was given two each of cholera, DTP and typhoid vaccinations and
one -globulin. Since then she had been tired, had listless hair, her memory had
become much less reliable and she was moody. She showed a serious lack of
concentration and felt uneasy, afraid that she would not get things done in
time. Her sexual energy had completely disappeared. She had been increasingly
run-down. Also she had constant muscular pain. She started overeating and
gained more than 1½ stone. All this time her faeces had been runny. She could
not shake off a cold; when her children got colds she always caught them. She
said to me: 'You know your disposition and energy have changed, but you just
can't be bothered to do anything about it. You feel indecisive. I've come to
you with the children but would never have come by myself.' In 1993, ten years
after her holiday in Indonesia, her son Ralf was born by Caesarian section, for
which she had anaesthetic. After that she had two miscarriages and was once
anaesthetized for D & C, after which both memory and concentration declined
still further. I therefore gave her a series of Nux Vomica 30K up to XMK to
clear the unwanted effects of the anaesthetic. She clearly improved, her energy
increased and her headaches disappeared. She even sat in the sun without her
veins swelling and turning scarlet and without a headache. She was noticeably
less moody, but her memory and concentration were still poor. A repeat of Nux
Vomica did not induce further improvement. My following step, starting in June
1995 and still unfinished in September 1996, was to reduce the noxious effects
of the vaccines. Healing is in this case a gradual process with sometimes
serious recurrences. The typhoid vaccination proved to be responsible for her
complaints. She still reacts strongly to the potentised typhoid vaccine, but
shows further improvements after each treatment. Her memory has already shown a
marked improvement and she is clearly more energetic. In her own words: 'My
will-power is back and I am a different person. If I look back to the period
before treatment it is as if a blanket had been thrown over everything;
everything I did was routine. The fog has now lifted. My concentration has
returned; I can read books again and feel like studying again - I remember
things better. I feel as if I'm making up for ten lost years. I'm fit now when
I get up in the morning and no longer tired as I was for all those years.'
case 8
Another instance is
reported by my colleague, who treated a 17-year-old girl for urticaria* on the
face. She had tried unsuccessfully throughout the whole country to find relief.
When my colleague asked how long she had been troubled by this eczema her
mother said that it started three months after the first DKTP-injection, i.e.
17 years before. She was given a series of DKTP 30K, 200K, MK and XMK over four
days and the rash disappeared like snow before the sun within 14 days and at
the time of writing (nine months later) had never returned.
WEAKENED GENERAL DEFENCE
case 10
Patrick was nine months
old when I first saw him. He constantly had a cold with green mucus. His
breathing had been erratic since birth, but was now heavy and accompanied by
phlegm. Mother stopped breast-feeding him after four and a half months. At this
time he also developed eczema in the elbows and behind the knees, which was
treated with cortisone* ointment. He had been inoculated according to the
normal scheme (i.e. at 3, 4 and 5 months). Eight to ten days after the first
DKTP/HIB he contracted bronchitis with coughing fits, for which he was given
antibiotics by the family doctor. Since then his breathing had been attended by
expectoration. He caught a heavy cold following the second DKTP/HIB. Only the
third vaccination was given in stages, first the DKTP and fourteen days later
the HIB, which resulted in fewer reactions. In the spring his right eye became
inflamed and produced green pus and at the time I saw him he had an infection
of the left inner ear. He had had in total three courses of penicillin and
reacted each time with a rash. At the time he was taking two puffs of Becotide*
three times a day. He was perspiring heavily. I start treatment with a series
of HIB, followed a week later by a series of DKTP and again two weeks later by
a series of DKTP/HIB. When I next saw him five weeks later there had been no
clear improvement; of the last series he had only taken the 30K and had just
had an ear infection with a fever of 406C, which the family doctor treated with
penicillin. It still seemed that the injections were the only explanation for
his complaints. Apparently one disorder was masking another. Homoeopathy
recognizes that multiple disorders must always be treated in the correct
sequence, that is to say in the reverse order to that in which they appeared.
It appeared that the antibiotics had caused their own problems, which prevented
him from benefiting from the given therapy. I therefore started treatment with
a series of Penicillinum 30K, 200K, MK and XMK; after the MK he reacted with
amber phlegm and a dry cough. Then the XMK was administered and the amber
phlegm disappeared entirely. Two weeks later he had the series DKTP/HIB, after
which his improvement continued. One month later he was fully recovered: his
colds have disappeared and he no longer expectorates.
case 11
Another instance of
reduced natural defences is Hanneke. She was seven months old when she was
first brought to my practice. Two months previously she had caught her first
cold, which was followed by an infection inside her right ear and bronchitis
for which she was given a course of antibiotics. A week later the ear infection
was on both sides and her bronchitis had not cleared up, so she had been given
a second course of antibiotics. Since then her breathing had been noisy owing
to mucus in her lungs. I was told it all seemed to begin after the third DKTP.
I prescribed a series of DKTP/HIB 30K, 200K, MK and XMK on four consecutive
days. Since then the ear infections and bronchitis have gone but the cold
remained. She also started to sit, crawl and stand in a short time. It was then
that it became clear that her development had almost imperceptibly been
retarded. There was still fluid in her right ear-drum and, when tested, she
appeared to hear practically nothing on the left and little on the right.
Teething pains frequently made her cry at night. She still appeared distraught.
At the end of February I gave her a series of DKTP/HIB 30K, 200K, MK and XMK
because the symptoms of post-vaccination disorders were still present.
Following this her cold disappeared. Her hearing is now once again perfect and
she is thoroughly content. Hanneke is again as healthy as previously and her
natural defences are fully restored.
case 12
Finally the case of
Ellen. She was eleven months old when I first saw her in the middle of February
and had constantly had colds 'since birth'. She cried continually at night for
the first few weeks, probably as a result of stomach cramps. At five months she
suffered terribly for two weeks from fluid, squirting diarrhoea. At eight
months she was first bothered by a suppurating inflammation of the middle ear and
a temperature of above 40C. She was then given her first antibiotic treatment.
After this she had four further attacks of middle ear inflammation, the last
accompanied by vomiting, watery diarrhoea and a temperature between 375 and
386C. She was otherwise a bright child, quite well-developed and she ate and
slept without difficulty. She smells sour when she is unwell. She has had three
DKTP's, to which she showed no direct reaction. Middle-ear inflammation and
digestive disturbances are prevalent on the mother's side of the family. I
began applying a common homoeopathic treatment, without success. On April the
15th she was given the fourth DKTP and 14 days later she again had a
cold, brought up mucus, developed purulent eyes, ate less, cried at night and got
another inflammation of the middle ear. When I saw her at the beginning of June
with both ears discharging, a dirty nose and purulent eyes, it was clear to me
that she had PVS. I prescribed a DKTP 30K, 200K, MK and XMK on four consecutive
days. On July the 20th the mother rang me to tell me that the child
'had never been so well'. Everything has finished and it surprised everyone
that the child looks so healthy. There was no relapse.
ASTHMA, BRONCHIAL
ASTHMA, CHRONIC BRONCHITIS, PNEUMONIA
These are commonly
occurring complaints.
The marked increase in
young children suffering from these conditions could well be related to the
many vaccines administered to the very young9. The number of
children with unrelenting colds and ear, nose and throat or respiratory
infections is constantly increasing. It is my belief that polluted air or
infection passed on in nurseries and schools is less responsible for these
instances than is generally accepted. A child should be able to rely on his
natural defences. The occasional cold - without complications! - is perfectly
natural. An increasing number of children has to contend with chronic or
frequently recurring infections which are treated time and again with
antibiotics.
case 17 (extra)
Frances is a case in
point. At nearly two years she had respiratory problems. From the week after
her second DKTP she was seriously short of breath every time she caught a cold.
I therefore gave her DKTP 30K, 200K, MK and XMK on four consecutive days.
Following the XMK she started crying at night when going to sleep, something
she had never previously done. She displayed symptoms of severe panic. Four
days after the XMK she developed a cold, was weak in the legs and took to
whining. I therefore gave her a DKTP 200K in solution. She was still wheezy,
but noticeably less than usual. She started to improve slowly. At her next
chill she still coughed but was no longer stuffed up. Her last chill was free
of all complications. Frances is now perfectly content and her stuffiness has
not returned.
case 18 (extra)
Another example is the
case of Walter. I first saw him in my surgery when he was 14 months old. At
three months he contracted pneumonia, which was treated with penicillin, but he
continued to cough. For a year he had been taking 25 ml. of Deptropine* three
times a day but the coughing fits continued day and night. A PVS suggested
itself, but the mother assured me that the pneumonia appeared before the first
DKTP vaccination. He showed practically no reaction to the DKTP's and HIB's. I
then prescribed a homoeopathic preparation based on his symptoms, to which he
hardly reacted. A fortnight later the mother informed me by telephone that on
checking the baby's records she had discovered that the pneumonia appeared four
days after the first DKTP. I immediately prescribed DKTP 30K, 200K, MK and XMK
on four consecutive days and a week later the coughing had completely ceased
and the Deptropine was quickly decreased. A year's coughing and Deptropine was
thus brought to an end.
case 19 (extra)
Joop was one-and-a-half,
having been given the combined mumps, measles and German measles jab at 14
months. After a week he caught a cold with noisy breathing. The DKTP's had
hardly bothered him. A course of penicillin seemed to solve everything, but a
month later he again had a cold with noisy breathing. I then gave him MMR 200K,
three days running. His condition improved, but he did not completely recover.
A series of MMR 30K, 200K, MK and XMK cured him completely and his complaints
did not recur.
SKIN CONDITIONS (ECZEMA)
Skin complaints as a sign
of an internal disturbance caused by vaccination are frequently observed. When
the vaccinations are treated with potentised vaccine, even after a period of
years, the complaint disappears entirely, as for example the case of a
17-year-old girl who was cured of her facial urticaria* by a series of DKTP in
homoeopathic dilutions. (see case 8, page 28).
case 20 (extra)
Frits was five months
old when he was first brought to my practice. For six weeks he had displayed
'constitutional eczema' which started on his right cheek and spread over his
whole body. He was over-sensitive to indigenous fruit and allergic to cow-milk
protein. Exactly one month before the eczema started he had had his first DKTP
and just two days before his visit the second. I prescribed DKTP 30K, 200K, MK
and XMK and following the MK he developed a fever, so the XMK was postponed.
The eczema abated quickly. After 14 days he received the XMK and the eczema
disappeared completely. One month later the whole series was repeated owing to
a slight recurrence, after which the eczema was completely cured.
case 21 (extra)
Bert was eight months
old. Since his first DKTP/HIB he had eczema in his elbows, on his back, on his
legs and on his shoulders. He contracted chicken-pox between the second and the
third vaccination. After the third DKTP/HIB the eczema grew much worse,
becoming very itchy and moist. Following the first inoculation he suffered from
chronic colds and his breathing became 'husky' (as his mother described it). He
had twice been bothered by pus in his eyes. The paediatrician's diagnosis was
constitutional eczema. His advice was to use a hormone ointment. Up to three
months Bert had been a healthy child. Treatment was started with DKTP/HIB 30K,
200K, MK and XMK on four consecutive days. Bert's eczema (especially on the
back) worsened, accompanied by a high fever immediately after the first (30K)
dose. His temperature dropped spontaneously to normal after a day; the higher
potencies were postponed and the DKTP/HIB 30K was repeated a day later. As the
eczema did not increase the higher potencies were then administered following
the normal schedule. Two weeks later Bert was given a series of Varicellinum
(chicken-pox) to correct a possible energetic imbalance resulting from the
chicken-pox. This series was not accompanied by any noticeable worsening.
Approximately five weeks after the treatment was started the eczema started to
clear up quickly and two weeks later he was completely free of the condition.
His bronchia were again fully open and he no longer suffered colds. Also he was
no longer hyperactive and his moodiness and temper had disappeared and his hair
and nails were growing normally again (noticeably more quickly than before). He
still had pus in his eyes every morning. The DKTP/HIB series was therefore
repeated two months after the start of treatment. If this complaint is related
to the inoculations it should disappear following this course of treatment.
This appeared to be the case six weeks later and Bert is again a healthy child.
case 22 (extra)
Joep provides another
illustration. He was two-and-a-half when he was first brought to my practice. A
highly itchy rash caused him great distress, especially at night. He awoke
between ten thirty and eleven o'clock every night having scratched himself in
his sleep and the eczema was then red and weeping. He then reawoke once or
twice and could only be comforted by a drink. The condition started with red
swellings over his whole body when he was one month old. The GP prescribed a
cortisone ointment, with little success. From three months onward (after his
first DKTP) the rash spread and he came out in red blotches, the irritation
worsened and he scratched until he bled. When he was one year old his parents
first went to a homoeopathic doctor but every remedy merely aggravated his
condition without curing it. His parents then consulted a dietician, again
without success.
Joep was vaccinated at
the usual age but showed hardly any reaction to the vaccination apart from a
worsening of his dermatological problems. It seemed advisable in this case also
to approach a solution in stages, starting by eliminating the disorders caused
by vaccination; if the vaccines continue to interfere, any sort of dedicated
approach to the disturbance would merely aggravate the condition and they will
prevent successful treatment of the child. That is probably what happened
during treatment by the homoeopathic doctor when Joep was one year old.
Treatment with MMR 30K, 200K, MK and XMK on four consecutive days was started;
from the first day he became calmer and slept more peacefully, the itchiness
and rash having lessened. He also ceased crying when he awoke at night and no
longer wanted to drink. His night-time thirst started after the MMR. Two weeks
later he was given the DPT + polio series following which he became calmer
still and the eczema continued to improve. I saw Joep four weeks after the
first consultation and am continuing treatment with a basic remedy that should
further alleviate his disposition to eczema.
IRREGULARITIES IN
CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT
We are frequently
confronted by children in whom a satisfactory bodily, emotional and mental
development suddenly becomes retarded. The weight-curve is seen to flatten out
and the child's development then becomes unsettled. Neither the parents nor the
doctor can understand what is wrong. Stimulating therapies are prescribed, to
which the child reacts only with difficulty. There is something wrong with the
child: its development is unsteady.
case 23 (extra)
Lieke is one such child.
She is nearly two. When she was approximately three months old the first signs
of her eczema manifested themselves on her chest and it has now spread to the
elbows, the legs and the cheeks. She dribbles regularly and her eyes are
inflamed, oozing green pus. She also constantly produces green mucus. In other
words, a clear lack of general defences. Her body is very tense and she has not
started to walk. She started to crawl several months ago. She has been
attending weekly physiotherapy sessions for nearly a year but she cries
incessantly and the physiotherapist is at a complete loss with her. In addition
she has problems with her bowel movements, having to strain although the faeces
are quite soft. She is still on semi-solid feeding and retches whenever there
are lumps in her food. Her speech development is very retarded. She was
vaccinated at the usual age and had a day's fever after each DKTP/HIB and the
MMR. Everything points to a 'post-vaccination syndrome': the initial eczema at
three months, the inflamed, running eyes and the green mucus from three to five
months, weak bodily defences and an atrophied development, both motor and
mental. Although the condition clearly seems to revolve around the DKTP/HIB it
is advisable to start by eliminating the disturbing influence of the MMR.
Because a sort of accumulation effect can be present this layer must be treated
first; otherwise the MMR could act as an obstruction. So Lieke was given a MMR
30K, 200K, MK and XMK on four consecutive days, after which she was clearly
happier and a heavy cold with watery secretions set in (the clean-up has
started!). A fortnight later the DKTP/HIB series of 30K, 200K, MK and XMK
followed, again over four days. She started to drink more and an improvement in
her health became slowly noticeable. When I saw her after another six weeks she
was completely changed. She has become more content, no longer cries at night,
is more active and genuinely plays. She can now occupy herself fully with
something for half-an-hour at a time where she previously continually went from
one thing to another and always tried to involve her mother. She is also far
less tense and her physiotherapist was dumbfounded at her last visit, saying
'You should have done this a year ago!' Her muscular activity has progressed
considerably: she stands for long periods, pushes a trolley or walks
hand-in-hand with an adult, crawls much more and has started to climb. Her
mother says that she now does what she should have been doing a year before.
She is inquisitive, active and enterprising. She complains a lot less about not
being able to do what she wants. She enjoys her play and no longer lets her
older brother take things away from her. Her bodily complaints have largely
disappeared and after a repeat series of DKTP/HIB in potency the treatment can
successfully be terminated.
case 24 (extra)
Tim is another case in
point.
One April morning Tim's mother rang me because her son of nearly 10 months was
running a temperature of nearly 40C. It would appear that he had constantly had
a chill since his third DKTP in January. The first two DKTP's had not caused
any problems. But after the third vaccination there was a clear drop-off in his
development. He was mopish and inactive and has hardly grown in three months.
His hair and nails were not growing either. He had taken to sleeping more
frequently and did not want to do anything. Once a happy child he was now
miserable. In January he could already sit, but now he kept falling down. I
advised the mother to give him a DKTP 200K in solution. The following day the
fever was lower and the medication was continued for another day. When I saw
Tim one week later he was quite back to normal. He is now happy again, has
started crawling and can sit again (the mother took him to my surgery on a
baby-seat on her bicycle). He is active again and mother has noted that in a
week his hair and nails have started growing again. The chill has disappeared.
He has completely recovered from his stunted growth-pattern.
GLOSSARY
syndrome: the collective symptoms of a
particular ailment
post-vaccination: after vaccination
potentised: see chapter 'The Homoeopathic Method'
parallel research: research project in which one group (the
experimental group) is given the medicine to be tested while the other group
(the control group) is merely given a placebo (dummy medicine), and during
which neither the experimental subject nor the researcher knows who is given what.
Only after the results have been recorded is it revealed who was given the real
medicine and who the placebo.
toxins: poisonous substances produced by bacteria or viruses
during an illness
DKTP: combined vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus
and polio
DTP: combined vaccine similar to DKTP but without whooping cough
MMR: combined vaccine against mumps, measles and German measles
HIB: vaccine against haemophilus influenzal B virus that can
cause meningitis
cytomegalovirus: virus that frequently causes chronic ailments
Bricanyl: bronchial dilator
Clamoxyl: antibiotic
Diarolyte: remedy for the prevention of dehydration as a result
of diarrhoea and vomiting
Deptropine: bronchial dilator and remedy against allergy
Atrovent: bronchial dilator
Erythrocine: antibiotic
Zaditen: remedy against allergy
RIVM: Rijks Instituut Volksgezondheid & Milieuhygiëne;
Governmental Institute for Public Health & Environmental Protection,
responsible for the development of new vaccinations and for the introduction
and execution of the vaccination program
gamma-globulin: preventive injection against hepatitis A
placebo: dummy medicine
full-term: at the normal time (40 weeks)
causal: expressing a cause
DES-daughter: child of a mother who used the drug
di-ethylstilbestrol during pregnancy, which proved injurious to the child
Crohn's disease: chronic enteritis
Salazopyrine: infection-inhibiting remedy for enteritis
Mantoux: product injected subcutaneously in the arm to confirm
the presence or absence of tuberculosis in a person
BCG: vaccine against tuberculosis
Lariam: preventive remedy against malaria
infiltration: sign of pneumonia
crepitations: sounds audible with a stethoscope that point to
pneumonia
urticaria: St. Anthony's fire
cortisone ointment: a steroid (hormonal) ointment
Becotide: powder to be inhaled based on the hormone beclometason,
which inhibits infection in cases of asthma
Deptropine: bronchial dilator and remedy against allergy
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