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"Antibiotics can alter the nature of organisms in the gut that are normally essential for life. Gastrointestinal immunity is then affected and a vicious cycle can commence. Antihistamines, sometimes used in cough mixtures and as anti-allergy medications, can result in respiratory disorders including respiratory arrest."--Dr Kalokerinos MD (Medical Pioneer of the 20th century p180)

"The role of vaccines, particularly the whole-cell pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine can be understood when it is realised that this vaccine contains a variable and uncontrollable amount of endotoxin that is injected and absorbed, unaltered, into the blood. It does not even go first to the liver where attempts to detoxify it could be made. If an infant happens to be particularly sensitive to endotoxin when the vaccine is injected, brain damage or death can result....It should be now apparent that any infant with gastrointestinal problems - abnormal organisms, intestinal parasites, loose bowel motions resulting from the use of antibiotics, and malabsorption of food (including lactose intolerance) - is liable, when further stressed, to produce endotoxin and this can end in a SIDS....If the Vitamin C status of an infant is borderline, the administration of a vaccine, particularly (but not only) pertussis vaccine, can result in endotoxaemia. This results in a severe reaction to the vaccine, a tremendous increase in the need for Vitamin C, and the precipitation of some of the signs and/or symptoms of acute scurvy. The onset of this may be so rapid that the classical signs of scurvy may be absent. Sudden death, sudden unconsciousness, sudden shock or sudden spontaneous bruising and haemorrhage (including brain and retinal haemorrhages) may occur. Haemorrhage and bruising in such cases can be wrongly attributed to the ‘battered baby syndrome’.)---Dr Kalokerinos MD (Medical Pioneer of the 20th century p186

"A recent American study showed that 6% of admissions for the complications of varicella were musculoskeletal disorders ranging from necrotising fasciitis to toxic-shock syndrome requiring multiple amputations². Complications were not related to severity of chickenpox. Since the routine mantra from medical people to parents is ‘paracetamol for fevers’ despite medical literature clearly demonstrating that such advice is highly dangerous; since the majority or parents follow such advice unquestioningly; and since necrotising fasciitis has primarily been associated with people who regularly pop paracetamol and other anti-inflammatory drugs, it is hardly surprising."---Hilary Butler

Natural Hygiene, Nature Cure

CHICKEN POX: Why Do Children Die? By Gary Krasner

Chicken Pox by John Tilden MD

Everybody’s Guide to Nature Cure by Harry Benjamin

Homeopathy

Homeopathic treatment of Chicken Pox by Dr Taylor

Nutritional medicine

“Chickenpox gave equally good response (to Vitamin C therapy), ... vesicles were crusted after the first 24 hours, and the patient well in three to four days."--Dr Klenner http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/

PEDIATRICS Vol. 106 No. 2 August 2000, p. e28

ELECTRONIC ARTICLE:
Chickenpox Attributable to a Vaccine Virus Contracted From a Vaccinee With Zoster

Philip Alfred Brunell, MS, MD and Takele Argaw, DVM From Ahmanson Pediatrics Department, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; and the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.       ABSTRACT

Five months after 2 siblings were immunized with varicella vaccine, 1
developed zoster. Two weeks later the second sibling got a mild case of
chicken pox. Virus isolated from the latter was found to be vaccine type.
Thus, the vaccine strain was transmitted from the vaccinee with zoster to
his sibling. Vaccinees who later develop zoster must be considered
contagious. varicella-zoster, zoster, vaccine, transmission, rash, PstI.
Varicella is the initial manifestation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV)
infection. After clinical recovery, as with other herpes viruses, VZV
persists in a latent form. The virus may become activated resulting in
zoster. This occurs most commonly in older individuals, but also is seen in
immunocompromised younger people, eg, those infected with human
immunodeficiency disease virus or transplant recipients. It also is known to
occur in normal varicella vaccine recipients.1

Exposure of susceptible individuals to zoster has been recognized for more
than a century to result in varicella.2 We now report the occurrence of
varicella in a child whose brother developed zoster after immunization with
varicella vaccine. It has been advised that vaccinees that develop a rash
soon after immunization avoid contact with persons at high risk for
complications of varicella.3 Similar precautions would be appropriate for
contact with vaccinees that develop zoster. Heretofore, transmission of
vaccine virus was recognized to occur primarily from vaccinees with leukemia
that developed rashes after immunization.4,5
Although far less common, vaccine virus also has spread from normal
vaccinees with,6,7 and possibly without, a rash.8

Full Text available at: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/106/2/e28
CDC death stats http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/chicken.htm

Outbreak of Invasive Group A Streptococcus Associated with
Varicella in a Childcare Center -- Boston, Massachusetts, 1997 http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049535.htm
 

Brogan TV, et al.  Group A streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis complicating primary varicella: a series of fourteen patients. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 1995 Jul;14(7):588-94. PMID: 7567287; UI: 96055604.
       

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