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Agree With Mr. Fowler...
- Deana L Latta-Poole (24 November 2004)
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CHILDHOOD TREATMENT FOR 'FLU: SWEAT IT OUT
- Clifford G. Miller (25 November 2004)
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Deana L Latta-Poole, At home mother N9A 6Z6
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Interesting article! I used to be one of those mothers who would RUN to the drugstore for a bottle of Tylenol to bring down the fever as quickly as possible. Then would scratch my head 24 hours later when the fever returned - even higher, and likely to be accompanied by vomiting too. I would begin the battle with Tylenol again, and would be fighting the fever, often for days at a time, sometimes even up to two week periods. Seventeen years ago I became frustrated with the number of fevers my two preschoolers seemed to be afflicted by. In that frustration, I found myself with my children at the office of a Naturopathic/Homeopathic Dr. who taught me many things, including how to USE a fever. Also to understand that the body NEEDS fever occasionally. I understand how fever works WITH and FOR the body. It is a necessary function to cleanse and purify, and is not to be feared. I always use two homeopathics and alternate them hourly. Ferrum Phos. 6x at the onset, for high temps, feverishness and quickened pulse; Kali Sulph 6x the following hour, to control the temperarure and promote perspiration. (The bug then comes out in sweat, through the pores) It requires only about 6 or 8 doses, a maximum of perhaps 4 doses of each, being sure to alternate the two every hour. Since I have adopted this way of dealing with fevers in my children - I can assuredly work with the fever and have the child up and about again in under 12 hours. I do not give cool baths either - only the homeopathics. My youngest is nearly 14 and has never had a single dose of Tylenol. She has always been back in class the following day after having a fever, and usually it happens only about once per year. She has the least number of absences in her class and is my healthiest child by far! This article needs alot more press! Competing interests: None declared |
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Clifford G. Miller, Lawyer, graduate physicist, former University examining lecturer in law Beckenham, Kent, England, BR3 3LA
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Dear Sir, CHILDHOOD TREATMENT FOR 'FLU: SWEAT IT OUT When I was a child my parents admonished me to sweat out overnight those shivery achy colds. It always worked except if I failed to keep myself well wrapped up so that I cooled down. As long as you were sweating with no drafts coming under the bedding, it was working. The dreams were sometimes rambling but the effect the next morning was to awaken fresh, rested and well, instead of being dogged by the symptoms for some days. This 'anecdotal' evidence will presumably be ignored, but when I read Alan W Fowler's letter How to deal with influenza - Fever may be used as treatment it struck a chord with me. There are many simple remedies we are failing to use instead of expensive side-effect ridden pharmaceuticals of doubtful benefit in a world of sometimes manipulated clinical trial data and some medical 'scientific' papers where the authors' conclusions can bear little relation to the results reported or which are leaps of faith or wild extrapolations with little scientific justification. I was amazed to be able to shake off water on the knee which had dogged me for nearly two years on and off. A neighbour prescribed drinking water in which a fresh bunch of parsley had been boiled, the water retained and cooled and the flaccid parsley by-product discarded. The water on the knee vanished in a couple of days, never to return. Anecdotal and coincidence, no doubt medical 'science' will proclaim. My excellent local pharmacist is in awe of some herbalists, whom he describes as 'very clever' and is disappointed he can no longer himself mix conventional preparations in the pharmacy as a result of new legislation. It seems the influence of the pharmaceutical industry lobby on our legislators at home and in Brussels has been busy helping to wipe out all forms of competition, alternative and conventional. In the very bad old days herbalist were tried for sorcery. Now we will just stick 'em in jail. Shame that. Competing interests: None declared |
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