segment of the population that had a more efficiently functioning nervous system. In
other words, they had fewer subluxations!
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As a chiropractor specializing in pediatric care, I see many children in my office with
parents who ask me what to do for their child with a fever. They wonder whether they
should use Tylenol or baby aspirin or ice baths to bring down the fever. My answer is
to simply embrace the fever as an essential part of the recovery process. What most
2010 / P parents don’t understand is that the fever actually creates a very inhospitable environ-
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ment for the viruses and bacteria to reproduce in. It also activates parts of the immune
system that otherwise never get turned on. In essence, artificially bringing down the
fever actually prolongs the infection!
FEBRUAR
The Vaccination Dilemma –
A medical physician by the name of Philip Incao
Question All Parents Should Ask
says this on the subject of acute illness:
(Part 6)
“One of the best ways to ensure your children’s health is to allow them to get sick.
At first hearing, this concept may sound outrageous. Yet childhood illnesses, such as
As we move into part 6 of this series, new readers to this column should be
measles, mumps, and even whooping cough, may be of key benefit to a child’s develop-
aware that we’ve covered many questions over the last several months.
ing immune system and it may be inadvisable to suppress these illnesses with immuni-
zations. Evidence is also accumulating that routine childhood vaccinations may directly
1. Are vaccinated children healthier than non-vaccinated children?
contribute to the emergence of chronic problems such as eczema, ear infections, asthma,
and bowel inflammations.”
2. Do the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks?
3. What are the real numbers of children being hurt?
Harris Coulter, Ph.D., the medical historian whom
4. Are vaccinations “effective”?
we’ve met earlier in our discussions, says this:
5. Are vaccine doses personalized?
“Contracting and overcoming childhood diseases are part of a developmental pro-
6. Can vaccines cause damage that may not surface for years?
cess that actually helps develop a healthy, robust, adult immune system able to meet
7. Can vaccines cause crib death (SIDS)?
the challenges that inevitable encounters with viruses and bacteria will present later on.”
8. Did vaccines eliminate diseases?
In the British medical journal, The Lancet, a study was published in 1999 which demon-
9. What if we stopped vaccinating?
strated that acute illness may actually help protect children from allergies.
“Relatively few cases of hay fever, asthma and eczema [were found] in those from
10. How many people are really getting diseases?
large families or from small families that used day care before the child’s first birthday.
11. What’s in a vaccine?
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They credit the lack of these conditions to early exposure to normal childhood diseases.”
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Childhood illnesses protect children from hay fever, asthma and eczema. Are we
P
Please review any of the previous articles you may have missed at www.Neigh-
protecting our children from being sick for a week in exchange for their being sick for the
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borsNewspaper.com or at my website
www.DonohoeChiropractic.com.
rest of their lives?
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This month our discussion centers on how natural diseases can contribute to immune
13. What’s the difference between
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natural immunity and artificial immunity?
12. Are there benefits to acute illness?
Viral diseases contracted naturally are ordinarily filtered through a series of immune
Do childhood diseases and acute diseases in general, serve a purpose? The
system defenses (i.e. skin and mucous membranes). Along the way, different aspects of
Vitalistic school, which dates back thousands of years, has always looked upon symp-
the immune system are triggered and begin the process of identifying and responding to
toms as the body’s way of detoxifying and cleansing. Hippocrates, known as “The
the particular pathogens (germs). But when the vaccine virus and chemicals are injected
father of Medicine” said:
directly into the child’s blood stream they have access to all of the major tissues and
“Diseases are crises of purification, of toxic elimination. Symptoms are the natu-
organs of the body without the body’s normal advantage of a total immune response.
ral defenses of the body. We call them diseases, but in fact they are the cure of Continued on Page 39
diseases.”
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He was a Greek physician born in 460 BC on the island of Cos, Greece. Hippocrates
was regarded as the greatest physician of his time. He based his medical practice on
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observations and on the study of the human body. Hippocrates held the belief that
the body must be treated as a whole and not just a series of parts. He believed in W
the natural healing process of rest, a good diet, fresh air and cleanliness. He noted
that there were individual differences in the severity of disease symptoms and that
some individuals were better able to cope with their disease and illness than others.
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