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Tuesday March 2, 2010

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 ASK LENA HEALTH Q & A EDITION!
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Today's question comes from a long time reader with a question that hasn't been answered since 2004 so I imagine more people might have the same question. Read and use appropriately!

 I am not a doctor or dentist and you should not think of me as one!! My years observing life and health of the many people/patients around me and the contradictions of the traditional medical world's idea of treating - prescription domino effect - while watching and also was taught those same schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but creating far more health problems than they help is where my answers are based. Those same medical professionals aren't telling people how to get healthy or how to prevent illness, which led me to look for something to change that premise for myself and those around me who ask. In looking outside the Westernized medical profession I found and continue to find alternatives that really work to create health and longevity - when adhered to - beyond anything the traditional medical world can do...

Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but in  addition to... Even though I daily watch people become healthy with the information imparted here nothing works 100% of the time for 100% of people...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude as well! 

Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena

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 QUESTION:
 
HELP! My mother thinks that I should give my kids something to lower their fever every time they have one but I don't. I believe I read an article of yours several years ago and have remembered it ever time one of my three children has a fever. I looked for it to show her and was going to print it out for my mother but can't find it again. Could you please reprint it so I can.
 
Ever so grateful for all your advise over the last few years, you are invaluable to learning how to treat naturally. I hope you know that!
Grace
 
ANSWER:
 
Such nice words Grace. I feel so humbled from them. I wrote that article in 2004 and is online at www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/fever_and_its_necessity.htm.  but here it is in it's entirety for you to print out.
 

Fever and It's Necessity to Good Health
© By Lena Sanchez

Knowing how to and when to treat fever properly and safely is important to good health!

When my oldest son was 4 weeks old we rushed him to the hospital with a fever that I thought was not good. I wish I had known then what I know now and I would not have been so hasty to rush him to the hospital. He ended up in the hospital for weeks and no answers were ever forthcoming as to why? The week after leaving the hospital the reason became apparent and would have been a lot sooner had we not kept him hospitalized and his fevers down. That was the beginning of my learning about fevers and why not to lower them in my children or myself.

Fever is a necessity to the immune systems cleaning department. Without it serious illness can occur. The physicians are geared to relieving a parent's anxiety and therefore force the fevers down interrupting the immune systems work and setting the body up for illness either then or later. When you give manmade antipyretic (fever reducers), aka anti-inflammatories, NSAID, aspirin, ibuprofen, Tylenol, etc., you interfere with the immune system and the functioning of other organs of the body.

Antipyretics cause the hypothalamus (a portion of the brain that contains a number of small nuclei with a variety of functions) to override an interleukin-induced increase in temperature (The immune system depends in a large part on interleukins to function). The body will then work to lower the temperature and the result is a reduction in fever.

Here you have two organs of the body's functions changed, which will cause other parts not function correctly.

I have always been a very inquisitive person in that I could not do a job of any kind unless I knew as much about it as I could. Being a medical office nurse was the same and gave me an education that was interesting and exciting as I watched, did my own studies and paid attention to every single doctor and how they thought, taught and practiced medicine. To the point that several doctors have told me I was much better at diagnosing than they were and they would ask my opinion on some things. I was given the honor of handling patient calls and triaging for the doctors in every office I worked in over that 20-year period. I was sometimes sent to a patients? home to evaluate and advise, which has always made me feel so honored to have their trust and that they felt I was capable of that.

No, this is not to brag but to let you know I am not talking through my head or that I haven't been there and know whereof I speak. About five years into my medical office nursing career I soon learned that there were home remedies that worked much better than the prescription meds and I would inform the open minded patients that wanted to know. I also usually informed the patient that it was not the doctors? recommendation but mine and if the doctor knew I would probably be fired. To this day I still follow, read and watch, with dread, what has happened to medicine since I started 33 years ago. 

A leading cause of fevers in children today comes after immunizations! A problem already exist with too many vaccines being pushed into our children upsetting their immune system and now another one is looming on the horizon and I am fearful of the outcome. The vaccine for Chicken Pox is touted as a means of saving our children. First off there have been no known deaths directly from Chicken Pox but some from the so-called cure given to them by the medical profession! Antibiotics and anti-inflammatories. This is found in the CDC?s own records http://www.cdc.gov / - May 15, 1998/Vol. 47/No. 18 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR, their official publication). It was entitled, "Varicella-Related Deaths Among Children.

I remember the dozens of calls I use to get from mothers panicked because their child had a fever as soon as the fever came on they were on the phone scared to death. I was sometimes able to tell them that the fever was good and unless it went above 103 or 104 not to do anything, some listened and some didn't.

I worked for a few smart pediatricians in which three of them knew that fever was good. But the sad part is that 4 of the 7 pediatricians did not think that way and their pediatric patients would end up more sick or at least the problem would last longer than the other three's patients. So I had to walk a tight rope with each doctor's parent calls and guide them accordingly and not what I felt was always in the patients best interest, but I could only do what I was told by each individual doctor until I found a way of helping both.

In only a very rare case, when left alone, that a fever will exceed 106 degrees, unless it is a life threatening bacterial germ or virus, which is extremely rare and I only saw maybe one or two a year in the hundreds of children that were treated by the pediatricians. The Meningitis scare is the most often reason for a doctor to recommend lowering a temperature yet with the thousands of children I saw over the years in the Pediatric Medical Group only 1 meningitis patient was diagnosed and treated.

And only about 4 percent of children experience fever-related convulsions, with no serious after effects. Even if the fever goes that high there are natural ways of lowering it that will not interfere with the immune system. Will cover later in this.

A fast (on distilled water, or at least diluted vegetable juices with a few drops of liquid balanced minerals) should be given and continued for twenty-four hours after the temperature has returned to normal. This gives the body time to heal, rebalance the electrolytes and settle down.

A good rule to remember; the bowel can be cleared of toxins by enemas in twenty-four hours or less; via the blood in three days; the liver in five days, providing no food is eaten. Shingles (adult chicken pox) that occurs in adults may require about a week-long juice fast to completely clear up.

The liver, the major organ fighter of the immune system, is much too busy with eliminating the problem that it perceives to be happening to be bothered with the task of food digestion. Great strain can be taken off that organ if no solid food is given. Not only does fasting lower temperature, relieve the distress and facilitate elimination, but it also lessens the strain on the liver and prevents serious complications, such as middle-ear disease, mastoiditis and meningitis.

It appears then, that fever, dreaded because misunderstood, is really nature's attempt to help. It is discomforting, but only very rarely does harm; never is attended with serious aftereffects and almost NEVER BE SUPPRESSED with anti-inflammatory drugs or fed food. I have seen many a case of flu or respiratory virus pushed into a pneumonia because some anxious mother or grandmother insisted feeding ?to give the child strength?, such as chicken broth or a thin starchy gruel, both liquids, of course, but protein and starch-just what the liver cannot handle at this point.  Yes I am aware that chicken soup is good for illnesses. (Those studies were backed by the chicken industry so what else could they say?) All the while the child or adult doesn't feel hungry and not want to eat - that is the body saying to them STOP LOOK AND LISTEN to me!

So called ?infectious? diseases like chicken pox, measles, or whooping cough are actually inflammatory diseases.  Not bacterial or viral as we have been told by the media. The symptoms during such illnesses should be viewed as eliminative crises. Meaning it will pass with time to a healthy child/adult, with no after affects! Yes, some side effects have been reported with these diseases but if you could talk to the parent or caregiver you will find that they force fed anti-inflammatories and/or food to the patient!


Some of those illnesses may be painful, but they're a necessary self-limiting process in which an accumulation of retained metabolic waste (dead cells that become toxic), and the residues of undigested, unassimilated foods are being purged from the body through vicarious (abnormal, inappropriate) channels such as the skin or lungs. If you read the May 15, 1998/Vol. 47/No. 18 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR, their official publication). It was entitled, "Varicella-Related Deaths Among Children: Texas and Iowa notified CDC of three fatal cases of varicella (chickenpox) that occurred in children during 1997". A short introduction stated that in the U.S. there are approximately 100 deaths (about half of these in children) and 10,000 hospitalizations each year for complications from chicken pox from infection with the varicella virus. Then read the case histories of those deaths and find that prescription after prescription was prescribed until the patient died. Of course they do not report it that way but in reading you can discern it!

 
So, the familiar runny nose, cough, stiffness, fever, and numerous rashes, swellings, lesions, and eruptions through the skin are usually manifestations of the same cause, which are not pathogenic microbes. Microbes like bacteria, for example, act as scavengers to consume the toxic wastes and the dead cells following inflammation. Their formation and growth do not precede the diseased state in the host, but rather emerge in its wake; and not exogenically (introduced from or produced outside the organism or system.), from an "infected" person, but rather endogenically (caused by factors inside the organism or system) from the genetic material contained in a cell's nucleus after the cell's death and decomposition. This is more prevalent in a child with Sickle Cell disease.

 Fortunately, a wide range of bacterial strains, or their genetic "blueprints" inhabit our bodies all the time in titers low enough that their waste products do not affect us but when stimulated creates a fever in most.
 
God Bless and Good Health to You and Your Family
Lena

COMMENT: Hi Lena,

I came across your website while looking for a way to make my nurse mother understand why I don't want her antibiotics or antipyretics. I think I found the answers I needed. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world.

Gina

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MOTIVATOR
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A CONSPIRACY OF KINDNESS

Kevin is a boy who might be described as "slow." He didn't learn his ABCs as fast as other kids. He couldn't compete in schoolyard races. But Kevin had a way with people. His bright smile and big heart won him plenty of friends.

My friend Randy, the pastor at Kevin's church, decided they needed a basketball team for boys. Kevin signed on and soon basketball became a center of his life. He practiced hard. While the other boys worked at dribbling the basketball and shooting lay-ups, skills Kevin would never master, he simply shot baskets. Or more correctly, he threw the ball AT the basket. He had a special spot near the free throw line. He threw and threw, and it occasionally went in. On the rare times that he succeeded, Kevin raised his arms and shouted, "Look at me, Coach! Look at me!" Randy looked at him. And smiled.

The day before their first game, Coach Randy gave each player a bright red jersey. Kevin was number 12. He scrambled himself into the sleeves and wore that jersey almost every day. Everywhere. One Sunday morning the church worship service was interrupted by Kevin's excited voice. "Look, Coach!" He lifted his gray wool sweater to reveal the red jersey underneath with number 12 on the front. Nobody there minded the interruption; the congregation knew Kevin and loved him.

I'd like to be able to tell you that the team did well. But the truth is.they never won a game that season -- except for the night it snowed and the opposing team never showed up.

At the end of the season, the boys played in the church league's tournament. As the last-place team, they drew the unfortunate spot of playing against the best team -- boys who had never lost a game all year.

Game day arrived. Both teams played their best, but the game went as expected. Near the end of the last quarter, Kevin's team stood nearly 30 points behind. It was then that one of the boys called timeout. "Coach Randy," he said, "this is our last game and Kevin has never made a basket. I think we should let him make a basket."

The team agreed. Kevin was instructed to stand at his special place near the free throw line and wait. He was told that when he was given the ball, he should shoot.

Kevin was ecstatic. He ran to the floor and waited. When the ball was passed to him he shot -- and missed. Number 17 from the other team snatched the rebound, dribbled down the court for an easy basket. But a moment later Kevin got the ball again. He shot -- and missed again. Number 17 repeated his performance scoring two more points. Kevin shot a third and fourth time with the same result.

But slowly the other team seemed to figure out what was going on and the next time they snatched the rebound, a boy threw it to Kevin! He shot...and missed. Now every rebound came to him and he threw and threw toward the basket. Time was running down and Kevin still had not scored.

BOTH teams circled the boy by this time and all of the players were shouting, "Kevin! Kevin!" The crowd took up the chant. Soon everyone in the gym was shouting Kevin's name.

Coach Randy was sure that time must have run out; the game HAD to be over. He glanced at the official clock. It was stopped at 4.3 seconds. Even the timekeepers joined in the mania and stood by their table shouting with the crowd, "Kevin! Kevin!"

Kevin shot and shot. Everyone was screaming. He attempted again and again and again and...miraculously, one of his shots took a crazy bounce on the rim. Everyone held their breath.

The ball dropped in.

Chaos reigned. Nobody remained seated. Everyone stood and cheered as if one boy had single-handedly won a world championship. Kevin's arms sprang up in the air and he shouted, "I won! I won!" He had scored. His team escorted him off the court, the clock ticked down and the game was over.

That day an undefeated team retained their perfect record. But everybody won. Everybody. Because everybody had participated in a crazy conspiracy of kindness that was so compelling, so powerful, the earth itself might have stopped for a moment to rejoice with one young boy.

How beautiful it is when we all conspire together in kindness. Everybody wins.
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