STARVE A FEVER!
© By Lena Sanchez
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Starve a fever may sound like something out of an old wives tale, but it isn't.

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 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 his fever 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 a prolonged illness. 

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 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 a 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 the trust, making it imperative that I know what I was doing. An awesome responsibility to have someone's life in your hands. 

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 or so years into my medical profession I learned that there were some home remedies that worked much better than the prescription meds and would tell the patient. I also 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 keep up with and am watching with dread what has happened to medicine since I started 30 plus years ago.

Back to the fever!

A leading cause of fevers in children today comes on 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. By the time a child reaches 8 years old he/she has had 36 immunizations! 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 (immunization) 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 of 101 to 104. As soon as their child's fever came on they were on the phone scared to death. Most of the time I was able to tell them that the fever was good and unless it went above 103.5 or 104 do nothing, some listened and some didn't and insisted on lowering the fever prematurely and suffered the consequences. A sick child for longer than necessary!

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 patients would end up more sick or at least the problem would last longer than the other three's physician's. So I had to walk a tight rope with each doctors' 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. 

Left alone, as a rule rarely ever will a fever exceed 106 degrees. 

And only about 4 percent of children experience fever-related convulsions, with no serious aftereffects.

A fast (on distilled water, or at least diluted vegetable juices) should be continued for twenty-four hours after the temperature has returned to normal to give their immune system time to calm down. 

A good rule to remember is that the bowel can be cleared of toxins by enemas in twenty-four hours; 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 fast with fruit and vegetable juices, to completely clear.

The liver, the major organ fighter of the immune system, is much too busy with eliminating the problem it perceives to be happening to be bothered with the task of food digestion. Great strain can be taken off that organ if no food is given. Not only does fasting lower the temperature but relieve the distress giving the liver a greater ability to eliminate the problem. 

It appears then that a reasonable amount of fever, though dreaded and largely misunderstood, is really nature's attempt to help. Yes, it is discomforting, but reasonable fever never does harm; no serious aftereffects and NEVER SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED with anti-inflammatory drugs or given  food while running a fever. I have seen many a case of flu pushed into pneumonia because some anxious mother or grandmother or wife insisted on feeding "to give the person strength", such as chicken broth or a thin starchy gruel - both liquids of course - but protein and starch is just what the liver cannot handle at this point. All the while the child or adult doesn't want to eat and that is the body saying to them STOP LOOK AND LISTEN to me, let me do my job!

So-called "infectious" diseases like chicken pox, measles, or whooping cough are actually inflammatory diseases. Not bacterial or viral as we have been fed by the media. The symptoms during such illnesses should be viewed as eliminative crises that will subside when the illness retreats. 

They may be very painful, but they're a necessary self-limiting process in which an accumulation of retained metabolic waste (dead toxic cells), and the residues of undigested, unassimilated foods are being purged from the body through vicarious channels such as the skin or lungs. 

So too the familiar runny nose, cough, stiffness, fever, and numerous rashes, swellings, lesions, and eruptions through the skin are all 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.

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.

Yes, a minute number of deaths were reported while a child was engulfed in these illnesses and if the truth be known it was from mismanaging the illness. Not from the fever. Remember a fever is a sign the immune system is working and telling you not to feed it! Hence the saying "Starve a Fever." 

To help keep a healthy immune system in a child make sure they are getting mega dose  multivitamin daily - powder, chewable or liquid - balanced digestive enzymes and probiotics along with balanced minerals.

My grandchildren get Kids Mins Chewables, which contain four necessary healthy immune building supplements.

Adults need the following for a healthy immune system to prevent viruses from becoming strong in the body. Daily balanced supplements of balanced minerals, meganutrient vitamins, thirdly and probably more important is balanced digestive enzymes and probiotics as 80% of the body's immune system resides in the digestive tract .  Adults Special Click here

***Author Lena Sanchez a Retired Medical Office Nurse/Administrator, Medical Office Consultant turned Alternative Health Consultant took charge of her life in 1992 substituted healthy drug-free alternatives getting actual pain relief after 30 years with fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue and never ending illnesses all kinds never solved with conventional medicine . Now committed to helping others do the same by educating on truly treating illness and disease rather than masking symptoms. See http://www.antibiotic-alternatives.com  Other informative health articles regarding prevention and steps to take to be the healthiest you can be found at  http://www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/free_health_articles_by_Lena_Sanchez.htm