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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 their 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 years into my medical profession I learned that there were 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 27 years ago. Back to the fever! 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 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, a fever will not exceed 106 degrees as a rule. 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. 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 up. 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 fed food. I have seen many a case of flu pushed into 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 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 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 your child or yourself make sure you are taking getting capsule multivitamin daily - powder, chewable or liquid - balanced digestive enzymes and probiotics along with balanced minerals. My grandchildren get Kids Mins Chewables, which contain all three necessary healthy building supplements. Just remember, balanced minerals, meganutrient vitamins last but also equally important balanced digestive enzymes and probiotics. See my choice for adults Click here |
