This was first published on November 15, 2010. I've uploaded the medical articles and embedded them, and updated it. This updation is inspired by the wet-behind-the-ears July 2011 announcement from Wellington experts, that paracetamol shouldn't be used in the treatment of fever during influenza, as well as the ignorance displayed on the Sunday's facebook page.. Why do the Wellington experts only discuss "influenza"? Have they not read the decades of medical literature which shows this applies to NOT ONLY all infections, but after vaccines as well? There is also a whole raft of medical articles I have on the use of paracetamol in pregnancy and childhood infections and it's active role in the development of asthma and allergies.
Over a decade ago, Auckland AUT invited me to talk about vaccines at a day seminar. I didn't end up doing that, because I was so disgusted at the nurse's presentation, prior to mine. about how wonderful paracetamol was, and how it could be used safely for just about everything, that come my turn, I stepped up to the white board and detailed the medical literature showing the opposite. If looks could have killed, I would have been dead before I had started. I was, and continue to be seriously disturbed at the INABILITY of nurses and doctors to do the research required, to understand these crucial, fundamental issues. Instead, when we parents call them on it, they ask US... for proof. The articles embedded here, are a fraction of the total proof that exists. So any nurses and doctors directed to this blog, download the medical articles provided here. This should be sufficient for you to then do a much more thorough pubmed search and google scholar search, and download a huge comprehensive database.
Then ask yourself the question, "WHY wasn't I taught this?"
And also ask yourself whether or not your "service" to "clients" has been safe. After all, your primary responsibility is to "first do no harm". Ignorance is no excuse. And please stop making derogatory comments about those of us, who do actually possess, and know the medical literature, on many more topics that you appear to have even a fundamental grasp of. Read Full Blog
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Paracetamol should not be used for infectious fevers - revisited
A reader writes in - B4 school check
(Anonymous) Just recently our daughter had her B4 school check. I was told that this was a comprehensive check where I would be able to discuss my concerns. Not that I had any, but we still went. On that day, our daughter wasn’t feeling great at all. She was running a temperature which later that day went up to 39.8 and she also had quite a nasty cough. As we had stopped vaccinating her after her second shot four years ago I wasn’t concerned because I knew that she wouldn’t be receiving any vaccines. In the waiting room we filled in the forms and were soon called into the nurse’s office. On entering I told the nurse that our daughter was quite sick, she just replied “that’s ok”. She talked to her for about 30 seconds, weighed and measured her and told us that she had beautiful teeth. Well… I knew that already. Read Full Blog
AAP's fever and antipyretic policy statement shores up big pharma
On March 1, The Wall Street Journal ran an article on fever which was discussing the American Academy of Pediatric’s latest policy document on fever and antipyretic use. which is exactly the snow-job you’d expect of an organisation wedded at the hip to Big Pharma. Out of interest, I submitted an e-response to Pediatrics. In the event of it not being put up, here is a copy below: Read Full Blog
Non-Evidence based medicine, Part one.
A friend of mine, has not long got out of hospital with her fully breastfed baby. She didn’t actually “want” to be in there but the doctor noted a mild fever, and instantly got “fever phobia” and insisted she go to hospital. ESPECIALLY as the baby wasn’t vaccinated. The mother had been quite content with dealing with it herself, but her mother saw the baby and wet her knickers, insisting that the slightest fever needed to be look at by a doctor! To keep her mother happy, (big mistake) she went to the doctor. She didn’t realise that he too, had conditioned fever phobia. Once she got into hospital, things started to unravel. Read Full Blog
Skeptics Part Four. Fever is there for a reason
Not that' you'd know with what many medical articles call both medical and parental "fever-phobia"! What other explanation can there be to the fact that not one person in the skeptics or the medical profession questions the use of drugs to squelch fever? Or even the function of fever? Read Full Blog
Skeptics Part Two: "Some suggested pamol"
Why would any real skeptic suggest pamol as a treatment to reduce fever? It’s standard medical practice, and has been used for decades, and THEREFORE, according to skeptics, is ASSUMED to be the truth. Read Full Blog
Skeptics or flat earthers, Part one.
Adam Dudding of the Sunday Star times, wrote and article on 15 August, 2010, called “The exasperation-filed: they want to believe” On 22nd, August, Scott Sharpe from Nelson replied: Read Full Blog
Multiple vaccines overloading infant's immune systems?
"Not possible!" said Dr Paul Offit who believes that the medical profession can happily inject babies with up to 100,000 vaccines at any one time, and the baby's immune system will be just fine. This "dogma" is repeated by all and sundry, including GP's, IMAC and many other medics on autopilot. The theoretical "mathematical model" Dr Offit touted, has just taken it's second "hit" in two years. The first was when they added chickenpox to the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine (MMRV) which caused an increase in high fevers and seizures, and the second has been adding H1N1 into the children's seasonal flu vaccine in Australia, which has also caused an increase in fevers and seizures. Not that you'd know it, by the way CSL and other "stakeholders" are trying to say nothing, to keep this out of the news. Read Full Blog
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