Facts about Fevers
Fevers are a bad thing and should always be lowered with any means available, right? Wrong--- BIG wrong. I learned in med. school that many fevers---- most, in fact--- are the "good kind" that help the body heal more quickly. Nurse Lena has a good description of this, so I'll let her explain.....
When Is Fever A Bad Fever?
© By Lena Sanchez
When my oldest son was 4 weeks old we rushed him to the
hospital with a fever that I perceived as not good. He ended
up in the hospital for weeks and no answers were ever
forthcoming as to why?
A 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 when to lower
them in and when not to...
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.
I remember the dozens of calls I use to get from mothers
panicked because their child had a fever of 101 or 103
as soon as the fever came on they were on the phone
scared to death. I was sometimes able to get them to
listen and could tell them that the fever was good and
unless it went above 104 not to do anything, some just
couldn't grasp that fact.
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 threes patients. So I had
to walk a tight rope with each doctors parent calls and
guide them accordingly, but not what I felt was always
in the patients best interest. I could only do what I was
told by each individual doctor until I found a way around it
and of helping both.
I learned that Fever is a necessity to the immune
systems cleaning department. Without it serious illness
can occur. Some physicians are geared to relieving a
parent’s anxiety and therefore force the fevers down
interrupting the immune systems work. Those same
parents would call back several times as their child
would be ill longer and tended to have more recurring
illnesses.
A leading cause of fevers in children today comes
after immunizations! A problem that exists from
too many vaccines being pushed into our children
upsetting their immune system and more looming
on the horizon.
A vaccine for Chicken Pox is being touted as a means
of saving our children. First off there have been no
deaths directly from Chicken Pox only from the so-called
cure given to them by the medical profession! Antibiotics
and anti-inflammatories. This is found in the CDC’s own
18 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR,
their official publication). It was entitled,
"Varicella-Related Deaths Among Children.
Back to the fever!
Left alone, a fever usually will not exceed 106 degrees,
unless it is a life threatening bacterial germ, which is
extremely rare and I only saw maybe one or two a year in
the hundreds of children that were treated my the
pediatricians.
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 in most
instances.
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 to completely clear up. This does not
mean no water. Clean filtered water should be given
often.
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 digestive waste.
Great strain can be taken off that organ if no 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
that can be a complication of an immune system unable
to do its job when the temperature is lowered prematurely.
It appears then, that fever, dreaded because misunderstood,
is really nature’s attempt to help. It is discomforting, but
does no harm; never is attended with serious aftereffects and
almost NEVER SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED with anti-inflammatory drugs
or fed with 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-just
what the liver cannot handle at this point. Yes,
I am aware that chicken soup is good for illnesses. (That study
was backed by the chicken industry so what else could they say?)
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!
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 as of late.
The symptoms during such illnesses should be viewed as
eliminative crises. Meaning it will pass with time in a healthy
child or adult, with no after affects!
It may be very painful, but a necessary self-limiting process
in which an accumulation of retained dead cells that become
toxic from the illness, and the residues of undigested,
unassimilated foods are being purged from the body through
abnormal, inappropriate 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.
Fortunately, a wide range of bacterial strains, or their
genetic “blueprints” inhabit our bodies all the time in
amounts low enough that their waste products do not
affect us unless we mistreat our immune system. This
process can be sped up and/or eliminate illnesses from
becoming active by feeding the intestines probiotics.
Probiotics are lacking in our fast food, processed foods
eating habits thus helping illness take hold.
Probiotic supplementing is one thing that can be done
to help the immune system clear the body of the residues
after becoming ill.
Read "Your Amazing Ecosystem Within" to find out what
a probiotic is and what it does for you. Find it at
***Lena Sanchez a happy retired Medical Office
Nurse/Administrator/Consultant who took charge of her life 12
years ago found pain relief with natural treatments and
committed to helping others do the same… Editor of "A Natural Environmental
Health Facts & Your Home Business Coach" Ezines
Author of Three How-To health building books
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