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ISSUE 9
| Provided by MedicineNet | Welcome back to the Welsh Health Systems newsletter. As is normal now, our newsletters are more like mini websites than newsletters. Unless I hear negative feedback for this format, it will remain like this until I think something different! We have the usual articles, advice and products relating to the undernoted health topics. Click on the topic of your choice. There is a return link at the bottom each page to get back here. In this issue we look specifically at hemorrhoids, or piles, cholesterol and bed wetting in children. We offer a free eBook on bed wetting and an offer on a book on cholesterol. To start with we examine what symptoms are, specifically in some childhood diseases. |
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| WEIGHT LOSS | Shawn Lebrun tells us how to lose fat quickly and look great on the beach this summer and respected fitness trainer Gary Matthews tells why he prefers eBooks to the normal kind. |
| DIETS | More on the famed tapeworm diet some feedback and a new slant. |
| BLOOD PRESSURE | The effect of salt on blood pressure and lots of tips for sufferers of HBP. |
| HALITOSIS | I am still getting questions about this subject. |
| Children's Health | Bedwetting is stressful for children and parents. A free book on the subject and also how to recognise diseases form the symptoms: it's not as easy as you think! |
| CHOLESTEROL | What it is and does, and a great book offer. |
| HEMMORRHOIDS | What causes piles and some tips for sufferers. |
| HEALTH QUIZ | No one got it last issue, so here it is again ($17 or £10 for 1st all correct answer). Just for fun but the prize is real. |
| FINALLY: | Stuff to make me money, though probably not! A look at something different, like losing weight God's Way, the government's secrets, yeast infections and how to kill moles. Light-hearted perhaps, but serious nevertheless. |
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Symptoms of Infections
Many childhood diseases have common symptoms in the early stages. Only after the first stages can the disease be properly diagnosed, and even then mis-diagnosis is not uncommon. What are these symptoms, and why do they appear? Let's look on a disease as an invasion: an invasion of the body.
The invaders are bacteria and viruses, and their mode of entry is usually through the mouth and nose. This can be either directly by means of airborne particles or aerosols (sneezes and coughs) or indirectly via the hands then the mouth. By whatever means, the invaders take up residence in the mouth nose and throat.
They immediately start multiplying and the body responds by trying to flush them out with water: the runny nose. When this fails it tries more drastic means: coughing and sneezing, but generally this also fails. The runny nose, coughs and sneezes are fine for particles which don't fight back, but the viruses and bacteria do. They continue to multiply, start to attack the body cells, or produce toxins or poisons. They carry out chemical warfare.
The body now knows it has a fight on its hands so starts to prepare for battle. First it shuts down the non-essential services. It shuts down digestion and the patient stops feeling hungry. It may evacuate the stomach of undigested food (vomiting). It may also at this point reduce brain activity to concentrate efforts on the job in hand. So your child may seem a bit sleepy.
It then increases its production of front-line troops - the white blood cells. To do this, it needs more energy, and the temperature starts to rise. The body also knows that the invaders operate best at 98.6 Fahrenheit (37 Celsius) so the temperature rise makes the environment unfriendly. The germs prefer to holiday in Canada than Florida. By now the invaders are also increasing in numbers and producing more and more toxins. More white cells are needed to clear up the living and dead invaders, so temperature continues to rise. The final temperature will depend on the number and type of bacteria or viruses.
The body needs time for the designers (white T-cells) to design a template (antibody) to completely destroy the enemy, but sometimes it takes too long and the invaders prevail. Usually, however, unless there are too many of them or the toxins are too strong, there is time. To help make time, the toxins are collected by the lymph and other cleaning tools and taken to the skin where a rash appears. The type of rash depends on the toxins and type of invader, but it is basically a waste disposal system for the poisons produced by the inavader and its death.
Eventually, either the body prevails by perfecting the template defense and completely destroying the invaders, or it is overcome by weight of numbers and the poisons before it can achieve this. Hopefully it will win, though this may depend on support systems and possible reinforcements in the form of antibiotics in the case of bacterial attack or immunoglobulin in the case of a viral attack.
So why the argument about vaccines?
Well, the purpose of the vaccine is to have the template in place well before the invader appears. Since there is no knowing where it will come from, or what type of invader the enemy will be, a number of templates are provided to the body in advance, much as Microsoft provide its users with templates of various kinds, most of which are not used. Once the invader appears it is spotted by the appropriate template (antibody) which immediately destroys it. If the appropriate antibody is present there is very little possibility of the invader surviving long enough to do any damage.
This all seems great, but in order to achieve this the designer needs a sampkle to work from. A live prisoner is required. There are only two ways in which this prisoner can be obtained. The first is from the initial invasion. If the body is invaded then the template can be based on the structure of the invader. This will work if there is time to do it and put the resultant antibody design into production in sufficient quantity to defeat the enemy before it defeats you. However, to prepare for an invasion in advance, a prisoner has to provided via a vaccine.
With a vaccine 'live' enemies are injected into the body. There are not many of them, and normally they are all caught and used to make the antibody. However, very occasionally, one or two may escape. When they do they try to multiply, but are unable to, so do whatever damage they can. They are not normally able to kill before they are caught but can do damage, such as have a go at your hearing and make you partially deaf, or attack your brain. They can also draw off your defence and make you open to attack from elsewhere.
Your brain can be attacked and cause meningitis, or more insidiously, but less fatally, autism. It is not certain that this is the case, but it is in many parent's minds. What they must consider, however, is that if a small contingent of escaped prisoners can do so much damage, what would happen if there was no template, or antibody, and the body had to fight for itself against a mass invasion.
This is not the 1940s and 1950s when bodies were used to such invasions and could frequently beat them off. This is now, when they will be unexpected, with inexperienced forces. There could only be one outcome. The decision to withdraw vaccination from children, therefore, must be made with all the facts to hand, and not as a knee-jerk reaction to a tragic occurence without consideration of how much more tragic were it be if such diseases became commonpace again. Not one death per few months but thoudsands. Not one case of autism, but thousands. It should be borne in mind that complete withdrawal of vaccines will result in the epidemedics of bygone ages.
Parents have the right to make such decisions, and they should be respected, but only if they are made for considered reasons. Remember, it is their child's life they are making decisions about.
Conclusion
So there you have it. I draw no conclusion. We either leave the body to fight its own battles without help and hope that it can win, or give it the prisoners it needs, but with the possibility of some prisoners escaping and doing serious damage.
I am not a judge. However, what you must not do is deliberately open the gates and let the invaders in without a contingency plan. In plain language deny your child vaccination if you feel it right, but do not send her to a measles party with the possibility of her dying as a result.
Pre vaccine days hundreds of children died annually from measles in England - just in England! There were over 700,000 meaasles deaths wordlwide in 2000 and this had dropped to just over 400,000 by 2004 due to vaccine introduction in developing countries. If vaccinations stopped it is estimated that 2.7 million deaths from measles alone could be expected.
Cheers, and best wishes,
Peter
pete@welshhealth.com
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