Information on Swine Flu

Yes Gina, and Tracy, and of course everyone else,

Too bad nothing like this could happen in the USA today.....

Hi Tracy,

I'm glad to hear that the Eup-per has worked for you. In the Spring, I was the one who'd posted that it was the remedy that helped my daughter and had seemed to be the indicated one for my son's girlfriend's flu. During that time, I saw a number of patients who needed Eup-per or Nux-v. The ones with the weird, very sensitive skin symptoms seemed more often to need Nux-v.

Here's an account of my youngest daughter's bout with the flu, recently, that I hope will give a clear picture of symptoms. In our area (San Diego, California, right across the border from Mexico), they are saying that the seasonal flu is no longer active, so they are presuming that any cases of flu are the swine flu, and not even bothering to test anymore.

Female, age 9—Acute Flu—Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Slow to Medium Onset
Started late morning, complaining of not feeling well, her eyes hurt, throat hurt, back ached, headache.   Felt like she had a bit of a fever. Demanding a lot of attention, wanted me with her, clinging to me, asking for a backrub, moaning, but then would seem better after a bit.

Mind: (These were what really stood out to me, as they were very different from her usual self.)
She was VERY needy and clingy! Would even follow me from room to room, clinging or hanging on me. Much pitiful and anguished crying, moaning and groaning. She kept tossing around the bed, couldn’t get comfortable, demanding one thing, then another. She never fell asleep, which seemed unusual with the high fever she had. Instead, she was very restless and demanding.
I was reading through Sandra Perko’s, “The Homeopathic Treatment of Influenza”, reading a few snippets to my other daughter, asking if she thought this or that sounded right to her. Lily spoke up and said, “Do you have the rubric, “Grumpy” in there? Because that’s what I am!”. [You know it’s a homeopath’s kid, when they know what a rubric is!]
She kept needing something different: a drink-but it needed more ice!; she wanted hot tea, but then didn’t drink it, as it tasted ‘funny’; the pillows weren’t arranged the right way—“You KNOW I don’t like them like this—that hurts my neck!”; when reading her a book, I wasn’t making the voice correctly; she was burning hot—didn’t want a cover, but next thing she’s cold and wants covers—that lasts only a minute or so before she flings it off again; her sister was rustling her paper too loud; her brother was making too much noise, her sister was 'breathing too loud and annoying!", overly sensitive to noise, in general, etc.
[The next day, she said, “I sure was crying a lot yesterday!” (She definitely was!)]

She said there were only four places she could sleep: on the bedroom floor, in the car (everytime we went anywhere, she would fall asleep-very unusual for her, and the ONLY time she fell asleep the entire day.), hanging onto her big brother’s back (yes, that was pretty weird!), or with me holding her in my arms like a baby. By the end of the day, I don't know about her, but I was exhausted with her being so needy and demanding and not sleeping!


Eyes: Very sore, achey
           Very sensitive to light, both natural and artificial
           wants to rub and press them, but seems to make it worse
           Pupils are normal size; Unusual for her, as hers are often quite dilated
           Her eyes don’t seem to be watering, but she is crying a lot, and has copious tears

Vision: PQRS: When she looked at the off-white walls in a room, they looked green to her!

Ears: Hurt a little bit when swallowing
          Hurts a bit in front of the ears, swollen lymph glands?

Hearing: Acute. Overly sensitive and annoyed to repetitive noises, talking and voices

Face: Very pale
           Says “It feels good to rub my face on you, mommy!”, as she rubs it back and forth, pressing into my chest.
Expression: Anguished! Like she’s in terrible agony, suffering, being tortured! Looks very sickly. This expression was so exaggerated and anguished, it was almost comical!

Mouth: Tongue looks very normal—no coating or discoloration, which surprises me, as her breath is quite offensive.

Teeth: Complains of her teeth hurting, esp the back molars
            PQRS—wants to bite on something very hard. Is biting down hard on my arm—not aggressively, but because of this very strong need to bite down hard. “I want a bone! Get me a bone to chew on! I need to bite something hard!”

Throat: Cries that her throat hurts, “I can barely breathe! It’s hard to breathe! It feels like I’m choking! I can’t swallow!”, very panicky. But, once I am lying beside her, this seems to get better. She can’t open it wide enough for me to see down, and her tongue’s in the way. (She has a really tiny little mouth!) It seems strange to me, as she doesn’t seem to have any congestion or mucus, in either her throat or nose.

External Throat: Some swelling and tendernness of glands.

Stomach: Thirsty, but drinks only small sips at a time (This is very typical of her, though—she has always taken micro-bites and micro-sips.) She wants lots of ice in her water. She sits up frequently to drink. Wants only ice cold, lemon water. When it was first coming on at lunch, she was very particular how she had to have her food prepared, but then she took only 2 bites, and laid her head down on the table. She also didn’t want any breakfast.

                  Around 1 a.m. she was moaning, and said she wished she could throw up, but couldn’t. Came and laid in my arms, but then jumped up and said, “I’m going to throw up if I lay that way!”, and she went in and laid down stomach first on my bed.
At 1:15 a.m. I gave her one dose of Arsenicum album 200C.

                  1:30 a.m., she threw up for the first time. No food mixed in, as she’s only had a couple of bites to eat today. Vomited 4 times, smallish amount, yellow and mucousy. Came up easily. She was burning hot, no perspiration. Afterward, she lay down on her stomach, wanted a cold, wet cloth on her back.
                  5:30 a.m., needed to go throw up, but didn’t want to go into the bathroom by herself. Said, “I can’t throw up if you don’t go with me!”. (She was sleeping next to me in my bed.) I actually don’t remember this, and apparently told her I was too tired to get up. I guess she finally got up by herself and threw up again.)

Bladder: She commented that she’d had to pee a lot today. Around 2 p.m., she said she’d had to pee six times that morning.

Respiration: Seems normal, but a couple of times she complained that she couldn’t breathe (could have been because she was crying so much, though.)

Cough: None

Expectoration: Her nose is very runny, but I think it's more due to all the crying she has been doing, rather than any coryza. The bedsheet and pillow, as well as my shirt are quite wet. I’m not sure if it’s her copious tears, or if it’s from drooling. She keeps rubbing her face into me and the pillow.

Back: Complains of back and neck hurting. > rubbing Wants me to keep massaging her.

Extremeties:   Her legs were very restless, wanted me to rub them.

Sleep: When I first realized she was really getting sick was when she fell asleep in the car, almost mid-sentence, in the morning, and she’d only been up a few hours. But, as soon as I stopped the car, she woke up immediately, and went right into 'demand mode' again. She had to have me with her, clinging to me, yet it was very difficult for her to go to sleep. I thought with the fever she had, she would have quickly fallen asleep, but she was very restless, demanding and critical, and insisted that I stay with her. But, she never really fell asleep. Instead she just moaned and cried and was persnickety. If I got up to do something, she would get up and follow me, clinging to me. I finally went in to prepare lunch, and, even though she could barely move, she crawled into the kitchen and clung to the back of my leg.

Chill: She didn’t complain of chills, really, which was why I hadn’t given her Arsenicum sooner. Only a few times did she say she was cold, but it only lasted seconds before she’d fling the cover off.

Fever: She had a 104 degree temperature (high) for the entire day and night. Even after giving her the Arsenicum, though she appeared to feel much better, her temperature remained high until around noon the next day (lasted about 26 hours). This seemed like a very prolonged high fever to me, especially for her age (age 9). It was a very dry fever—her skin was burning hot and dry.

Perspiration: None-she had a dry, burning fever

Skin: Nothing too remarkable, though at one time she complained of her skin ‘hurting’, by which I think she meant it was sensitive.

REMEDIES I GAVE AND RESULTS:
When she first started complaining, and I thought it might be the flu, I gave her Oscillococcinum 200C, and it seemed to have no effect, which really surprised me! This had worked to a degree in the Spring, but has seemed not effective with this round.

A bit later, because of the heightened sensitivity to light, noise, headache, and her irritability and grumpiness, I decided to try Nux vomica 30C, which was the only potency I had at home. Again, nothing.

Paul Herscu has said that Nux vomica is the genus epidemicus, so I was willing to test this theory out further. So, I drove to my office and got Nux-v 200C. Again, nothing.

Although she did have so many symptoms of Aresenicum, I usually think of Arsenicum as being too cold. Of course, it also has the polarity, just not as well known. Arsenicum can definitely have a dry, burning, intense heat, with no perspiration. And, then with the constant restlessness, intense need to be with company, couldn’t be alone, persnickety behavior, the thirsty for small sips and the waking at 1 a.m.,
I decided to give her Arsenicum 200C.

Also, Arsenicum covers her PQRS (Peculiar, Queer, Rare and Strange) symptoms:
Desire for biting something hard, we see in these rubrics:
TEETH: Pain: biting teeth together: amel.
TEETH: Pain: molars, bicuspids.
MOUTH: BITES THE GLASS WHEN DRINKING.

The white walls appearing green:
VISION: Colors before the eyes: green.
"Everything. appears green"
"Iris disclosed, reacting sluggishly; sight cloudy; sees as if through a white gauze; everything appears green; retinitis albuminurica."



Within 15 minutes whe vomited, and after that, she was finally able to sleep normally. The next day, she was a bit weak in the morning, but by noon, she was perfectly back to normal. By that afternoon, she kept enthusiastically saying "Mommy, I feel great! I just feel really good!", so let's not forget the BENEFICIAL role that catching a flu may have on someone, just as the childhood diseases have an important purpose in a child's development. There are very few times as adults, that we will get a fever. But, fever and coughs and colds act as a 'housecleaning' to our bodies, quickly and effeciently burning up much of the 'gunk' we all accumulate in our bodies. So, perhaps not something to be so afraid of, after all.

Five days after my youngest daughter got it, my middle daughter came down with it. The little one had been clinging to and sneezing and rubbing her face, with all of her tears and runny nose, all over her sister and myself. My middle daughter went to an overnight birthday party--a Harry Potter Movie Marathon, where they were watching 3 Harry Potter movies the first day, and 3 the next, the last one to be the newest one, at the theatre.

Apparently, my daughter started getting a headache and sore throat the second day, but she just figured it was from being up late and watching so much TV (she normally watches very little). By the time they got to the movie theatre, she felt like she needed to vomit, but couldn't. 10 minutes into the movie, she suddenly threw up, but at least caught most of it in her hand and her shirt. The mom helped her clean up, and then they came back in. 10 minutes later, she erupted again, but this time...didn't quite make it
Apparently, she threw up all over in the hallway that leads to the theatres.
The mom told me she'd never seen so much vomit before!     (And, this is not a kid who usually vomits--maybe only once in her whole life!) So, I'm guessing that the lucky 16 year old who got to clean THAT up, was thinking twice about the 'cushy job' he'd bragged to all his friends about!   

Anyway, I got THE CALL, so sped down there to pick up my daughter, during rush hour traffic. As soon as I saw her, the same pale face, anguished expression and she was freezing, I immediately gave her Arsenicum 200C. What was really strange, though, is before I even got out of the parking lot, I began feeling very nauseated myself! I had had a headache and mild sore throat all day, but just thought it due to the intense heat we'd been having. By the time I was on the highway, I felt so ill, I thought I would have to pull off the road to vomit. I had my daughter sprinkle some Ars 200C in my mouth, and I gradually began feeling less green. Within about 40 minutes of taking the Arsenicum, neither of us felt ill anymore at all.

Since then, I've had a number of calls from people thinking they're coming down with the flu, and, so far, they've each responded quite rapidly to the Arsenicum 200C. I've had a few that only had a 30C available, and it hasn't seemed to work as well--their flu has come back, a relapse, in a few days.   

So I find it very interesting that over in India, they are also saying Arsenicum seems to be one of the indicated remedies. Arsenicum is also one of the few remedies listed under fevers in the summer. The others are: FEVER, HEAT; SUMMER (20) : ant-c., ars., bell., bry., calc., caps., carb-v., cedr., chin., cina, eup-per., gels., ip., lach., nat-m., psor., puls., sulph., thuj., verat.
I'm not sure why I can't underline these properly, but these are the underlined Rxs in this rubric:
ars., bell., bry., calc., caps. gels., ip., lach psor. sulph.

So, hope this helps some,
Avril

Nope, those little green men i never saw. I though Mars is the red planet! So these little space aliens should be red and not green, don't you think?

"Prophylaxis is trying to fix what is not broken"................. posted Kaviraj

Flu vaccine side effects

Flu vaccine side effects are seldom considered by the majority of people who wish to protect themselves against the flu.

They simply assume that vaccination is both effective and safe. That's what they have been told by doctors and that is what they accept without questioning.

All these assumptions are WRONG. Vaccination does not offer effective protection against the flu. And we shall discuss the effectiveness of flu vaccines in another article. For now, we shall look at flu vaccine side effects.

Far from being safe, some of the flu shot side effects are very serious, including death. For children, vaccination has also been strongly linked with increased incidences of autism.

The basic problem with vaccination is that it is based on the wrong idea that bacteria and viruses "cause" disease.

But, as we see in the article about the germ theory of disease, this is a faulty idea to begin with. Based on this idea, doctors expose people to small doses of weakened bacteria or viruses, in the belief that it would stimulate their immune response against disease.

But vaccines don't just contain the weakened bactria or virus. They also cotain a lot of very highly toxic chemicals, including mercury, aluminium and formaldehyde. These partly account for flu vaccine side effects - and the dangers of vaccination in general. At the same time, the weakened bacteria or virus presents its own set of dangers too.


Harm of vaccination

Before we look specifically at flu vaccine side effects, we consider the dangers of vaccination in general. And the first thing to note is that vaccination has not stopped people from “catching� the very diseases that they have been vaccinated against. Despite vaccination, many diseases are again on the rise:

* In Namibia, 27 cases of paralytic polio were reported in 1993 - 94, although 80 percent of the population has full vaccination coverage.
* In the US, there were 6,335 cases or pertussis in 1993, the highest number in 26 years. In Cincinnati, 82 percent of the cases had at least 3 doses of the DPT (diptheria, pertusis, tetanus) vaccine.

In a February 1995 article, The Lancet discusses the harm of vaccination in an article, Measles and pertussis in developing countries with good vaccine coverage. The article reported that among those who have been vaccinated, these diseases often return in a more virulent form. Unfortunately, rather than re-think vaccination, the article went to on recommend more vaccination, at an earlier age.

Childhood diseases like measles and pertussis, or whooping cough, are actually the body's way of throwing off inherited impurities. They are often harmless. A study of 500 pertussis cases, published in early 1995 in the British Medical Journal, found that most cases were mild. Only 5 cases developed pneumonia. Of these, 3 had been vaccinated.

Because childhood illnesses are a means of discharge, suppressing them through vaccination often leads to more serious, long-term illnesses. Thus, the harm of vaccination lies not only in its side efects, but also in its role in suppressing natural -- and necessary -- body processes:

* One study found that absence of measles is associated with “development of immureactive diseases, sebaceous skin diseases, degenerative diseases of bone and cartilage, and certain tumours.
* Crohn's disease “a chronic inflammation of the intestines“ occurs three times more often in people vaccinated against measles.
* Absence of mumps is linked to higher risks of ovarian cancer.

By suppressing diseases during childhood, these same diseases may occur in adult life, where there is higher risk of complications. Less than 5 percent of children under 3 years infected with hepatitis A become jaundiced. In contrast, 75 percent of infected adolescents and adults develop acute symptoms. By allowing childhood diseases to run their natural course, children develop long-term immunity without harm to the body's immune system.


Human degeneration

The harm of vaccination was recognised as far back as 1884. At that time, J Compton Burnett, an English homeopath, wrote: "The vaccinated person is poisoned by the vaccine virus."

Burnett notes that vaccination is successful only when a person reacts to the virus. If not, the virus gets absorbed. And this leads to what he called "chronic vaccinosis" -- a chronic form of the very same disease that the person was supposed to have been vaccinated against.

Early in the 20th century, American homeopath J H Allen warned that with vaccination, "the whole race will soon become degenerated."

One vocal critic of vaccination is Dr R Obomsawin, describes it as "a futile dream".

Dr Obomsawin was originally commissioned by the Canadian International Development Agency to write about the benefits of vaccination. But after his research, he wrote instead about the harm of vaccination. Dr Obomsawin even questioned the ethics of it: Vaccination inevitably weakens the immunologic system of the child, leaving this system crippled in its ability to protect the child throughout life.

By weakening the immune system, vaccination contributes to auto-immune and degenerative diseases and allergic reactions. In his book, Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality, medical historian H L Coulter draws links between vaccination and autism, minimal brain damage, anti-social behaviour and violent crime. The link between autism and vaccinations has today become one of the most serious challenges to the safety of vaccination.


Why are vaccines so harmful?

When we look at why are vaccines so harmful, we can better understand some of the flu vaccine side effects.

One reason is that in order to produce vaccines, the bacteria and viruses are cultivated in animal proteins, such as rabbit brain tissue, monkey kidney tissue, pig blood, etc. When injected into the body, these proteins turn toxic because proteins have to be broken down into amino acids by the digestive system before they can be utilised.

Another problem is that the child's immune system is not fully developed until about the age of 4. The child's undeveloped immune system may not be able to distinguish between its own protein and foreign proteins. This can lead to auto-immune diseases, where the body's immune system attacks its own cells.

Foreign proteins also contain animal genetic information which may be picked up by the vaccine and implanted into human genes. This can result in genetic damage.

Combining several vaccines can result in strange new viruses that cause strange new diseases. George Vithoulkas, a world-renowned homeopath, states: "Instead of protecting people through vaccination, we are making humanity sick on a chronic level."


Mild flu vaccine side effects

We now take a closer look at some of the more specific, possible flu vaccine side effects.

MILD flu vaccine side effects are common and these are acknowledged by government health authorities such as the US Center for Disease Control (CDC). These flu vaccine side effects include:

* Soreness, redness, or swelling where the shot was given
* Low grade fever
* Aches

At the same time, the CDC acknowledges that on rare occasions, flu vaccination can cause serious problems, such as severe allergic reactions. And the US government has established a National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) for those who believe they have been injured by vaccination.

Nasal flu vaccines

Besides flu shots, nasal-spray vaccines, called FluMist® are have been available since its approval by the US FDA in June 2003. And one of the first things to note is that this vaccine was initially not approved in 2001 because of safety concerns.

The flu vaccine side effects of nasal sprays include:
For children:

* runny nose
* headache
* wheezing
* vomiting
* muscle aches
* fever

For adults:

* runny nose
* headache
* sore throat
* cough

These side effects may not seem very serious, but it is worth noting that they are remarkably similar to flu symptoms. So why the CDC assures that nasal-spray flu vaccines will not give you the flu, well, they will give you flu symptoms.

This flu vaccine is not recommended for pregnant women or those with asthma, chronic lung or heart disease; chronic underlying medical conditions such as diabetes or kidney disorders; immune suppression or immune system problems; children or adolescents receiving aspirin therapy, anyone allergic to eggs; or those with a history of Guillain Barre syndrome. And it should not be given simultaneously with other vaccines.

If it is that safe, why the long list of people who should not be given this flu vaccine? Critics of nasal spray flu vaccines also point out that its most common flu vaccine side effect - runny nose - will result in the spreading of the flu virus.

So those vaccinated are advised to avoid close contact with immune-compromised individuals for at least 21 days. The question is, who are these "immune compromised individuals"? Well, they range from people with cancer and organ transplants to people with the flu and even people under stress - which can be just about anybody!

Some hospital personnel are asking those recently vaccinated with Flumist to avoid visiting patients in hospitals to prevent the risk of transmitting the vaccine strain virus to sick patients.


More serious flu vaccine side effects

The more serious possible flu vaccine side effects, however, are seldom discussed ny mainstream health authorities

* Alzheimer's disease
There is emerging evidence that flu vaccine side effects include Alzheimer's disease. Hugh Fudenberg, MD, an immunogeneticist and biologist, studied individuals who received flu shots over a 10-year period between 1970 and 1980. And he found that those who had five consecutive flu shots during the period had 10 times higher risks of developing Alzheimer's Disease, compared to those who had fewer than two flu shots.

Alzheimer's disease has been linked to both mercury and aluminium poisoning and both these substances are present, in toxic amounts, in flu vaccines.

* Guillian Barr syndrome, which causes crippling of the limbs, is another disease listed among the possible flu vaccine side effects. This was first reported in a 1976 study involving swine flu vaccination. The official line from mainstream health authorities is that subsequent studies found the risk to be very small - about one person out out one million vaccinated individuals might develop Guillian Barr Syndrome.

In September 1995, however, the US FDA reported that five college students developed Guillian Barr Syndrome after receiving the meningococcal vaccine against meningitis - an illness with symptoms similar to those of the flu. And in November 2006, Canadian researchers reported a slight rise in the incidence of Guillian Barr Syndrome among those given flu shots.

* Arthritis and joint inflammation are also among the possible flu vaccine side effects.

And in the case of Tamiflu, which has become a highly sought antiviral flu drug in recent years, its side effects include abnormal behavior, neuropsychiatric problems like convulsions, delirium or delusions, and brain infections, In Japan, there were reported cases of young people commiting suicide after being given the Tamiflu vaccine.

Dear Kaviraj

HURRAH! REAL ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN! HATS OFF FOR THIS HERO!

Thanx Gina, 

Hi Tracy,

Then i suggest you read Bechamps, Pasteur's teacher and better.
"The Third Element of the Blood." Google the name or the title and the book is for free. A great education and fascinating reading!

He stated the same and was the greatest scientist of his time. Maybe you can accept his authority. He just got overshadowed by his pupil who stole the limelight by plagiarism.

As for the homoeopaths of 100 years ago, read Kent's "Lesser Writings" about prophylaxis and epidemics.

To the argument about ticks, once the disease begins, it is time enough to treat it before it fully can develop. But that is a question of skill, which admittedly is not equal in each homoeopath. I see therefore your point and I think that is a wise take on the subject.

All else, it is a matter of judgement - i cannot judge for you and leave you to make your own decisions.

Kind regards,
Kaviraj