By Janet Levatin, MD, pediatrician

Fall is here and winter is fast approaching, marked by the first case of croup I saw in the office this week, a 4 year old boy who had been sick for a few days with this common wintertime illness. Croup is the name used for an upper respiratory infection accompanied by a barking cough. The medical name  for croup is “laryngo-tracheo-bronchitis” because the larynx (voicebox), the trachea (windpipe), and the bronchi (large passageways leading to the lungs) are all involved and inflamed.

The cough of croup is very distinctive, and sounds a lot like a barking seal. Kids with croup often have raspy-sounding breathing (called stridor) and a hoarse voice. Croup is relatively common in children ages 6 months to 3 years, but it can occur in older children too, and even occasionally in adults.

Croup can be caused by several of the viruses commonly in circulation during fall and winter. Like most infections, croup can range from mild to severe. Severe croup is a true medical emergency. If your child is struggling to breathe, he needs an immediate trip to the emergency room. However, for mild to moderate croup, conventional medicine has little to offer. Doctors generally advise “waiting it out” using home care methods such as breathing in warm shower steam and sipping plenty of warm fluids, or maybe a steroid injection. While these measure to treat your child at home are useful, more can be done to encourage healing and give relief.

Homeopathy is a wonderful method for treating croup.  If the correct medicine is chosen, croup can resolve very rapidly. As with all homeopathic treatments, the goal is to identify the simillimum, the remedy that most closely matches the patient’s presenting symptoms and mental-emotional state. The power of homeopathy for treating croup became apparent to me years ago when my now-adult son had an acute bout of the croup.

My son was about 2 years old when he woke up in the middle of the night, gasping for air, thrashing about, coughing and gagging so loudly it was really quite frightening, even to me as a pediatrician! I was about to call 911 when I remembered from my homeopathic training that Aconite (Aconitum napellus) is a great treatment for the acute onset of croup. I grabbed the bottle from my homeopathic emergency first aid kit and stuffed a 30X pellet into his mouth while he thrashed about. In literally less than a minute, he calmed down and was breathing much more easily, with just a very slight rasp. I asked him if he was OK, and said yes. I asked him if he needed any more medicine, and remarkably, he said no! A few minutes later he fell back to sleep. The next morning, he woke with a very minor cold that lasted a few days and resolved without further complications. The croupy cough never returned, and he never had croup again. If I had any skepticism about the efficacy of homeopathy for acute croup, it was completely eliminated on that night long ago!

This story is meant to show you the power of homeopathy… not to say that Aconite is the correct remedy for every case of croup. As mentioned above, the goal is to match the medicine not only to the patient’s symptoms, but also to the emotional state he or she is experiencing. Other remedies that can help resolve croup include Spongia tosta, Hepar, Calcarea sulphurica, and Drosera. For example, the little patient mentioned at the beginning of this article had been coughing for a few days and his symptoms had started as a mild cough. His cough and dry-feeling throat were relieved by drinking and eating, characteristics of the remedy he received, Spongia tosta. The treatment helped resolve his symptoms in less than 48 hours.

As the fall and winter progress, remember that there are safe, effective and non-toxic options for conditions conventional doctors treat with antibiotics or steroids, or no treatment at all. Many viral illnesses are short-lived and mild and heal on their own. In these case no treatment can be the best option. If a virus lingers or is bothersome, however (like croup often is), consider homeopathy… safe, effective, non-toxic medicine for people of all ages.

If vaccines are so beneficial, everyone must be in Universal agreement about how good they are, right? Wrong!

Millions have begun to question what they have been told about vaccines and are asking, “Why so many shots?”  Parents want to know which vaccines – if any – are necessary. Questions such as, “Are vaccines safe? What are the potential side effects? Have vaccines been tested for purity, or are they contaminated with stray viruses? What about all those ingredients in the shots – can injecting them into babies really be harmless?” Adults are rightfully concerned about what’s coming through that needle. They are raising eyebrows about not only about injecting chemicals, heavy metals and animal cells into their children – but are concerned about the effects on their own body.

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Pro-vaccine information is as abundant and as easy to find as ice in Antarctica. But there is a large body of overlooked medical and scientific research that shows the other side – and chronicles the heartbreaking disasters and long-term health consequences caused by vaccines. The problem is that locating this information can be challenging, difficult to interpret and very time consuming to dig out.

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Now, all in one place, is the irrefutable science you need to defend your position against vaccines. You will be able to prove your point, protect your health and that of your children, write balanced news stories, or support  legal cases.

In light of the nationally publicized bird flu and swine flu vaccine scandals over the last several years, (and others that were not as widely publicized), parents, non-parents, grandparents, teachers, nurses, healthcare providers, journalists, serious and casual researchers, and even military personnel are questioning the safety and necessity of vaccines.

Around the world, people are fed up with accepting the Vaccine Industry’s propaganda as “scientific proof” of efficacy. Intelligent and inquiring minds want to examine the science for themselves. They want evidence to support what they intuitively know: The Party Line about vaccines is a charade, perpetuated to bolster profits and expand Big Pharma’s cartel.

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The Vaccine Research Library has links to thousands of articles, collected together, all for easy review. Look at these categories… and you’ll have an idea of what you will find:

  • Category — Additives
  • Category — Adjuvants
  • Category — Animal reagents and cell lines
  • Category  – Chemicals
  • Category  – Preservatives
  • Category  – Stabilizers
  • Category  – Adolescent vaccines
  • Category — Individual vaccines
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  • Category — Vaccination in Special Circumstances
  • Category — Vaccination Legal Issues
  • Category — Vaccine Industry
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This is a living, growing library that adds information every day.  You’ll want to check back continually. The conventional medical and scientific literature publishes new research on the problems, side effects and complications caused by vaccines every month. We’re tracking it – and capturing it all in one place under the New This Week tab.  Members will have access to new information as it becomes available published articles, references and releases.

It’s shocking to know that nearly every day, we find conclusions and hidden admissions that vaccines are not safe and do cause harm. Many of these discoveries are absolutely over-the-top and egregious. You’ll find yourself screaming at the computer phrases like, “HOW DO THEY GET AWAY WITH THAT?”

To shed light on this quickly, the home page of the Library has free access to an area called the Scream of the Week.You can post these links on your Facebook page and share through other forms of social media, educating and alerting your friends to the preposterous information promoted by the “vaccine industry.” Be sure to share these links with your doctor and your boss, persons who often only parrot the Party Line about vaccine safety and efficacy.

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But thanks to the Vaccine Research Library’s “pre-search,” the hard-hitting facts have already been extracted for your easy review. Key words from the article or abstract are black, bold and italicized, so you can identify exactly what you’re looking for. The material is presented in chronological order and some articles also contain comments and commentary in brown/maroon, bold, italics to help the lay reader understand the medical terminology. With the black, bold, italics, you can skim the selection and can quickly see if this is the morsel you are looking for. All you do is scan the listings, then “click and read.”

Access to this highly selective, hard-to-find information must be very expensive, right?

It costs a lot of money to build and maintain a database with highly specialized information. Do a little checking on the cost to access conventional online medical libraries, such as MDConsult.com or EurekAlert.com or FeedInfo.com. Check out the cost of reading only ONE full text article from a medical journal – it can cost $25, $37 or $57 – or more, making access to these services cost-prohibitive. Many times, you’ll find the title of the article and the conclusion of the research were very incongruent.

It’s easy to see that access to the thousands of article links supporting your right to refuse vaccines should be worth a LOT of money. 

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For only $10 per month, you will have access to an ever-growing collection of information from conventional medical and scientific literature that proves, once and for all, that vaccines are not all the government, medical and pharmaceutical industries would have us believe. The savings in time ALONE, is worth many times that amount when you need a time-sensitive fact or explanation.

There’s not much more to say that hasn’t already been said! For an overview and introduction, go here

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.…more features and videos coming soon to the library~ 

 

 

 


 

I don’t usually wade into political waters, but this deserves a note. Gov Perry from Texas is now getting into the presidential race for 2012. He is in the pocket of Merck. He remains the first and only governor in the US to try to force Gardasil vaccines, injections for 9 year old girls. He withdrew this mandate under a firestorm of revolt in Texas and across the country. This article lays it out in full detail.

How soon we forget…

(From the CDC) As of June 22, 2011, approximately 35 million doses of Gardasil were distributed in the U.S. and VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) received a total of 18,727 reports of adverse events following Gardasil vaccination: 17,958 reports among females and 346 reports for males, of which 285 reports were received after the vaccine was licensed for males in October 2009.

Deaths: As of June 22, 2011 there have been a total 68 VAERS reports of death among those who have received Gardasil® . There were 54 reports among females, 3 were among males, and 11 were reports of unknown gender. There have been 32 confirmed deaths and 36 remain unconfirmed due to no identifiable patient information in the report such as a name and contact information to confirm the report.

If there were this many reported adverse events from a supplement or vitamin….or even a medication, would it still be on the market? It has been estimated that only between 1 and 10% of all adverse events are reported.