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IS FEAR OF FEVER HURTING OUR CHILDREN?
By Edda West - VRAN Newsletter January-March, 2003
2003 Vaccination Risk Awareness Network Inc. CANADA
As paradigms go in the world of disease management, there is none more
deeply ingrained than the fear driven belief that without vaccinations we
are doomed to attack from legions of killer diseases. It's shadow partner,
"fear of fever" compels us to suppress fever whenever it arises and insures
our captivity to monopoly, sickness oriented medicine. The
medical/pharmaceutical empire flogs us with these tactics, imprinting fear
in the collective psyche, the favourite tool with which they dominate the
masses and usher us down the slippery slope of health breakdown and drug
dependency.
Vaccinations and fever suppressants, along with the overuse of antibiotics
and exposure to multiple chemical contaminants in the environment, are at
the root of the decline in children's health and vitality, manifesting at
large in the disablement of immune function, neurological function, and
upsurge of chronic diseases in large segments of society today. Children in
particular have been hit hard as they are the most vulnerable members of
society. New evidence is now emerging that fever suppressant drugs may be
another contributing factor to the explosive epidemic of neurodevelopmental
disorders like autism.
As loving and caring parents, we naturally want to help our children feel
better when the inevitable fevers, flus, colds and various illnesses arise
in childhood. Many will reach for popular over-the-counter remedies to
suppress fever and alleviate symptoms in the belief that these products are
reliable, effective, and safe. But how safe are they really? And what are
the risks when fever is suppressed and symptoms masked? Does fever have a
critical function in fighting sickness that we have lost sight of?
There is plenty of scientific evidence validating the benefits of fever in
fighting viral/bacterial inflammations and it's important role in the
healing process. Fever increases survival rate during infectious diseases -
basic information that has yet to reach the majority of people who remain
misinformed and misled by pharmaceutical and medical propaganda which still
shamelessly advocates the use of antipyretic drugs at the first sign of
fever. The myth that untreated fevers will lead to seizures and brain
damage is perpetuated ad nauseam. Fever is maligned, misunderstood and seen
as an enemy to be feared rather than an ally that signals the immune system
gearing up for action.
(Read the full article at the above link)
Is Fear of Fever Hurting our Children?
and Sam, 8 
excellent article! as a nurse, i am dismayed at the lack of parental education where fever is concerned. i remember when i was in college and we learned the pathophysiological events involved in a fever (wish i could remember all that now 
) i was amazed and at that point stopped medicating my own fevers (adults get them so rarely, but i was the type that would get achey at a temp of 99 and take 2 tylenol 
) 
Jennifer
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