The Meaning of Childhood Diseases

http://www.lyghtforce.com/Homeopathy...e2/cover3.html

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The Meaning of Childhood Diseases

What role the so-called childhood diseases play in the development of
children has been the subject of many discussions. Reports of developmental
leaps are frequent, yet usually very subjective. There are, however, some
observations that childhood diseases do not just harbor risks but can be
quite useful.

In Annals of Tropical Paediatrics, [53] the following case is reported:

1984 a 5 year-old girl presented with a bad case of psoriasis. She showed
large affected areas on her body and extremities, also involving to a
significant degree her scalp. During the following year she was treated by
Pediatricians and Dermatologists with coal tar preparations, local
steroids, UV light, and dithranol wraps. Despite these therapies and two
hospitalizations, the psoriasis was refractory and remained essentially
unchanged until she came down with measles. As the measles rash began to
spread over her skin, the psoriasis disappeared. Since then she has been
free of psoriasis.

Another startling effect is described in Am. J. Med. Hyg.: "The prevalence
of parasites and average density of malaria parasites is significantly
lower in children who have had measles or influenza before the age of 9
than in the asymptomatic control group." [54]

An article taken from the Lancet, 1985 [55], may be of decisive importance:

Persons who have never had any visible indication of measles, i.e., never
developed the skin rash of measles, suffer more frequently from non measles
associated diseases." "The data show a highly significant correlation
between lack of measles exanthema and auto-immune diseases, seborrhoeic
skin diseases, degenerative diseases of the bones and certain tumors . . .
We think that the rash is caused by a cell mitigated immune reaction, which
destroys the cells infected with the measles virus. If this is correct, the
missing exanthema may indicate that intracellular virus components have
escaped neutralization during the acute infection. This may later lead to
the aforementioned diseases... The presence of specific antibodies at the
time of infection interferes with the normal immune response against the
measles virus, in particular with the development of the specific cell
mitigated immunity (and/or cyto-toxic reactions). The intracellular measles
virus can then survive the acute infection and cause diseases manifesting
in the adult age.

If the infection with measles happens at a time when there are already
antibodies against the measles virus present, i.e., within the first few
months after birth, or after administration of measles immune serum because
of contact with measles, or after antibody production following
vaccination, the immune system cannot react fully to the infection, leaving
the virus the chance to become persistent.

If vaccinated children contract measles from the wild strain, the
possibility exists that the infection will be overlooked in them, since
they do not exhibit the typical signs of measles anymore. It is impossible
to say how common these latent measles infections are; finding the
connection between latent measles and a disease at adult age is impossible.
If this suspicion proves to be true, the merit of the measles vaccination
has to be re-evaluated carefully.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/measles.html

Measles Fact Sheet

Excerpt:

How serious is the disease?

Measles itself is unpleasant, but the complications are dangerous. Six
to 20 percent of the people who get the disease will get an ear
infection, diarrhea, or even pneumonia. One out of 1000 people with
measles will develop inflammation of the brain, and about one out of
1000 will die.

Why is vaccination necessary?

Before the measles vaccine became available, there were approximately
450,000 measles cases and an average of 450 measles-associated deaths
were reported each year. Widespread use of measles vaccine has led to a
greater than 99% reduction in measles cases in the U.S. compared with
the pre-vaccine era.

However, measles is common in other countries where it spreads rapidly
and can be easily brought into the U.S. If vaccinations were stopped,
measles would return to pre-vaccine levels in the U.S. and hundreds of
people would die from measles-related illnesses.

"john" wrote in message
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http://www.lyghtforce.com/Homeopathy...e2/cover3.html

excerpt

The Meaning of Childhood Diseases

What role the so-called childhood diseases play in the development of
children has been the subject of many discussions. Reports of
developmental
leaps are frequent, yet usually very subjective. There are, however, some
observations that childhood diseases do not just harbor risks but can be
quite useful.

....

First off, homeopaths only believe in certain "miasma", measle may not be
one of them (though the syphilis one is):
http://www.hans-egebo.dk/skeptic/Hom...%20article.htm

Also, a very good explanation of what the real role of childhood diseases is
in this book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385121229/

http://www.whale.to/m/quotes19.html


"Amy" wrote in message
ups.com...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/measles.html

Measles Fact Sheet

Excerpt:

How serious is the disease?

Measles itself is unpleasant, but the complications are dangerous. Six
to 20 percent of the people who get the disease will get an ear
infection, diarrhea, or even pneumonia. One out of 1000 people with
measles will develop inflammation of the brain, and about one out of
1000 will die.

Why is vaccination necessary?

Before the measles vaccine became available, there were approximately
450,000 measles cases and an average of 450 measles-associated deaths
were reported each year. Widespread use of measles vaccine has led to a
greater than 99% reduction in measles cases in the U.S. compared with
the pre-vaccine era.

However, measles is common in other countries where it spreads rapidly
and can be easily brought into the U.S. If vaccinations were stopped,
measles would return to pre-vaccine levels in the U.S. and hundreds of
people would die from measles-related illnesses.

Amy wrote:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/measles.html

Measles Fact Sheet

Excerpt:

How serious is the disease?

Measles itself is unpleasant, but the complications are dangerous. Six
to 20 percent of the people who get the disease will get an ear
infection, diarrhea, or even pneumonia. One out of 1000 people with
measles will develop inflammation of the brain, and about one out of
1000 will die.

Why is vaccination necessary?

Before the measles vaccine became available, there were approximately
450,000 measles cases and an average of 450 measles-associated deaths
were reported each year. Widespread use of measles vaccine has led to a
greater than 99% reduction in measles cases in the U.S. compared with
the pre-vaccine era.

However, measles is common in other countries where it spreads rapidly
and can be easily brought into the U.S. If vaccinations were stopped,
measles would return to pre-vaccine levels in the U.S. and hundreds of
people would die from measles-related illnesses.


Amy, nice try. John does not want to be bothered with facts, he likes
dead and disabled children.

John is the owner of the whale.to website which is the internet's
largest suppository of mis and false information.