| With some infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, visitors and staff may need to wear a mask, gown and gloves to prevent the spread of the infection.
ANTIBIOTIC BAN FOR POULTRY
What's new: In July 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a ban on the use of the animal antibiotic enrofloxacin (Baytril) in poultry. Enrofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic in the same class as ciprofloxacin (Cipro). |
| Children Poisoned by Medications Is a Common Cause of ER Visits
Dan Budnitz, MD, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for infectious diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, associate professor of public health, and director, Prevention Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly.
Medications that are taken accidentally by young children account for an estimated 53,517 nonfatal emergency room visits each year in the United States, a federal study has found. |
| In a clinical trial, people who took multivitamins daily not only had improved immunity against infectious diseases but also had more energy. In general, it is best to get vitamins from food, but many people don't get the necessary amounts, so I suggest taking a multivitamin/mineral supplement daily.
•Prevent dehydration. Consuming an inadequate amount of fluids, particularly if it's hot outside or you're exercising, can deplete energy and lead to weakness, dizziness and headaches. Drink at least six to eight 8-ounce glasses of water daily. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 If you do have a potentially life-threatening infection, you will have to follow your doctor's prescriptions, but these are in fact rare and certainly don't account for more than 10% of infectious diseases. Opening this dialogue will go a long way toward reducing the use of nonessential prescriptions for antibiotics.
It is also helpful to understand the antibiotics—and there are a lot of them—and what they do, including their side effects. Many antibiotics are now so powerful that caution must be used when taking them. |
Bill Sardi
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 There would be 21% fewer cases of cancer in developing countries and 9% fewer cases in developed countries if these infectious diseases were prevented. The attributable fraction at the specific sites varies from 89% of cervix cancers attributable to the papillomaviruses to 1 % of all leukemias attributable to human T-cell lymphotrophic virus I. [Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Prevention 6: 387-400, 1997]
It is interesting to note that countries with the warmest climates and the spiciest cuisines also have the lowest rates of cancer. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 According to the Kevala Center for Holistic Health, it's quite effective for cuts, burns, and insect bites, and it's a powerful antiviral agent as well and may even be useful in helping fight off infectious diseases such as flu and colds. The center recommends putting a couple of drops of the oil in a bowl of steaming water, covering your head, and inhaling for five to ten minutes to relieve congestion and fight infection. |
Anne Harrington
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 They taught us that the modern era had not escaped the age-old plagues of infectious diseases after all; and they also taught us that the well-recognized syndrome of modern life, stress, had a reach that had not previously been suspected. We learned that, by undermining immune function, stress could compromise our ability to defend ourselves against infection. In this sense, AIDS taught us that the modern era had been doubly caught out.
By the second half of the 1990s, research on stress and the immune system had begun to focus on other vulnerable populations. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Nobody can foresee the consequences of our collective action in making antibiotics the treatment of preference for infectious diseases. You may remember from chapter 8 that sunlight used to be the preferred and most successful treatment for TB (more about this below). UV-light still is the natural antidote to any germ, including super-bugs, yet our obsession with drugs prevents us from even considering the use of a cost-free solution with no side effects. But you and I can make a difference when it comes to creating a healthy world by choosing not to take antibiotics. |
| Consequently, these immune-suppressive drugs may have actually triggered the recurrence of old infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis.
Biological Warfare
The antibiotic approach to treating infections is costing human society more than anyone could have anticipated. The bugs that were "successfully" subdued with antibiotics for decades are now taking revenge by producing what is known as "antibiotic-resistant organisms," that is, superbugs that defy antibiotic treatment. Some 90,000 Americans suffer potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant "staph superbug. |
| The research is sponsored by government agencies such as National Institute of Allergy and infectious diseases and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and huge pharmaceutical companies such as Glaxo, Pfizer, Squibb and Genentech. One of the studies, "The Effect of Anti-HIV Treatment on Body Characteristics of HIV-infected Children" seeks to identify the causes of "Wasting and Lipodystrophy [fat redistribution]" by using drugs known to cause wasting and lipodystrophy. |
| Although p24 is not unique to HIV but shared with most infectious diseases, they have nevertheless been classified as AIDS diseases.
What is very sad is that babies are defenseless against drug poisoning. Recent research has shown that pregnant women who smoke cigarettes pass cancer-forming chemicals to their babies. It is difficult to imagine what must be taking place in the developing brain of an embryo when it is exposed to heroin injected directly into his mother's blood, which is also his blood. |
| Parents who see their children go through one infectious illness after another are especially concerned about giving their offspring every possible protection against infectious diseases. Immunization seems to be one way of safeguarding their children's lives. If their child still happens to "catch" an infection, antibacterial or antiviral drugs are generally considered the best treatment option. |
| The attempt to permanently cure intestinal bloating, cystitis, Candida, stomach ulcers, infectious diseases or any of the above conditions is likely to fail if the bacteria-harboring gallstones are not removed from the liver.
On occasion, one or several gallstones get stuck in the cystic duct—in the vessel that links the common bile duct with the gallbladder—or in the common bile duct itself. In this case, the wall of the duct undergoes strong spasmodic contractions in order to propel the stones onward. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 First, modern medicine has had little to do with the control of deadly infectious diseases, such as typhoid, scarlet fever, and diphtheria.. According to two prominent medical sociologists: "3.5 percent probably represents a reasonable upper limit estimate of the total contribution of medical measures to the decline in mortality in the United States since 1900."22
Second, modern medicine has had little impact on overall life expectancy. We don't live much longer today than we did at the turn of the twentieth-century. |
| On that day, Jonas Salk announced the successful testing of a vaccine against polio, the last of the dreaded infectious diseases to be controlled. There was a new hero. My family rejoiced. My only problem was that I was supposed to be the one to grow up and cure polio. Now my work was really cut out for me. I'd have to switch my attention and cure cancer.
I did not learn until much later that the celebration over the Salk vaccine was as much myth as science. Yes, the vaccine did work. |
| Let us examine reductions in death from diphtheria and whooping cough (childhood pertussis), both airborne infectious diseases, both cited by Thomas "as success" stories of medicine. Both diseases have declined dramatically. Yet 120 years of British data show declines in mortality from these two diseases account for only a small contribution to the total decline in mortality, 6.2%" and 2.6%, respectively, together accounting for 8.8% of the total reduction in mortality. Twentieth-century data for the United States tell a similar story. |
| The McKinleys studied the impact of prophylaxis on eleven infectious diseases which had been deadly at the beginning of the twentieth century in the United States. For each one, the authors charted the slope of decline in mortality, marking in each case the first year of widespread medical intervention. The findings are dramatic: for each case the intervention comes long after the most significant declines in mortality. The McKinleys then calculate the fall in the standard death rate after intervention as a percent of the total fall for that disease. The findings are significant. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Patients with extensive skin injuries, acute skin diseases, feverish or infectious diseases, cardiac insufficiency or hypertonia should not use the drug as a bath additive.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
PICEA AETHEROLEUM AND TURIONES RECENTES
No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages, although bronchial spasms could be worsened.
DOSAGE
PICEA AETHEROLEUM
Mode of Administration: Embrocations of alcohol solutions, ointments, gels, emulsions, and oils are available, as well as bath additives and inhalants. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Others argue for the impact of global warming and hotter weather on growing rates of infectious diseases. In Al Gore's 2006 movie An Inconvenient Truth, a disturbing chart cites rising rates of illnesses, among them SARS, malaria, Ebola virus, and avian flu. The documentary's accompanying Web site states that with continued warming, deaths from climate-related illness are expected to rise sharply over the next two decades, according to projections by the World Health Organization. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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Immunotherapeutic prospects of infectious diseases, Hrsg. Masihi KN, Lange W. Springer, Heidel.
Beuscher N, Uber die medikamentose Beeinflussung zellularer Resistenzmechanismen im Tierversuch. Aktivierung von Peritonealmakrophagen der Maus durch pflanzliche Reizkbrper. In: Arzneim Forsch 32(1): 134-138. 1977.
Bohlmann F, Hoffman H, (1983) Phytochemistry 22(5): 1173.
Busing KH, Hyaluronidasehemmung durch Echinacin. In: Arzneim Forsch 2:467-469. 1952.
Coeugniet EG, Elek E, Immunmodulation with Viscum album and Echinacea purpurea Extracts. In: Beilage zur Onkologie 27-33. 1987. |
Bill Sardi
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| One study found an increased risk for cancer among who had no history of former infectious diseases (5.7 times increased risk), no history of common colds or fever (15.1 times increased risk). [Med Klin 78: 95-98, 1983] However, this is not conclusive.
In another converse study, 21 of 353 individuals who had a history of measles developed cancer versus only 1 in 230 who had a negative history of measles. [Cancer 1-5, 1985]
There is evidence that cancer risk increases when a person receives an organ transplant. Immune-suppressing drugs may be responsible. |
| Emerging infectious diseases 4: 1998]
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a very small rod-shaped bacterium, only 3 to 4 micrometers in length. TB resists common microbiological staining procedures for detection. It is slow growing, dividing only every 12-24 hours. Its impermeable cell wall makes it resistant to disinfectants and antibiotics. TB can be acquired from close person-to-person contact via airborne transmission. About 1.9 billion people on earth are already contaminated with TB. |
Michael Pollan
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 And it devastated our health, leading to a panoply of deficiencies and infectious diseases that we've only managed to get under control in the last century or so.) The biggest change in our food environment since then? The advent of the modern diet.
To get a better grip on the nature of these changes is to begin to understand how we might alter our relationship to food—for the better, for our health. These changes have been numerous and far reaching, but consider as a start these five fundamental transformations to our foods and ways of eating. |
| Yes, the rise to prominence of these chronic diseases is partly due to the fact that we're not dying earlier in life of infectious diseases, but only partly: Even after adjusting for age, many of the so-called diseases of civilization were far less common a century ago—and they remain rare in places where people don't eat the way we do.
I'm speaking, of course, of the elephant in the room whenever we discuss diet and health: "the Western diet. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Similar concerns were discussed in Emerging infectious diseases (2001, volume 7, issue 3, Supplemental, pages
512-515). The article stated that "The recent entry of products containing antibacterial agents into healthy households has escalated from a few dozen products in the mid-1990s to more than 700 today. Antibacterial products were developed and have been successfully used to prevent transmission of disease-causing microorganisms among patients, particularly in hospitals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Thus, the administering of vaccines suppresses normal immune function, leaving the child more vulnerable to other infectious diseases that might come along and have no vaccine available, such as some future mutation of Bird Flu. Today's vaccination programs, in essence, are priming these children to be killed by future infectious pandemics (for which vaccines are absolutely useless due to rapid viral mutation).
4) Doctors utterly dismiss all reports of side effects from vaccines, pretending they do not exist. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They've also managed to get people to believe that infectious diseases are caused SOLELY by the presence of the virus or bacterium -- an idea that's utter nonsense. An infectious agent is only a threat when the body is suppressed enough to be susceptible to infection. The real cause of an infection is just as much a weakened immune system as it is the presence of the virus, yet conventional medicine focuses solely on the presence of the virus and dismisses the role of the immune system in preventing infection.
I say we should Free Santos! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What's far more likely to happen is that imbalanced ecosystems will unleash famines and infectious diseases that will ultimately devastate humankind.
Why famines? Because radical weather patterns caused by global warming will disrupt food production, causing droughts in some areas and floods in others. As food production plummets, famine will become widespread. We are, after all, in a "food bubble" right now.
Why infectious disease? Because only balanced, healthy ecosystems keep infectious disease at bay. When ecosystems are disrupted, they become breeding grounds for infectious pathogens. |
Mark Sircus
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 When used correctly, magnesium chloride is a weapon against infectious diseases. Between its power to stimulate white blood cells and glutathione production, and its basic role in producing energy, we have a heavyweight non-toxic medicine that can be used without a prescription. This is going to be very important as antibiotics, which do nothing to enhance the body's ability to protect and heal itself, become increasingly ineffective. |
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