There have been heated emotions among families here in Syracuse about reports of possible serious side effects from the swine flu vaccine for their children. Therefore information is always desired in the Syracuse community about this vaccine. Now Natural Medicine has reported "Top Health Official Calls Swine Flu Vaccine for Children a Mistake", http://bit.ly/igkyTp.
Since the discovery of evidence that the H1N1 swine flu vaccine caused narcolepsy in children, the highest health official in Finland no longer recommends the shot for children 5-20 years old. Dr Terhi Kilip, the Chief Medical Officer of Finland's National Public Health Institute, has said he swine flu vaccine for children 5-20 years old was probably a mistake. In August of 2010 it was first reported that the swine flu vaccine was possibly linked to narcolepsy in children. An increase in this rare disease in children receiving the H1N1 vaccine was reported in 12 countries and the World Health Organization (WHO) reported an investigation in early 2011.
More recently Professor Jim Bishop, Australia's Chief Medical Officer, called for doctors to stop giving seasonal flu vaccine to young children because kids were experiencing fever and convulsions following seasonal flu vaccines. And it has been reported on the blog of Dr Lanzarotta, It's Only Natural, that serious health concerns, including guillan barre syndrome, narcolepsy and increased rates of hospitalization have been reported for vaccinated children, http://bit.ly/gYUfS3. Dr Lanzarotta has gone on to comment "The way the H1N1 vaccine was pushed and hyped was simply a mass case of malpractice by the 'get your drugs here' lets make a buck establishment." And Dr Lanzarotta feels many children will pay a price, many for the remainder of their lives for the problems with the H1N1 vacine and hype which has surrounded it. Many feel this is criminal.
Swine flu is reported to have turned out to be a mild flu no more dangerous than the seasonal flu. Dr Tom Jefferson from the Cochrane Collaboration, which is an independent health research foundation, has said of the H1N1 swine flu “I don’t really see any fundamental difference, no difference in the definition between this and a normal flu epidemic.” And in regard to the scare about this flu Jefferson has gone on to comment “The WHO and public health officials, virologists and the pharmaceutical companies. They’ve built this machine around the impending pandemic. And there’s a lot of money involved, and influence, and careers, and entire institutions! And all it took was one of these influenza viruses to mutate to start the machine grinding.”
Here in Syracuse as elsewhere you may want to use natural remedies to try to help prevent the flu. You and your children should stay hydrated with a lot of water, get enough rest, exercise regularly, eat well for good nutrition and avoid too much junk food and sugar, use a high quality daily supplement which includes vitamin D and vitamin C, wash your hands, be preemptive with homeopathy and herbs, and if you feel like you may have the flu get rest and try zinc, echinacea and homeopathic remedies to reduce the severity.
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Mandel News Service
