Sweet Life Chiropractic

Follow up post of fever...

The number one reason kids take medications today is to reduce fevers. Why? Because of the belief that HIGH FEVERS cause BRAIN DAMAGE in kids. This my friends, ...is an URBAN LEGEND. A MYTH NOT TRUE A high fever from an infection CAN NOT raise the temperature of a child to the point needed to cause brain damage....107.6 degrees. The body regulates the core temperature to 106 with viral and bacterial infection. So it is virtually impossible to get brain damage from a fever. The ONLY way studies have shown humans can get their internal temperature that high is via external environment factors such as leaving a kid in a closed car in the summer. 3.5% of children are susceptible to febrile seizures, not every child. A febrile seizure is triggered by a quick rise in temperature, not the overall high number and does not produce any damage. Medications to reduce a fever DO NOT prevent febrile seizures. Medications to reduce fevers DO impair the immune system resulting in prolonged illness, the spread of the flu (associated with 1,000 extra deaths a year), alter our DNA protection mechanisms, make your mitochondria (energy centers) vulnerable, and have been linked to causing cases of childhood asthma. One dose of acetaminophen per month raises your kids chance of developing asthma 540% and just one dose in the first 12 months of life raises it 70%. Acetaminophen, the number one prescribed, OTC (Over The Counter)and used medication in children, results in 100,000 calls to poison control centers, 56,000 emergency room visits, 26,000 hospitalizations, and more than 450 deaths from liver failure alone......every year! And this is from the medical "self reporting" system and data collection which is estimated to be off by a factor of 10-100! What is the danger in a high fever? There is none. When is it indicated to reduce a fever? It is not. Look, I have kids, and I know how hard it is to watch them suffer, I have been through it, watching a 4 year old with a 104 degree fever is not fun, but lowering the fever will make the overall situation worse. We keep them comfortable, hydrated, nourished, keep their nervous system clear, and love them up, and guess what? They get through it! Let's not medicate our kids to make us feel better! We can and need to do better, our kids are counting on us. Let me know if we can help. Be well my friends! Dr. Don Seattle Children's Hospital Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2005 AAP Clinical ReportFever and Antipyretic Use in Children Preventdisease .com Thehealthyhomeeconomist .com University of A Coruna

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