Go Prepared to Your Pediatrician’s Office with This List That Shows You Have Done Your Homework
Symptoms of These Formerly Mild Childhood Diseases (Before the Marketing Propaganda to Sell Vaccines Began to Ramp Up)
Chicken Pox = itchy rash; 5-7 days; resolves itself
Diptheria = low fever, sore throat; many infections are asymptomatic or mild; treat with antitoxin and antibiotics
Haemophilus influenzae Type B (Hib) = flu symptoms, stiff neck; treat with antibiotics for 10 days
Hepatitis A = transmitted orally through feces; children usually have no symptoms; flu symptoms, jaundice; resolves itself
Hepatitis B = transmitted through blood, semen, vaginal fluids; flu symptoms, jaundice; most people do not show symptoms; acute Hep B resolves itself
Influenza – a.k.a. “the flu”; high fever, cold symptoms, vomiting; lasts 7-10 days; resolves itself; vaccine contains mercury (thimerosal)
Measles = fever, cold symptoms, rash; 7-10 days; resolves itself
Meningitis = flu symptoms, stiff neck; usually caused by bacteria or virus; viral usually causes no symptoms and resolves itself; bacterial is spread through saliva (kissing, coughing); most people who ‘carry’ the bacteria never become sick; bacterial is treated with antibiotics
Mumps = fever, swelling of salivary glands; many people show no symptoms; resolves itself within a few weeks
Pertussis = a.k.a. “whooping cough”; treated with high doses of vitamin C
Pneumococcus = flu symptoms, stiff neck; treat with antibiotics
Poliomyelitis = 72% of infections cause no symptoms; 25% flu-like symptoms that last 2-5 days; 0.5% leads to more severe symptoms such as paralytic polio; only people with the paralytic infection are considered to have the disease
Rotavirus = vomiting, diarrhea; children, even those that are vaccinated, may develop rotavirus disease more than once.
Rubella = a.k.a. “three day measles”; flu symptoms; 1-3 days; 25 to 50% of people infected with rubella will not experience any symptoms; resolves itself