Posts by japonica

Quote: Originally Posted by Katie8681  American Indians in 1492 ate whole foods, didnt vaccinate, breastfed and didnt have c-sections, and diseases including measles and smallpox killed them by the millions. How exactly...

Quote: Originally Posted by kathymuggle  Pertussis, IIRC, is rife with mis and under diagnosis.   Teens and adults get a bad cough, think it is just a bad cough, and do not realise they have pertussis...

We're still considering a limited set of vaccines for our kids. dT and perhaps MMR before puberty (when the mumps portion might actually last past their teen years since the effectiveness seems questionable). But that's not an easy...

Quote: Originally Posted by moonbeem  I think an alternative to a full on bath would be a peri bottle filled with warm water. I may toss one of those in our bag for outings now. One could put a prefold diaper under...

I was just going to mention, it's on the CDC site and elsewhere that antibiotics after the cough has started do nothing to ameliorate the course of the illness, just prevent spread. So, they won't make much of a difference with the...

If you get the vitamin C dosage right, you'll notice a difference in the intensity of the coughing. Once we got to bowel tolerance with our DS, the paroxysmal coughing was still there but he wasn't vomiting after coughing any longer....

Quote: Originally Posted by Marnica  Liars.... FDA are liars too.....   Yeah, aren't former Monsanto execs now on the FDA? See, people raise an eyebrow at that, but somehow former vaccine manufacturer...

Parents lose faith in flu jabs.   Really? Why?   Quote: Health Department prevention and control public health physician Paul Effler said there had been insufficient studies into the safety of CSL product...

Doesn't exactly fall under the same category as "getting sick" but Hilary Butler had a chapter in one of her books about how carriage of certain types of bacteria seem to prevent colonisation with the others. It was the Hib-Pc-Staph...

Absolutely. It was one of the first things to cross my mind when we found out that baby #3 was a boy. I mean, the neuro issues (autism rates etc.) seem to affect boys more than girls, so if we think that there is some kind of...