Which diseases scare you? - Page 2

[angelpie545]

Originally Posted by larkedyflarp

MRSA, my friend's child's ped. said 90% of skin infections now are MRSA!!

I hope my DS doesn't get pertussis, whooping cough, until he's older. Sort of worry about tetanuss maybe.

Mostly MRSA.

MRSA is scary! My youngest daughter had it on her arm. It was horrible but luckily we caught it in time and she was fine after a course of rather strong antibiotics. She had a red spot there for awhile that I kept worrying would get reinfected, but it never did. Aside from MRSA, the measles, whooping cough, polio, tetanus, and meningitis all are terrifying to me. Especially meningitis. Every time my kids are sick it's always in the back of my mind.

[MamatoPeach]

I guess since I work in a hospital I already feel like I am covered in MRSA. Most of the kids I see fully recover from MRSA.

I am afraid of the mutating bugs, not this swine flu, I think healthy people can fight it off. But I think it has potential to turn into a stronger strain.

[PaigeC]

I really feel afraid of everything until she hits 6 months.

Then cancer scares me more than anything.

[PaigeC]

Can I ask - several of you have mentioned measles. This is one I actually WANT dd to get. Can you explain why you are afraid of this?

Thanks.

[ChristSavesAll]

Originally Posted by Marnica

The only thing that scares me is menengitis which I know is not a disease in and of itself.

My sister and I both were vaccinated for that when we were younger, she came down with it a few months later. The vax's are a joke... Having said that, my mom came down with all the symptoms of the bacterial meningitis (the deadly one) and we took her to the ER they ran the tests and it came up negative but I wonder since not all their tests are all that accurate anyways... Anyhow I gave her lots of honey and she was of course taking all the vitamins and minerals, guess that helped her tough it out. But she was soooo bad off for about 5 days.

Originally Posted by Lydiah

What scares me more are the diseases which have no cure, like crohn's disease or athsma. Not caused by a germ but very scary.

Crohn' s disease http://www.newtreatments.org/doc.php...Experience/208

Asthma scroll down ... http://chestofbooks.com/health/mater...Treatment.html

Originally Posted by Gismobabe

Otherwise I am worried about cancer since my extended family has had way too many cases in the last few years (dad:terminal colon cancer, cousin: breast cancer, aunt: multible Myelom (sp?)).

Cancer is know to be caused by nutritional deficiency in vitamins and minerals, when supplementing dont forget the iodine, that's the foundation (especially for breast and pancreatic cancer)...

Originally Posted by mommaof5

Non of others scare me but after Oprah yesterday I have to say that the non-vax diseases seam even more scary! They covered flesh eating bacteria (staph) and MRSA. CRAZY

REgarding a staph infection, put some manuka honey on that and it'll clear right up.

MRSA http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...i?artid=271835 It reads that providone Iodine killed in in 15 seconds.

Originally Posted by Multimomma

Polio is the only one that really scares me, I guess because it just seems more dangerous, more likely to have life-altering complications. Measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, are all things that were typical for children to have and not typical for them to have complications from, whereas polio was one in which many children DID die or develop paralysis. In our small area, we know nearly a dozen people who are partially handicapped from polio or post-polio syndrome. I don't feel like tetanus is a real concern with our lifestyle being what it is, and I've nursed enough kids through pertussis that it doesn't worry me.

The only polio that currently exists is the vaccine derived polio, as of I believe 2003 the wild free polio has been eradicated. BTW so has smallpox.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5540a3.htm

[2bluefish]

Breast cancer scares me. My grandma and her sister died of it. Two of my aunts have gotten it (8 sisters total). If my mom gets it, I don't know how I'll stand it.

[WCM]

Mumps can be unilateral (affects one side of body) or bilateral (both sides). Rarely does it affect the reproductive organs, but when it does, it is ALWAYS unilateral mumps, so only one teste/ovary is involved, and still, sterility is very rare. If that helps you feel any less worried?

Ditto, I understand measles to be as benign as chicken pox, why all the fear now?



I actually would feel a lot better if I knew we could still catch pox, measles, and rubella.

[claddaghmom]

Originally Posted by WCM

Mumps can be unilateral (affects one side of body) or bilateral (both sides). Rarely does it affect the reproductive organs, but when it does, it is ALWAYS unilateral mumps, so only one teste/ovary is involved, and still, sterility is very rare. If that helps you feel any less worried?

Ditto, I understand measles to be as benign as chicken pox, why all the fear now?



I actually would feel a lot better if I knew we could still catch pox, measles, and rubella.

Yeah, I thought the incident for sterility is so low the CDC doesn't even have a statistic?

[Sileree]

I can understand people being afraid of measles if they believe the CDC's stats on morbidity and mortality. But my research has shown its way way less so I am not afraid at all.

[peainthepod]

Rabies and cancer, in that order. I know cancer is way more likely than rabies but rabies is an awful, awful way to die and almost always fatal. Cancer is often treatable, at least.

None of the VADs scare me much at all. Not like I'm cavalier about it, but I think the threat is greatly exaggerated. I'm much more concerned about causes of death for which there is no vaccine, like car accidents and war.

[Storm Bride]

Originally Posted by WCM

Ditto, I understand measles to be as benign as chicken pox, why all the fear now?

Not quite, in my experience with both. Chickenpox are/were a "feel lethargic and crappy for a few days" kind of experience for me, my siblings, my kids, my nieces and nephews and everyone else I've known who had them. Measles, otoh...much, much worse experience. But, still not deadly.

I'm not at all afraid of measles, mumps or chickenpox.
I'm a little nervous about rubella, but mostly because I always hear how dangerous it is for pregnant women to be exposed to it, and it worries me.

Polio scares me, but if it's been eradicated, that's awesome.

Meningitis freaks me out. I don't worry about it much, because I understand it's very rare, but it does scare me if I think about it too much.

I honestly don't know much about tetanus.

I mostly worry about some mutated virus developing into a real epidemic/pandemic...something we have no treatment for and no protection against. Nature's trying hard, imo.

[nolonger]

Originally Posted by 2bluefish

Breast cancer scares me. My grandma and her sister died of it. Two of my aunts have gotten it (8 sisters total). If my mom gets it, I don't know how I'll stand it.

: You'll stand it by being strong for her. My mother had it over 25 years ago anf she is still alive, although it killed her mother.

If you have nursed kidlets for a total of seven years over the course of a lifetime, this is one disease you don't have to worry about.

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I haven't seen anyone mention Morgellon's Syndrome yet. That scares me a lot worse than any VPD.

[kriket]

autism

not a disease, or really something you can catch but it scares me to death.

i am cautious of rabies, worms, protozas and such because we are outdoorsey and frequently eat things off the ground

[orangewallflower]

Polio.

[SoCaliMommy]

stupidly chicken pox but only a little. Since my mom keeps saying i need to get the vax since i can die if i get teh chicken pox.

My son hasn't been vaxed since 4months. I was exposed alot as a child and never got it but bloodwork done when i was pregnant with my son in 2006 showed i was not immune.

I was pushed into 1 part of the vax to be able to leave the hospital after his birth AMA. was never given the other part they said i'd be given at 6wks pp.

[THANKFULFORFIVE]

I was reading a little about tetanus the other day and it really had me freaked out. It sounds so scary! Seizing so uncontrollably as to break your spine? Seriously? So what's the prevalence of Tetanus in the US now? All I had known about was the lockjaw part...can it really be so deadly?

[lightheart]

Originally Posted by ChristSavesAll

The only polio that currently exists is the vaccine derived polio, as of I believe 2003 the wild free polio has been eradicated. BTW so has smallpox.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5540a3.htm

Wild poliovirus is not eradicated from the world, as of May 5, 2009 so far, for the year 2009 there have been 396 cases reported in 17 different countries. http://www.polioeradication.org/casecount.asp

in the past week (remember the data is as of May 5)
Afghanistan - 1 new case
India - 4 new cases
Nigeria - 2 new cases,
Pakistan -1 new case
Horn of Africa - 5 new cases

13 cases of wild poliovirus this last week, wild polio has not been eradicated in the world.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/.../expanded2.htm
last cases of wild polio in...
1991, the western hemisphere, a boy in Peru, Luis Fermin Tenorio
1997, western pacific region
1998, Europe, a boy in Turkey, Melik Minas
http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/timeline/index.htm
1979, last case of wild polio in the United States.

smallpox
http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blaw/bt/s...r46(42)990.htm

As of April 14, 1978, no cases of smallpox have been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) from anywhere in the world since the last case had onset of rash on October 26, 1977, in Merka town, Somalia. However, a total of 2 years of effective surveillance must elapse before this last endemic area can be confirmed to be smallpox-free.

Most of the data you will find will say that smallpox was erradicated in 1979.

[heidi_m]

FWIW, MRSA is killed by tea tree oil - but I'd still rather avoid it altogether. One more reason to steer clear of the hospital!

As for the diseases, none of them scare me as in worrying about them. If one of my kids became ill with something like meningitis, it would most definitely be scary. However, it is my belief that nutrition is the #1 factor in overall health, and we do all we can to ensure that our children are given healthy foods that support their immune systems, in addition to being well versed in homeopathic remedies and ways to augment their immune systems when need be.

As for things like measles causing death: we are never told what underlying issues a person has had that has ended up with a serious case of otherwise benign illnesses like measles and mumps. We don't know what their nutrition was like, if they were immunocompromised, what underlying issues might have caused them to have complications. For instance, in From One Prick to Another, by Hilary Butler, p. 135:

...two deaths from measles which were held up in front of New Zealand parents to show it could happen to all their children. Until eager minds read that one was a six-year-old with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, on chemotherapy, who had previously been immunized at 10 months, and the other was an unimmunized six-year-old girl with I-cell disease (a mucolipidosis).

I do what I can do, control what I can control; I can give my children the best chance at surviving and thriving by providing them with intact immune systems and optimal health through nutrition (and regular chiropractic care).

[rcr]

Altzhimer's. I am watching my mom die from it right now. It is horrible. I wish that it would just hurry up and kill her so that there will be an end to her suffering.

It is genetic and many of my family members have had it... I am terrified of going through the same thing, for myself and my LO.

[Marnica]

Originally Posted by rcr

Altzhimer's. I am watching my mom die from it right now. It is horrible. I wish that it would just hurry up and kill her so that there will be an end to her suffering.

It is genetic and many of my family members have had it... I am terrified of going through the same thing, for myself and my LO.

sorry