which vitamins

[fairystar]

hi girls
i have been reading and researching on this forum and seen bit and pieces of things mentioned to help in the case of your child contracted say measles..

what vitamins are relevant to help a sick child with which disease?
is there somewhere i can find this information?
thank you so much you girls are great with information
natx

[tanyalynn]

I just had to read a lot of old threads, do some googling for dosing and toxicity, like that. Old threads by Momtezuma Tuatara are a great resource for nutrient discussion, there's a lot on-topic in the Vaccination Archives.

For measles, pre-formed vitamin A (from animal products, not beta-carotene from plants) is a widely used treatment. I think it's WHO that has dosing guidelines, they are a lot higher than most people would expect wrt toxicity. Toxicity is harder to achieve than one would expect.

I don't know of any books that use dosages as high as I think are appropriate. There's a book, Janet Zand's Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child that discusses nutritional supplementation some, but IMO the dosages she uses for things tend to be very low (and she doesn't discuss individual variation) plus she recommends beta-carotene which I think is completely inappropriate. Completely. But it's something to start with and I've gotten other good ideas from the book.

http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Medicine...5558798&sr=1-1