Will MD, homeopath on Tetanus

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Another very wise post from Will MD, homeopath

Sheri

e wrote...

>>>Deep punctures on the foot mean nothing.

>>>So, not getting tetanus after a nail in the foot - with or without

>>>hypericum in an unvaccinated person - does not mean anything one way or

>>>other.

Will wrote..

Absolutely! Heck, there are only something like 5 cases of tetanus per

year in the entire U.S., and the major risk factors are IV drug use, major

burns, and stasis ulcers in the elderly. I only saw 2 cases in my very

intensive medical training, both major (>50% whole body) burns. Most docs

have never seen it. & I live in the far north, where tetanus spore does

not survive well in the soil.

I don't think the Ledum I gave Ben did diddly-squat, unless it helped to

lessen the pain of the wound. I wasn't trying to credit it for preventing

tetanus in his case (tho I can see how one might have read that into my

posting).

What I was trying to say, was that the decision to skip immunization can

sometimes be severely tested at the 11th hour - you know, like Louise said,

air-raids seem a whole lot more real when the bombs start falling. & That

happened for me - at least I could imagine the sound of approaching

airplane engines - I lay awake on his bedroom floor a good while, feeling

very tried for my decision to not immunize. Too late to reverse it then -

without the initial series of 3, a tetanus immunization that night would

not have been effective.

But then I came to the realization that I trusted homoeopathy more than the

immunization anyway. I had my Ledum, & my Hypericum, & my whole warehouse

of remedies, & my repertories & MMs & old books that smelled like kerosene

with pressed lentils between the pages ;^) . & I realized that God &

Hahnemann would not forsake me (that's for the folks who are concerned

about religious zealotry ;^) ). So I fell asleep & slept peacefully. &

The point is not that Ben was OK - of course Ben was OK - the point is that

his father was OK.

>>>Will's statement that a lot of - vaccinated - children came to him with a

>>>nail puncture: this I do not understand at all. Vaccination obviously

>>>cannot prevent someone treading on a nail. So what does that prove?

Well hey, I don't understand this either! ;^) I think what I said was

that I've had a number of parents of unvaccinated kids call me with 11th

hour concerns like mine, above. & We both suddenly discover that their

decision to not immunize was based on a naive disregard of the realities of

potential disease. Now (to borrow Louise's air-raid metaphor), the bombs

are falling & they freak, & they question the wisdom of their decision to

not immunize.

>Where I come from " the resolve NOT to immunize had been shaken.. " would

>mean that they had immunized after all.

Nope. They had resolved not to immunize. & Now that resolve was being

shaken, they were worried that they had done the wrong thing in deciding

not to immunize. I think this might be a language difficulty here.

English is a queer language. So's German. I was raised near Milwaukee,

Wisconsin, where most folks speak something that is supposedly a little bit

of both, but is in fact a whole lot of neither (Milwaukeedeutsch - don't

pronounce the " L " ).

So what this is all about, is this. We need to talk with parents about the

realities of disease risk. They need to know that just breastfeeding and

taking antioxidants and eating organic food and processing their emotions

is *not* going to prevent their kid from getting pertussis. I guess I

stated that in a silly way, but I see a lot of parents who would find that

surprising. And we need to help them understand what it is like to lie

awake on their child's floor after she steps on a nail in the garden. And

how it would feel to watch your kid start having seizures 36 hours after a

pertussis immunization. Then we can talk about the options for managing

such things, and get real informed decisions about immunizing or not.

Will , MD

Homoeopath

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