Comments on: Flu Shot Makes Children Three Times as Likely to End up in Hospital

By: Carolyn Dean MD ND

Carolyn Dean MD ND — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:21:30 +0000

Thanks Marie,
Hearing the information from others always helps.
I keep getting invited to speak at the Health Freedom Expos but haven’t been able to fit it into my schedule yet.
Say hi to everyone for me!
Aloha
Carolyn

By: Mike D

Mike D — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:42:15 +0000

This is such a great article. I’m sending it to all my family members and friends. Do you know if getting the flu shot is equally as bad for adults?
My mother usually gets the flu shot every year.

Also, I was wondering if you could do a future post about having a fever and what are the recommendations for dealing with it?

I watched a documentary 10 years ago about the flu and they talked about what the body is actually doing when your temperature rises. The body temperature rises to fight off the viruses. Is this correct? And if so, should we be trying to reduce the fever? If the rise in body temperature kills off the viruses wouldn’t we be working against what the body is trying to do by lowering the temperature? Now I understand if the body temperature is too high it might be a dangerous condition and there are times where you might want to lower the temperature, but to always pop pill to reduce the fever, especially say if it’s under 102 (I’m not sure what the maximum safe temperature would be) doesn’t seem like the best thing to do.

TO rephrase it, would the flu get worse if you just leave the fever alone and let it do its thing? Again, I’m not talking about high temperatures say over 103, etc.. where you might want to intervene and lower it.

Ever since watching that documentary it shed some new light on the way I think about diseases and fevers.

Thanks,
Mike
NJ

By: Patrick Sullivan Jr.

Patrick Sullivan Jr. — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:14:46 +0000

Amazing! I’ve been telling friends for 5 years now to stay away from the “Get Your Flu Shots Here” ruse.

PS – GREAT photo. =)

By: Marie Flowers

Marie Flowers — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:01:39 +0000

Dear Dr. Dean,
I know you are in Hawaii and far away, but for people still on the mainland, there will be a Health Freedom Expo in the Chicago area on June 12-14th. I am taking my 26 year old daughter so she can get her head straight about the vaccines, before she marries and has children and lets her husband poison her children with vaccines.

Speakers who are very knowledgeable about the vaccines include Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, Dr. Mercola, neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock, scientist Dr. Boyd Haley, and Drs. Mark and David Geier.

Dr. Mayer Eisenstein will speak on “NO MORE AUTISM,” More Vitamin D, No Vaccines, No Autism.

For information on other speakers, see http://www.healthfreedomexpo.com/09chicago/front/index.php

Marie Flowers