Natural Immune Booster For Kids

Posted 03/03/2011

Hello Ladies! 
I have a question for a friend.
She asked me if I knew of any great natural immunity boosters for children. She has a 7 year old that has asthma and she seems to catch colds and get sick very easily.


I've already suggested maybe trying a bit of local honey a day to diminish any allergens that could be adding to the asthma and elderberry but what else would you ladies maybe suggest?


thanks in advance!  


Doula, Educator, VBE and mommy to
Riot (IUGR, BCF) 6-24-12

Comments (1)

Posted 03/03/2011

This is from an anti-vax stance, but is filled with valuable info...

In laymans terms, the immune system has two facets.  There is the cellular response to viruses and disease, and there is the antibody response.  The cellular response recieves diseases naturally, has time to recognize, process and weaken the diseases before passing the information off to the antibody response.  Then the antibody response kicks in and creates memory cells that recognize the disease and remembers how to fight it for next time.  These two facets MUST be in balance or the immune system becomes damaged permanently.

Here's the thing.  Were you to get a disease or virus NATURALLY, your body would use all its natural defenses to receive it, weaken it and fight it off before the antibody response starts.  It'd have to pass your skin, your stomach lining, your lungs, etc - all the natural defenses our bodies have BEFORE showing up in the blood stream.  But when you inject a vaccine into your system, you are bypassing ALL your body's natural defenses and forcing your body's antibody response to shoot through the roof.

This causes the cellular response to weaken.

The more you vaccinate and use OTC drugs, the weaker your cellular response becomes. 

Eventually it will shut down and make you more suseptible to diseases because your body wont recognize a disease or fight it off until its too late - the antibody response is trained to be in supermode.  The cellular response goes, "what we were doing before obviuosly didnt work since it made it into the blood stream without us knowing about it, so there's no point in trying anymore."  ESPECIALLY in newborn babies and infants, we are training their immune systems FROM THE BEGINNING to operate un-naturally.

A few more things to keep in mind.  Vaccines have to be cultured on live tissue.  They are cultured on monkeys, dogs, cows, pigs, etc.  There are also 13 vaccines currently on the market that are cultured on aborted human fetal tissue.  For me as a christian, that was a huge deal.  Now, for those that are cultured on a foreign agent such as a monkey kidney, the virus's RNA will take the form of the monkey's DNA which morphs the original virus into an entirely new disease.  The thing is this: a monkey's DNA and a human's DNA are 99.9% alike.  BUT that .1% is the difference between a monkey and a human!!!  So to get a vaccine that is 99.9% like the original means the difference between two completely diametrically different things.  When you inject something into yourself that has taken the form of a monkey, your body can not process it the same that a naturally occuring human disease would.

He also said this:  a "long term study" is defined by the CDC and the FDA...

as 14 days. 

Not years.  Not decades, not even months!  14 days.  Which, by the way, is less time than the flu incubates in your body before showing symptoms.  Imagine the effects that a convoluted monkey / human disease will take - decades later!!!  Back in the 60's and 70s the polio vaccine was made a certain way on monkey tissue which created a by-product chemical called SV40.  SV40 is now known to cause ALL KINDS of cancer.  Breast cancer, bone cancer, lung cancer, brain cancer, etc.  And the scary thing: it crossed the plancental barrier and is causing cancer and diabetes in kids now.  They are saying it will take up to 5 GENERATIONS to get all that thing out of our systems. 

Who is to say that they "fixed" that with modern vaccines? They are still using monkeys, cows, etc. for culturing diseases. 

Several of the CDC and the FDA members that vote on the vaccines being given on the market today own patents for them.  The CDC allows members THREE conflict of interest WAIVERS every year.  No questions asked.  Is public health REALLY their only concern?

One more thing and I'll be done.  Therer is NO LONGER independent medical research firms.  They are all dummy companies for the big pharmaceutical corporations.  AND, anyone in a scientific field will tell you that if you have an agenda, you can twist "results" to your liking.  If a dummy company does "research" on a vaccine or pill and comes up with results that the big company didnt like, they FIRE the head researcher and replace him with someone that will give them the results they want. 

Lets not be dummies for the medical industry - which is exactly what this is.  Your pediatrician gets PAID to give vaccines - thats a HUGE part of their paycheck!!!  Of COURSE they are going to promote and push them!  Follow the money trail and you will almost always find that its good for someone's checkbook to give you some drug, pill or vaccine.  Doctors arent bad people - they are just doing what they are told and taught.  And its scary

If you give your child multivitamins choose ones without any fillers do not buy any of the ones from Walmart, Target or any grocery store, the only good ones are from an ND, doctor of integrative medicine, a chiropractic office or health food stores such as Whole Foods or Fruitful Yield.

Fevers: We were told by our sons doctor to not give a fever reducer for a fever that is less than 103.2 b/c a fever is essential and our bodies' way of fighting off the bug - making it too hot for it to survive inside of our bodies, it's healthy and natural to have a fever. (See the rsources post for links to sites on fevers.) We were told to encourage steady fluid intake (water only no juice) and if your child's fever is at 103.2 or above put them into a cool bath and put cold rags on their head. (We usually give some sort of fever-reducer at 103.5 after a cool bath hasn't helped bring it down.) The only time fevers are dangerous are when they spike quickly, causing a siezure, or they rise above 105 degrees. If a child is going to have a seizure due to a spiked fever it will likely happen before you're even able to realize they had a fever in the first place.

Steer clear of any and all medications if possible because "Colds, coughs and earaches, are mild acute conditions... that will respond to rest and proper nutrition. These are healthy natural challenges for their immune system. [They are actually beneficial and necessary].They aid in strengthening the immune system, symptoms such as runny nose, fever and swollen glands are a sign of a strong immune response. In the long run, your child's cold can mean better resistance to more severe illness and chronic diseases." ( I strongly suggest reading this book The Parents Concise Guide to Childhood Vaccinationsby Lauren Feder, M.D.) Suppressing cold symptoms with medications doesn't allow the body to treat itself naturally. The symptoms are the way our bodies fight off germs and build up immunity, taking medications disables this process and could leave your child vulnerable to illness in the future.
If you see a Naturopathic Doctor, Chiropractor or Integrtative Medicine Specialist instead of a Medical Doctor this will ensure your family is being treated for the root cause of their health problems rather than just the symptoms of a particular illness. Medical doctors are trained to treat symptoms instead of finding the underlying cause of your problems (for example they may make your headaches go away with a prescription for a pill when all  you had to do was eat less meat or something so simple). A great resource is the book Healthy Child, Whole Child, they are very provax but I love everything they say about modern medicine, it gives wonderful insight into the world of medicine and alternative healing modalities - for people who already trust them and for those who may be a bit skeptical.

Find out if there are any schools in your area that train chiropractors or natraul health doctors - they often have clinics that you and your children can utilize for cheap or for free.



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