SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME

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CQS Health Alert

December 2003/January 2004

 

Eradicate Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Now!

 

SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - is a tragic way for infants to

die. The medical establishment seems to have no idea what causes it.

Apparently healthy infants just suddenly die in their sleep, with no

apparent warning. Two out of every thousand live-born infants die of

this syndrome.

 

Cause Unknown or Cause Ignored?

 

But is the cause really unknown, or has it been ignored and

marginalized? In the 1970s, an Australian doctor named Archie

Kalokerinos volunteered to serve the Aboriginal people in the opal

mining region of Australia. He found that an astonishing 50% of

infants were dying, primarily from SIDS. He noted that the people and

their infants were almost completely deficient of vitamin C in their

diet, and began a supplementation program. Before long the infant

mortality rate had dropped to near zero, and no child subsequently

died of SIDS. In 1978, Dr. Irwin Stone, one of the doctors who

pioneered research in vitamin C, reported this in a paper presented

at the Conference On Controversies In Human And Clinical Nutrition

that SIDS was in fact a result of what he called Chronic Subclinical

Scurvy (vitamin C deficiency):

 

The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or Crib Death, has been shown

by the Australian workers, A. Kalokerinos and G. Dettman, to be a

manifestation of infantile scurvy, due to the fact that all infants,

born of mothers who depended solely on their diet as their only

source of ascorbate, are born with the CSS Syndrome after nine months

of intrauterine scurvy (Stone. 1978). SIDS can be prevented by

increasing the infant's intake of ascorbate (Cook, 1978). This has

been known and published since 1974 (Kalokerinos, 1974). (Irwin

Stone, Eight Decades of Scurvy - The Case History of a Misleading

Dietary Hypothesis, 1978).

 

Many of these infants were dying after receiving government-mandated

vaccinations. Dr. Thomas Levy writes:

 

Vaccinations also generally present some degree of toxin insult to

the body. Kalokerinos (1981) observed that vitamin C-deficient

Aboriginal infants were often placed into an acute state of scurvy

because of the additional vitamin C demands placed on their bodies by

the vaccination injections, resulting in sudden death. (Thomas E.

Levy, MD, JD, Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, & Toxins - Curing The

Incurable, 2002).

 

Dr. Kalokerinos wrote about his experience in his first book " Every

Second Child, " and with the help of other physicians organized a

national tour of the U.S. with the other physician who worked with

him on vitamin C and SIDS, Dr. Glen Dettman. But the medical

profession here and the NIH marginalized and ignored his work.

 

Fast-forward to 2004. Here we are, thirty years after two courageous

doctors found the root cause - and cure - for SIDS. Tens of thousands

of infants have died unnecessarily, and more infant deaths seem

inevitable. These are tragic deaths that were and are totally

preventable. But doctors all over the world are still looking for an

elusive cause, there are hundreds of SIDS research sites and support

networks, and no one is talking about the vitamin C connection or

doing anything about it, with the exception of a few doctors who have

been using large-dose vitamin C for years such as Robert Cathcart of

Los Altos, California. The medical establishment just refuses to

believe that this syndrome could be caused by a simple nutrient

deficiency.

 

Large Amounts of Vitamin C Essential for Health

 

Vitamin C - an essential nutrient more accurately called ascorbate -

is needed by the human body in large quantities for literally dozens

of metabolic processes, from tissue repair to recycling of

cholesterol to neutralization of free radicals and toxins to the

building of antibodies and white blood cells. Most animals - other

than humans, primates, guinea pigs, and a couple of rare animals -

produce their own vitamin C in large amounts from glucose (a simple

sugar found in blood), either in their liver (mammals) or their

kidneys (reptiles).

 

The optimum dose for all of these metabolic processes is about 200-

1000 mg per 10 lbs of body weight, depending on the level of stress,

activity, environmental toxins, and general health. We " use up "

vitamin C faster if we work in a stressful job, exercise heavily, are

exposed to toxins, or if we are ill.

 

If we do not ingest any vitamin C, we get scurvy; we need vitamin C

to repair normal microscopic wear and tear of the walls of our

arteries, and when they cannot be repaired, they hemorrhage. We

literally bleed to death internally.

 

But what happens if we get some, but not enough? The " Recommended

Daily Allowance " of vitamin C is a small fraction of the amount we -

and infants - really need. Many metabolic processes will be

compromised, but the outward signs won't be obvious. Artery wall

repair will happen more slowly, and the human body compensates for

this deficiency with a sticky plaque called lipoprotein(a) - the root

cause of cardiovascular disease. Antibodies and white blood cells

will be built incorrectly or not at all. Cholesterol, needed for

nutrient transport, will not be recycled properly.

 

For infants, this is deadly. Their little bodies have very little

reserves to draw upon. Without sufficient vitamin C, their immune

systems and arteries are fragile. A single stressful event, a minor

fall, a vaccination, a toxic exposure, or a simple virus or bacterial

illness could tip the balance and kill them. Metabolic failure, heart

failure, toxic trauma to vital organs, hemorrhage - it could happen

dozens of ways. Sudden death, with no warning. SIDS.

 

We Can Eradicate SIDS

 

It's now time to eradicate this syndrome once and for all. It is time

to supplement every child's diet with a minimum of 200 mg of vitamin

C per day for each 10 lbs of body weight, and more - up to 1000 mg

per day for each 10 lbs of body weight - for children who are ill or

whose immune systems are compromised. For example, you would give a

newborn infant (7-10 lbs) a minimum of about 150-200 mg per day.

 

If a child is ill or stressed, his or her body uses far more than

that. It is easy to find out how much vitamin C a child really needs -

too much causes a non-harmful, temporary diarrhea, and you just

reduce the dosage until the diarrhea subsides. This is called

the " bowel tolerance dose " by Dr. Robert Cathcart, who has been

treating his patients with large-dosage vitamin C for more than

twenty-five years.

 

Vitamin C that is usable for children is available in liquid form

(such as Child-Life Vitamin C liquid) from many health food stores or

online. Do not use varieties sweetened with honey or containing a lot

of ingredients. Spread out the daily dose in three divided doses.

Measure it carefully and mix it with pasteurized orange juice to give

it to your child.

 

Pregnant mothers need to take vitamin C to provide enough to their

babies in the womb, using the same formula of 200 mg per 10 lbs of

body weight, or about 3000-4000 mg per day, in divided doses, for an

adult of typical weight. You should take much more - up to

your " bowel tolerance dose " - if you are ill or under stress. Vitamin

C deficiency during gestation can profoundly affect the normal

development of the child.

 

Here's how to do the calculation: take your body weight or the weight

of your child, divide by 10, and then multiply by 200 mg to get the

minimum dose of vitamin C. So for a child who weighs 20 lbs, you

divide 20 by 10, result 2, then multiply by 200, result 400 mg per

day minimum dose. For an adult who weighs 150 lbs, divide by 10,

result 15, then multiply by 200, result 3000 mg per day minimum dose.

 

For increased dosage if the child is ill or his or her immune system

is compromised, you can provide up to 100-200 mg per 10 lbs of body

weight for each individual dose, up to 5 doses per day, checking for

bowel tolerance: if diarrhea occurs, reduce dosage until it subsides

and then continue with a reduced dosage. Vitamin C can save the

child's life in cases of severe influenza or pneumonia. (Always

confer with a competent pediatrician if a child is severely ill! It

is important to find a pediatrician who believes in vitamin C, so

that if the child is hospitalized they will continue with vitamin C

supplementation.) Once the child is well, gradually reduce vitamin C

to the dosage you use regularly.

 

For vaccinations: In general, I recommend that parents seriously

consider not vaccinating their children, and certainly never to

vaccinate against hepatitis B, because the vaccine has a horrific

reputation for harming children, and hepatitis B is both extremely

rare and also quite curable. Vaccines in general contain both live

(but " attenuated " ) viruses and a brew of toxic chemicals and

preservatives, sometimes including mercury (thimerosal). This places

a huge burden on the child's immune system, and quickly depletes

vitamin C. Many SIDS victims have died shortly after vaccinations.

 

If you decide to vaccinate your child, increase the vitamin C dose

dramatically several hours before and for several days after the

vaccination to prevent vitamin C depletion and so that the child's

immune and detoxification systems will have a chance to kill the

viruses and neutralize the toxins. Demand non-thimerosal, single-

dose, single-virus vaccines; the multiple-virus vaccines such as DPT

and MMP have the worst reputations regarding harm to infants. Tetanus

is probably the only disease for which there is any real

justification for vaccination.

 

Is Vitamin C safe in these doses?

 

Vitamin C is safe in literally any amounts. As mentioned above, it is

an essential nutrient needed in large quantities for dozens of

metabolic processes. Many people, including this author, have taken

very large doses of vitamin C for many years without any side

effects, and live healthier lives as a result. 100,000 mg to 300,000

mg amounts have been given intravenously to people who are very ill

with AIDS and other illnesses, with no adverse effects. It does not

cause kidney stones, heart disease, or cancer; as a matter of fact,

it prevents them. The pharmaceutical industry and its allies have

gotten the media to spread false warnings about large-dose vitamin C

to the media, and the refutations by prominent researchers and

clinicians are never printed.

 

Eradicate SIDS Now!