Antibiotics and Ear Tubes treat symptoms only, they do NOT make the person less resistant to future infection!

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http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/birth.htmChildhood Ear Infection: Alternative to Antibiotics and Ear Tubes Antibiotics and ear tubes treat symptoms of a problem. They do not strengthen the organism so that it can fight the infection itself, nor do they make the organism less resistant to future infection. A study, published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal on 2/12/01, is the first placebo-controlled study to suggest that homeopathy is effective in the treatment of acute otitis media in young children. "Multitudes of infants have frequent recurring ear infections. These “infections” usually subside when milk intake ceases as they are often caused by allergy to milk. Many children have tubes placed in their ear canals because of these “ear infections”. This procedure has recently been discovered to lead to decreased hearing as adults. This whole infantile ear infection problem is usually milk allergy not bacterial infection." Dr. James Howenstine, MD moreMost Ear Infections Clear Up Without Antibiotics - A newly released report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) suggests that children may not always need antibiotics to treat a middle ear infection (otitis media). Researchers from the Southern California/RAND Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) found some interesting findings, including: Nearly two-thirds of children with uncomplicated ear infections recover from pain and fever within 24 hours of diagnosis without antibiotic treatment - Over 80% recover within 1 to 7 days. The Summary of the findings of this study, entitled Management of Acute Otitis Media Summary, Evidence Report/Technology Assessment 15, is available by calling the AHRQ Publications Clearinghouse at 1-800-358-9295. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD, August 9, 2000 Taking Out Adenoids Does NOT Help Ear Infections - Conclusions from a study showed that removal of the adenoids, often associated with swollen tonsils, as the first surgical treatment with children the ages of 10 to 24 months with recurrent middle ear infections, was not effective in preventing further episodes. British Medical Journal February 28, 2004; 328:487 (Free Full-Text Article) One of the hardest things for a parent is to watch their child in pain and not be able to help. If your child has a pattern of repeated ear infections, you probably feel helpless. The conventional medical approach is to give antibiotics every time an ear infection is diagnosed. Or if these are ineffective, a tympanostomy (tubes) is performed . Most doctors will convince you that there is no other option. Stop Your Child's Ear Infections Naturally "Are Antibiotics still effective? The period once euphemistically called the Age of the Miracle Drug is now dead. And the indiscriminate use of antibiotics is leading us to one of the most frightening eras in recent memory. That is, the return of infectious diseases for which there is no effective treatment. Two decades following the introduction of antibiotics, the medical community began to see a disturbing trend. Bacterial infections that were once treatable no longer responded to antibiotics. Penicillin is effective today against only 10 percent of the strains of Staphylococcus aureus that it used to eradicate easily. Those that did respond often required five to ten times the dose of the drug that previously was effective. One example of this is the resistant strains of gonorrhea that developed as a result of the antibiotics that were used to treat it." Michael Traub, N.D. "When penicillin and other wonder drugs revolutionized Western medicine in the 1940s and '50s, it seemed as though every infectious illness could be cured with a few pills or injections. But half a century after it began, the golden age of antibiotics is ending with the alarming news that the drugs that were supposed to save the world have instead spawned an epidemic that may destroy it." CJ Puotinen While Dr. Carlson concedes that antibiotics can save lives, he warns that both physicians and patients must be judicious in their use of antibiotics. If they are overused, they are more likely to become ineffective in treating bacteria. “Antibiotics are not always the answer,” he says. “Sometimes it just makes sense to let an ailment run its natural course.” "After 40 years of pushing antibiotics for any ailment, physicians are now confronting bacteria that have built defenses against those same drugs. Some infectious bacteria that were once treatable are stronger and often deadly. The reappearance of highly infectious bacteria is caused in part by the overuse and misuse of antibiotics, but the resilience of bacteria also stems from the ingenious biochemistry of the microorganisms themselves. To survive, microorganisms and fungi mutate into resistant strains." Morton Walker, D.P.M. Dr. Mercola - "The medical establishment has convinced American parents that they need to run their babies to the doctor at the first sign of a fever. This does not make sense, as a fever is actually a good thing. High fevers are especially good as they are far better than any immunization at building an authentic, life-long immune response. When we suppress these fevers with Tylenol we can cause far more harm than good. To add insult to injury, parents give their children antibiotics that do absolutely nothing for the viral infection and do everything to upset the fragile bacterial microenvironment in their child’s intestine. Fever in Children - A Blessing in Disguise It is no wonder that so many of us are sick as we grow up. Most of us are fed grains rather than vegetables, and then we are assaulted by well-intentioned, but nevertheless very harmful, rituals that nearly guarantee a major health challenge down the road. These medical “traditions” result in problems from allergies to recurrent ear infections and tube placements in the ears to drugs for attention deficit disorder. Many traditional medical circles now accept the hygiene hypothesis, the idea that children who experience frequent infections and inflammations in early childhood will strengthen their immune systems and be less prone to allergies and asthma than children who rarely experience such infections. Unfortunately, the hypothesis hasn’t penetrated the population rapidly enough to prevent the inevitable health traumas resulting from the antibiotics given to our infants." More about Dr. Mercola's comments One of the hardest things for a parent is to watch their child in pain and not be able to help. If your child has a pattern of repeated ear infections, you probably feel helpless. The conventional medical approach is to give antibiotics every time an ear infection is diagnosed. Or if these are ineffective, a tympanostomy (tubes) is performed . Most doctors will convince you that there is no other option. Note - Breast feeding has proven to protect against ear infections. Recent studies show that the longer a baby is nursed, the less likely he or she will be to contract otitis media and other infections. Possible reasons for this are that mother's milk contains antibodies that protect against disease, and that nursing precludes the use of cow's milk (an irritant to the eustachian tube and a common allergen). Earaches, Ear Inflammation and Infections Causative factors involved in susceptibility include substituting early bottle feeding for breast feeding. Human breast milk seems to have a prophylactic effect on a baby, although the exact reason why is not understood: that is, whether it has more to do with an intolerance to the cow's milk or the natural immune boost provided by mother's milk, or a combination of both. A related factor to bottle feeding is that supine feeding with the bottle has been shown to cause regurgitation of the milk which then has a chance of entering the Eustachian tube. Another very common etiological factor in children is one or more food or inhalant allergies. Allergens may cause acute otitis media by causing mucus production and mucous membrane swelling. Once the allergens are discovered and removed from the child's environment or diet, health can greatly improve. Common food allergens in children include cow's milk, wheat, soy, corn, citrus, and egg, although other foods may be implicated on an individual basis. Inhalant allergies include molds, dust, animal dander, and hay fever. Transfer Factor and Ear Infections David Markowitz, M.D. - "I have now completed a retrospective study comparing children in our practice who did not use Transfer Factor™; during the same period. 87 children, age 8 months through 9 years, used Transfer Factor ™;. We found 74% less reported illness and 84% less reported use of antibiotics." Dr. Markowitz is general pediatrician for more than 20 years in Kennebunk, Maine with a patient base of 4,500 children, is conducting an ongoing retrospective study of patients who are consuming Transfer Factor Greg B. Wilson, Ph.D. and James B. Daily, Jr., Ph.D. - "Transfer factors are not only useful for disease prevention but can also help with diseases already established due to inadequate immune response. Since transfer factor-producing T lymphocytes are important in immune recognition and memory, impairment of transfer factor production could neutralize the rest of the immune response in otherwise healthy individuals. Therefore, introducing transfer factors can sometimes enable a dysfunctional immune system to return to normal." An estimated 40 million dollars has been spent on transfer factor research, resulting in over 3,000 scientific papers documenting their benefits "Since my son Elijah was born, he has suffered from severe ear infections. He was constantly put on antibiotics and had tubes put in his ears. He is now four years old and has been on Transfer Factor™. He has not experienced any more infections." January Jackson. Transfer Factor™ clinical studies by pediatrician David Markowitz, M.D. shows 84% reduction of antibiotics in control group of children using Transfer Factor More about Transfer Factor - QandA about Transfer Factor - Education and Instinct - An Explanation of T-Factors Plus By William J. Hennen, Ph.D.

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> Childhood Ear Infection: Alternative to Antibiotics and Ear Tubes

> Antibiotics and ear tubes treat symptoms of a problem. They do not

strengthen the organism so that it can fight the infection itself,

nor do they make the organism less resistant to future infection. A

study, published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal on

2/12/01, is the first placebo-controlled study to suggest that

homeopathy is effective in the treatment of acute otitis media in

young children. " Multitudes of infants have frequent recurring ear

infections. These " infections " usually subside when milk intake

ceases as they are often caused by allergy to milk. Many children

have tubes placed in their ear canals because of these " ear

infections " . This procedure has recently been discovered to lead to

decreased hearing as adults. This whole infantile ear infection

problem is usually milk allergy not bacterial infection. " Dr. James

Howenstine, MD more

>

> Most Ear Infections Clear Up Without Antibiotics - A newly

released report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

(AHRQ) suggests that children may not always need antibiotics to

treat a middle ear infection (otitis media). Researchers from the

Southern California/RAND Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) found

some interesting findings, including: Nearly two-thirds of children

with uncomplicated ear infections recover from pain and fever within

24 hours of diagnosis without antibiotic treatment - Over 80% recover

within 1 to 7 days. The Summary of the findings of this study,

entitled Management of Acute Otitis Media Summary, Evidence

Report/Technology Assessment 15, is available by calling the AHRQ

Publications Clearinghouse at 1-800-358-9295. Agency for Healthcare

Research and Quality, Rockville, MD, August 9, 2000

> Taking Out Adenoids Does NOT Help Ear Infections - Conclusions from

a study showed that removal of the adenoids, often associated with

swollen tonsils, as the first surgical treatment with children the

ages of 10 to 24 months with recurrent middle ear infections, was not

effective in preventing further episodes. British Medical Journal

February 28, 2004; 328:487 (Free Full-Text Article)

> One of the hardest things for a parent is to watch their child in

pain and not be able to help. If your child has a pattern of repeated

ear infections, you probably feel helpless. The conventional medical

approach is to give antibiotics every time an ear infection is

diagnosed. Or if these are ineffective, a tympanostomy (tubes) is

performed . Most doctors will convince you that there is no other

option.

>

>

> Stop Your Child's Ear Infections Naturally

> " Are Antibiotics still effective? The period once euphemistically

called the Age of the Miracle Drug is now dead. And the

indiscriminate use of antibiotics is leading us to one of the most

frightening eras in recent memory. That is, the return of infectious

diseases for which there is no effective treatment. Two decades

following the introduction of antibiotics, the medical community

began to see a disturbing trend. Bacterial infections that were once

treatable no longer responded to antibiotics. Penicillin is effective

today against only 10 percent of the strains of Staphylococcus aureus

that it used to eradicate easily. Those that did respond often

required five to ten times the dose of the drug that previously was

effective. One example of this is the resistant strains of gonorrhea

that developed as a result of the antibiotics that were used to treat

it. " Michael Traub, N.D.

> " When penicillin and other wonder drugs revolutionized Western

medicine in the 1940s and '50s, it seemed as though every infectious

illness could be cured with a few pills or injections. But half a

century after it began, the golden age of antibiotics is ending with

the alarming news that the drugs that were supposed to save the world

have instead spawned an epidemic that may destroy it. " CJ Puotinen

> While Dr. Carlson concedes that antibiotics can save lives, he

warns that both physicians and patients must be judicious in their

use of antibiotics. If they are overused, they are more likely to

become ineffective in treating bacteria. " Antibiotics are not always

the answer, " he says. " Sometimes it just makes sense to let an

ailment run its natural course. "

> " After 40 years of pushing antibiotics for any ailment, physicians

are now confronting bacteria that have built defenses against those

same drugs. Some infectious bacteria that were once treatable are

stronger and often deadly. The reappearance of highly infectious

bacteria is caused in part by the overuse and misuse of antibiotics,

but the resilience of bacteria also stems from the ingenious

biochemistry of the microorganisms themselves. To survive,

microorganisms and fungi mutate into resistant strains. " Morton

Walker, D.P.M.

> Dr. Mercola - " The medical establishment has convinced American

parents that they need to run their babies to the doctor at the first

sign of a fever. This does not make sense, as a fever is actually a

good thing. High fevers are especially good as they are far better

than any immunization at building an authentic, life-long immune

response. When we suppress these fevers with Tylenol we can cause far

more harm than good. To add insult to injury, parents give their

children antibiotics that do absolutely nothing for the viral

infection and do everything to upset the fragile bacterial

microenvironment in their child's intestine. Fever in Children - A

Blessing in Disguise

> It is no wonder that so many of us are sick as we grow up. Most of

us are fed grains rather than vegetables, and then we are assaulted

by well-intentioned, but nevertheless very harmful, rituals that

nearly guarantee a major health challenge down the road. These

medical " traditions " result in problems from allergies to recurrent

ear infections and tube placements in the ears to drugs for attention

deficit disorder.

> Many traditional medical circles now accept the hygiene hypothesis,

the idea that children who experience frequent infections and

inflammations in early childhood will strengthen their immune systems

and be less prone to allergies and asthma than children who rarely

experience such infections. Unfortunately, the hypothesis hasn't

penetrated the population rapidly enough to prevent the inevitable

health traumas resulting from the antibiotics given to our infants. "

More about Dr. Mercola's comments

> One of the hardest things for a parent is to watch their child in

pain and not be able to help. If your child has a pattern of repeated

ear infections, you probably feel helpless. The conventional medical

approach is to give antibiotics every time an ear infection is

diagnosed. Or if these are ineffective, a tympanostomy (tubes) is

performed . Most doctors will convince you that there is no other

option.

> Note - Breast feeding has proven to protect against ear infections.

Recent studies show that the longer a baby is nursed, the less likely

he or she will be to contract otitis media and other infections.

Possible reasons for this are that mother's milk contains antibodies

that protect against disease, and that nursing precludes the use of

cow's milk (an irritant to the eustachian tube and a common

allergen).

> Earaches, Ear Inflammation and Infections Causative factors

involved in susceptibility include substituting early bottle feeding

for breast feeding. Human breast milk seems to have a prophylactic

effect on a baby, although the exact reason why is not understood:

that is, whether it has more to do with an intolerance to the cow's

milk or the natural immune boost provided by mother's milk, or a

combination of both. A related factor to bottle feeding is that

supine feeding with the bottle has been shown to cause regurgitation

of the milk which then has a chance of entering the Eustachian tube.

Another very common etiological factor in children is one or more

food or inhalant allergies. Allergens may cause acute otitis media by

causing mucus production and mucous membrane swelling. Once the

allergens are discovered and removed from the child's environment or

diet, health can greatly improve. Common food allergens in children

include cow's milk, wheat, soy, corn, citrus, and egg, although other

foods may be implicated on an individual basis. Inhalant allergies

include molds, dust, animal dander, and hay fever.

>

>

> Transfer Factor and Ear Infections

> David Markowitz, M.D. - " I have now completed a retrospective study

comparing children in our practice who did not use Transfer Factor™;

during the same period. 87 children, age 8 months through 9 years,

used Transfer Factor ™;. We found 74% less reported illness and 84%

less reported use of antibiotics. " Dr. Markowitz is general

pediatrician for more than 20 years in Kennebunk, Maine with a

patient base of 4,500 children, is conducting an ongoing

retrospective study of patients who are consuming Transfer Factor

> Greg B. Wilson, Ph.D. and James B. Daily, Jr., Ph.D. - " Transfer

factors are not only useful for disease prevention but can also help

with diseases already established due to inadequate immune response.

Since transfer factor-producing T lymphocytes are important in immune

recognition and memory, impairment of transfer factor production

could neutralize the rest of the immune response in otherwise healthy

individuals. Therefore, introducing transfer factors can sometimes

enable a dysfunctional immune system to return to normal. " An

estimated 40 million dollars has been spent on transfer factor

research, resulting in over 3,000 scientific papers documenting

their benefits

> " Since my son Elijah was born, he has suffered from severe ear

infections. He was constantly put on antibiotics and had tubes put

in his ears. He is now four years old and has been on Transfer

Factor™. He has not experienced any more infections. " January

Jackson.

> Transfer Factor™ clinical studies by pediatrician David Markowitz,

M.D. shows 84% reduction of antibiotics in control group of children

using Transfer Factor

> More about Transfer Factor - QandA about Transfer Factor -

Education and Instinct - An Explanation of T-Factors Plus By William

J. Hennen, Ph.D.

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