The Meaning of Childhood Diseases

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The Meaning of Childhood Diseases

What role the so-called childhood diseases play in the development of

children has been the subject of many discussions. Reports of developmental

leaps are frequent, yet usually very subjective. There are, however, some

observations that childhood diseases do not just harbor risks but can be

quite useful.

In ls of Tropical Paediatrics, [53] the following case is reported:

1984 a 5 year-old girl presented with a bad case of psoriasis. She showed

large affected areas on her body and extremities, also involving to a

significant degree her scalp. During the following year she was treated by

Pediatricians and Dermatologists with coal tar preparations, local

steroids, UV light, and dithranol wraps. Despite these therapies and two

hospitalizations, the psoriasis was refractory and remained essentially

unchanged until she came down with measles. As the measles rash began to

spread over her skin, the psoriasis disappeared. Since then she has been

free of psoriasis.

Another startling effect is described in Am. J. Med. Hyg.: " The prevalence

of parasites and average density of malaria parasites is significantly

lower in children who have had measles or influenza before the age of 9

than in the asymptomatic control group. " [54]

An article taken from the Lancet, 1985 [55], may be of decisive importance:

Persons who have never had any visible indication of measles, i.e., never

developed the skin rash of measles, suffer more frequently from non measles

associated diseases. " " The data show a highly significant correlation

between lack of measles exanthema and auto-immune diseases, seborrhoeic

skin diseases, degenerative diseases of the bones and certain tumors . . .

We think that the rash is caused by a cell mitigated immune reaction, which

destroys the cells infected with the measles virus. If this is correct, the

missing exanthema may indicate that intracellular virus components have

escaped neutralization during the acute infection. This may later lead to

the aforementioned diseases... The presence of specific antibodies at the

time of infection interferes with the normal immune response against the

measles virus, in particular with the development of the specific cell

mitigated immunity (and/or cyto-toxic reactions). The intracellular measles

virus can then survive the acute infection and cause diseases manifesting

in the adult age.

If the infection with measles happens at a time when there are already

antibodies against the measles virus present, i.e., within the first few

months after birth, or after administration of measles immune serum because

of contact with measles, or after antibody production following

vaccination, the immune system cannot react fully to the infection, leaving

the virus the chance to become persistent.

If vaccinated children contract measles from the wild strain, the

possibility exists that the infection will be overlooked in them, since

they do not exhibit the typical signs of measles anymore. It is impossible

to say how common these latent measles infections are; finding the

connection between latent measles and a disease at adult age is impossible.

If this suspicion proves to be true, the merit of the measles vaccination

has to be re-evaluated carefully.

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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

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