Re: Please advise/Anyone!! Child reacting to MMR

June 23, 2004

Since we know that Vitamin A is vital to combatting measles, I would

think starting an intensive Vitamin A regimen would help. I would

also add Vitamin E, C to bowel tolerance and Zinc.

Peg P

Mit and Janie's Mom

> I recently met a lady last week at a company dinner. At one point, a

brief conversation developed about vaccines and I made a comment about

that we were also dealing with a vaccine injured child.

> The lady called me today, very upset and asking for some direction.

Her niece, age 15 months received the MMR two weeks ago. Since then,

the little girl is having inconsolable crying, and is having balance

problems. She is obviously having a severe reaction.

> What is the protocol for trying to help the assault on the immune

system so soon after the vaccine? I know it involves high doses Vit.

C, maybe Zinc. I just don't remember.

> Can someone please advise me as to give these people some direction.

I will also be directing them to some educational websites, and Dr.

McCandless's book. This is so sad, this story is repeating itself

still, even with mercury free vaccines.

> Thanks for any help.

> in Ruston

>

June 23, 2004

>Her niece, age 15 months received the MMR two weeks ago. Since

then, the little girl is having inconsolable crying, and is having

balance problems. She is obviously having a severe reaction. Of

course the doctors are telling her they don't know what to do and

don't know for sure that it is the MMR that is doing this.

> What is the protocol for trying to help the assault on the immune

system so soon after the vaccine?

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Unicef routinely gives high doses of the cis form of Vitamin A in

conjunction with MMR or measles vaccines in developing countries.

Studies have shown that the vaccine induced mortality rate was cut

to near zero by that practice. I wish I had known about

prophylactic vitamin A before my own children's viral vaccines. The

parent may be able to mitigate the damage at this stage with vitamin

A. Cod liver oil is available refined such that the vitamin D is

nearly non-existant. If it were my child I would give 200,000IU

daily over 3 days. Days 9-14 are the most critical days for vitamin

A levels. Studies have also shown that in the acute stage of

measles infection, fever control medications far increase the

liklihood of prolonged complicated disease.

Steve

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1. 1: Acta Paediatr Jpn. 1998 Aug;40(4):345-9. Related Articles,

Links

The effect of live measles vaccines on serum vitamin A levels in

healthy children.

Yalcin SS, Yurdakok K, Ozalp I, Coskun T.

Department of Social Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Institute of

Child Health, Ankara, Turkey.

OBJECTIVE: Serum retinol levels have been shown to be depressed

during measles infection. This study aims to demonstrate whether

there is any decrease in serum vitamin A level following

immunization with live viral vaccine and its relation with vaccine

seroconversion in children with measles. Since many children receive

measles vaccine alone or in combination with measles-mumps-rubella

vaccine, we studied serum vitamin A levels and antibody levels in

healthy, well-nourished children before and after immunization with

monovalent and combined live attenuated measles vaccine. METHODS:

The first group included 21 healthy children between the ages of 9-

11 months who received live measles (Schwarz) vaccine. There were

also 21 healthy children (range 14-20 months of age) who received

measles-mumps-rubella Trimovax (Pasteur Merieux) vaccine. All

children were tested for serum vitamin A levels before vaccination,

on days 9-14 and 30-42 following both vaccinations. Measles specific

antibody levels were also measured on admission and 30-42 days

following vaccinations. RESULTS: In both vaccination groups, mean

serum vitamin A levels reduced significantly on days 9-14, but

increased slightly on days 30-42 in the measles-mumps-rubella

vaccinated group (P < 0.05). The baseline and follow-up levels of

mean serum vitamin A did not differ between seroconverted and

nonseroconverted cases within the measles vaccinated group.

CONCLUSION: Serum vitamin A levels are reduced following vaccination

with monovalent and combined live attenuated measles vaccines.

PMID: 9745778 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Vitamin A and Nutrition: Several studies show that when patients

with measles are given vitamin A supplements, their complication

rates and chances of dying are significantly reduced. For example,

as early as 1932 doctors used cod-liver oil—high in vitamin A—to

treat measles and lower mortality by 58 percent.(11) Studies

conducted in 1958 and 1961 confirmed that the wild measles virus has

a severe short-term effect on immunity and the child's nutritional

status, especially vitamin A and nitrogen metabolism.(12,13) But

antibiotics —- later shown to be ineffective at treating measles -—

soon replaced vitamin A therapy, and by the 1960s vaccinations

gained preference over treatment protocols. However, during the mid-

1980s new studies demonstrated an increased risk of diarrhea,

respiratory disease, and death in children with mild vitamin A

deficiency.(14,15)

1. In a 1987 study conducted in Tanzania, Africa, 180 children with

measles were randomly divided into two groups and received routine

treatment alone or with 200,000 i.u. of orally administered vitamin

A. Mortality rates in the vitamin A group were cut in half. In fact,

children under two years of age who did not receive vitamin A were

nearly eight times more likely to die (Figure 1).(16)

In 1990, the New England Journal of Medicine confirmed that vitamin

A supplements significantly reduce measles complication and death

rates.(17) In 1992, researchers measured vitamin A levels in

children with measles and determined that deficiencies were

associated with lower levels of measles-specific antibodies, higher

and longer lasting fevers, and a greater probability of being

hospitalized.(18) The authors of the study recommended Vitamin A

therapy for children under two years of age with severe measles.(19)

And a 1993 study showed that 72 percent of all measles cases in the

U.S. requiring hospitalization are deficient in vitamin A. The

greater the deficiency, the worse the complications and higher the

probability of dying.(20)

Malnutrition is clearly responsible for higher disease complication

and death rates.(21) According to Morley, infectious disease

expert, " Severity of measles is greatest in the developing countries

where children have nutritional deficiencies... The child with

severe measles and an immune system suppressed by malnutrition

secretes the virus three times longer than does a child with normal

nutrition. " (22) Dr. Viera Scheibner, vaccine researcher, summarizes

the data more succinctly: " Children in Third World countries need

improved vitamin A and general nutritional status, not vaccines. " (23)

This information was excerpted from...

Vaccine Safety: A Family Health Guide

by Neil Z. .

(Expected Publication Date: Fall 2002)

June 24, 2004

Thank you for the info. I had read this too. I wonder how this vit. A is

different than the Palmitate