Yesterday, TV3 treated New Zealand parents to a massive dose of ignorance with a story about a boy called Boston, who had a nasty superinfection in chickenpox spots on his back.
His mother is urging New Zealand parents to pay $50.00 so that their children won’t suffer like her son did.
This story is a top class example of the elephant in the room ignored by ignorant TV journalists today.
Boston’s complication has been known, for over two decades, to be a complication of immune fragility - one cause of which is using PAMOL to reduce chickenpox fevers.
Read this: (That blog addresses pamol generically, not specifically relating to chickenpox, but maybe a blog on pamol and chickenpox will be my next job.)
Given that this boy got the chickenpox from his 3 year old sister, who plainly did okay, why did the journalist not ask the doctors WHY the boy had trouble and his sister did not?
The mother’s comment might have provided one blindingly obvious answer: “We couldn’t control his temperature” Apparently this child just kept falling asleep all the time. Continue Reading
Hilary's Desk
Chickenpox - Ignorance is not bliss.
Why the hurry, Ministry of Health?
Anyone who has read my whooping cough resource section, will know that since the introduction of all whooping cough vaccines in this country, there has been ZERO impact on incidence and a slight increase recently in death rates.
Seemingly in a desire to catch up to the rest of us, the Ministry of Health this week, showed how much they value thoroughness, by putting out an advert (pdf uploaded here for posterity) with a three week deadline.
The topic?
Why are they not also looking for the presence of the new mutant pertussis bacteria, which has been caused by using the acellullar vaccine? Continue Reading
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