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VFNW Spring2014 Transcript Lesson111
VFNW Spring2014 Transcript Lesson111
Now What?
HEPATITIS A, B & C
Call #11 Transcript
By Donna Powers
Donna Powers: Welcome to the Vaccine Free: Now What? 12-week teleseminar
course. This is class 11, where we will continue talking about the infectious illnesses.
These illnesses are the ones where conventional vaccines are used as prevention in
childhood, school-aged children, teens, and adults. Today's illnesses being discussed
are Hepatitis in general, but specifically Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. I'll
just leave a few moments now, are there any questions from any of the previous weeks
at all, about any of the information that we've covered?
DP: Okay, I don't see any hands up but, if you think of something during the course of
the next hour and a half, just please feel free to press one on your keyboard. One of the
things that I did want to mention is that some participants have downloaded the
information later and had have trouble with the links. Casey has sent an email to
everybody with the link redone, so you should be able to access all of the resource
material. If you did not get that email or you're still having difficulties, please let Casey
or I know, and we'll make sure that you have that information at hand, always. On the
Facebook page that is private and closed for the former participants and current
participants of the Vaccine Free: Now What? Seminar, there is an archive of information
and we will keep that up-to-date, so that you will always have access to that. It's also a
really good place to share information or ask questions. I notice that lots of current and
past participants are using it in acute kinds of illnesses, and that's a good way to
continue to learn homeopathy and start using the remedies on your own.
DP: This week's discussion is on the Hepatitis A, B and C. And I am going to go into
the vaccines just a little bit, simply because this is probably the most frequently asked
about vaccine for people, ongoing. Especially when there's so much travel and worldwide travel going on now. And the vaccine that is usually promoted is the Twinrix. So, I
offer this information to you so that you have what you need to share with others if they
ask you your opinion about whether or not to vaccinate for Hep A & Hep B for travel.
And usually, the travel that I am most frequently asked about is travel to resorts where
they cater to the North American and European population. So this is information that
you will find useful. Now, in Canada, we do not have a policy of vaccinating babies,
newborn babies, with the Hepatitis B vaccine and in the US, they do. So, if you're from
the US, anybody on the call today, please feel free to just press one on your keyboard
and share information that you might possibly have. So, some of you may have already
had your children vaccinated with Hep B, you might have something to share about
that. But it is one of the vaccines that the National Vaccine Information Center very
strongly advises to not get.
DP: So, I'm also going to spend a little bit more time, today, talking about the
homeopathic remedies you can have in your kit. Some will be part of... Just remedies
you should have on hand anyway and some of them will be a little bit more unusual.
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DP: But just a brief mention with some of the vaccines. So, on my website
powersofhomeopathy.com, I've actually written a newsletter about how to research a
vaccine, there are many different vaccine products for Hepatitis. So, the single one, the
dual ones, and there is even a six-in-one that they're including. So, you really do have
to do your research if this is something that is being contemplated. Again, if somebody
asks you what your opinion is you are going to be able to give them this information
and how to research the vaccine. So, some of them contain aborted human fetal
tissue. These are the diploid fibroblasts or you sometimes see them listed as MRC.
There is aluminum in them, bovine albumin, which just simply means, there's cow
protein and formaldehyde, these are killed viruses, latex. And some of these hep B
vaccine contains antibiotics like neomycin. So, again you have to be aware of latex
allergies and antibiotic allergies for anybody who is sensitive to them. The other
complications with the Hepatitis A and B vaccine, there are a lot of problems with
demyelination. So, that's the fatty substance that surrounds the nerve tissue, and what
can happen with the disease is demyelination where the myelin sheath is stripped. So,
it's like having an electrical wire that stripped of the coating around it. And you can get
neurological illnesses, it's one of the complications of the Hepatitis B.
DP: I won't say it's fairly common, but it is one of the risk, neurological illnesses and I
know of adults who have been diagnosed with MS. Post Hepatitis A-B vaccine taken
before travel. In Canada grade five is typically when the children are given the Hepatitis
B vaccine, and the young girls they get the Gardasil vaccine at the same time. And I
think the Gardasil, they are developing a vaccine for the boys. I don't know if it's here
in Canada yet. But the other complication you hear of is children in grade five post
Hepatitis A-B vaccine developing type one diabetes. So Guillain-Barre is a syndrome, a
complication of it, it's a nervous disorder disease, you can get this even post-influenza
if you get flu naturally. You can get this from the vaccine, ataxia, which means difficulty
with motions and movement; encephalitis, inflammation in the brain and
thrombocytopenia, it's a deficiency of platelets in the blood and this causes bleeding
into the tissues and you get bruising and slow clotting after injury. This can happen
with this vaccine.
DP: Anaphylaxis, which is like an anaphylactic shock, which is the person quits
breathing, can come from any allergic reactions. Neuropathy, simply means with the
nerves, myelitis an inflammation of the myelin. Meningitis, Hepatitis, diabetes, and MS.
So, these are potential complications with it. Twinrix, again just as a reminder the
MRC5 is a cell line, that was developed in 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14-week
aborted fetus. And that particular vaccine as well has viral antigens, yeast, aluminum
phosphate, aluminum hydroxide, neomycin, which is an antibiotic and formalin. So,
again just each, you'd have to investigate each vaccine. Now, again Twinrix junior is the
one that's given in grade five, here in Canada. Twinrix is often the vaccine that's
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DP: So, what might be advised is for fever, to be giving fever medication, which is
contra-indicated these days even with the science research. Possibly something for
stomach pain, possibly something for diarrhoea. But again, what all of these are going
to do is simply suppress the discharges that need to be happening. The urine may turn
dark, tea-coloured or Coca-Cola coloured. So again, you will want to take your child or
adult or senior, one of your parents, to the doctor just to have it checked out because
one of the things that they will look for is any blood in the urine or kidney, possibly. So,
they'll be able to at least give you a diagnosis even if there isn't any medication they
can offer.
DP: One of the other symptoms that's quite characteristic of inflammation of the liver
are clay-coloured bowel movements. They'll look chalky or white, and these stools can
happen not just with Hepatitis, but any time there's an inflammation in the liver, or
sometimes there'll be diarrhoea. So the jaundice or the yellow skin is more common in
adults and quite rare in children. And most kids under the age of six, do not get sick
from the infection, but they can spread it to older children and adults. So... Will keep
going with this...
DP: So, the incubation period is quite long. So you may not know your child has it and
then that's why everybody in the household is going to get it for Hepatitis A. The
incubation period is 15 to 45 days, or about 4 weeks. So it's possible for the virus to
begin shedding through the stool of the infected person from two weeks before to one
week after the onset of the disease. So, chances are good if you're in close quarters,
everybody is going to get it. With adults, probably they're going to get more sick than
the children.
DP: So, again, it's spread by the oral-fecal route, just like polio is, and it's more often
associated with poor sanitation and hygiene and overcrowded living conditions. So,
again, if you are travelling on a mission with your church or religious organization, it
would be really good to take your homeopathic remedies with you. But when I have
people phoning to ask about it, this is what I let them know. Where are you going to be
first off? So, tends to be in poor areas, certain sexual practices, or injected drug use,
but outbreaks of Hepatitis have also occurred in restaurants, day care centres, nursing
homes, institutions, and community settings.
DP: So the restaurants is the one that you're going to want to be eating at the allinclusive resorts, you're going to be eating there as opposed to eating street food. I
have eaten street food in Mexico and in India, but I have been with people who know
where to eat. Sometimes the outbreaks of Hepatitis have been traced to contaminated
food, water, milk, frozen raspberries, strawberries, and shellfish. And again, our food is
being processed and produced, and these things happen. And the more processed the
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DP: So, there's no conventional treatment for Hepatitis A, and 99% of people who get
infected recover. And therapy, conventionally, if there is any, focuses on re-hydration,
so there's the diarrhoea, the nausea, the vomiting, and nutritional support to replace
what's lost from vomiting and diarrhoea. So, once you've had Hepatitis A you have
anti-bodies to the disease and you will have lifelong immunity, which is in my case, and
will prevent it, prevent you from getting it again. So, your blood test will remain positive
for hep A, and I always have to identify that when I go to donate blood. There is a
potential for relapsing after, it seems like somebody has gotten better from having
Hepatitis A, those are very rare, and again, if you're using homeopathic remedies the
likelihood of that will minimize that. And it could move into progressive chronic liver
disease.
DP: So, again, if it's chronic that's where you would be seeing your medical doctor,
getting your assessments, your diagnosis, but also seeing your homeopath so that you
can do something with homeopathy. So, just a little fact, historically, Hepatitis A is
cyclical and the same with whooping cough. So, you'll see these outbreaks whether in
the vaccinated or un-vaccinated population, you will see them from time to time. With
Hepatitis A, it's every 10 to 15 years, the national rate of acute hep A has declined 92%
since the last peak in 1995, just before a vaccine for Hep A was introduced. So, history
repeats itself. These kinds of illnesses were already on the decline and then a vaccine
is introduced. And I don't have the facts for you, if in fact Hepatitis A increased then
after the vaccines were introduced. But typically that's what happened with some of
the other infectious illnesses. You see a rise again in the infectious illness even though
it had dropped off, the vaccine was introduced and then there's an increase in the
infectious illness.
DP: Most of the Hep A that's reported now is travel related, so Mexico, Central
America or South America. And again, take your homeopathic kit with you for Hepatitis
A. Water-borne outbreaks, they're infrequent but they can happen. So Calgary last year
we had a flood, so you can get Hepatitis A associated with sewage contaminated or
inadequately treated water. So everybody was advised to either boil water or to use
bottled water. So even in the package insert it says... All three Hepatitis A vaccine
package inserts warn that the vaccines may not or cannot prevent or treat the disease
in someone who's already infected or has been infected with Hep A. And the warning
is also that some immunocompromised individuals may not be fully protected either.
So important to read the vaccine package insert before considering a Hep A vaccine
before travel.
DP: Best tool for prevention is wash your hands, soap and water after using the
bathroom, changing a diaper or preparing and eating food. Use just common sense
when travelling as well. And just making sure whoever is preparing your food is... That
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DP: Arsenicum Album is also known in Canada as Metallum Album. It's also known
just as arsenic. This is homeopathic arsenic. It is a remedy that I would recommend
you have in your 10 remedy kit. You will find it very helpful in flu, in food poisoning,
colds. It's just a very, very effective remedy. So, it's one of your first ones you can think
of if you happen to have somebody who has Hepatitis. One of the keynote symptoms
in Arsenicum is exhaustion after the slightest exertion. And this is a symptom of
Hepatitis. So, this is why if it's a symptom of Arsenicum, and it matches a symptom of
another disease that happens to be called Hepatitis, it makes it a simillimum or similar.
DP: There's a lot of fear with arsenic, a fear of dying, and a fear of death. So this will be
somebody who's really, really sick with this. They will be very, very restless. These are
people who tend to be very, very chilly and absolutely cannot get warm. And there will
be vomiting and diarrhoea. If you can't think of anything else to give in food poisoning,
or if your kid, or you partner, or your adult elder is vomiting and diarrhoea at the same
time with chilliness and exhaustion, give Arsenicum. It's probably gonna do a great
amount of work. There is a sensitivity to the light. So, can you see where the symptoms
we talked about with Hepatitis are very similar to the symptoms in Arsenicum. So, it's
possible that this is going to be just a good go-to-remedy if it's the only one you have
in your home kit. A lot of nausea and violent vomiting and they cannot bear the sight or
smell of food. So, remember, one of the beginning symptoms of Hepatitis is this loss of
appetite or anorexia. The liver can be swollen and painful, and in Arsenicum, you can
have swelling of the glands. The urine in Arsenicum can be a deep yellow colour or
brownish. And Arsenicum actually has the symptom of a yellowish skin.
DP: And we have a question here so just one moment. Go ahead, Prema.
Prema: Yes, I wanted to know, in terms of potencies, what do you suggest having?
30C or 200C? What's the best in those circumstances?
DP: For Arsenicum, I would tend to recommend a 200CH in your home kit just because
when it's needed, the symptoms are going to be quite intense and you will be able to
see that this is an Arsenicum state. And a 200C would probably, you would get a much
faster reaction. With a 30C, if that's all you've got you go ahead and use it. You just
repeat it more frequently or put it in water so that after they vomit or have diarrhoea
they can take a good sip of that 30CH. And that way you can continuously give it. It's
just that the higher the potency, you're matching the intensity of the symptoms and
usually somebody needing Arsenicum, the symptoms are usually pretty intense.
Prema: Okay, thank you.
DP: Does that answer? Okay.
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