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Opiate addiction is a problem in the United States, but why do so many patients have so much pain? In some counties, the number of prescriptions for opioids exceeds the number of people living in the county. Doctors prescribe pain medication, then their prescriptions are monitored by medical and pharmacy boards, who pressure doctors to restrict prescriptions for pain medications, leaving the patients in pain, addicted, desperate, self-medicating, and hoarding pain medications. Opiate withdrawal can cause agitation, aggression, and acts…..
Unfortunately infectious causes of chronic disease have been ignored and dismissed. Treatment may be denied in the acute phase of immortal infections in the name of protecting against antibiotic resistance, and by the time a chronic disease occurs the acute disease has long been forgotten. To prevent antibiotic resistance the best way is to reduce antibiotics in animals (80% of usage). It is not too many antibiotics, it is too many of the wrong antibiotics, and lack of adequate diagnosis…..
We have previously written about the benefits of Azithromax (Z-pack) in a variety of chronic diseases—and about early treatment of intracellular infections to limit the risk of developing a chronic infection. Azithromax is safe and available, and has been shown to be effective at stopping inflammation and blood clots, after influenza and other viral illnesses. Azithromax has been shown to reduce the risk of future cardiovascular events in patients with cardiac disease. Azithromax and is now being considered as a…..
This October 23, 2020 article was published in The American Medical Journal, and then republished on the same day at the NIH link. The article again supports our many previous posts suggesting the potential for an MMR vaccination to provide some protection against covid-19, and mitigate the severity of the disease. The article further supports the MMR vaccination is a potential explanation for mild and asymptomatic cases in children. Lax rates of MMR vaccination worldwide are correlated with worse rates…..
We suggested several times (3/21/20, 6/23/20, 8/6/20, 10/18/20) that childhood vaccines may provide cross reactivity, and protection or partial protection against covid19, particularly the MMR and polio vaccine. Childhood vaccinations provide one explanation for why children do not get covid19, are asymptomatic, or are less severely affected. Vaccinations also explain why some countries have had a lower rate of covid19 and covid19 death—the countries that had mass vaccination programs for the MMR. Other scientists are now also reporting childhood vaccinations,…..
We suggested in March and June of 2020 that studies and surveys be done to determine why children seem to be less effected by covid19, and that existing vaccines and other recent viral infections may provide partial protection against covid19. The Mayo Clinic has now reported one or more non-COVID, FDA-approved, readily available vaccines, may have some protective effect in covid19. Vaccines reported to have some protective effect included the MMR, the polio vaccine, the influenza vaccine, and the pneumonia…..
Research suggests childhood vaccines (MMR, BCG, and polio) may provide cross-reactivity and some protection against covid-19. Most people under 50 have received the MMR and polio vaccines. Starting in the 1990’s, children received two MMR vaccinations rather than one, when two was reported to give greater protection. Cross-reactivity with childhood vaccines could explain lesser symptoms or the absence of symptoms in children and younger adults; could provide an opportunity for stop-gap measures to control covid-19; and could provide new opportunities…..
Daraprim (pyrimethamine) was developed by a Nobel Prize winning American scientist, Gertrude Elion (1918-1999); and treats blood borne parasitic infections, such as malaria and toxoplasmosis. WHO reports Daraprim is one of the safest and most effective medicines that is needed in any health system. In clinical trials, Daraprim has been shown effective in treating HIV (HIV patients susceptible to toxoplasmosis), retinochoroiditis (retinal inflammation), and ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease); and may slow the progression of Tay-Sachs disease, a “syndrome” in which…..
In 1988, Gertrude Elion (1918-1999), George Hitchings, and Sir James W. Black shared the Nobel Prize for physiology/medicine. They are credited with developing Daraprim, to treat blood borne parasitic infections (including malaria and toxoplasmosis). WHO reported Daraprim is one of the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system. In clinical trials, Daraprim was shown to be effective in HIV, retinochoroiditis, ALS, and variety of other chronic diseases; and may slow the progression of Tay-Sachs disease, a syndrome…..
Cancer can occur in clusters, and is more common in caretakers of cancer patients, suggesting infectious causes. It has been proposed treatment of chlamydia pneumonia, in smokers, could reduce the risk of lung cancer. H-pylori can cause stomach cancer, and treatment of H-pylori was shown to reduce the incidence of stomach cancer. Heart attack and stroke occur more frequently after an outbreak of respiratory infections; and patients who took tetracycline, azithromycin, or clarithromycin, for any reason, during the prior three…..
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