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Cause

Bronchitis is a common infection in children as well as adults. The bronchi, or major air passages adjoining the windpipe, become inflamed, usually due to infection with a virus, but sometimes due to a germ.

Clinical features

Your child may develop a runny nose, sore throat and a mild fever. Soon afterwards a cough will start, which may be either dry or moist (productive of mucus). Your child may be slightly short of breath, and may wheeze. Bronchitis is often seen in association with asthma.

Investigations

None are usually necessary, but if the coughing persists your doctor may advise a sputum test, or even a chest X-ray.

Treatment

Bronchitis usually passes within a week, without any complications. If symptoms such as a cough and wheezing persist your doctor may advise short-term use of anti-asthma medication. If a bacterial infection is suspected, antibiotics may be prescribed. However, it is important to remember that these symptoms are far more readily caused by asthma than by bronchitis.

When to see your doctor

• if your child is an asthmatic;

• if your child has a cough that does not clear up after several days;

• if your child has a wheeze or is short of breath;

• if your child is having difficulty breathing.

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Eight years ago, couples started corning to me for help with fertility problems. They were referred by doctors who were working on the mechanical and metabolic aspects of fertility, working with drugs and timing and, in some cases, surgery. These doctors knew that emotions played a major role in fertility, but they did not know, and none of us know, how. They did know that the couples were becoming stressed by the constant vigilance, the repeated disappointments, the blaming and self-blame, the anger, the jealousy of those who seemed to get pregnant so easily. “Why is it,” asked one of the wives,’ that the only people who seem to get a child so easily are those who don’t seem to want them or need them as much as we do?”

I cannot discuss the complexities of the fertility issues here. I can tell you, however, that I have now treated thirty-six couples in the last eight years. Three of these couples were in my couples sample. Thirty couples have succeeded in having a baby—sometimes more than one! I don’t know, and I am sure that their doctors don’t really know, why they succeeded. Was it the drugs, the hope, the timing, chance? I have found that mutual emotional support and reduction of stress can help relationships. I don’t really know if it helps cause pregnancy, but I would guess that it does some good, perhaps again by enhancing the immune system, which has much to do with pregnancy.

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Men feel valued for what they do, not who they are. They feel like success objects rather than sex objects. As a result, their sexual behavior is characterized by emphasis on skills, foreplay, technique, timing, and love-making prowess. Accused of being selfish, men are not really selfish enough, for they are too busy trying to do instead of be and experience. Love becomes a product they try to “make.” They feel they have to “get it on” and “get off.” They feel a burden of culminating the sexual interaction with expulsion of fluid. “You know if a man comes, but you can’t tell if a woman comes,” was the report of one husband. This is not true. The presence of ejaculate tells only that there was a contractive reflex similar to the vaginal contractions of the woman. Contractions are not the only criterion of orgasm. If they were, other animals would have orgasm. They don’t. With the possible exception of some higher primates, orgasm and its subjective dimension is uniquely human.

Men have learned to release muscle tension, to achieve a pelvic settledness, but they have failed to achieve a settledness of the spirit. Men may have orgasm if by that term we mean organ reflex to sexual stimulation, but they fail to have psychasms. Psychasms require an alteration of consciousness, but men are seldom aware of what they are experiencing at the time of ejaculation. As long as this reflex orientation continues, men will go on trying to “get some” but fail to give or take anything.

The husbands completing the super marital sex program in my clinic report being stunned at the difference between orgasm and psychasm. They discover after forty or more years of “coming” what it is like to experience “being.” “I never imagined it could be like this,” commented one husband. “I thought you were nuts when you talked about this psychasm thing. It’s a whole other thing. There is no language to describe it.”

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The information supported by honest clinical observations, indicates without any doubt the ultimate reason for all diseases : poisoning of the body beyond its capacity of poison neutralisation.

Everything else, no matter how complicated, involving other living creatures (bacteria, parasites etc.) or not, is just a consequence.

We have also found, that the poisoning of our body is largely our own doing, caused by our ignorance or misinformation.

This is the first and necessary step to true healing.

Before discussing available natural strategie detoxification, I would like to turn your attention second, very important condition of true healing purification of your mind.

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It usually starts as a mild respiratory infection, similar to any one of a number of viral respiratory infections but, within 48 hours, the condition worsens, the temperature rises considerably, a dry cough develops and there may be confusion if the brain is affected.

Many other organs throughout the body are involved.

The diagnosis is difficult to make, and the germ is hard to isolate.

It may be that the true diagnosis is not established for several weeks after the onset of the infection, by which time the patient has usually recovered.

A high degree of suspicion is more likely to lead to early diagnosis or certainly to the correct treatment being instituted while proof of the diagnosis is being pursued.

This germ does not respond to penicillin, and is also poorly controlled by many antibiotics. Erythromycin appears to be the preferred drug but this may need to be continued over at least two weeks.

Any of a number of types of pneumonia can mimic Legionnaires’ disease.

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How does the law stand with regard to a person refusing permission for a blood transfusion?

Such a problem usually arises when the patient is a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, whose beliefs do not allow the acceptance of a transfusion of blood or its derivatives even when it may be necessary to save life.

In recent years the Medical Journal of Australia published an editorial written by a barrister on how the law regarded the question.

Any adult has the right to make a decision about what treatment he will or will not have, and the doctor treating him must accept this. If the doctor cannot offer proper treatment under those terms, then he can refuse to continue with the case and ask the patient to consult another practitioner.

The patient and the doctor have rights and obligations and, given goodwill on both sides, no conflict should arise.

The doctor is required by law, usually common law rather than any set statute, to use due care and skill in dealing with his patients.

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Signs and symptoms

The symptoms of influenza are sudden chills, a sharp rise in body temperature to 38.9°C to 41.1 °C, flushing, headache, sore throat, a hacking cough, redness of the eyes, and pains in the back and limbs. Young children may vomit and have diarrhea. Fever lasts three to four days and is followed by days of weakness and fatigue during which the child is susceptible to other illnesses.

Secondary bacterial complications are responsible for many of the serious outcomes of flu, and their presence is suggested by: the return of high fever after the child’s temperature has been normal for three or four days; progressive worsening of the cough, changing from dry and hacking to loose and productive; formation of pus in the eyes; rapid breathing and shortness of breath beyond that expected from the fever; severe earache; stiff neck; confusion; and extreme weakness, exhaustion, or collapse.

In isolated cases, flu cannot be diagnosed with certainty by physical exam. During an epidemic, the disease is diagnosed by similarity to other cases.

Home care

The prescription for home care is: bed rest during the height of the fever and

paracetamol, not aspirin, for fever and pains. You should encourage the child to drink a lot of fluids. Keep the child isolated from the rest of the family, and don’t let the child return to school or work until fully recovered. This will lessen the child’s chances of getting another disease while his or her resistance is lowered by the influenza.

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What threatens your immunity? What is it your immune system protects you from? Antigens. Antigens are viruses, bacteria, cancer cells, fungi, protozoa (microscopic animals), particles, and anything else that challenges your immune system.

Antigens are the reason the immune system exists. If there were no antigens, to worry about, there would be no need for an immune system.

Not every antigen will excite the immune system into action. Some cancers for example, may disguise themselves in such a way that they remain in the body, undetected by the immune system, until it’s too late.

Of course, antigens don’t take being attacked lying down. They have their own weapons, strategies and tricks. Some antigens try to fool the immune system by changing their surface configuration, so they won’t be recognized. Others battle the immune system, hoping to overwhelm it. As the microscopic battle rages, millions of our immune soldiers die. The AIDS virus seems particularly adept at crippling the immune system’s ability to mount a defense.

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If you’re a stress seeker, it doesn’t take much to trigger your stress response. An angry thought, a glance at a clock, a look at the freeway traffic and the chemical fireworks begin. Highly charged chemicals get your heart beating faster and more vigorously, raise your blood pressure and increase the number of circulating blood cells. Muscle tension and strength increase; pupils dilate for better vision. Blood sugar rises, making more energy available.

These changes occur almost instantaneously as the stress seeker prepares to fight off threats to his or her life. But how do you fight off traffic? You can’t punch your boss when you’re told that your work is unsatisfactory. You can’t smash your watch because you’re late for an appointment. Are you going to take an ax to the car that backfired and woke you up?

So the high-voltage chemicals flooding your body are useless— worse than useless, in fact. With no outlet for their energy, they turn on you, jolting various parts of your “doctor within.” If that keeps up, you will eventually blow a fuse.

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Day 1

Lunch: Fruit salad

Whole-wheat bread

Cold, sliced, sweet potatoes

Dinner: Steamed fish

Steamed crucifers Side of kasha

Wedge of lettuce with sliced tomatoes

Day 2

Lunch: Sandwich-Bag Vegetables Whole-wheat tortilla Sprouts Plain yogurt Fruit

Dinner: Mama Fox’s Spaghetti Sauce Whole-wheat pasta

Romaine lettuce, cucumber, tomato, radishes

Day 3

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Day 5

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Day 7

Lunch: Dinner:

Mixed Sprouts and Raisins Whole-wheat pasta (leftover) 1/2 papaya or an apple

Simple Baked Chicken Vegetable and Barley Soup Dr. Fox’s Super Salad

Homemade Strawberry Yogurt Whole-wheat bread 1/2 melon or grapefruit

Flippers’s Choice Baked potato Eastern Salad

Pita Sandwich Fruit

Sandwich-Bag Vegetables

Pety’s Chili with bread

Zucchini Soup

Sliced tomato and cucumber

Fruit

Dr. Fox’s Favorite Sandwich-Bag Vegetables 1/2 melon or grapefruit

Spinach Lasagna L.A. Sprout Salad Fruit Salad

Fruit Salad Whole-wheat bread Sandwich-Bag Vegetables

Passyunk Fish Steamed Vegetables Dr. Fox’s Super Salad Cucumber and carrots

Day 8

Lunch: Tomato-Tuna Cottage Cheese Banana Whole-wheat bread

Dinner: Robin’s Pineapple Chicken and Rice Green Bean Cecy Sliced apple

Day 9

Lunch: Sandwich-Bag Vegetables Whole-wheat bread Fruit

Dinner: Kasha (Buckwheat) and Fish Steamed Vegetables Orange

Day 10

Lunch: Rodeo and Wilshire Yogurt

Whole-wheat bread

1/2 melon or grapefruit Dinner: Margarita’s Black Beans and Rice

Crucifer and Carrot Slaw Salad

Banana and/or orange

Day 11

Lunch: Vegetable Soup

Pita Sandwich Dinner: Chicken and Red Pepper Rice

Steamed Vegetables

Dr. Fox’s Super Salad

Day 12

Lunch: Cold sliced chicken breast in pita Fruit Salad

Dinner: Bean Lentil Supreme Steamed Vegetables

Day 13

Lunch: Sandwich-Bag Vegetables Crunchy Potato Salad Apple

Dinner: Tuna Sprouts

Brown rice or barley Shredded carrots and cabbage

Day 14

Lunch: Beverly Hills Coleslaw Salad Tuna Sprouts in pita

Dinner: Mixed beans

Steamed Vegetables

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