At the first sign of an elevated temperature, worried parents attempt to treat a fever. However, fever is the body’s in-built infection control.
My daughter had a febrile seizure on her first birthday, less than two weeks after MMR vaccination. Of my three children, she’s the only one who has had convulsions. Her early childhood health was poor, with recurring ear infections, high...
New evidence has confirmed what observation has shown for years - that the MMR vaccine significantly raises the risk of febrile seizures.
OTITIS MEDIA
Try osteopathy before grommets
Osteopathy offers a long-term solution to acute otitis media (AOM), a childhood ear infection usually treated with antibiotics.
Q My four-year-old daughter started having seizures last April. In just 14 months, she has had a total of eight, one every two weeks. She had just started being vaccinated,
Dr Harris L Coulter, a well-known medical historian and one of conventional medicine's sternest critics, has authored a number of books, two of which analyze vaccinations. According to Coulter, an ...
WHEN THE WORM TURNS, the doctor diagnoses epilepsy
Any thoughts on how to manage this condition?
There are alternatives to medication (or surgery) for the treatment of epilepsy. Many of these can be used safely alongside conventional medications.
Each type of antiepileptic drug brings with it the risk of different types of seizures.
