| Every time I hear something about H1N1 on the TV or | | | | last year. Phew, that was close. The doctor will tell you |
| the radio it is always revolved around support for the | | | | what to give your child, but doesn’t always tell you |
| vaccination. This is the same type of vaccination that | | | | why not to give them something else. Tylenol and |
| caused Guillan-Barre syndrome in some of the people | | | | Motrin were supposedly okay to give to our children |
| who took it back in the 70’s. This new version of | | | | and now they’re not. Doctors are now |
| the vaccine was hardly tested before it was handed | | | | recommending cool baths and more old-fashioned |
| out to mass quantities of scared citizens. Somehow | | | | techniques for fever reduction when your child has the |
| they didn’t tell us that you should not take Tylenol | | | | flu. We probably should have stuck with those in the |
| when you have the flu because a little boy has now | | | | first place. |
| died from doing so. How many times have we given | | | | There have been many deaths in Mexico linked to a |
| our children Tylenol or Motrin to reduce a fever when | | | | combination of the flu and fever reducers because |
| they have the flu or after they’ve had their | | | | patients have not been informed of the deadly effects. |
| vaccinations? How many times have our pediatricians | | | | Japan put a stop to the use of NSAID’s (ex. |
| recommended this? | | | | Tylenol, Advil, Motrin, etc.) for reducing fever for |
| Many people who die with complications related to | | | | children with the flu in 2000 and the fatality rates for |
| H1N1 are young people. If you do your homework, | | | | children with the flu declined. Many people with flu |
| you’ll find that children and teenagers who take | | | | related deaths between 1918 and 1919 in the U.S. were |
| aspirin while they have the flu are at risk for | | | | found to have complications beyond pneumonia at the |
| Reye’s Syndrome. This disease is horrific and | | | | time of death that were attributed to taking aspirin. Just |
| destroys the internal organs very rapidly with the liver | | | | before the high rates of death occurred, the Surgeon |
| and the brain getting the worst of it and eventually | | | | General and other health organizations recommended |
| causing death. The weird thing is, I’ve heard about | | | | aspirin to the public. According to The British Medical |
| this syndrome but wasn’t really sure what it was | | | | Journal, antipyretics (pain relievers and fever reducers) |
| until I did a little research of my own. My child’s | | | | are the cause for many flu related deaths and people |
| pediatrician certainly never pointed it out. Good thing I | | | | should not take any of these should they get H1N1. |
| never gave my daughter aspirin when she had the flu | | | | |