Swine Flu Vaccine Increases The Risk Of Narcolepsy

Children who have been vaccinated against the swine flu strain H1N1, are at increased risk of developing a condition known as narcolepsy, falls within the category of neurological disorders, according to a new study published in the pages of the British Medical Journal. In parallel, as part of this work, experts have found an increased risk of sleep disorders in children, who in 2009 were vaccinated with Pandemrix (a type of swine flu vaccines).

The data are preliminary, but now assurances given by the pharmaceutical companies that flu vaccine "can cause neurological disorders" can reasonably be questioned.

According to official statistics in England was vaccinated about 25% of children under 5 years of age and about 37% of children aged 2 to 15 years. Millions of children have also received these vaccines in mainland Europe. The study found that, depending on the age of the risk of narcolepsy among these children grew to 14-16 times. The younger the child, the vaccine, the more serious it turned out to be harmful to health.

The study has generated wide publicity. Approximately 6 months ago, similar results were obtained in the group of scientists from Finland and Norway, where a large number of children were vaccinated with Pandemrix. However, until recently, the British refused to believe in the statistics provided by the Scandinavian specialists.

However, to date, the evidence, the evidence found is increasing. For several months in the hospital and clinic UK received some 285 children with suspected narcolepsy - a record number that is immediately dubbed this "epidemic".

Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder in which the patient experiences a constant drowsiness during the day. People can sleep a lot, but still do not get enough sleep. The disorder can be characterized by a string of symptoms, including sudden relaxation, occurring for no reason. The specific reasons for its development, as well as in most other neurological disorders, remain a mystery to doctors.

Currently Pandemrix is ​​not applicable. However, the magnitude of the consequences of past vaccination experts have yet to be determined. The exact number of children who received these vaccines is unknown.

How Your Immune System Works

Human immune system nicely responses to the entering of foreign molecules (called antigens) into the body - it localizes antigens, then neutralizes them to destroy them. When immune system works normally, it is able to protect us from a great range of contagious diseases including our own pathologic cells which are formed in the body.

However, when immune system begins to work incorrectly or stops its work entirely, this may result in such severe diseases as AIDS or cancer. Normal immune reaction may occur naturally when agents of viral infection enter the body or may be activated artificially with the help of various vaccines.

Most vaccines contain dead or very weak microorganisms which cause development of particular disease (pathogens) . These microorganisms just activate immune reaction and do not cause the disease itself. Immunity acquired after vaccination is as strong as natural immunity which appears after body fight with viral infection. However, vaccination not causes in man usual disease symptoms in order to produce normal defensive reaction of immune system. Vaccination is performed gradually against viruses causing such diseases as measles, parotitis, roseola, influenza, poliomyelitis, hepatitis, and also some bacterial infections.

The effectiveness of body immune system work reduces slowly, and as a result with aging immunity becomes weak. It was found that most of cancers which appear in older people result from “aging” of immune system.

How To Boost Your Immune System?

We continue to talk about immunity. See the beginning in previous post.

Vaccines may be killed or live. Adaptive immunity after injecting killed vaccine is of small duration (about one year) in comparison with live ones (5 – 8 years). Killed vaccines present of themselves a suspension of microorganisms killed with folmalin, spirit or heating. Live vaccines present of themselves a suspension of live but attenuated microorganisms.

Contraindications to vaccines usage are:
- acute febrile illness;
- passed infectious diseases;
- tuberculosis;
- heart disease;
- serious diseases of kidneys; stomach, etc;
- pregnancy;
- first weeks of lactation;
- allergies.

Signs of low immune system:
- frequent backsets of chronic diseases
- frequent cold-related diseases
- sedentary lifestyle, alcohol abuse, smoking, stress, lack of good rest do greatly lower immunity
- chemical substances have negative effects on immune system. Using of medications for a long period of time may lower immunity, so it is recommended to take preventive measures for maintaining body defenses.

How to boost your immune system?
1) Vitamins. Most positive effects on body have natural vitamins rather than pills.
2) Adaptogens, i.e. medical agents which increase body resistance to negative effects of external environment (ginseng, eleuterococcus, etc).
3) Exercises.
4) Healthy lifestyle.

Take special care about medications which do “boost the immunity”. Remember that those medications are never used as self-acting remedy. They may only be prescribed by your doctor to take it along with basic medication for treatment of concrete disease. Healthy people have no need to take these medications. Chemical balance in human body is too fragile mechanism and self-treatment in this case may lead to negative effects. Taking medications for immunity boosting without prescription of your doctor leads to immunity lowering.