Rotavirus is not a life-threatening illness yet the side effects stated in the product information include increased risk from  intussusception and death from pneumonia.  The vaccine is live and sheds for several weeks afterwards from most babies, and the JVCI says the introduction will cost £25 million – more than it hopes to save.   Exclusive Breastfeeding and hygiene are key in reducing infection yet if these messages are not being promoted then how can parents make an informed choice?

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/50213

Full details, hard copy petitions and letter frames for MPs can be found in the files here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/531961973506473/

PLEASE SHARE WITH:
Midwives, natural parenting sites, natural birthing sites, doulas, breastfeeding groups, vaccine pages, pregnancy yoga teachers, local NCT classes, local birthing professionals, etc etc – We all must know at least 10 local people who would sign (keep a copy in your bag) and be on a few groups where we can share the information, as well as on your own FB page of course!

…but please don’t forget to tell us about the side effects!

European Vaccine Groupscounter European Immunization Week (EIW) 22–27 April 2013

Recent Prescribing guidelines (2013) from the GMC (General Medical Council) remind GPs that they must share “the likely benefits, risks and burdens, including serious and common side effects” but how often does that happen at the 8 week baby check or in schools where some vaccines are given?  Most parents accept that the benefit of vaccination outweigh the risks but this is not enough say the GMC, each patient must be warned of the possible outcomes according to their situation.  Consent Guidelines from 2008 made it clear that informed consent must not be taken for granted or overlooked and ‘Serious or persistent failure to follow this guidance will put your registration at risk.” So how are GPs putting these guidelines into practice when it comes to vaccination and how do they balance calls to increase vaccination rates?

Each year the WHO Europe coordinates events and resources to increase vaccination rates and their campaign starts on the 22nd April.  It is an understandable focus for the WHO but one that should not pass unchallenged suggest The European Forum for Vaccine Vigilance (EFVV).  The aim to increased vaccination rates must be second after making sure full informed consent is given on possible side effects feel the EFVV.

EFVV is a pan-European group campaigning for natural immunity, as well as researching and highlighting the potential problems caused by vaccinations.  EFVV members come from ten different European countries, some health polices of which mandate vaccination. Each country will be taking different actions to remind the public that vaccines also carry risk of unwanted side effects and sometimes serious injury.

Here in the UK, all 12 year old girls are recommended the HPV vaccine (now Gardasil) which is marketed at reducing some of the virus that may reduce the risk of cervical cancer.  The UK has one of the highest HPV uptakes in Europe and indeed has a very successful advertising campaign with some areas of the UK rewarding girls with shopping vouchers (ref).
Even though the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) ruled that ARMED FOR LIFE could not be used as the HPV slogan, as the evidence just wasn’t there that this vaccine lasted for life, the message has stuck.  (In Holland an advert that said “Don’t be a sissy” in promoting the HPV vaccine has also been removed.) 12 years olds can decide for themselves under the Gillick Law (ref) and the HPV is given in school where peer pressure is considerable which may mean that consent is not fully informed. 

The UK representative for the EFVV is Arnica and they have put together a new website and leaflet to address the background issues and concerns that parents and their daughters may have about the HPV vaccine.  The UK has been wary of any patient groups or individuals challenging the Immunisation Policy, giving them the negative label ‘anti-vaccine‘  but Arnica, a Parent Network with 80 UK groups, feels that it is important to keep debate open. ” Are the girls told that Gardasil is in fact a Black Triangle drug due to limited safety information from clinical trials?  Are they told that in the US Gardasil is associated with more reports of adverse reactions than any other vaccine? Are they told that there is no evidence that this vaccine will reduce cervical cancer or by how much?  The CDC confirm that … it will take decades before the impact of the vaccine is observed.“

Anna Watson continues “Adverts sit on the back of buses to encourage girls to accept the HPV vaccine and the WHO runs an annual Spring campaigns to increase vaccination rates overall but the EFVV encourage all citizens to read the vaccine inserts and make sure that you are fully informed of the risks and the benefits of immunisation for your family.”

“ Prevent. Protect. Inform… “

www.hpvfacts.co.uk
http://www.efvv.eu

Watch ‘Inject to Protect’ for yourself..

1.  Is it legal to promote medicines to children suggesting that they are 100% safe?

NHS website reports side effects & so should the BBC…
and the UK has a vaccine damage payment fund for those left more than 60% disabled.

Jackie Fletcher whose 20 year old son can’t speak or walk, is doubly incontinent and who has fits every day. His injury was officially linked to the MMR this year and received a payment under the Vaccine Damage Payment Fund.

2. Is it ethical to promote medicines to children suggesting that they are 100% effective?

The efficacy rate is more like 95% so tens of thousands of kids every year will have the MMR but it will not work for them. 5% of a million a year.

An adult may be able to separate the truth from a GP with make up and a cartoon character but a child may not.

How many children saw this show alone and will have been left with the idea that medicines and syringes are totally safe and work without fail?  How will the BBC find these hundreds of thousands of children and their families and apologise for promoting the dangerous image that it is OK for a single male to coerce a lone child into an injection that carries a potential risk.

I had to complain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complain-online/

The reply was returned as quick as you could say “No conflicts of Interests” with the opening line “Firstly, we’d like to reassure everyone that no programme on CBeebies receives commercial sponsorship of any kind.” Obvious what other complaints they had received that morning, but nothing in response to my concerns.

Please lets be clear with our children:

*  children should not be left alone with an unfamiliar adult,
even if they are dressed in a white coat

*  children should never play with needles

*  children should never be asked to make a decision to take a medication or injection without a guardian to share in making an informed choice

* No medication is totally safe and effective, in fact some children are seriously injured

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=379997598745356&set=a.379997582078691.86654.372638272814622&type=1&theater&notif_t=like

If you are not happy with your reply you can escalate it -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/complaints_and_appeals/
https://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/tell-us/specific-programme-epg

One of the lead researchers for the Merck drug has been speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive marketing and is shocked that this vaccine is being promoted in the developed world where the risk of cervical cancer is low and pap smears are successful in reducing mortality.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500690_162-5253431.html
And I am very concerned about this vaccine’s safety.

As my MP, would you be willing to vaccinate your daughter, or recommend to friends to do so, if you had been made aware of this recent discovery that genetic fingerprint in post-mortem central nervous system samples of two girls who took this vaccine. Fragments of the HPV-16-L1 antigen used in Gardasil have been found in blood vessels within their brains?

1. Is it considered perfectly normal for an antigen of this vaccine, or any other vaccine, to be found in brain samples of two young people who died?
http://sanevax.org/breaking-news-gardasil-fingerprints-found-in-post-mortem-samples/

2. Can you find any evidence that recombinant HPV DNA is safe?
The other very worrying fact is that 100% of the Gardasil vials in 2011 tested proved to be contaminated with a recombinant HPV DNA attached to aluminum.  Although the government says now that this is safe, they have not provided any evidence that this is the case.  In fact they denied the existence until testing proved otherwise.  This is a vaccine cultured on Genetically Modified yeast.  As far as I am aware, it is too early to tell if GM products are safe.

3. Is it safe & necessary to be giving 3 doses of this vaccine to our teenagers?
There is no evidence that boosters are necessary, a study included in the ECDC report found there was no difference in antibodies in groups of girls 4 years later who had received 1, 2 or 3 doses. Is £300 for 3 boosters a good value for money if £100 does the same job?  This is terribly important as many girls experience worsening side effect with the second or third vaccine.  Indeed, the JCVI is considering reducing the 3 shots to 2 next year but its own Phase 4 study will not be completed until next September.. this is a long time to continue testing out 3 doses on girls. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00956553?term=hpv+vaccine&rank=12

4.  Shouldn’t the nurses be vigilant for this Black triangle drug and not recommend subsequent doses if these possible ADRs are experienced?
Hundreds of stories, 2 in Reigate that I know of, share that serious joint ache and fatigue is suffered after the first dose for some girls, crutches after the second and a wheelchair after the second.  The government has responded to suggestions, that these symptoms are ADRs which have affected an unknown number for girls off school for months, by staing that ME and Chronic Fatigue is in normal prevalence in the teenage female community.  However, under the Freedom of Information act it has been shown that NO records for ME are kept and so the normal rate in society is not known.

5. Is is right to give a vaccine to a generation of girls before evidence that it will make them healthier? There are studies to show that the vaccine helps prevent infection of HPV virus but there are NO studies to prove that it stops cervical cancer – these results will not start to be known for the next 20-30 years when the first co-hort are screened over the age of 35 when most cases present. And there is no data showing the vaccine remains effective after more than 7 years (meaning you will need more boosters). The European Centre for disease prevention and control (HPV Guidance  JULY 2012) says “It is still unknown how long effective immunity will last…up to 7 years at present.  The HPV vaccine cannot replace cervical screening”  NHS choices agrees  http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hpv-vaccination/pages/introduction.aspx?WT.mc_id=090805

6.  Shouldn’t the girls be tested first to ensure that the vaccine will not increase the risk of cervical cancer. Merck warned the FDA that Gardasil may increase cancerous cervix lesions who are “already infected” with HPV 16 or 18 by 44.6%.  Data from the US shows that abnormal pap smears, cervical cancer and cervical dysplasia have all increased during the last year each by over 20%, not conclusive of course, but worth considering the original warning.    p.13 http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4222B3.pdf

7.  Shouldn’t we warn teenagers of this risk of ovarian failure?
Girls may even suffer ovarian failure after the HPV vaccination, like this girl, see the BMJ.  Cases will be hidden with the contraceptive pill being prescribed. http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2012/bcr-2012-006879.abstract

8.  Should safety information suggest that girls should rest if they experience fatigue or pain after Gardasil? Girls who are vaccinated during a period and girls who are extremely sporty and push through chronic pain after the vaccine.  The hormone levels and/or the high level of histamine in highly active girls may be an issue with ADRs.

As patients are not contacted for further information after filling in a Yellow card, who is looking at these possible factors? http://sanevax.org/victims-2/

However no one is pretending that it is the vaccinated children who are going to benefit. Children, especially healthy children, very rarely die from influenza; in fact in many years there are no deaths at all from flu in children under 15 years of age.2 Nevertheless, the chief medical officer is predicting that, even with only 30% uptake of the vaccine, 2,000 deaths and 11,000 hospitalisations from flu will be prevented every year. This is a very suspect prediction and is itself based on no hard evidence but rather extremely complex mathematical modeling relying on many questionable assumptions. If, and it is a big IF, this prediction is correct it is not the children who are being vaccinated and risking adverse reactions who are benefiting but primarily the elderly over 75 years of age.

I have no objection to reducing illness and deaths in the elderly – indeed if I am fortunate I might reach that age myself – but a high proportion of the hypothetical 2,000 deaths saved is likely to be in frail elderly who, if spared influenza will, sadly, only go on to die from some other cause in subsequent months. In other words, many, if not most, of the deaths ‘saved’ are not really saved but merely postponed for a short time.

Many of us already have concerns about the burden of immunisation in children and its possible contribution to the rise in immune related disorders.
This proposal would increase the number of vaccines a healthy child receives  by 18 years of age from 35 to 59 4 boys and from 38 to 62 in girls. This massive increase in the vaccine burden is untried and untested with regards to both safety and effectiveness.

It is symptomatic of the medical establishment’s gung-ho attitude to vaccines.

It has been suggested that vaccinating healthy children against flu may cause them more harm than benefit; indeed a flu vaccine given to children in Australia was withdrawn in 2009 because of the high incidence of adverse reactions.3 The proposal is not only suspect scientifically but is also questionable on moral and ethical grounds.

All children are to be offered a total of 24 flu shots in their childhood with no pretence that this is of any great benefit to them.

I do not believe children should be given such an avalanche of vaccines with unknown long-term consequences to benefit those two generations older than them. Introducing flu vaccination for all children in the UK is unnecessary, foolhardy and potentially dangerous.

1. JCVI statement on the annual influenza vaccination programme – extension of the programme to children. JCVI. 25 July 2012.
2. Hardelid P. Pebody R. Andrews N. Mortality caused by influenza and respiratory syncytial virus by age group in England and Wales 1999-2010. Influenza and other respiratory viruses 2012: DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2012.00345.x
3. Collignon P J, Doshi P, Jefferson T. Re: Adverse events following influenza vaccination in Australia – should we be surprised?
BMJ Rapid response. 11 March 2011

http://www.drhalvorsen.co.uk/Blog/files/877c0b1f6f4a7952c0e52e6ed8473337-32.xml

We have just launched a petition (within Greece) requesting freedom of choice
regarding vaccination of our children. We also have a lawyer who is putting
together a file of scientific and legal arguments to support our case. Towards
the end of May, after the elections, she will present our case at various
relevant bodies such as the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, the
Institute of Child Health and the National Immunisation Committee.

I am really excited about this and I hope that it will at least help open the
debate on this issue and prepare the grounds should a Court case arise in the
future.

The Campaign is relying on donations (we need to raise 5,000 euros). If you are
willing and able to help, we’d be really grateful!

Please use the Arnica Paypal account to send your donations stating “Greek Vaccination Freedom Campaign”.

We also have a special bank account for this purpose in Greece, but I believe that the cost for an
international transfer is quite high. In any case, if you don’t have a paypal account and still wish to make a donation, please email me and we will find another way.

The petition can be found at:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/åëåõèåñßá-åðéëïãÞò-ãéá-ôïí-åì.html
It is in Greek and we are only collecting signatures from within Greece at the
moment, but here is a translation of the text in English for your information.

PETITION
FREEDOM OF CHOICE FOR THE VACCINATION OF OUR CHILDREN

Target: Greek Ministry of Health, Greek Ministry of Education
Region: Greece

Background
In Greece, all school-age children are required to provide proof that they have
received all vaccines listed on the National Immunisation Programme in order to
be admitted to school. The only exemption to this requirement is a medical
exemption. According to the latest National Immunisation Programme (2011), this
amounts to a total of 14 different vaccines, with many requiring multiple doses.

According to the authorities, compulsory vaccination is necessary in order to
protect public health. However, each vaccine comes with a list of potential
adverse effects and we believe that no one should have the right to force
parents to take such risks for their children.

Most parents who claim freedom of choice regarding vaccination have serious
concerns over the short term and long term safety of vaccines, as well as doubts
over their efficacy.

Vaccines contain toxic ingredients, such as aluminium derivatives, known to
cause brain damage, formaldehyde, which is carcinogenic, Monosodium Glutamate
(MSG), which is a neurotoxin and polysorbate 80, which is linked to severe
anaphylactic reactions. Additionally, the Package Insert and Patient Information
Leaflet of each vaccine list a number of possible short term adverse reactions
ranging from redness at the injection site to a high fever, seizures and
anaphylactic shock. Studies have also associated vaccines with autism, as well
as auto-immune disorders such as Diabetes Mellitus, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid
arthritis and Gillain-Barre Syndrome to mention just a few. Additionally,
vaccines have not been tested to see whether they cause cancer or fertility
impairment.

Much of the research carried out on vaccines is funded by the pharmaceutical
industry. In its December 2009 Factsheet (no. 335), the World Health
Organisation reported: “Corruption in the pharmaceutical sector occurs
throughout all stages of the medicines chain, from research and development to
dispensing and promotion”.

There is now an increasing number of medical experts, such as those belonging to
the International Medical Council on Vaccination, who openly disagree with the
generally accepted view that vaccines are safe and efficacious. The conclusions
of the Council have been reached individually by each member, after rigorous
personal research, study and observation.

Finally, many of the “vaccine-preventable” diseases are either so rare or so
mild, that a parent should have the freedom to decide whether or not they want
to vaccinate their child. Most vaccination exemptions are only given after a
child has already been damaged by a vaccine. It is the parents who will have to
live with and take care of a vaccine-damaged child. Therefore, parents should
have the freedom to choose what risks they are willing to take.

Petition:
We, the undersigned, request that vaccines are no longer compulsory for
attendance to school. Since the pharmaceutical companies admit (in their package
inserts) that vaccines may cause serious side effects, including permanent
injury, we believe that forcing parents to take such a risk is unconstitutional
and an invasion of our human rights.

We therefore petition for freedom of choice regarding vaccination of our
children.

Friends and relatives, and the wider community, will judge non vaccinating parents and their children. The topic is emotive already (a mother on line shared that she was spat at after a mother & toddler group because she does not vaccinate) but this accusation needs retracting by the program makers as already on line some parents have been incited to be aggressive towards others.

Clearly the presenter lead the question to the parents of the baby who died, and did not have the facts to back up the allegation which are..

1. 95% of UK children are fully vaccinated which is the level required as set down by the WHO for herd immunity

2. This vaccine is not effective, ‘lasting’ for around 3 years, and so the Dept of Health is considering an extra booster

3. Whooping cough appears in the vaccinated

4. If a mother has had whooping cough then her baby is less likely to contract whooping cough at such young age (before the vaccines at 4 months) and if she breastfeeds the risks of complications from whooping cough (and Hib) are reduced

One baby a year tragically dies from whooping cough each year but the show’s omission to say this would imply that these deaths are more widespread. They misrepresented the risk of disease and were scaremongering.

I will keep you updated on this compliant.  Meanwhile I have included more detail below.

Whooping cough goes in cycles – please look at the HPA website to see that we are not experiencing unusually high cases of whooping cough during this generation. As for vaccination coverage, 95% of UK parents use this vaccine so the WHO level for ‘herd immunity’ has been reached. So why are babies still getting whooping cough and why does a baby die from whooping cough every year here?

This vaccine is the least effective, the UK gov is planning on bringing in another booster, as the number of cases of whooping cough has risen in the older age groups as it is thought that the effects of the vaccine ‘wear off’.

Whooping cough often goes undiagnosed as parent and GP thinks that the persistent cough can’t be whooping cough. This means that contagious children are going to school with whooping cough and spreading the bacteria around. Non vaccinated parents are more likely to be aware of disease symptoms and not take their children out if they are suspected of having whooping cough.

Why are babies getting whooping so young? Naturally the mother would confer natural immunity for the early months if she had had whooping cough, and if she was breast feeding would see a baby through any respiratory infection without complication. Well less mothers are able to pass on that immunity and less are breastfeeding their babies.

Why are the authorities and the media implying that non vaccinating parents are to blame for the increase then? It doesn’t seem logical that if most ARE vaccinating how can the non vaccinated be blamed. Why isn’t the Q. asked about this vaccine efficacy? And why aren’t the authorities asking us to be vigilant and informed about our children’s cough before mixing with tiny babies and why aren’t parents told more about the benefits of lower infections and hospitalisation when a baby is exclusively breastfed?

If you don’t have time to research vaccines then please accept that there are 2 sides and the government will only tell you one side of a story. Did you know for example, that formaldehyde is added to vaccines in the attempt to make the animal DNA, animal protein and virus inactive. That the placebo in vaccine safety trials are always OTHER VACCINES, it is never benign. That there is not a control group and that the health outcomes for the vaccinated and the unvaccinated have never been officially compared.

There is a very different side of this news item that mainstream UK news is not mentioning, and I would like to know why?

New Delhi, Jan. 15:
“India’s health ministry, celebrating a year of freedom from wild polio, now faces a dilemma that public health experts had predicted years ago: the very vaccine it is using to fight polio is causing more polio paralysis than the wild poliovirus.”

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120116/jsp/frontpage/story_15011108.jsp

…. in reality, the incidence of limb-paralysis in children has increased after the Polio Eradication Initiative!

The Web site of the National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP) reveals that the number of cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) in children increased from 3,047 to 60,466 (20 times) during 1997 to 2011!

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/article2837352.ece?homepage=true

With many stories of forced vaccinations in the Developing World, where there is no compensation for ADRs, surely this makes a mockery of informed choice and state responsibility. For example, there were recently some arrests of teachers refusing entry of armed Polio vaccination teams to the school..

“We arrested some staff members but released them after they swore to cooperate with us.”

http://tribune.com.pk/story/330598/as-govt-teams-come-knocking-schools-face-dilemma-of-permitting-polio-vaccinations/

The ‘data’ may show less Polio in the developing World but at what cost?  Are the children healthier?  Is paralysis any less or is it just called by a different name?  Where is the journalistic quality here?  The UK found that the chances of developed polio from vaccine-derived polio virus (VDPV) were higher than from wild polio and changed to the inactive vaccine in 2004 …..

Furthermore, Polio is very much associated with poor clean water & sanitation and nutrition.  The WHO puts water as a first priority overall as a prevention to reduce mortality (vaccines are placed second) and UNICEF puts exclusive Breastfeeding first for reducing child mortality in the under 5s.  So why has UK spending on water programs reduced and where is the investment in promotion of Breastfeeding?

In comparison, £800,000,000 tax payers money was given to GAVI last June to increase the vaccination programs but where is evidence of better health outcomes overall?  Vaccines are not necessarily linked to better long term health but the presumption is left unchallenged.  Why is the UK Government not independently assessing this GAVI contract and why are your journalists not asking questions?

Please explain why the BBC does not even scratch the surface.

I look forward to your reply.

The GAVI message of 5 million lives saved was embedded into the political mantra and as Comic Relief is now supporting GAVI I guess we have our work cut out!

The main item to follow up is that Oliver Letwin MP said that the WHO should monitor and compare the vaccinated countries and the unvaccinated, with the variable of breastfeeding uptake.   Unicef states on their site that Exclusive Breastfeeding is the single most effective intervention for preventing child deaths under a year.  And I much rather see a breast feeding mother poster any day, compared to a starving child with a needle in their arm.

The girls asked that the outcomes should not just be linked to ‘numbers’ of vaccines given but on health outcomes overall.  There was some stuttering but yes health outcomes were of course important.  As with any pledge I wonder if the ‘agreement’ has a ‘change of mind’ clause, just in case the health outcomes were not improved.  But it seems that monitoring this money and the safety of delivering millions of doses of vaccines is not a concern to Mr O’Brien.

The Minister wanted to leave all policy to the WHO and responsibility to GAVI, but considering that many GAVI board members have financial interests in the manufacture of vaccines and the WHO has missed some vital safety issues in the past, we shouldn’t be complacent.  It was admitted in the meeting that there is no evidence that live vaccines are safe for Aids sufferers (indeed the manufacturers advise against giving live vaccines to HIV and Aids patients).   The WHO sanctions this practice based only upon one study looking at HIV sufferers, not Aids.  A UK government aide offered that there also was no evidence of harm…. mmm, we will send them the Merck manual which states

“Immunocompromised patients should not receive live-virus vaccines, which could provoke severe or fatal infections.”

Anyway, thank you to all who wrote letters to your MPs, we will keep you in touch with the next phase.

Water will still be hot on the agenda as water is officially THE most effective intervention in the world say the HPA, yet just a few percent of Aid goes to water programs and this has dropped over the years.  Something just does not add up.

p.s.  I don’t suppose these news items will ring any bells for any one…
New neurological ‘Nodding Syndrome‘ in S Sudan – the CDC are looking into malnutrition as a possible cause.  I guess they will not look at the Polio vaccination as a possible cause?  6 million children were vaccinated in 2010 after mass drive, many of whom had several doses.  Malnutrition will be indicated of course but not to investigate a live vaccine, when neurological ADRs are the most reported serious ADR with vaccines, is a glaring omission.

I sit on a patient engagement group with a lead GP and members of the PCT who are illuminated with the idea that patients should be respected and listened too, more than just to satisfy authorisation for the new white paper but because it is the right thing to do.  (Not forgetting that the patient’s experience is the third strand of evidence based evidence so their health outcomes should improve also!)

The GP said that he “wanted patient involvement to be meaningful and authentic”

and when we presented it to the Clinical Commissioning Board (a shadow of the PCT) where I am a member, the board showed excitement with the draft report.  Every GP practice is enjoying a visit to support new patient reference groups, and the word patient engagement and HealthWatch is creeping into more and more policy documents.

A GP from my local practice told me that she would prefer not to prescribe antibiotics

“I think that antibiotics are incorrectly credited much of the time” she said, “Often the body would have got better anyway in the time a person takes antibiotics.”

And the second GP on a follow up visit said, “It is so refreshing to meet a parent who does not want Antibiotics!  So often the parent puts pressure on us to prescribe when we know it is not in the child’s best interest.”

For my daughter’s blocked sinus symptom the GP suggested steaming
with Eucalyptus 3 times a day for 3 days.

For my son’s wart the GP said that

“the body would get rid of it by itself and as long as it is not hurting, then best to leave it to nature…. “

If we wanted to speed up the process we could try banana skins or tape!
The surgery does not recommend any product for children as they can damage more healthy skin.

And in the waiting room the message flashing on the screen reads..

DO NOT ROUTINELY GIVE CALPOL BEFORE ‘IMMUNISATION’ AS IT MAY MASK A CHILD’S FEVER

So lets all have a great year of communicating with the health professionals and sharing our learning and respect for nature… be bold like the Chinese Dragon.