10 August 2006
Viral Fever
What so ever is going on in treating persons suffering with viral infections is mockery in the name of humanity and medicine. Only people who have right knowledge about the nature of virus and disease it produces escapes from the grip of some unintelligent Doctors. Today we have very few antiviral drugs as compared to antibiotics which are proliferating every day. These so called antiviral drugs have drastic side effects like cytotoxic activity. Bacteria mostly habitat in intercellular space and are very susceptible to micro doses of antimicrobial poisons so called antibiotics, But on the contrary Virus habitat in intracellular space (in Side the cell wall) and cell protects the virus of its best. Thus only those antimicrobial poisons can kill the virus which can kill the cell itself infected with virus. Thus these antiviral drugs are cytotoxic.
Thus we can not rely upon antiviral medicines; instead we have to rely upon innate power, our own immune system to combat the killer viruses.
Also there is nothing to do with antibiotics in the treatment of viral diseases; use of antibiotics makes the viral disease worse and prolonged. Most of the viral diseases are self limiting by there own or with the appearance of secondary bacterial infection. In most cases of viral disease secondary infection with bacteria leads to get rid of viral infection. Thus when a person suffering with viral disease is treated with antibiotics it only disturbs microbial ecology and helps in making strongholds for virus in suffering person. In well organized higher life as in human beings, there is some innate power to fight against viruses. In the infinitely long past, from repeated invasion by microbes, life force of human beings had learned enough to combat with pathogenic micro-organisms.
Fever (rise in body temp) is the only faithful means to kick pathogenic viruses from human body. Fever helps the sufferer in following ways:-
(i) Cry for help:- signal the existence of virus in living being
(ii) Retards the multiplication of viruses
(iii) Acts as Blood Brain Barrier and thus protects the most vital organ from viral damage
(iv) Kills the viruses: - viruses being less organized living entities (as compared to highly organized human beings) are prone to be killed at slightly higher temperature.
(v) Activates immune system against infecting virus
(vi) Hastens the repair process of the tissue destruction done by virus
It is crucial that lots of tissue destruction take place during high fever but most important is the damage done by virus when allowed to proliferate copiously by suppressing fever with antipyretics.
Fever pain inflammation are not our enemies per see, they should not be combated but co-operated instead in order to fight virus the common enemy. One should endeavor of its best to help the ailing life force by increasing body temperature in case of low grade (mild to moderate) fever in order to compel the virus to quit the living being.
Thus we can not rely upon antiviral medicines; instead we have to rely upon innate power, our own immune system to combat the killer viruses.
Also there is nothing to do with antibiotics in the treatment of viral diseases; use of antibiotics makes the viral disease worse and prolonged. Most of the viral diseases are self limiting by there own or with the appearance of secondary bacterial infection. In most cases of viral disease secondary infection with bacteria leads to get rid of viral infection. Thus when a person suffering with viral disease is treated with antibiotics it only disturbs microbial ecology and helps in making strongholds for virus in suffering person. In well organized higher life as in human beings, there is some innate power to fight against viruses. In the infinitely long past, from repeated invasion by microbes, life force of human beings had learned enough to combat with pathogenic micro-organisms.
Fever (rise in body temp) is the only faithful means to kick pathogenic viruses from human body. Fever helps the sufferer in following ways:-
(i) Cry for help:- signal the existence of virus in living being
(ii) Retards the multiplication of viruses
(iii) Acts as Blood Brain Barrier and thus protects the most vital organ from viral damage
(iv) Kills the viruses: - viruses being less organized living entities (as compared to highly organized human beings) are prone to be killed at slightly higher temperature.
(v) Activates immune system against infecting virus
(vi) Hastens the repair process of the tissue destruction done by virus
It is crucial that lots of tissue destruction take place during high fever but most important is the damage done by virus when allowed to proliferate copiously by suppressing fever with antipyretics.
Fever pain inflammation are not our enemies per see, they should not be combated but co-operated instead in order to fight virus the common enemy. One should endeavor of its best to help the ailing life force by increasing body temperature in case of low grade (mild to moderate) fever in order to compel the virus to quit the living being.
# posted by Dr S. S. Tanwar : 1:20 AM
