Eradicate Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Now

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Eradicate Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Now

 

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Eradicate Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Now!

 

SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - is a tragic way for infants to die. The

medical establishment seems to have no idea what causes it. Apparently healthy

infants just suddenly die in their sleep, with no apparent warning. Two out of

every thousand live-born infants die of this syndrome.

 

Cause Unknown or Cause Ignored?

 

But is the cause really unknown, or has it been ignored and marginalized? In the

1970s, an Australian doctor named Archie Kalokerinos volunteered to serve the

Aboriginal people in the opal mining region of Australia. He found that an

astonishing 50% of infants were dying, primarily from SIDS. He noted that the

people and their infants were almost completely deficient of vitamin C in their

diet, and began a supplementation program. Before long the infant mortality rate

had dropped to near zero, and no child subsequently died of SIDS. In 1978, Dr.

Irwin Stone, one of the doctors who pioneered research in vitamin C, reported

this in a paper presented at the Conference On Controversies In Human And

Clinical Nutrition that SIDS was in fact a result of what he called Chronic

Subclinical Scurvy (vitamin C deficiency):

 

The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or Crib Death, has been shown by the

Australian workers, A. Kalokerinos and G. Dettman, to be a manifestation of

infantile scurvy, due to the fact that all infants, born of mothers who depended

solely on their diet as their only source of ascorbate, are born with the CSS

Syndrome after nine months of intrauterine scurvy (Stone. 1978). SIDS can be

prevented by increasing the infant’s intake of ascorbate (Cook, 1978). This

has been known and published since 1974 (Kalokerinos, 1974). (Irwin Stone, Eight

Decades of Scurvy - The Case History of a Misleading Dietary Hypothesis, 1978).

 

Many of these infants were dying after receiving government-mandated

vaccinations. Dr. Thomas Levy writes:

 

Vaccinations also generally present some degree of toxin insult to the body.

Kalokerinos (1981) observed that vitamin C-deficient Aboriginal infants were

often placed into an acute state of scurvy because of the additional vitamin C

demands placed on their bodies by the vaccination injections, resulting in

sudden death. (Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD, Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, & Toxins

– Curing The Incurable, 2002).

 

Dr. Kalokerinos wrote about his experience in his first book " Every Second

Child, " and with the help of other physicians organized a national tour of the

U.S. with the other physician who worked with him on vitamin C and SIDS, Dr.

Glen Dettman. But the medical profession here and the NIH marginalized and

ignored his work.

 

Fast-forward to 2004. Here we are, thirty years after two courageous doctors

found the root cause - and cure - for SIDS. Tens of thousands of infants have

died unnecessarily, and more infant deaths seem inevitable. These are tragic

deaths that were and are totally preventable. But doctors all over the world are

still looking for an elusive cause, there are hundreds of SIDS research sites

and support networks, and no one is talking about the vitamin C connection or

doing anything about it, with the exception of a few doctors who have been using

large-dose vitamin C for years such as Robert Cathcart of Los Altos, California.

The medical establishment just refuses to believe that this syndrome could be

caused by a simple nutrient deficiency.

 

Large Amounts of Vitamin C Essential for Health

 

Vitamin C - an essential nutrient more accurately called ascorbate - is needed

by the human body in large quantities for literally dozens of metabolic

processes, from tissue repair to recycling of cholesterol to neutralization of

free radicals and toxins to the building of antibodies and white blood cells.

Most animals - other than humans, primates, guinea pigs, and a couple of rare

animals - produce their own vitamin C in large amounts from glucose (a simple

sugar found in blood), either in their liver (mammals) or their kidneys

(reptiles).

 

The optimum dose for all of these metabolic processes is about 200-1000 mg per

10 lbs of body weight, depending on the level of stress, activity, environmental

toxins, and general health. We " use up " vitamin C faster if we work in a

stressful job, exercise heavily, are exposed to toxins, or if we are ill.

 

If we do not ingest any vitamin C, we get scurvy; we need vitamin C to repair

normal microscopic wear and tear of the walls of our arteries, and when they

cannot be repaired, they hemorrhage. We literally bleed to death internally.

 

But what happens if we get some, but not enough? The " Recommended Daily

Allowance " of vitamin C is a small fraction of the amount we - and infants -

really need. Many metabolic processes will be compromised, but the outward signs

won't be obvious. Artery wall repair will happen more slowly, and the human body

compensates for this deficiency with a sticky plaque called lipoprotein(a) - the

root cause of cardiovascular disease. Antibodies and white blood cells will be

built incorrectly or not at all. Cholesterol, needed for nutrient transport,

will not be recycled properly.

 

For infants, this is deadly. Their little bodies have very little reserves to

draw upon. Without sufficient vitamin C, their immune systems and arteries are

fragile. A single stressful event, a minor fall, a vaccination, a toxic

exposure, or a simple virus or bacterial illness could tip the balance and kill

them. Metabolic failure, heart failure, toxic trauma to vital organs, hemorrhage

- it could happen dozens of ways. Sudden death, with no warning. SIDS.

 

We Can Eradicate SIDS

 

It's now time to eradicate this syndrome once and for all. It is time to

supplement every child's diet with a minimum of 200 mg of vitamin C per day for

each 10 lbs of body weight, and more - up to 1000 mg per day for each 10 lbs of

body weight - for children who are ill or whose immune systems are compromised.

For example, you would give a newborn infant (7-10 lbs) a minimum of about

150-200 mg per day.

 

If a child is ill or stressed, his or her body uses far more than that. It is

easy to find out how much vitamin C a child really needs - too much causes a

non-harmful, temporary diarrhea, and you just reduce the dosage until the

diarrhea subsides. This is called the " bowel tolerance dose " by Dr. Robert

Cathcart, who has been treating his patients with large-dosage vitamin C for

more than twenty-five years.

 

Vitamin C that is usable for children is available in liquid form (such as

Child-Life Vitamin C liquid) from many health food stores or online. Do not use

varieties sweetened with honey or containing a lot of ingredients. Spread out

the daily dose in three divided doses. Measure it carefully and mix it with

pasteurized orange juice to give it to your child.

 

Pregnant mothers need to take vitamin C to provide enough to their babies in the

womb, using the same formula of 200 mg per 10 lbs of body weight, or about

3000-4000 mg per day, in divided doses, for an adult of typical weight. You

should take much more - up to your " bowel tolerance dose " - if you are ill or

under stress. Vitamin C deficiency during gestation can profoundly affect the

normal development of the child.

 

Here's how to do the calculation: take your body weight or the weight of your

child, divide by 10, and then multiply by 200 mg to get the minimum dose of

vitamin C. So for a child who weighs 20 lbs, you divide 20 by 10, result 2, then

multiply by 200, result 400 mg per day minimum dose. For an adult who weighs 150

lbs, divide by 10, result 15, then multiply by 200, result 3000 mg per day

minimum dose.

 

For increased dosage if the child is ill or his or her immune system is

compromised, you can provide up to 100-200 mg per 10 lbs of body weight for each

individual dose, up to 5 doses per day, checking for bowel tolerance: if

diarrhea occurs, reduce dosage until it subsides and then continue with a

reduced dosage. Vitamin C can save the child's life in cases of severe influenza

or pneumonia. (Always confer with a competent pediatrician if a child is

severely ill! It is important to find a pediatrician who believes in vitamin C,

so that if the child is hospitalized they will continue with vitamin C

supplementation.) Once the child is well, gradually reduce vitamin C to the

dosage you use regularly.

 

For vaccinations: In general, I recommend that parents seriously consider not

vaccinating their children, and certainly never to vaccinate against hepatitis

B, because the vaccine has a horrific reputation for harming children, and

hepatitis B is both extremely rare and also quite curable. Vaccines in general

contain both live (but " attenuated " ) viruses and a brew of toxic chemicals and

preservatives, sometimes including mercury (thimerosal). This places a huge

burden on the child's immune system, and quickly depletes vitamin C. Many SIDS

victims have died shortly after vaccinations.

 

If you decide to vaccinate your child, increase the vitamin C dose dramatically

several hours before and for several days after the vaccination to prevent

vitamin C depletion and so that the child's immune and detoxification systems

will have a chance to kill the viruses and neutralize the toxins. Demand

non-thimerosal, single-dose, single-virus vaccines; the multiple-virus vaccines

such as DPT and MMP have the worst reputations regarding harm to infants.

Tetanus is probably the only disease for which there is any real justification

for vaccination.

 

Is Vitamin C safe in these doses?

 

Vitamin C is safe in literally any amounts. As mentioned above, it is an

essential nutrient needed in large quantities for dozens of metabolic processes.

Many people, including this author, have taken very large doses of vitamin C for

many years without any side effects, and live healthier lives as a result.

100,000 mg to 300,000 mg amounts have been given intravenously to people who are

very ill with AIDS and other illnesses, with no adverse effects. It does not

cause kidney stones, heart disease, or cancer; as a matter of fact, it prevents

them. The pharmaceutical industry and its allies have gotten the media to spread

false warnings about large-dose vitamin C to the media, and the refutations by

prominent researchers and clinicians are never printed.

 

Eradicate SIDS Now!

 

Let's make SIDS history! If you are pregnant or you have an infant or older

child, please begin vitamin C supplementation now. I have prepared a Microsoft

Word version of this document, at http://www.cqs.com/sids.doc for public

distribution. Please print, copy, send, and distribute this printable document

widely, to your friends and relatives who have children, to everyone you know.

 

Jonathan Campbell, Health Consultant

January 15, 2004

 

References:

 

Kalokerinos Archie, Every Second Child. Thomas Nelson (Australia) Ltd.,

Melbourne, 1974.

 

Kalokerinos Archie, Medical Pioneer of the 20th Century. Biological Therapies

Publishing, 2000

 

Levy Thomas, Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, & Toxins - Curing the Incurable.

Xlibris, 2002.

 

Hattersley J, The Answer to Crib Death “Sudden Infant Death Syndromeâ€

(SIDS), Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Volume 8, Number 4, 1993, pp.229-245

 

Stone I, Eight Decades of Scurvy - The Case History of a Misleading Dietary

Hypothesis, presentation at the Conference On Controversies In Human And

Clinical Nutrition, Boston University School of Medicine, Hyannis,

Massachusetts. July 16, 1978

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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