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There are still some winter maladies to overcome before the arrival of the fair season. With ever growing conviction, Eurosalus advocates dealing with forms of fever, flu, and colds in a natural way. By now, it's been proven that sedating fever (which is one of the body's defense mechanisms) prolongs the illness.
The fever should be controlled if it surpasses certain values (39, 0) and if particular clinical conditions exist. However, usually it's best to help it take its course in order to activate the metabolism of the lymphocytes and the other white blood cells to bring on a speedy recovery.
When you interfere with a system, sooner or later it tends to react. When you needlessly inhibit fever, as unfortunately happens with the majority of seasonal colds, this leads to after effects that can be serious. This is what researchers from New Zealand found in the study published in Lancet. An in-depth research showed that the use of paracetamol during infancy lead to an increase in the incidence of allergic forms in later years (Beasley R, et al. Lancet. 2008 Sep 20;372(9643):1039-48).
An occasional use of paracetamol during the first year of life increased by 60% the possibility of developing asthma, rhinitis, conjunctivitis or eczema by the age of 6-7 years. However, frequent use of the substance (and how many people use it as if it were water...) increased the risk by as much as 325%, tripling the incidence of cases with respect to normal.
Even the use of this medicine between ages 6 and 7 was statistically linked to an increase in severe asthma and to the onset of eczema and conjunctivitis. In all respects, paracetamol is considered to be a risk factor in the development of asthma, as was later confirmed by another work published on the Journal of Asthma by Danish researchers (Thomsen SF et al, J Asthma. 2008 Oct;45(8):675-6).
In Italy, it's certainly easier to give a child a product that's called “Tachipirina” (one of the commercial names for paracetamol) instead of “Methotrexate” or “Ciproxin” (to cite some other commercial names of other substances with a more jarring verbal impact than the popular “fever drops”). But sometimes an angelic name like the first one can hide insidious side effects.
The product itself is not at fault in that it can be used correctly in cases of real need. The fault lies instead with an attitude that refuses symptoms (in order to feel well immediately, regardless of any evolutionistic reasoning) and a cultural habit of stocking one's house with a variety of medicines, instead of working on stimulating one's own healing capabilities
Eurosalus believes in using natural remedies in case of fever for this reason: supporting the physiological healing process in such a way benefits the equilibrium of the entire body. Symptomatic medicines should only be used when they are really necessary and after due consideration.
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