If you have children, then reading this may be the most important thing you do to make sure they grow up happy, healthy and to their genetic potential. Two thirds of U.S. children suffer middle ear infections, or otitis media, by the age of 2. The infections usually follow a viral respiratory infection. At first, they cause a red and swollen eardrum, pain and fussiness in infants and toddlers. Sometimes fluid accumulates in the middle ear, behind the eardrum, where it can remain for weeks or months and may impair hearing.
So, you come home from work next week and your little Johnny has an ear infection. What do you do? Well, let’s separate fact from fiction so you can make an educated decision that may have a drastic impact on your child’s life for the rest of their life because the treatment you choose could have a drastic effect on the rest of your child’s life. The first thing you must understand about ear infections is that they are not as dangerous as you may think. Here’s what a study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Southern California/RAND Evidence-based Practice Canter (EPC) found: nearly two-thirds of children with uncomplicated ear infections recover from pain and fever within 24 hours of diagnosis without antibiotic treatment. Over 80% recover within 1 to 7 days.
Approximately 93% of children treated with antibiotics recover within 1-7 days. Researchers also found that the newer and more costly antibiotics, such as cefacior, cefixime, azithromycin, or clarithromycin, provide no additional benefit to children than amoxicillin. The EPC also found no evidence that short-duration (5 days or less) versus long-duration therapy (7-10 days) made a difference in the clinical outcome for children 2 years of age.
More than 5 million cases of acute ear infections occur annually, costing about $3 billion. In the November 26, 1997 issue of the Journal of The American Medical Association, experts say the routine use of antibiotics against pediatric ear infections produces little health benefit while contributing to the spread of drug resistant bacteria.
They point out that children whose previous ear infections were treated with antibiotics have a rate of amoxicillan resistant bacteria that is three times higher during subsequent ear infection episodes. In extreme cases, deaths from drug resistant meningitis have been linked to built-up antibiotic resistance traced to previous treatment for ear infection.
What’s more, Dr. Joseph Mercola, MD, from Johns Hopkins University states: “The treatment of ear infections is a huge problem. MOST of the chronically sick children I see were given antibiotics frequently for recurrent ear infections. The sad tragedy is that nearly all of these are preventable.”
Do you understand what this means? Not only does using antibiotics for many cases of ear infections possibly not help, it may lead to chronic illness! Now that you have the bad news, what’s the good news? The good news is there are natural ways to help prevent and stop ear infections without the use of harmful antibiotics.
A study was performed comparing the health of two hundred pediatrician’s children versus 200 chiropractor’s children. The results will shock you. The study found that 80% of the “medical” Children Suffered Ear Infection versus only 31% of the “chiropractic” children! And “pediatricians were more likely to feel that every child would have been on a course of antibiotics at least once, and the occurrence of infectious diseases was significantly less among the latter sample.” The study went on the say, “This study has shown that children raised under chiropractic care are less prone to infectious processes such as otitis media and tonsillitis, and that their immune systems are better able to cope with allergens such as pollen, weeds, grasses, and more as compared to children raised under allopathic (medical) care.”
How could this be? What could be the difference that made the chiropractic children healthier? Could there be one thing, above all others, that gave these children superior health and… a better chance for success in life? I think there is. Your nervous system controls every function in your body. Your brain sends electrical impulses down your spinal cord and nerves to all your organs and cells. It tells your heart to beat and your lungs to breath. It controls the whole show.
These electrical impulses can get altered as they exit your spine, in between your spinal bones by misaligned or malfunctioning spinal joints. When this happens, your body doesn’t function the way it should. Your immune system doesn’t function the way it should. So when the germs responsible for an ear infection or any other disease enter your children’s body, the immune system doesn’t fight it off like it should and the result is an ear infection. Normally, without any interference from the spinal joint, the germs could have been defeated.
Medical researcher Dr. G. Gutmann, after examining over 1000 infants concluded that approximately 80% had imbalances, many from the top bone in the neck. Abraham Towbin, MD, Neuropathologist Harvard Medical School, found that 7 out of 8 autopsies he performed on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) died from a spinal cord injury from the birth process or soon after.
Let’s get one thing crystal clear: The birth process is not a walk in the park. The infant is usually grabbed by its head and it is pulled and twisted out with great force. And remember, your baby’s neck is very delicate. It has been living in fluid for the last nine months and has never even had to hold up the weight of its own head.
The bottom line is that every child should receive a complete chiropractic spinal check-up to insure they grow up happy and healthy. After all, Medical researcher Dr, Gutmann found that 80% of the infants he examined had spinal imbalances. Do you think your child is any different? Make sure you contact New Century Spine Centers in San Diego our office to find out how all of your children can get a free spinal trauma evaluation. It’s quick. It’s easy. It’s free. And it may change their life.
