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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

VACCINE GIVES BOY NARCOLEPSY

Correlation between swine flu vaccine - also known as H1N1 - and narcolepsy has been officially acknowledged.
 
In Britain the vaccine was given to almost a million children under the age of five in 2009 and 2010 before being withdrawn because of its links with narcolepsy.
 
Ms Foy, a mother-of-three, said: ‘Before Ben had the jab he was a very healthy little boy. It was only after that he started showing symptoms of narcolepsy.
 
Soon after, he started falling asleep and his teacher told us he kept napping at his desk and they would struggle to wake him up.
 
Ben Foy was subsequently diagnosed with narcolepsy.
 
 
The link between swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy
 
Narcolepsy, which occurs in one in every 2,000 people, is a sleep disorder that causes a person to suddenly fall asleep at inappropriate times.

It is a long-term neurological condition that disrupts normal sleeping patterns.

Symptoms include, sleep attacks, daytime sleepiness and cataplexy - temporary muscle weakness in response to emotion.

It is often caused by an autoimmune response - this is when antibodies are released by the body but instead of destroying disease, they attack healthy cells.

In the case of narcolepsy, antibodies attack the areas of the brain that produce a sleep-regulating chemical.

There is currently no cure but the condition can sometimes be managed, for example, by taking regular naps, eating healthily and exercising.
 
In some cases, medications such as antidepressants or stimulants can also help.

It is thought that for every 55,000 children who were given the jab, Pandemrix, one has developed narcolepsy.Researchers, who published their findings in the British Medical Journal, studied 75 children with narcolepsy and found that 11 of these had received the vaccine before their symptoms began.

The vaccine is associated with a 14-fold increase in a child's risk of developing the condition.

Since 2011, the British Department of Health has prevented the use of Pandemrix in people under the age of 20.

Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2416629/Ben-Foy-8-falls-asleep-20-times-DAY-swine-flu-jab-gives-narcolepsy.html


RELATED

Swedish study confirms link between swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy -
http://www.thelocal.se/46950/20130326/#.UVHtYVdPxX

More on vaccines on Natural News -
http://www.naturalnews.com/vaccines.html

More on vaccines on this blog -
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Vaccines

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