How many times have we, as parents, run to the medicine cabinet to get medication that will get our children's temperature down when they wake up hot in the middle of the night? We have been conditioned to fear fevers for the potential brain damage they may cause. Here is an excerpt from a research article written by Judith DeCava, C.N.C. published in Biomechanical Research & Clinical Nutrition:
"Fever is a built-in mechanism of repair: The muscles around bones become warm in order to leach ionized calcium from the bones and free the calcium where it is needed to activate white blood cells.
No one ever 'burned up' with fever; no one ever will. Heat a pan of water to 106 degrees F., insert your finger and see how hot it is. Do you feel anything at all except lukewarm water? Yet, we have been taught to fear fever.
Parents frequently panic over the thought of seizures--called febrile convulsions--
that sometime occur with sudden high fever in children. The Journal of Pediatrics (66:1009-1012, Dec. 1981) established the truth by stating that febrile convulsions in children do not injure the central nervous system (brain/spinal cord). Febrile convulsions....are really 'hypocalcemic tetany,' muscle twitching resulting from low blood calcium. These muscle twitching do not cause brain damage and do not lead to epilepsy.
Although fever is a purposeful process to release stored calcium from bone reserves, it is better to supply calcium in the diet rather than withdrawing it from bones. The pasteurization of milk alters the available free calcium. In turn, pasteurized milk is not a good source of calcium." (Something I have been saying to skeptical patients for years.)
As you may have read in past blogs, I recommend only one type of calcium supplement: calcium from a whole food organic source that requires only one biochemical step to reach its ionized state.
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