WHOOPING COUGH: Causes, Cure, and Prevention

WHOOPING COUGH: Causes, Cure, and Prevention
(Copyrighted: 24 January 2014: Dr.V.M.Palaniappan, Ph.D.)

Another name for this disease is "Pertussis".

It is said to be a highly contagious one, caused by a bacteria called Bordetella pertussis.

Have you had a chance to observe the spreading of this disease?

Although it is said to be highly contagious, it does not affect all the children who may be exposed to this bacteria.

Do you know why?

Let me explain it here. However, even before offering you an acceptable explanation, let us know the already known facts about this health problem that mainly affects children.

The "Star" newspaper in Malaysia has highlighted this disease, written by Datuk Dr. Zulkifli Ismail. (See Star2, Thurs; 23.1.2014: Health, p.15).

In addition, if you wish to read more about it, you can go through your Google search engine, by typing the name of this disease: The URL being: https://www.google.com/#q=Pertussis

 Some such details include the following:

When a child gets this disease, the cough is said to remain for 100 days, before it disappears.

The symptoms include:

* Severe and continued cough

* The cough stage is said to last for about six weeks before subsiding (Wikipedia)

* The child can faint

* Yawning and FITS may occur

* Pneumonia can also develop.

* Brain damage, and even death may occur.


Let ME explain here the reasons for the occurrence of all these symptoms, for each problem has a definite reason that is not known to the medical fraternity yet:

In the first place, the bacteria tends to live in a child whose body is ALKALINE, and not acidic.

In other words, if the child's body is in a mild state of hyperacidosis, the child would NOT get this bacteria.

A child's body can become overly alkalized, because of (1) essentially under-urination, (2) defecating slimy faeces, because of unsuitable milk preparations and the like, and (3) the presence of far too much of calcium in the baby food.

The body that has become highly alkalized this way becomes susceptible for the infection by this bacteria.

Those children whose body is in a mildly acid state (i.e., hyperacidosis state) will not get infected*.

(* Under normal conditions, such a condition may not occur if the child happens to under-urinate.

Of course, high protein diet and other acid foods and drinks can acidify the body - but, mostly the acidification tends to occur in localized areas of the body, such as in the knee cap in adults).

Secondly,
when a child under-urinates after drinking plenty of liquids (e.g., milk, juices, water), then, the withheld water will get out of the body in the form excessive sweat (giving rise to hyperhidrosis).

When hyperhidrosis occurs, the skin surface, due to evaporation of the water, cools down.

When the body surface is chill, the moisture-borne air (i.e., air with high relative humidity, RH) that is inhaled through the nose, condenses as water droplets in the numerous breathing holes (the alveoli) present in the lungs.

These droplets block the holes, and make air exchange (i.e., breathing) difficult.

Flute produces noise (musical notes) when air passes through impeded holes.

Likewise, when air passes through the blocked holes, wheezing noise is made. (In the long run, this condition gives rise to bronchitis and asthma).

When breathing holes get blocked, in order to create some clearance space through them for air exchange, the brain induces cough.

Since water droplets keep on flooding the holes repeatedly, the cough too will have to be repeated.

If abundant water rapidly and repeatedly clog up the holes in a child whose body is in an alkaline state and infected with the bacteria Bordetella pertussis, then, the continuous cough becomes chronic, and that forms the WHOOPING COUGH.

Administration of antibiotics may kill and suppress the infection.

Yet, the continued 'nagging' cough may not stop. 

This is so because, the child, unless induced to urinate liberally, will continue to have the hyperhidrosis.

This lets us know that the prevention of whooping cough can be achieved if a child is made to urinate liberally all the time, as a habit.

I have observed in a large number of susceptible children that it is tightly worn napkin that tends to discourage liberal urination.

For that matter, if the infected child suffering from whooping cough is made to urinate liberally, the hyperhidrosis will get corrected, and that will prevent water condensation in the lungs, thus help in an early recovery from the disease.

In addition to the above, feeding the child with rain water or distilled water (these are naturally acidic) for a week or so (increasing in quantity gradually), will also help the child in recovering from the bacterial infection.

Now, you may want to know as why an infected child should develop other symptoms.

The following are the explanations:

When the brain runs short of oxygen, and when the body has accumulated too much of carbon dioxide, the brain induces yawning, so that the carbon dioxide will get expelled out of the body.

The blocked breathing holes bring about this impeded air exchange.

I have explained in my book "Obesity: Causes, Cure, and Prevention" the causes for seizures = fitz = epilepsy.

Brain failure, leading to headache, migraine, fainting, coma and death can occur if the brain does not receive oxygen.

One way by which the brain can help is to induce seizures in the person.

When body shakes up violently, breathing (i.e., oxygen inhalation) gets enhanced, thus 'saving' the person from death.

When lungs get clogged up with excessive moisture for a prolonged period, that chronic situation / environment enhances the onset of pneumonia.
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So friends, having understood the reasons / risk factors that bring about the whooping cough or Pertussis, you can certainly help in the prevention of the disease in children under your care.

Kindly note that all the above explanations are my own original findings, and they cannot be found in any other publication, in any language, in any place, and in any other mainstream or alternative medicines.

Well, with best wishes until I come up with another interesting and useful article,

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Palani, Ph.D.





 

A COMMON CURE FOR SNEEZING, PROFUSE SWEATING, AND A FEW MORE OF THE LUNG DISEASES

A COMMON CURE FOR SNEEZING, PROFUSE SWEATING, AND A FEW MORE OF THE LUNG DISEASES

(© 2001, 2012: Dr. V.M. Palaniappan)

Dear Friends,

This should form Part-2 of my previously posted “ASTHMA CAN BE CURED” article. This part deals with a FEW MORE LUNG DISEASES.

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In Part 1, I was explaining the CAUSES for Nagging Cough.

In today’s second part, I am in the process of explaining the details concerning the rest of the pulmonary or lung-related diseases.

The curative procedure for several of the pulmonary diseases is nearly the same as for the Nagging Cough.

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By this time, you must have understood the reasons for the development of NAGGING COUGH.

If a person drinks plenty of water (say, >2L) and under-urinates (e.g., only thrice daily), he/she would produce enormous amount of sweat.

This sweat would condense on the outer surface of his/her body, enhancing the condensation of the air-borne moisture that is present in the inhaled air into tiny droplets of water within the lungs.

Such droplets block the breathing holes called alveoli, and prevent the air exchange.

In order to facilitate the intake of oxygen and output of carbon dioxide, the brain induces nagging cough, which clears the blockage.

(If the blockage is not cleared, the person would get headaches initially, indigestion and energyless a while later, and memory failure in the long run - all for want of oxygen. If the blockage is severe, the person would initially develop dizziness, faint, and can even die, or enter into a comma, and then die,)

Hence, if you want to stop the nagging cough WITHOUT ANY MEDICATION, and in a natural way, you should do one of the following:

1. Drink LESS water, and that will stop the nagging cough. However, drinking less water is NOT good at all for the upkeep of good health. So, this will not form a good remedial measure. By right, you should drink about 2 L of water daily (For details, see my book OBESITY (1998).
2. Increase the NUMBER OF TIMES YOU URINATE. Such an activity will increase the QUANTITY of urine that is voided. As a result, your body will NOT sweat much. That means, there will NOT be any CONDENSATION of water droplets within the LUNGS. Since the need for the clearance of the blockages does not arise, nagging cough will NOT occur.
3. Liberal urination is the best solution. If for any reason you cannot void adequately, then, stay in an AIR-CONDITIONED room. The air-conditioners DEHYDRATE your body - i.e., they suck the moisture from the air within the room as well as that from the body (including the vapour that escapes from eyes, nose, mouth, etc.). As a result, CONDENSATION will NOT occur on your body’s surface. This will prevent the development of nagging cough.

In fact, this is the reason why people working / living in air-conditioned rooms for most part of the day/night do not get nagging cough.

(The air-conditioner gathers all the moisture, and that ‘URINATES’ on our behalf! Eh!)

Similarly, people living in HIGHLANDS and COLD countries also will NOT get nagging cough.

Often, the tropical-living people are the ones who become victims of such condensations.

But then, how good working/staying in the air-conditioned environment can be?  

Would I recommend that as a meaningful remedial measure?

CERTAINLY NOT! 

Can you guess why?

Here is the answer:

The air-conditioner would, of course, suck away all the moisture from the skin surface, and as a result, you will NOT sweat, thus giving you an escape from developing nagging cough.

However, the loss of moisture from the body due to such dehydration, will definitely REDUCE the QUANTITY of urine you void.

Reduced urination will remove only LESSER amounts of calcium from your body, thus allowing the accumulation of excessive calcium within the body.

Such accumulations, depending upon the kind of body organ involved, will give rise to breast lump, cyst (in any of the body organs, including uterus, ovary to form polycystic ovary), fibroid, prostate, kidney stones, gall stone, etc.

So, what is the point in avoiding nagging cough and getting these major diseases?

Hence, LIBERAL URINATION will be the BEST remedial measure for the prevention nagging cough.  

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I think, I am dragging…. Let me come to the point:

Referring to ASTHMA:

In addition to UNDER-URINATION, if a person stays/sleeps most of the time inside a room without any ventilation (i.e., all windows and doors closed), the air in the room will become excessively moist, and our body will become very sticky as well. This will increase the INTENSITY of NAGGING COUGH, giving rise to SEVERE BLOCKAGES OF THE BREATHING HOLES.

IF ALL THE CONDITIONS THAT GIVE RISE TO NAGGING COUGH CONTINUE FOR PROLONGED PERIOD, and much more intensely, then, that will turn into ASTHMA.

The risk factors for most of the pulmonary (lung) diseases seem to be almost the same.

A child in the tropical countries, wrapped with Winter-clothing, would almost certainly develop BRONCHITIS, due to the profuse sweat produced within the winter clothes - on the body surface of the infant.

A very tightly worn napkin or diapers tend to SUPPRESS the desire for urination. As a result, the urinal bladder accumulates plenty of urine. When it gets fully filled, the brain ‘arranges’ its withdrawal, and allows that to escape from the body in the form of profuse sweat. This is why most of the children in the tropical climate (or in heated rooms in the cold countries) become victims of lung diseases (including bronchitis, asthma etc.).

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Why should pollen grains, dusts, etc. become the ALLERGENS in the Asthma-prone people?

In the NORMAL, HEALTHY people who urinate liberally, the breathing holes will NOT be having water droplets.

In the Asthmatics, the breathing holes will be having plenty of moisture. When the pollen grains (that reach the lungs while inhaling the air) get deposited in such moist medium, they begin to GERMINATE.

On germination, they increase the blockages, and that gives rise to an asthma attack.

As for the dust particles, on reaching the moist lung holes, they dissolve in the water there and start irritating the cells to create identical problems.

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In short, the REMEDIAL or PREVENTION measures for ASTHMA appear to be the SAME as described for the Nagging Cough.

If you wear a facial mask, pollen grains and dust particles will NOT enter into the lungs, and therefore, you will not get an attack.

(In liberally urinating people, since there will not be any moisture in the lungs, the pollen grains will not grow, and the dust will not dissolve).

If you happen to be in a country that has a VERY HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITY (RH), and you moved to live in a highland or to a country where the RH is very LOW or DRY, you will not get these lung diseases.

Would I recommend the Asthma patients to move away from their moist locations?

No!, not at all!

I would only recommend them / TRAIN THEM TO URINATE PROPERLY.

People with lung problems often require intense training for proper urination, and I offer my patients just that.

That is how I treat and cure all the Asthma / Bronchitis/ Nagging Cough, SNEEZING (due to Sinusitis) and SWEATING patients who come to me.

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Did you notice that I have included SNEEZING (Sinusitis) & SWEATING as well in the above listing?

I have done so because, SNEEZING / RUNNING NOSE, and PROFUSE SWEATING called HYPERHIDROSIS are also due to UNDER-URINATION!

When I train the Sinusitis (+ other lung problem) patients to urinate properly for a cure, I teach them the method for monitoring the INPUT/OUTPUT RATIO as well.

If the above RATIO, after measuring for five days, comes to 1.0, the person will get CURED.

(Sneezing AND Hyperhidrosis would stop within five weeks after achieving the RATIO of 1.0).

Of course, the patient has to continue to urinate for at least TWO MONTHS in the way I train them, and should maintain this Ratio at 1.0, for a permanent cure. 

Short-term increased urinations will give only temporary relief form the problems.

I have observed the following clinically:

Some of the long-term Asthma patients (e.g., >20 years) tend to require proper urination along with the practicing of all the related procedures even for a full year! (Some required even two years for a cure!)

Once cured, one can safely drink ice-cold water or take a shower even by night, inhale pollens and dusts, and still remain healthy, without any attack.

(During the process of treatment, I compel the patients to continue taking their normal medicines, as prescribed by their Physicians. I recommend them to keep in their pockets or bags such medicines for a prolonged period, even if they think they are completely cured. This is done as a precautionary measure, for people, if they get  strong asthma attacks, it can even be fatal! So, a great amount of caution is necessary at all times!)

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Well, friends, all the details concerning  these lung diseases, with causes and curative procedures fully described in simple, easy-to-understand English language, can be found in my book: ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, COUGH, SNEEZING & SWEATING (2001; 146 pages; ISBN 967-9988--09--0.)

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Friends, I think, I have offered you extremely valuable information - ALL BASED EXCLUSIVELY ON MY ORIGINAL RESEARCH, which you can NEVER FIND ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, IN ANY LANGUAGE, AND IN ANY OF THE COMPLEMENTARY, ALTERNATIVE OR WESTERN MEDICAL LITERATURE.

OK, bye until next,

Dr. Palani, Ph.D.

ASTHMA CAN BE CURED

ASTHMA CAN BE CURED

(© 2001, 17 April, 2012: Dr. V.M. Palaniappan)

I received today the following news in the form of an e-mail from NCCAM (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicines), in their Clinical Digest.

The following is what I received: You may want to visit these sites to know more on the subject this Center is talking about:

Asthma is a chronic lung disease that affects people of all ages. It causes episodes of wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness. Although there is no cure, most people with asthma are able to manage the disease with medications and behavioral changes.

Researchers also are studying various complementary health approaches for asthma relief. This issue provides information on "what the science says" about complementary health practices for asthma, including acupuncture, breathing exercises, and herbs and other dietary supplements.

Read more about what the science says at: http://nccam.nih.gov/health/providers/digest/science-asthma?nav=cd

Time to Talk Tips: What You Need to Know About Asthma at http://nccam.nih.gov/health/tips/asthma?nav=cd.

MY PERSONAL RESEARCH FINDINGS

I have written a book entitled “ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, COUGH, SNEEZING & SWEATING” (2001).

I have given in this book a vivid description of the method for a cure of ALL the above diseases.

They are all inter-related, and the causative factor is basically one, with slight variations.

Therefore, if one of the diseases is cured, the rest would get cured in themselves.

In the first place, do you know why all these lung-related diseases occur?

It appears that people, nearly in every walk of medicine, have misunderstood the basic reason that causes all these diseases.

That is why everybody - whether that be modern medicine or any of the complementary or alternative medicines -  has been struggling to establish a cure for these diseases.

The following is the TRUE cause for Asthma and related diseases:

You can put to test what I am going to say here, and you will then realise that I have discovered the truth.

If you drink, say 10 glasses of water daily (2.5 L), and if you voided nearly all of that 2.5 L, then the Input/Output Ratio would stay at 1.0.

In this case, you will be perfectly healthy, without any lung-related problems.

If you drink the same 2.5 L water, and urinated, say, only half of it (1.25 L = 5 glasses), what would happen to the remaining 1.25 L ?

It would either go out of the body as sweat, or would stay within the body in the cells of tissues that make various organs, essentially the lower limbs - we call it oedema. That is a water-logged condition. Doctors would explain such a condition to be due, mostly to, inadequacy of ALBUMIN (albumin is present the egg) in the body.

Let us say that you have taken another 2.5 L of water the next day, and urinated similarly only 1.25 L.  The balance of 1.25 L will have to be taken care of.

It can accumulate in your abdomen (it is a disease, under certain conditions) to make you look pot-bellied, or will have to get out of the body, again in the form of profuse sweat.

The urinal bladder cannot afford to retain all of the left-over water - it will burst, giving room for disastrous results.

So, God, or Nature, has provided SWEATING as an escape mechanism.

In other words, any urine left unvoided within the body will certainly get out of the body mostly in the form of SWEAT.

OK, we can now go to the next step in the process of understanding the phenomenon:

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Let us say you are seated inside a car on a hot day, with all windows raised, without any air-conditioning.

The hot air inside the car will become moist due to the water that comes out of your skin (as sweat) or nose, eyes, mouth, etc. as vapour.

If there occurs a sudden rainfall, the outer side of the car will become cool. 

As a result, the moisture in the air (high Relative Humidity = RH) will condense as WATER DROPLETS on the INNER SIDE of the glass windows.

The SAME phenomenon occurs in our body as well, in the following manner:

You drink, for example, 2 L of water, and void 1 L as urine.

The rest, viz., 1 L will go out through the skin as sweat.

This sweat condenses ON THE SURFACE OF THE SKIN. When this EVAPORATES, it CHILLS the skin surface.

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The air in the atmosphere carries in it some amount of moisture, which can vary from being extremely little to extremely high.

If more moisture is in the air, we say the RH is very HIGH. (When we sweat when the RH is very high, our body will become sticky.)

If less moisture, we say the RH is very low.

If no moisture in the air, or if it is very little, we say the air is very DRY.

Hill stations tend to have dry air.

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When we breathe, we inhale the normal air that carries some moisture in it.

This moisture, on reaching the lungs, will CONDENSE to become WATER DROPLETS - in an identical manner, as it happens in the car.

This condensation occurs because the outer side of the body, i.e., the skin surface at the chest and back are COLD due to the condensation of the sweat.

The water droplets in the lungs FILL THE BREATHING HOLES IN THE LUNGS, called ALVEOLI.

When the breathing holes or alveoli are BLOCKED, the air cannot pass through the holes.

In other words, the CARBON DIOXIDE will not be able to pass out, and the OXYGEN will not be able to PENETRATE INSIDE.

(That is why you find most of the long-term Asthma patients suffer from poor memory, slow reflex, somewhat lethargic, indigestion, and the like. Even their face may show some kind of dullness... no offence is meant... sorry!

All these will improve with increased oxygen supply to the brain)

If and when the oxygen entry is prevented, the brain INDUCES NAGGING COUGH, so that the droplets blocking the alveoli will get removed, enhancing free flow of the air, both ways.

Unfortunately, almost immediately, the condensed water droplets will FLOW BACK and BLOCK the holes again.

This process of cough removing the blocking, and the water re-filling keeps on going repeatedly, RESULTING IN NAGGING COUGH.

In other words, nagging cough is BODY-FRIENDLY. It saves our life. 

If we do not cough when the alveoli is blocked, we can develop headaches, memory failure in the long run, and even dizziness, for want of oxygen.

Therefore, I would say, it is WRONG TO SUPPRESS THE NAGGING COUGH WITH THE USE OF A COUGH SYRUP.

Cough suppression by artificial means should be considered as an improper approach to find comfort*.

(* However, please follow your doctor's instructions when you have the nagging cough or any other lung disease.  

If and when the World Health Organisation approves my findings as true, you can then follow my instructions).

THE CURE FOR THIS NAGGING COUGH IS AN EXTREMELY SIMPLE PROCEDURE:

All you have to do is to URINATE ALL THE WATER YOU DRINK !

Most people UNDER-URINATE for several reasons.

Some people are too busy, too lazy, or do not find proper toilet facility, or they FALSELY believe that sweating is good for them.

I have given various methods by which you can improve urination without taking Diuretics - i.e., urine promoting drugs, in my book on Asthma.

If you urinate very well so that the INPUT/OUTPUT RATIO comes to 1.0, your nagging cough would totally stop without any medication.

You don’t have to doubt my statement, for I have cured numerous people from this problem.

The next time you have a nagging cough, try to trace the cause, and you will find that you had not urinated adequately.

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OK, fine, I have described all about the NAGGING COUGH.

How about ASTHMA? How about other lung diseases?

Since this article has become too lengthy, please wait to read the rest in the next publication, in this blog.

Ok, bye,

Dr. Palani, Ph.D.