A lot of people are of course getting concerned about Anthrax.
But that is the allopathic view of it.
Homeopathically in terms of treatment one would look at the symptoms
presented by the patient and I would imagine out ACUTE remedies would come
to the fore. The little I have read about it makes it no different to a
severe cold / flu / pneumonia or meningitis. Do not forget that it has a
long incubation period.
However, in terms of prophylaxis, we would need to get the detailed range of
sx of the three types of anthrax (Centre of attack: Skin, Gut or Lungs) and
repertorise around it.
Do any of the medics any idea of the range of sx of anthrax?
Rgds
Soroush
ANTHRAX - homeopathic vaccinations
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Re: ANTHRAX - homeopathic vaccinations
At 06:10 PM 10/10/2001 +0100, you wrote:
However, in terms of prophylaxis, we would need to get the detailed range of
sx of the three types of anthrax (Centre of attack: Skin, Gut or Lungs) and
repertorise around it.
Do any of the medics any idea of the range of sx of anthrax?
Rgds
Soroush
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Here is information I have collected from various sources regarding symptoms:
Lynn Cremona
---------------
Samuel Lilienthal did an Anthrax differential of 19 remedies and a 40
remedy differential on smallpox in his Homoeopathic Therapeutics.
He also offers differntiations for Botulism and Plague symptoms.
From the CDC
ANTHRAX
SYMPTOMS: Usually symptoms appear within seven days. Inhalation anthrax
infection can start out like a common cold before acute symptoms such as
severe breathing problems and shock. Infection by consuming contaminated
food is characterized by inflammation of the intestinal tract, leading to
vomiting of blood and severe diarrhea. Death can occur within 24 hours of
the onset of acute symptoms.
TREATMENT: Antibiotics, including penicillin. A delay in the use of
antibiotics -- even in terms of hours -- may lessen chances for survival.
PREVENTION: Vaccine
Symptoms:
The time of onset and rate of progression of disease depend to a great
extent on the inhaled dose. Within 1-6 days the victim may experience
tiredness, muscle aches as well as mild chest discomfort and dry cough.
After an additional 2-3 days there may be a brief improvement, followed by
a rapid progression of shortness of breath, mid-chest pain, hypoxia,
stridor and sweating occur. Neck swelling may be seen with chest X-Ray
findings of a (characteristic) widened mediastinum. Pleural effusion and
mild pneumonitis may develop.
Meningitis (hemorrhagic) is seen in up to 50 per cent of anthrax cases.
Occasionally victims have seizures. Death typically occurs 24-36 hours
later. Coetaneous exposure occurs through a skin lesion, not through intact
skin. A small painless black lesion that ulcerates follows an incubation
period of 1-5 days. There is often massive surrounding edema. Fever, chill
and lymph node inflammation may also occur. Untreated, mortality is
approximately 20 per cent.
Cutaneous Anthraxbegins as a redbrown papule which enlarges with
considerable peripheral erythema, vesiculation and induration. Central
ulceration follows with serosanguineous exudation and formation of a black
eschar. Local lymphadenopathy may be present, occasionally with malaise,
myalegia, headache, fever, nausea and vomiting.
Skin infection begins as a raised itchy bump that resembles an insect bite
but within 1-2 days develops into a vesicle and then a painless ulcer,
usually 1-3 cm in diameter, with a characteristic black necrotic (dying)
area in the center. * a reddish brown sore that breaks open and forms a
scab. Lymph glands in the adjacent area may swell. About 20% of untreated
cases of cutaneous anthrax will result in death. Deaths are rare with
appropriate anti-microbial therapy.
* Usually find a typical painless lesion (ulcer) at site of infection with
a black, necrotic (dying tissue) eschar (scab). * Local swelling is
prominent * pulmonary (lungs/breathing/inhalation of it) anthrax may be
life threatening.
Pulmonary Anthrax follows rapid multiplication of spores in the mediastinal
lymph nodes. Severe hemorrhagic necrotizing, lymphadenitis develops and
spread to the adjacent mediastinal structures. Serosanguineous
transudation, pulmonary edema and pleural effusion occur. Initial symptoms
are insidious and influenzalike. Fever increases; within a few days,
severe respiratory distress develops, followed by cyanosis, shock and coma.
Hemorrhagic meningoencephalitis may develop. "Antibiotic therapy is of
little value . . . ."
The following is an excerpt from the U.S. Navy Manual on Operational
Medicine and Fleet Support, entitled Biological Warfare Defense Information
Sheet.
INHALATION SYMPTOMS OF ANTHRAX
I believe, strongly, that any use of anthrax will come from an air
disbursement of this biological agent. It could be a small single engine
airplane, and all the terrorists have to do is fly up wind of a major city
on a sea coast or large body of water (like the Great Lakes), open the
window, and open the container that has the spores in it, and dump it out.
The wind carrying into the major heart and city center, will do the rest.
FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS or a CHEST COLD SYMPTOMS
About 1-6 days after inhaling Bacillus anthracis spores there would be a
gradual onset of vague symptoms of illness such as fatigue, fever, mild
discomfort in the chest and a possibly a dry cough. You may think you have
the "flu" or a "chest cold." The symptoms would improve for a few hours or
up to 2-3 days. Then, there would be sudden onset of difficulty in
breathing, profuse sweating, cyanosis (blue colored skin), shock and death
in 24-36 hours.
These symptoms are essentially those of Woolsorter's disease, which is
caused by inhalation of Bacillus anthracis spores rather than contact with
the bacterium through the skin. Contact through the skin is the most common
"naturally" occurring form of Anthrax and is characterized by swelling and
boils on the skin. Skin symptoms would not necessarily be expected with
Anthrax resulting from inhaled spores in a biological war attack; it would
more than likely be INHALED.
Anthrax symptoms have TWO PHASES. The first set of symptoms mirror
non-specific flu-like symptoms. Then, you will experience improvement, and
the symptoms seem to abate for 1-3 days, and you feel better.
The second phase will hit you hard, and usually, within 24-36 hours. This
phase is one is marked by high fever, dyspnea (shortness of breath),
stridor (lungs filling with fluid), cyanosis (blue-colored skin, and you
are not able to get sufficient oxygen into your body due to breathing
problems), and shock, and then you die.
Intestinal Anthrax:(EATING FOOD CONTAMINATED WITH IT) The intestinal
disease form of anthrax may follow the consumption of contaminated meat and
is characterized by an acute inflammation of the intestinal tract.
Initial signs of nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting, fever are followed by
abdominal pain, vomiting of blood, and severe diarrhea. * Abdominal Pain *
Inflammation of the Intestinal Tract
Intestinal anthrax results in death in 25% to 60% of cases.
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However, in terms of prophylaxis, we would need to get the detailed range of
sx of the three types of anthrax (Centre of attack: Skin, Gut or Lungs) and
repertorise around it.
Do any of the medics any idea of the range of sx of anthrax?
Rgds
Soroush
-----------------
Here is information I have collected from various sources regarding symptoms:
Lynn Cremona
---------------
Samuel Lilienthal did an Anthrax differential of 19 remedies and a 40
remedy differential on smallpox in his Homoeopathic Therapeutics.
He also offers differntiations for Botulism and Plague symptoms.
From the CDC
ANTHRAX
SYMPTOMS: Usually symptoms appear within seven days. Inhalation anthrax
infection can start out like a common cold before acute symptoms such as
severe breathing problems and shock. Infection by consuming contaminated
food is characterized by inflammation of the intestinal tract, leading to
vomiting of blood and severe diarrhea. Death can occur within 24 hours of
the onset of acute symptoms.
TREATMENT: Antibiotics, including penicillin. A delay in the use of
antibiotics -- even in terms of hours -- may lessen chances for survival.
PREVENTION: Vaccine
Symptoms:
The time of onset and rate of progression of disease depend to a great
extent on the inhaled dose. Within 1-6 days the victim may experience
tiredness, muscle aches as well as mild chest discomfort and dry cough.
After an additional 2-3 days there may be a brief improvement, followed by
a rapid progression of shortness of breath, mid-chest pain, hypoxia,
stridor and sweating occur. Neck swelling may be seen with chest X-Ray
findings of a (characteristic) widened mediastinum. Pleural effusion and
mild pneumonitis may develop.
Meningitis (hemorrhagic) is seen in up to 50 per cent of anthrax cases.
Occasionally victims have seizures. Death typically occurs 24-36 hours
later. Coetaneous exposure occurs through a skin lesion, not through intact
skin. A small painless black lesion that ulcerates follows an incubation
period of 1-5 days. There is often massive surrounding edema. Fever, chill
and lymph node inflammation may also occur. Untreated, mortality is
approximately 20 per cent.
Cutaneous Anthraxbegins as a redbrown papule which enlarges with
considerable peripheral erythema, vesiculation and induration. Central
ulceration follows with serosanguineous exudation and formation of a black
eschar. Local lymphadenopathy may be present, occasionally with malaise,
myalegia, headache, fever, nausea and vomiting.
Skin infection begins as a raised itchy bump that resembles an insect bite
but within 1-2 days develops into a vesicle and then a painless ulcer,
usually 1-3 cm in diameter, with a characteristic black necrotic (dying)
area in the center. * a reddish brown sore that breaks open and forms a
scab. Lymph glands in the adjacent area may swell. About 20% of untreated
cases of cutaneous anthrax will result in death. Deaths are rare with
appropriate anti-microbial therapy.
* Usually find a typical painless lesion (ulcer) at site of infection with
a black, necrotic (dying tissue) eschar (scab). * Local swelling is
prominent * pulmonary (lungs/breathing/inhalation of it) anthrax may be
life threatening.
Pulmonary Anthrax follows rapid multiplication of spores in the mediastinal
lymph nodes. Severe hemorrhagic necrotizing, lymphadenitis develops and
spread to the adjacent mediastinal structures. Serosanguineous
transudation, pulmonary edema and pleural effusion occur. Initial symptoms
are insidious and influenzalike. Fever increases; within a few days,
severe respiratory distress develops, followed by cyanosis, shock and coma.
Hemorrhagic meningoencephalitis may develop. "Antibiotic therapy is of
little value . . . ."
The following is an excerpt from the U.S. Navy Manual on Operational
Medicine and Fleet Support, entitled Biological Warfare Defense Information
Sheet.
INHALATION SYMPTOMS OF ANTHRAX
I believe, strongly, that any use of anthrax will come from an air
disbursement of this biological agent. It could be a small single engine
airplane, and all the terrorists have to do is fly up wind of a major city
on a sea coast or large body of water (like the Great Lakes), open the
window, and open the container that has the spores in it, and dump it out.
The wind carrying into the major heart and city center, will do the rest.
FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS or a CHEST COLD SYMPTOMS
About 1-6 days after inhaling Bacillus anthracis spores there would be a
gradual onset of vague symptoms of illness such as fatigue, fever, mild
discomfort in the chest and a possibly a dry cough. You may think you have
the "flu" or a "chest cold." The symptoms would improve for a few hours or
up to 2-3 days. Then, there would be sudden onset of difficulty in
breathing, profuse sweating, cyanosis (blue colored skin), shock and death
in 24-36 hours.
These symptoms are essentially those of Woolsorter's disease, which is
caused by inhalation of Bacillus anthracis spores rather than contact with
the bacterium through the skin. Contact through the skin is the most common
"naturally" occurring form of Anthrax and is characterized by swelling and
boils on the skin. Skin symptoms would not necessarily be expected with
Anthrax resulting from inhaled spores in a biological war attack; it would
more than likely be INHALED.
Anthrax symptoms have TWO PHASES. The first set of symptoms mirror
non-specific flu-like symptoms. Then, you will experience improvement, and
the symptoms seem to abate for 1-3 days, and you feel better.
The second phase will hit you hard, and usually, within 24-36 hours. This
phase is one is marked by high fever, dyspnea (shortness of breath),
stridor (lungs filling with fluid), cyanosis (blue-colored skin, and you
are not able to get sufficient oxygen into your body due to breathing
problems), and shock, and then you die.
Intestinal Anthrax:(EATING FOOD CONTAMINATED WITH IT) The intestinal
disease form of anthrax may follow the consumption of contaminated meat and
is characterized by an acute inflammation of the intestinal tract.
Initial signs of nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting, fever are followed by
abdominal pain, vomiting of blood, and severe diarrhea. * Abdominal Pain *
Inflammation of the Intestinal Tract
Intestinal anthrax results in death in 25% to 60% of cases.
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