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Evidence-Based Care for Measles
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Evidence-Based Care for Measles
Measles is back in the news, and for most families the public conversation starts and ends in the same place: get vaccinated. But what about the people who do get vaccinated and still get measles? And what about the families worldwide who are already dealing with an active infection? Treatment has to be part of the conversation no matter where you land on the vaccine debate.
In this episode, IMA Senior Fellow in Pediatrics Dr. Elizabeth Mumper sits down with Dr. Joseph Varon and Matthew Halma, two co-authors of a new peer-reviewed paper published in Antiviral Research. Together, they’ll walk through what the evidence actually says about treating measles in children and adults. The study, “Acute Management of Measles: A Systematic Review of Therapeutic Strategies,” screened 1,571 records across five major databases and analyzed 10 studies on acute measles management.
The takeaway: therapeutic options exist, and clinicians and families deserve to know about them.
Watch it here https://imahealth.org/beyond-the-headlines-evidence-based-treatment-for-measles/
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I, too, am of an age where ‘everyone’ got measles at some point, usually in elementary/primary school. I do remember one of my brothers having a particularly bad case (very bad rash, fever, headache) after being vaccinated for measles during an outbreak at school. Clearly he had already been exposed, was probably fighting the virus on his own and would have had a mild case, but with the added ‘injury’ of vaccination succumbed to a particularly bad illness. He was fine within a few days (and none of the rest of us got measles as we had already had the virus when young) but it just seemed very foolish at the time to me (still a teenager but already interested in microbiology) that he should receive the vaccine DURING an outbreak. He was the only one in the family to ever be vaccinated for measles and it was only because of the outbreak at school!
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Download this free guide for a practical, integrative roadmap to managing measles at home, from vitamin A protocols and nutrient support to gut restoration, herbal care, and a phased recovery timeline. https://imahealth.org/tools-and-guides/navigating-measles-an-integrative-approach-to-care-and-recovery/
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