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Nov 8, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
RCPCH normalizing REPEATED INFECTIONS, instead of PREVENTION & VACCINES:''coughs& colds can continue for wks before they get better... over the winter, children are likely to get one viral infection after another, which can make you think that they are never well.''@karamballes ''Things will get better in the summer months''
Nov 8, 2023 19 tweets 4 min read
the RCPCH:''7 out of 10 children with a COUGH will feel better withing 3 weeks, wether or not they take antibiotics''- 1. why do they need to teach parents about antibiotics- isn't this a doctor's job? 2. If antibiotics make no difference, why to doctors give them? 3. Why would antibiotics be used for a COUGH, which is a symptom of many MEDICAL CONDITIONS? So why do doctors give antibiotics for 'viral' if they are not needed?mumsnet.com/talk/childrens…
Nov 6, 2023 7 tweets 1 min read
Oct 2023: a virus treated with antibiotics for one child, viral for the sibling - a baby? Viral what? Viral bronchiolitis which they just treated with antibiotics? During a heat wave? @StaceyPooleITVmumsnet.com/talk/childrens… They didn't bother to check what virus caused the bronchiolitis treated with antibiotics for a correct diagnosis and for the protection of a baby sibling?
Nov 3, 2023 10 tweets 2 min read
Oct 2023, Mumsnet :''a&e sent us home with viral & viral throat infection'' VIRAL & VIRAL THROAT INFECTIONS? VIRAL WHAT? No need to test & diagnose? not important to find out what virus caused the throat infection?mumsnet.com/talk/childrens… What 'viral' causes diarrhea & throat infection together? The same virus, or 2 different ones? If 2 different ones, isn't it dangerous? If the same one, isn't it strange? @guardian @StaceyPooleITV
Nov 1, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
Dec 2022, Mumsnet. How can an ATYPICAL MIGRAINE be diagnosed from one episode of STROKE-LIKE SYMPTOMS? To me, it looks like recurrent episodes are needed for a diagnosis, not just one. @karamballes @guardian @devisridharmumsnet.com/talk/general_h… It looks like a long-term assessment: ''People may find it helpful to make a headache or migraine attack diary to help log their symptoms, triggers, and treatment methods.''medicalnewstoday.com/articles/atypi…
Nov 1, 2023 9 tweets 1 min read
Aug 2023 Mumsnet: ''I had this happen to me last year. My vision went, weakness in right side and couldn't get words out everything was garbled. It was absolutely terrifying.
I went to A&E and had a CT scan which was normal.'' @karamballes @devisridhar A couple of weeks later I had an MRI which was normal and they discharged me telling me it was a migraine.mumsnet.com/talk/general_h…
Oct 30, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
March 2021, Mumsnet : stroke at the age of 45 ''have been diagnosed as having had a ‘young stroke’'' YOUNG STROKE? DID THEY TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT TRIGGERED IT?? DID THEY RULE PAST COVID INFECTIONS OUT?mumsnet.com/talk/general_h… One reply: ''The cause for mine is believed to be slightly sticky blood. At the time I was coming down with a migraine which also constricts blood vessels, as does ageing.''- WHAT CAUSED THE 'SLIGHTLY SITCKY BLOOD'???
Oct 30, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
March 2022, Mumsnet:''6 months ago had an episode where I went to A&E as my brain felt like it was flipping in my skull and I felt like I was going to pass out. Also had pins& needles down left side of body. They diagnosed vertigo and said pins and needles were probably muscular' ''for the last 6 months but it's all so vague and weird that I do feel like I am just imagining it.I am constantly tired to the pont sometimes that walking upstairs to be bed feels unachievable. I get episodes of light-headedness which GP has said is down to maybe low blood sugar
Oct 30, 2023 40 tweets 7 min read
Oct 2020 Mumsnet: ''About 9:30/10am over hear a phone call from ward with my name - have tested positive for Covid! Currently on an open ward with 7 other patients of varying ages and illness!! Not one medic at walk in centre, A&E, GPs or hospital wards have suspected this.'' Oct 2020, GP, WALK IN CENTRE, A&E managed to ignore ''have had a ‘bit of a cold’'', chest tightness, leg pain(body ache) - didn't yet know about covid causing covid pneumonia, cold symptoms being similar to covid, covid having to be ruled out?
Oct 16, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Mumsnet, Sept 2023:'I have been suffering from a severe chest infection for 4 weeks now. After 3 weeks I went to the hospital on the Sunday after coughing up blood. I was told it was probably bronchitis& sent home with a short course of steroids& amoxycillin' 1. COUGHING UP BLOOD ISN'T AN EMERGENCY ANYMORE? 2. 'PROBABLY BRONCHITIS' IS ACTUALLY A REAL DIAGNOSIS? 3. ANTIBIOTICS FOR 'PROBABLY BRONCHITIS'? @covidinquiryuk @karamballesmumsnet.com/talk/_chat/490…
Oct 12, 2023 16 tweets 3 min read
Spet 2023, Mumsnte post-covid, post-medicine, post-truth:''My daughter is 22months old and went down with what we thought to be a vomiting bug 8 days ago.Come day 3 I called 111 for advice and they pointed me in the direction of a pharmacy for oral rehydration sachet'' ''That night she couldn't hold down water so I took her to A&E. They gave an antisickness medication and said it was a virus and to go home. The next 2 days were much the same, no food intake, some fluids including milk but still vomiting. ''
Jun 7, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read
How many GPs referred patients?How,when they don't even have covid tests?If GPs referred them,that means the patients weren't hospitalized,so how did they discover it didn't reduce hospitalization,if those who didn't need hospitalization were referred? @AdamBienkov @BInvestigates Trying to click on 'Research' and 'Results': the links are disabled!Where is the research? @guardian @BylineTimes panoramictrial.org/news/panoramic…
Jun 6, 2023 16 tweets 5 min read
Here is the list of those entitled to covid tests,when in hospital with covid symptoms. How does NHS check when a patient is entitled to a covid test, if this list is under regular review? Who checks and decides when patients are entitled to covid tests?gov.uk/government/pub… UKHSA's list of those entitled to covid tests when having covid symptoms,under 'regular review':''certain conditions affecting their blood''-so hospital staff will have to check with UKHSA,before deciding if a patient with covid symptoms is entitled to a covid test?How is it done
Jun 6, 2023 12 tweets 8 min read
UKHSA Aug 2022, when paediatric wards were full of 'winter viruses': ''Symptomatic testing will also continue for individuals who are eligible to access COVID-19 treatments'' While the rest of the patients and staff with covid symptoms are not entitled to a covid test? While paediatric wards were getting full of 'winter viruses',last summer, UKHSA stopped access to covid tests even for patients and staff. Then NHS blamed the lockdowns! Then JCVI stopped access to covid vaccines! UKHSA stopped @ONS! @covidinquiryuk @drclairetaylor #CovidCoverUp
Jun 6, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
Ofsted criticizing parents for not sending sick children to school, criticizing parents for trying to protect those around from a virus that only killed a few million in the last 3 yrs:schoolsweek.co.uk/gps-should-hel… Chilling? Someone else thought that education has priority over everything else historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/a…
Jun 5, 2023 13 tweets 3 min read
COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US | University of Oxford ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01-3… US: ''Although COVID-19 amplifies the impacts of other diseases (such as pneumonia and influenza), this study focuses on deaths that were directly caused by COVID-19, rather than those where COVID-19 was a contributing cause.''
Jun 5, 2023 14 tweets 5 min read
'DOES OMICRON AFFECT CHILDREN?'- this question brings zero uk results! What kind of country is this? Not one word from any uk institution that cared to count the effects of omicron on children- considered unworthy of even counting in the uk! @covidinquiryuk #CovidCoverUp @Nature : ''Children are making up a larger proportion of patients hospitalized with COVID than in previous infection waves''. Where are the uk institutions that bothered to monitor the effect of omicron and repeated infections on children? Where is any data? @karamballes
Jun 4, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
bylinetimes.com/2021/01/21/par… RCPCH-no updated data since 2021:'' This study is reassuring for the majority of children and young people who develop SARS-CoV-2 infection, and reflects what paediatricians are seeing in clinical practice'' Summer 2022: paediatric wards full of 'winter viruses' - not one word here
Dec 20, 2022 21 tweets 6 min read
''A global leader in biological sciences'' 4 yrs ago,which now in 2022 asks hospitals to promote mass infection with a level 3 biohazard in the middle of a pandemic? What happened between 2018 -2022, for uk to completely forget everything? @CDPNetworkMap 2018 ''As a Government, we already act both at
home and overseas to protect UK citizens and
British interests from the risk of a significant
disease outbreak, no matter the source. ''. 2022, uk wants 68,000,000 to learn how to LIVE WITH a level 3 biohazard. @LC_UK_Action
Dec 20, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
If the airports give up their security checks& sometimes a 'few' people die becasue of this, would they be happy with their 'freedom'?Why did uk hospitals give up masks in the middle of so many crises? the fact that paedicatric hospitals were full since summer meant nothing? would the victims, their families and the airport staff celebrate the freedom of going through airports without security checks? WHY DID UK HOSPITALS GIVE UP MASKS, WHILE PAEDIATRIC HOSPITALS WERE OVERHWLEMED? While NHS is collapsing? WHO DID THIS? @CDPNetworkMap
Dec 18, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
''More than 80 000 samples collected from Chinese wildlife sites and animal farms all proved negative. In addition, the international research community has no access to the sites, samples, or raw data'' ''Mice genetically modified to display the human receptor for entry of SARS-CoV-2 (ACE2) were used in research projects funded before the pandemic, to test the infectivity of different virus strains.''