Fever is your Friend! Nursing People Through Acute Fevers
Event description
Looking at health beliefs and fears around acute child and adult viral illness and infections including COVID and emerging threats and learning about:
Part One
How the Germ Theory of Disease and the Medical Model affect the treatment options you are offered
The Holistic model of disease – using the healing power of your own or your child’s body to remove accumulated toxins and improve your/ their health
The Problems caused by Suppression of Fever
Part Two
The Basic strategies for coping with any acute viral illness or infection
A Simple Guide to Homoeopathy for Acute Fever
Presentation of clinical cases showing the invasive disease that occurs when the basic principles are not followed - meningitis
With special reference to coronavirus disease.
How to boost the immune system of adults and those with poor health with specific strategies for Coronavirus and emerging threats.
Plenary/ Questions
AIMS
To ensure that participants:
+ Achieve a reinforced understanding of the logical reasons why children and adults contract infectious diseases, and the rationale for supportive treatment of such conditions with reference to COVID-19
+ Are confident implementing NICE Guidelines regarding paracetamol and ibuprofen use in fever in children and adults.
+ Know that NICE Guidelines do not recommend paracetamol or ibuprofen to prevent febrile convulsions.
+ Have knowledge of a range of simple practical measures that can be implemented by everyone to provide supportive management of child and adult acute viral illness and relief of distress.
+ Therapists can use these simple adjuncts to their standard care to increase therapeutic success and are able to easily explain the mechanisms of common conditions to parents/ carers, in simple terms, so that parents/ carers feel empowered and less anxious.
+ Are confident in practical adjuncts to management of specific conditions in addition to regular practice
An ebook of this lecture is available at the website :
http://www.jayne-donegan.co.uk/articles
Other lectures by Dr Jayne Donegan
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