Measles?

Is there a bout of measles going around lately? Just wanted to check if there are other familes dealing with it recently.

The following passages are taken from ‘Curing the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins’ by Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD pages 68-70 ..........



Klenner (1953) dealt with the treatment of measles in the care of his own young daughters. They contracted the disease during an epidemic in North Carolina during the spring of 1948. Vitamin C therapy was started as soon as the diagnosis of measles was clinically certain.


Klenner was very confident that high doses of vitamin C would destroy the virus at any point, and he proceeded to see what smaller doses of vitamin C would do to the development of the disease. Doses of 1,000 mg by mouth every four hours clearly improved the symptoms, although smaller doses were noted to allow the disease to progress.


When Klenner proceeded to administer 1,000 mg by mouth every two hours, all evidence of the infection was cleared within 48 hours. However, discontinuation of the vitamin C at this point allowed a return of the disease. Klenner was able to demonstrate that the measles could be symptomatically controlled but not eradicated by this pattern of vitamin C dosing for a period of 30 days. At this point he again gave 1,000 mg every two hours around the clock for four days, and the infections were permanently eradicated. Klenner noted that for “the first time a virus infection could be handled as if it were a dog on a leash.” This single clinical experiment conducted by Klenner probably best exemplifies that vitamin C simply must be given in high enough doses for a long enough period of time to effectively kill an invading virus.


Following the successful treatment of measles in his daughters, Klenner proceeded to treat new cases of measles with intravenous or intramuscular vitamin C. He noted that he could achieve complete control of the disease within 24 to 36 hours after starting the treatment, with the response differing only because of variable doses and frequencies of administration. Kleener also noted that his patients were able to develop complete immunity to recontracting measles even when he had intervened early and cured the disease before the rash was ever allowed to develop.


Klenner (1951, 1953) reported the case of a 10-month-old infant with reddened eyes and throat, high fever (105 F), cough, runny nose, and Koplik’s spots. Koplik’s spots are essentially the typical rash spots seen in measles that appear on the mucous membranes inside the mouth prior to skin eruptions. A 1,000 mg dose of vitamin C was given intramuscularly every four hours. After only 12 hours the cough had subsided, the red eyes and throat had cleared, and the temperature had normalized. However, Klenner wanted to see whether the fever was fluctuating or actually responding to the vitamin C like an antibiotic. No vitamin C was given over the next eight hours, and the fever went back to 103.4 F. After vitamin C was restarted, the fever promptly decreased, and the baby made a complete and rapid recovery. No measles rash ever developed on the skin, and Klenner noted that over the next four years the baby did not contract measles. This is consistent with an acquired immunity to the disease even thought the disease never became completely expressed clinically.


Klenner also treated a 22-month-old baby with a similar clinical picture to the 10-month-old baby noted above. This baby responded rapidly in the same manner to vitamin C therapy, and the parents insisted on hospital discharge after only 36 hours. Apparently still infectious, the baby's brother and sister developed measles four days later, and the baby broke out with measles seven days later. This again reinforces the absolute need to use enough vitamin C for a long enough period of time. Paez de la Torre (1945) also reported good results treating measles with vitamin C. Kalokerinos (1976) reported the responsiveness of measles to vitamin C , and he added the importance of using the intravenous or intramuscular form of administration for optimal and reliable effect.


As mentioned earlier, measles can kill when it invades the brain or the lungs. Klenner (1953) discussed the case of an eight-year-old boy who presented with encephalitis, a viral infection and inflammation of the brain, as a complication of measles and mumps. The boy was notably drowsy and listless, and his mother related that the child’s increasing stupor, which was associated with headache, had developed over the prior four or five days. Although a very active child, he went to bed on his own with a temperature of 104 F.


Klenner immediately gave 2,000 mg of vitamin C intravenously, and since no hospital beds were available, the child was then sent home. After two hours, the child developed an appetite, began playing around the house, and for several hours looked as though he had completely recovered. However, after six hours, his symptoms began to return. About 18 hours after the initial vitamin C injection in the office, Klenner gave another 2,000 mg dose of vitamin C intravenously and added 1,000 mg to be given orally every two hours. Consequently, the following day found the child free of fever and symptoms. Wary of a relapse, however, Klenner gave yet another 2,000 mg of vitamin C by vein and continued the oral regimen for another 48 hours.


The child made a complete recovery, and never demonstrated any evidence of brain damage, even as long as five years later. Such damage is very common after surviving encephalitis. Klenner added that “similar cases” to this boy had shown even more rapid andramitic responses when the vitamin C was given by injection every two to four hours.