Dr Jayne Donegan, MBBS, DRCOG, DCH, MRCGP
http://www.jayne-donegan.co.uk

'Knowing what I know now, I would not vaccinate my children and run the risk of them getting diabetes, asthma, eczema, becoming more susceptible to meningitis and ending up chronically disabled.'---Dr Jayne Donegan

"Under normal conditions, healthy children do not die from or become disabled from the complications of measles and if they do, questions should be asked about their management."  ---[Letter BMJ Feb 2005. Donegan MB.]

[Dr Donegan qualified at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1983.  She is a general practitioner and a homeopath.  She obtained the Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1986; a Diploma in Child Health in 1987; and she became a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1988.] 

[Jan 2008] My Experience with the General Medical Council by Dr Jayne Donegan, MB

Fitness to practice hearing 2007
[JABS Forum Dec 2006] The Dr Jayne Donegan, "Witch Hunt"
[Media Jan 2005] GMC needs a dose of this doctor's courage--Peter Hitchens

[Letter BMJ Feb 2005. Measles deaths & Autism diagnosis]

[Sept 2007] GP in MMR row cleared by GMC

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WHOOPING COUGH: THE DISEASE AND THE VACCINE By Dr Jayne L M Donegan, June 2000

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HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZA B -THE DISEASE AND THE VACCINE, YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY DR JAYNE DONEGAN

Standard medical advice is to suppress all fevers with Calpol (paracetamol) or Ibuprofen. This is not very helpful when fever is a useful response to infection with a virus or bacterium and runs contrary to the body’s natural attempts to throw out toxins and right itself. In addition, Calpol is metabolised in the liver. The liver is a major component of our immune system and is generally much better occupied in carrying out its immune functions during an illness than blocking itself up detoxifying Calpol.
    If you look carefully at children after they have been supportively nursed through an infectious disease, you will always see them do something new, depending upon their age and circumstances. An infant may produce a tooth; a toddler who kept banging into things will walk confidently; a six-year old who is not reading will suddenly start to read. It is rather like a snake that has to crack off the old skin before it can grow, children go through these crises before they can move on to the next step. I have often seen children with endless snot or lots of warts have both of these cleared by a healthy bout of chicken pox.
    Such infectious diseases do not improve the population, in the harsh Darwinian view of things, by killing off the weak and leaving only the strong ones to reproduce; they actually give each individual child the opportunity to strengthen their own individual immune system and make the best of what they have.
    However, we as a society are not set up to allow the timely unfolding of such events. We teach people to fear all symptoms and expect their immediate removal. In the UK more than 50% of mothers with children under five work away from home, so are not there when their children need to be nursed. So they give them the calpol plus or minus the non-indicated (for viral infections) antibiotics and/or antihistamines (to dry up that cough) so that they can send them back to school/ nursery/ childminder so they can get back to the office where time off to care for sick children is not viewed so sympathetically as time off to take the car to the garage, not to mention the intense pressure that parents are put under by schools to have their children there every day to keep up their attendance figures in order for the school not to be penalised by the government.
    Is it any wonder that so many children with measles end up in hospital – the last place they should be with their lowered cell mediated immunity, and that some of them die – and here I am talking about well nourished children who live in houses and have clean water supplies – not starving children in developing countries who are suffering from malnutrition, live in inadequate, poorly ventilated housing and drink sewage - where measles or infectious diarrhoea is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
    And so I reiterate, under normal conditions, if healthy children do die from or become disabled from the complications of measles, questions should be asked about their management. ---[Letter BMJ Feb 2005.]

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