"Klenner stressed that dangerously ill patients should receive large doses of vitamin C when doctors need more time to make a diagnosis."

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from Dr. Ken Walker @ Orthomolecular, 

What can history tell doctors about meningitis?  In 1949, Dr. FrederickRobert Klenner was a family doctor in North Carolina when the great poliomyelitis epidemic struck North America.  Klenner had no training in treating polio and no laboratory facilities.  But he was placed in charge of 60 patients suffering from early polio.  At that time, there was no specific treatment to prevent paralysis. 

In 1948, Klenner had previously cured several patients of viral pneumonia using intravenous vitamin C.  So he decided to give his polio patients up to 30,000 milligrams of vitamin C intravenously for 14 days.  None of these patients developed paralysis.  (Ironically, in 1949, I developed polio in my final year at The Harvard Medical School and I did develop paralysis.  But none of my eminent professors were aware of the benefits of massive doses of intravenous vitamin C). 

Dr. Klenner presented his monumental research to the annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Atlantic City, New Jersey on June 10^th, 1949.  Klenner should have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.  But his discovery failed to make headlines around the world and is still collecting dust. 

Spurred on by this scientific finding, Klenner later reported that he had cured meningitis, encephalitis, measles, and other diseases by large doses of IV vitamin C.  Since his death, other researchers have verified his findings. 

Klenner stressed that dangerously ill patients should receive large doses of vitamin C when doctors need more time to make a diagnosis.  And that, unless our white blood cells, needed to fight infection, are saturated with vitamin C they are like soldiers without bullets.  I believe his sage advice could save lives today and might have saved the life of this child. 

 

So why vitamin C?

McDonagh Med explains,

The function of vitamin C is to activate an enzyme in the white blood cell, called myeloperoxidase. The enzyme main function is to produce hydrogen peroxide (which gives rise to the highly energetic and bactericidal and viradical hydroxy free radical), which makes the white cells Super Killers as far as bacteria and viruses are concerned. 

By the way, this high-dose vitamin C protocol not only worked for polio, measles, meningitis, and encephalitis, but it also worked for multiple sclerosis.

Here is a brief history/synopsis of polio.  It's pretty good because it unearths some of the erroneous assumptions that we've made, or that doctors have made, about polio.  

1. The polio story as you learned it is wrong. It’s one of the most often misunderstood sequence of events in the last two hundred years. I wanted to explain a few things about the disease to help people understand what actually happened. pic.twitter.com/xT7YjIb4kZ

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