Illness or a healthy body?

If a child runs a temperature are they sick? Or is their body doing what is should be doing?

If you throw up, are you ill or is your body doing what it should be doing to get rid of the issue.

Illness is often described as being in a state of poor health. So if a child runs a temperature generally, does that make them ill or can we see it from the point of view that the body in its infinite wisdom will raise its core body temperature to make it inhospitable for that pathogen, therefore changing the state of balance. If the pathogen cannot survive in this new environment it dies, the body takes care of things. Is that ill health?

Maybe we need to reassess how we look at the bodies actions. Let’s take the case of you having eaten a meal that didn’t make you feel all that well. A good case of food poisoning. What does your body do – it makes you throw up to get rid of the offending meal. Is that considered an illness? To right the balance – homeostasis,

Human homeostasis refers to the body's ability to physiologically regulate its inner environment to ensure its stability in response to fluctuations in the outside environment and the weather. An inability to maintain homeostasis may lead to death or a disease, a condition known as homeostatic imbalance

The body has several techniques up its sleeve to correct the state of play internally. Raising the core temp, throwing up and what even about sneezing, all natural for the body to do.

Maybe helping the body along the way would be good instead of stopping its natural mechanism of sorting things out. Of course there will be times when intervention is necessary. But I’m saying work with the body when you can; make it stronger by helping it, not making it reliant on the outside.

Soothing a child with an elevated temperature, keep an eye on things. Rehydrate the body after it has purged the meal from its system, give the body what it needs to make it stronger in the way of nutrients first before you jump in and take over from its natural ability.

Consider the ABCs.

Adjust your attitude to health and well being.

Modify your behaviour so that you work with the body by being proactive not solely reactive.

Try Chiropractic; allow the body to experience its full health potential.