Dr Donegan runs a series of workshops on Health, Disease Ecology and Vaccination information: Information you can use to give Informed Consent’, and other health related topics.
If you are interested in hosting one of these lectures or workshops, please contact Dr Donegan at: tel/fax 0044 (0) 208 632 1634 (ansafone)
or email jaynelmdonegan@yahoo.com
Current Lectures
- ‘Vaccination – The Question – Information you can use to give Informed Consent
- ‘Vaccination – the Science’ Gain practical experience in how to read scientific papers and find out for yourself just how reliable is the evidence for vaccine safety and efficacy.
- ‘Vaccination and Travel Medicine’– What You Need to Know Before You Travel – And after!’
- ‘What do you do if you don’t vaccinate (and even more so if you do)? Nursing Children Supportively Through Acute Illness
- ‘Nursing Children Supportively Through Acute Illness’ II – Practical advice on supportive treatment of childhood illnesses [Must have attended ‘What do you do if you don’t Vaccinate above]
- ‘Measles, Mumps, Rubella: Information you can use to give Informed Consent
- ‘Focus on Meningitis – How Can You Avoid It?
- ‘Holistic First Aid course: Tetanus and minor injury management in children’
- ‘Homeopathy for Children: An Introduction’
- ‘Overwhelming Evidence’ that vaccination is safe and effective – is it?’ – What happened to a someone who questioned the dogma, and what happened to the ‘overwhelming evidence’ of the GMC expert when forced to produce that evidence.
- ‘What you need to know when you are Pregnant: About Vaccines and Vitamin K’
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Homoeopathy works with our innate immunity and healing processes, stimulating the energy our children need to move up their developmental steps and rebalance excesses – emotional, physical and spiritual. Homoeopathic remedies help to centre babies and children, giving them a core of inner calm and stability which helps to keep them grounded in the increasingly hectic modern world.
NB This is a LEVEL TWO lecture and is entirely about homeopathic approaches. It presupposes that you have attended the lecture ‘Nursing Children Supportively through acute illness’ or already have a full understanding of the Germ Theory of Disease vs the holistic model and how to manage fevers plus the latest NICE guidelines (CG160, 2013) regarding the same.
Dr Jayne Donegan, Specialist Homeopath and health writer with extensive experience in child health, introduces you a range of homeopathic concepts and approaches to health aimed at empowering you to begin treating yourself and your family supportively using homeopathy.
Part One
Homoeopathy the Vital Force – Duality – Holistic concept of Dis-ease
What is in a homoeopathic Remedy? – How is it made? – What Potency (strength) to use? – What constitutes a dose? – Solid vs Liquid doses/ Rescue Remedy – How often to use? – Food, drink and timing of remedies – Touching remedies – Storing remedies/ X-ray machines
Part Two
Fever: Aconite, Belladonna and Pulsatilla
Teething: Pulsatilla and Chamomila
Colic: Colocynthus and Magnesia Phosphorica
Nosodes – What are they? – Use of Nosodes for prevention and treatment
Dr Schuessler’s Twelve Tissue Salts [of Salvation]
Plenary/ Questions
23 January 2024, Tuesday Evening * ONLINE LECTURE * To book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/658116031767
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Homoeopathy works with our innate immunity and healing processes, stimulating the energy our children need to move up their developmental steps and rebalance excesses – emotional, physical and spiritual. Homoeopathic remedies help to enter babies, children and adults, giving them a core of inner calm and stability which helps to keep them grounded in the increasingly hectic modern world.
NB This is a LEVEL TWO lecture and is entirely about homeopathic approaches. It presupposes that you have attended the lecture ‘Nursing Children Supportively through acute illness’ or already have a full understanding of the Germ Theory of Disease vs the holistic model and how to manage fevers plus the latest NICE guidelines (2007/2013/ 2019) regarding the same.
Dr Jayne Donegan, Specialist Homeopath and health writer with extensive experience in child health, introduces you a range of homeopathic concepts and approaches to health aimed at empowering you to begin treating yourself and your family supportively using homeopathy.
Part One
Levels of homeopathy – Acute, Constitutional, Miasmatic
Constitutional Remedies – the Terrain
Aggravations and the Split Single Dose
Calcarea Carbonica, Sulphur, Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Natrum muriaticum, Silicea
Part Two
What are Miasms?
Freeing yourself from inherited taints
Genes vs environment
Healing back through the generations
Q&A
30 Jan 2024, Tuesday Evening. To book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/663381851977
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In the Feb 7th 1959 issue of the British Medical Journal, Dr John Fry, GP, remarked,
“Many mothers have remarked “how much good the attack has done their children,” as they seem so much better after the measles.”
In the 1950s and 60s, parents used to actually take their children to Measles, Mumps and Rubella parties to try and get them infected.
After a 1990s measles outbreak in a Steiner community in Gloucester, England most parents reported a strengthening and maturing of their child both mentally and physically afterwards “supporting the notion that measles is not a severe illness in most children,” although the author pointed out that the cases were in, “fit, well nourished children from a community that advocates a healthy lifestyle.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1731978/pdf/v055p00685.pdf
Is ‘advocating a healthy lifestyle‘ offered as a viable alternative to vaccination against measles?
Part One
- Mechanisms for reporting Adverse vaccine reactions in Europe
- Mumps
- Normal course of the disease
- Does it make you sterile? Will you get mumps meningitis?
- Are there any advantages of getting mumps?
- What does the vaccine do? – Genotype drift
- Supportive treatment/ Homeopathic specifics
- Rubella
- Normal course of the disease
- Why we vaccinate against it
Part Two
- Congenital Rubella Syndrome
- Does the vaccine work?
- What does the vaccine do?
- Are you more likely to get Rubella when you are pregnant?
- Supportive treatment/ Homeopathic specifics
- Measles
- The Normal course of the disease
- Is it still a killer? Has it changed over the course of the 20th – 21st Century
- What does the vaccine do? – Atypical measles
- Are there any advantages of getting measles?
- Supportive treatment/ Homeopathic specifics
- Questions
You will receive extensive resources after the lecture including:
- General Measures for managing fevers
- Simple guide to homoeopathy for acute fever
- Simple guide to homoeopathy for measles
12 Dec 2023, Tuesday Evening. * ONLINE LECTURE * To book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/680504706897
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You child comes running to you crying, holding out a finger she has cut on a piece of slate in the garden, your toddler wobbles up to you in the playground with a large patch of skin grazed off his knee, your teenager, who should know better, has been sledging down a rubbish heap in the dark and has come hobbling towards you tearfully, led by a bunch of rather guilty looking friends, with a nail – very dirty, embedded in her hand.
What do you do?
No child is going to escape cuts and grazes as they travel through childhood – indeed, there would be something wrong with them if they were cocooned to the extent that they didn’t run about fast enough or climb high enough to fall over hard, or hurt their knees. As much as we want to protect our children from obvious and certain danger, the journey through childhood is an experiential one.
So how do we manage these injuries?
Come and find out Dr Jayne Donegan Specialist Homoeopath with extensive experience in child health. She will outline safe strategies for home treatment and red flags which require a second opinion.Part One:
- There Is No Such Thing As An Accident!
- Basic Strategies For All Injuries & Emergencies, Summoning Help
- First Aid Kit – what it should contain and what it should not contain.
- Homoeopathy for bruising and shock
- Cuts & Grazes – Homeopathic Assessment of Tetanus Risk, What is the tetanus risk?, How do you reduce it?
- The importance of ‘wound toilet’
- Swallowing Things
Part Two:
- Head Injuries, Homeopathic Assessment & Mechanism of injury
- Warning signs
- The Recovery Position
- Fainting – Homeopathic Assessment & General Management
- Sprains and Fractures, Homeopathic Assessment & Mechanism of injury, Elevation, R.I.C.E.
- General and Homoeopathic Management of Burns & Scalds, Nose Bleeds, Insect Stings – Bee, Wasp, Tick Management
- Splinter Removal
- Resources
Holistic First Aid Course – Tetanus and minor injuries
02 April 2024, Tuesday Evening. * ONLINE LECTURE * To book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/718277145277
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The National Health Service introduced in the UK in 1948 with the promise of health care available to all and free at the point of delivery. Who would have thought that 73 years , this would lead to ‘health care’ becoming mandatory when you did not want it and often unavailable when you did.
This lecture explores at the the issue of informed consent in England in 2021 and who makes decisions about families, children and adults, including those without capacity to decide for themselves, in the light of general medical interventions and covid.
Program:
PART ONE:
• What is informed consent?
• How does the law stand after the Montgomery Ruling of 2015?
• What are the General Medical Council Guidelines?
• How have they changed between 2008 and 2019 – the recent revision? (recordings)
• Why has the Consent chapter of the Green Book (Immunisation Against Infectious Diseases Handbook) not been updated since 2013?
• Are doctors duty bound to refer you to Social Services – Child Safeguarding – if you have not vaccinated your children?PART TWO:
• COVID vaccines – Why you should have one.
• What happens if you have a relative in care regarding vaccination?
• What do doctors know about covid vaccines? – Who are the Experts?
• Who could answer the 13 questions composed by a patient looking for information?
• Plenary/ QuestionsAIMS
• That those participating:
• Understand the law and guidance regarding consent in England.
• Understand the importance of getting Lasting Power of Attorney for relatives while they still have capacity to give their consent.
• Understand how the ‘Doctrine of Precedent’ can skew the law if only atypical cases are adjudicated on16 Apr 2024, Tuesday Evening. To book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/530072038737
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This is a LEVEL TWO lecture. You will get more out of it if you have attended the LEVEL ONE lecture, ‘Nursing People Supportively Through Acute Viral Illness including COV-19‘ where you will gain a practical understanding of how meningitis occurs and how avoid it.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/229159762017
This lecture is a detailed look at the science regarding meningococcal disease from the seminal work done in the USA in the 1960’s to today so you understand the science behind the practicalities.
There is also an ebook available which accompanies this lecture: http://www.jayne-donegan.co.uk/articles
Part One
- The Meningococcus – How widespread is it and where does it come from?
- What is the difference between carriage and invasive disease?
- What factors increase the likelihood of invasive disease?
- Immunity to the Meningococcus – the original ground breaking US military studies from the 1960s
- What lead to the increased occurrence of Invasive Meningococcal C Disease in the UK in the mid 1990’s?
- How do we develop Natural Immunity to the Meningococcus?
- The protective effect of breast feeding in the Swedish and other populations.
Part Two
- Bacterial cross immunity and its implications regarding selective vaccination and antibiotic use (with specific reference to meningitis)
- How does wiping out one organism by a vaccine lead to increased invasion by other pathogens?
- Haemophilus influenzae vs the Pneumococcus: the ‘Germ Olympics’
- Why the Joint Committee on Vaccination & Immunisation (JCVI) didn’t want to introduce the new Meningococcal B vaccine – Bexsero
- Nutrition vs Vaccination
- Plenary.
- Feedback.
22 Jan 2024, Tuesday Evening * ONLINE LECTURE * To book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/738655286847
09 April 2024, Tuesday Evening * ONLINE LECTURE * To book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/722465833757
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Outline
• Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) – How widespread is it?
• What is the difference between carriage and invasive disease?
• How do we develop Natural Immunity to the Human Papilloma Virus?
• What factors increase the likelihood of invasive disease?
• Cervical Screening and reducing death rate from cervical cancer.
• The Vaccines, Cervarix, Gardasil, Gardasil 9 – Safety
• Are vaccines tested for effect on fertility?
• Animal studies – The missing link
• Human pre- and post- licencing studies, what were the problems?
• New Aluminium adjuvant
• Premature ovarian failure (menopause in teenagers) – What is that?
• Responsibility for safety – Manufacturers or Regulators?.
• What about boys?
• Plenary.
• Feedback.Aims
That those participating
• Understand the natural history of HPV carriage and infection.
• For girls, be able to evaluate the benefits of the vaccine vs those of regular cervical screening
• Understand what rigorous safety testing of vaccines, and all drugs, involves.
• Understand the impact HPV vaccination may have on long term health.
• Have the information needed for informed consent.
• Learn that people must evaluate information themselves rather than rely on third parties.
• Remember that invasive or persistent disease is determined by one’s general level of health and whether acute symptoms are allowed to be externalised, or suppressed.06 Feb 2024, Tuesday Evening * ONLINE LECTURE * To book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/744706325667
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Looking at health beliefs and fears around acute child and adult viral illness and infections including COVID-19 and learning about:
Part One
- how the Germ Theory of Disease and the Medical Model affect the treatment options you are offered by your GP and health visitor
- the Holistic model of disease – using the healing power of your own or your or your child’s body
- 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 ignored.
- Quiz/ 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.
+ Know that NICE Guidelines do not recommend paracetamol or ibuprofen for 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 practice16 Jan 2024, Tuesday Evening * ONLINE LECTURE * To book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/738653672017
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Is there a question? – Did vaccines stop people dying from diseases? Do they stop people from getting the disease?
Is it scientifically proved that vaccination is the single most effective cause of improved health in the 20th and 21st Century?
Extensive investigation of the science and mortality rates of infectious diseases led Dr Donegan to radically change her views. She believes that every person should be given balanced, evidence based information they need to be able to make fully informed decisions about their health and that of their family for any medical intervention.
Outline:
- Introduction
- Journey – how a firm supporter of Universal Vaccination came to do her own research and what she found.
- Why morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases has fallen so drastically over the course of the twentieth century, are we more healthy?
- Natural infections and immunity
- Vaccination and artificial immunity
- Specific diseases and their vaccines
- Extra Questions/ Plenary
Should you vaccinate or not? Only you can decide what is best for you and your family.
20 Nov 2024, Tuesday Evening * ONLINE LECTURE * To book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/764267072387
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Prophylaxis against malaria:
- The NICE Guidelines
- The importance of physical Barriers
- Conventional Medications
- Homeopathic Complementary approaches
Vaccination requirements for travel –
- Which vaccinations are for foreign diseases are and which are part of the routine schedule?
- How likely are you to be at risk?
What to take with you in your travel pack
“Risk assessment is important to rationalise pre-travel preparation, but the advice needs to reflect the health risk and not the interventions available … Health promotion and health education need to be the focus of pre-travel consultations. Risk assessment should be based on a broader view than administering drugs and vaccines.“(1)
Outline
- The importance of taking adequate measures for the health conditions that you already have
- Safe aeroplane travel, anti-thrombosis measures
- Prophylaxis against malaria:
- The NICE Guidelines
- The importance of physical Barriers
- Conventional Medications
- Homeopathic Complementary approaches
- Vaccination requirements for travel –
- Which vaccinations are for foreign diseases are and which are part of the routine schedule?
- How likely are you to be at risk?
- What to take with you in your travel pack
Aims
- That those participating
- Realise that the commonest reason for repatriation is inadequate treatment of pre-existing health conditions when abroad.
- Have a clear understanding of the benefits and risks of of current travel advice.
- Have practical advice on how to minimise risk and maximise benefits of travel.
- Have simple guidelines for managing illness abroad for themselves and their family.
18 Jun 2024, Tuesday Evening *** ONLINE LECTURE *** To book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/768745457357
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Part II of the Nursing Children series by Dr Donegan.
This is a second level lecture. Participants must have attended Part I – Nursing People Supportively Through Acute Viral Illness or have studied the booklet ‘Nursing Children Supportively through Acute Illness’
Having learned about the root cause of infectious diseases and correct fever management in Part I, this lecture aims to enable parents to understand the mechanisms of common specific conditions, some of which are more chronic than the acute fever stage:
• The appropriate management,
• When to engage the services of health professionals and
• What to expect when they do.Part one
*What does a child need to be healthy?
*Brief revision of management of acute fevers and General Measures
*Cough/ colds – post nasal drip, night cough vs asthma, respiratory syncytial virus and wheeze. What is the worst that can happen?
*Pneumonia – how to spot it and what to do.
*Ears -acute middle ear infection, glue ear, wax.
*Sore throats, tonsils, indications for tonsillectomy.
*Diarrhoea and VomitingPart two
*Constipation, nutritional, emotional
*Abdominal pain, surgical vs non surgical, grumbling appendix, abdominal migraine
*Conjunctivitis – eye toilet*Styes and emotion
*Dry eyes
*Croup
*Blocked sinuses
*Plenary13 Feb 2024, Tuesday Evening. * ONLINE LECTURE * To book
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Following on from ‘Vaccination – The Question’ and ‘Nursing Supportively Through Acute Illness – Covid-19 – Fever Management’, this lecture examines the subject of vaccination safety, efficacy and immunity in more detail, looking at what the science tells us and discussing what is found when the evidence is scrutenised, with specific reference to MMR and whooping cough vaccine trials, adverse event reporting, meningitis ecology, ‘flu vaccine, and nutrition and vaccination.
If you are a person researching the subject of vaccination or a practitioner with an interest in the science of immunity and natural health then this lecture is ideal for you. With her years of research into the subject of vaccination and disease ecology, Dr. Jayne Donegan will guide you through how to read scientific papers and help you to interpret the this in an interesting and accessible way.
Outline
Part One
• Medical papers will be distributed for use during session
• Introduction
• Users’ guide to detecting misleading claims in clinical research reports – ‘Don’t read the conclusions!’
• ‘Placebo’ controlled trials 1 – The Twin study MMR vaccine for delegates to analyse in group or pair work with feedback and discussion.
• ‘Vaccines are extensively tested’ – MMR vaccine and monkeys
• Facilities for reporting Adverse reactions in Europe – are they fit for purpose?Part Two
• ‘Placebo’ controlled trials 2 – The Ad Hoc Pertussis Group studying the Swedish development and testing of the acellular vaccine for delegates to analyse in group or pair work with feedback and discussion.
• What happened when Sweden withdrew the whole cell whooping cough vaccine in the 1980s.
• Acellular pertussis vaccine vs Natural disease.
• Can vaccination against one organism increase susceptibility to infection by another?
• Vaccinating against ‘flu – does the evidence support this?
• Analysis of a ‘flu vaccine study.
• Nutrition and Vaccination
• PlenaryAims
That those participating:
Achieve an understanding of the validity of claims made in scientific papers
Learn how to spot inconsistencies
Have practical experience of doing this
Appreciate the fact that there is scientific evidence available that supports what many holistic practitioners believe from their empirical and philosophical practices
Are stimulated to further study in this area.05 Dec 2023, Tuesday Evening *** ONLINE LECTURE *** To book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/676422567107
12 Mar 2024, Tuesday Evening *** ONLINE LECTURE *** To book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/769362864037