Drug Repurposing for Measles Disease Treatment
Once again, Frontline Physicians discover and test what appears to be an inexpensive, off-patent treatment for a virus that causes lung disease
An Off-patent, Off-label Measles Disease Treatment
Dr. Richard Bartlett and his close colleagues have been very actively involved in treating patients who have developed measles infection and disease during the current West Texas outbreak. They have discovered that an off-patent drug, Budesonide, when administered by inhaler, can provide remarkable clinical responses in patients suffering from Measles disease. This is another example of an “off-label” use of an existing drug to treat symptoms caused by an infectious viral agent.
There has been a measles outbreak in West Texas, with the first reported death in Lubbock. Many of the cases are among unvaccinated individuals.
The measles vaccine (MMR II) carries similar risks as the wild measles virus, including potential for encephalitis, thrombotic purpura, and other complications. Parents should review the vaccine package insert to understand the risks.
There are indications that some of the measles cases may be due to shedding of the live virus from the measles vaccine, as a recent study found one-third of vaccinated children were shedding the vaccine virus.
The CDC and FDA recommendations on the MMR II vaccine differ, with the CDC recommending it for children as young as 6 months old, while the FDA labeling indicates it is only approved for 12 months and older.
Dr. Bartlett recommends using budesonide nebulizer treatments as an effective, low-risk treatment for measles, as it has been shown to help stop the inflammatory response and symptoms. He urges parents to educate themselves on the options and not rely solely on official health recommendations.
Budesonide, available in both brand and generic versions, can be purchased at significantly reduced costs through various methods. For instance, the generic version can be obtained for as low as $35.69, which is 97% off the average retail price of $1,416.44. Similarly, Budesonide ER can be acquired for around $254.26, representing an 83% discount off its average retail price of $1,522.77. Additionally, international online pharmacies may offer even lower prices, such as $0.09 per dose for 600 doses of Budesonide Inhaler (Budesonide) 100 mcg.
What are Measles Disease Signs and Symptoms?
Measles is a childhood infection caused by a virus. Once quite common, measles can now almost always be prevented with a vaccine.
Also called rubeola, measles spreads easily and can be serious and even fatal for small children. While death rates have been falling worldwide as more children receive the measles vaccine, the disease still kills more than 200,000 people a year, mostly children.
As a result of high vaccination rates in general, measles hasn't been widespread in the United States in about two decades. Most recent measles cases in the U.S. originated outside the country and occurred in people who were unvaccinated or who didn't know whether or not they had been vaccinated.
Measles causes a red, blotchy rash that usually appears first on the face and behind the ears, then spreads downward to the chest and back and finally to the feet.
Measles signs and symptoms appear around 10 to 14 days after exposure to the virus. Signs and symptoms of measles typically include:
Fever
Dry cough
Runny nose
Sore throat
Inflamed eyes (conjunctivitis)
Tiny white spots with bluish-white centers on a red background found inside the mouth on the inner lining of the cheek — also called Koplik's spots
A skin rash made up of large, flat blotches that often flow into one another
The infection occurs in stages over 2 to 3 weeks.
Infection and incubation. For the first 10 to 14 days after infection, the measles virus spreads in the body. There are no signs or symptoms of measles during this time.
Nonspecific signs and symptoms. Measles typically begins with a mild to moderate fever, often with a persistent cough, a runny nose, inflamed eyes (conjunctivitis) and a sore throat. This relatively mild illness may last 2 to 3 days.
Acute illness and rash. The rash is made up of small red spots, some of which are slightly raised. Spots and bumps in tight clusters give the skin a splotchy red appearance. The face breaks out first.
Over the next few days, the rash spreads down the arms, chest and back, then over the thighs, lower legs and feet. At the same time, the fever rises sharply, often as high as 104 to 105.8 F (40 to 41 C).
Recovery. The measles rash may last about seven days. The rash gradually fades first from the face and last from the thighs and feet. As other symptoms of the illness go away, the cough and darkening or peeling of the skin where the rash was may stay for about 10 days.
When can a person spread the measles virus? A person with measles can spread the virus to others for about eight days, starting four days before the rash appears and ending when the rash has been present for four days.
What is Budesonide?
Budesonide, sold under the brand names Pulmicort, Budecort, Rhinocort, Entocort (among others,) is a steroid medication. It is available in inhalers, nebulization solutions, pills, nasal sprays, and rectal forms. The inhaled form is used in the long-term management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Budesonide was initially patented in 1973. Commercial use as an asthma medication began in 1981. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. Some forms are available as a generic medication. In 2022, it was the 177th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 2 million prescriptions filled during that year.
What Medications Does Dr. Bartlett Recommend for Measles?
Recap
10-point summary of Dr. Bartlett’s key points from his recent interview on the measles outbreak:
1. Recent measles outbreak in West Texas, with the first reported death in years occurring in Lubbock.
2. The MMR2 vaccine can cause similar complications to wild measles, including rash, fever, encephalitis, and idiopathic thrombotic purpura.
3. A recent study showed that one-third of children who received the MMR2 vaccine shed the live measles virus, potentially contributing to outbreaks.
4. There’s a discrepancy between FDA and CDC recommendations on the appropriate age for MMR vaccination (12 months vs. 6 months).
5. The vaccine carries risks, especially for immunocompromised individuals and those with certain medical conditions or family histories.
6. Parents should read the MMR package insert and be fully informed about both risks and benefits before deciding to vaccinate.
7. Some measles cases in the current outbreak may be a result of the vaccine virus itself, as the same test is used for both wild and vaccine-induced measles.
8. Historical data suggests that measles outbreaks in the U.S. often originate from immigrants, raising concerns about border control and health screening.
9. Budesonide nebulizer treatments are showing promising results in treating measles symptoms, potentially reducing complications like encephalitis.
10. The treatment protocol developed by Dr. Bartlett and colleagues includes budesonide nebulizer treatments and antibiotics like clarithromycin to prevent secondary bacterial pneumonia, offering a low-risk alternative to solely relying on vaccination. Additionally over-the-counter nasal budesonide can also benefit in protection and treatment.
Dr. Bartlett also recommends parents in areas with an active measles outbreak keep the following over-the-counter items on hand in case they are needed, as well as various prescriptions he is using for specific symptoms of patients he is currently treating for measles.
Links for OTC items listed are below.
If you do not have these items and are in a region experiencing an active measles outbreak, we recommend getting them ASAP so you are prepared in case you or your child gets sick.
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Jodi Hadsell:
Great. Welcome back to Wellness Superheroes. We interrupt this program with a very quick emergency announcement from Dr. Bartlett, who is going to talk to us about the measles outbreak. So welcome back, Dr. Bartlett.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Well, it's a pleasure to be with you ladies, and we're right in the middle of it all right now.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah. So tell us about what's been happening with the measles outbreak.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
So the first reported death of measles in quite a while, in many years, was in Lubbock, Texas, which is my neighborhood here in West Texas, and the child was reported to be unvaccinated. They immediately started, when they had a measles case, they started doing a measles vaccine campaign, and they have heavily been vaccinating here in the South Plains of West Texas. And what you need to know is that the measles vaccine, M-M-R II, can cause all of the complications that the wild measles can cause. You can get a rash, fever, you can get encephalitis, you can have idiopathic thrombotic purpura. And so every one of the complications that you could get from wild measles also get from the live measles of the vaccine.
As a matter of fact, just four months ago, coincidentally, in the journals it was published, the incidence of shedding of the live measles from the measles vaccine, and they showed that a third of the children that received the M-M-R II would have the virus, which is an RNA virus, in their nasal pharynx. Therefore, they said shedding is not uncommon, is the way they worded it. Well, another way of wording that is that it's common. So you can get a rash, a fever, a cough that is a measles rash, fever, and cough because the vaccine is a measles virus. It's supposed to be alive, attenuated, which is a term for weakened virus, but it is not the virus that I got as a kid, by the way. M-M-R I, M-M-R II, and then they had a third measles vaccine that came out a year ago. So we have, depending on which vaccine you get, it's not going to be what I got as a kid, just to be clear. And so a lot of adults like myself would assume, "Well, I got the shot, and it didn't bother me." Well, I didn't get what they're using now. So there actually has been... We're not using the same thing, and so it's not apples to apples.
But the fact is that idiopathic thrombotic purpura, which is a condition where you have lowered platelet count, it affects your immune system for a while. That's why they say do not give this vaccine if you're immune-compromised and if you're around somebody that has cancer, is on chemo, has AIDS, has rheumatoid arthritis or lupus, and they're on the medicines that treat that; if you've recently got a steroid shot because you had a respiratory infection and the doctors gave you that. Also, they have an antibiotic put in some of the vaccines, and so if you're allergic to that antibiotic to protect you from getting infected, you need to know that you should not get this vaccine. It's on the package insert. So I recommend the parents get on the internet and look up the M-M-R II package insert and read what the FDA says.
One of the things that's really interesting to me is that FDA and the CDC are not in sync, up until now. So the FDA gets the information from pharmaceutical companies about safety and effectiveness and ingredients of their product, and then the FDA will recommend when you should get those shots based on the information. And on the package insert, the FDA says, indicated for one-year-old, not for under one-year-old, but what you see with the CDC is they're saying you could give it down to six months old. Well, that's not based on what the information is that the FDA approved it on. So you have a disconnect between the CDC and FDA for years now, and so pediatricians are repeating what the CDC says.
Now, I would like to remind everyone that the CDC director said that if you get the Covid shot, you won't get Covid-
Annie Catterall:
[inaudible 00:05:20].
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
... and you won't spread Covid. And so clearly, the CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, during the Covid pandemic lied. She may not have realized she was lying. I don't know if she knew she was lying or not, but she was lying because the Covid shot does not prevent disease; it does not prevent the spread. So that's just one of many examples that the CDC has been wrong concerning vaccines. They might get things right, too, but they were wrong on vaccines just recently.
So with the M-M-R vaccine, it's reported a one in 20,000 incidents of idiopathic thrombotic purpura. One in 20,000 get that complication if you have wild measles. It's one in 40,000 from the vaccine. And so the vaccines are not without risk.
Jodi Hadsell:
Wow. That's-
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Matter of fact, in the package insert, it says if you have an illness right now, you should not get it, and if you have a history of febrile seizures, you should not get the vaccine. If you have a family history of an immune problem, you should not get the vaccine. There's a lot of contraindications. It is not for everybody.
So parents need to have all the information and then parents can make the decision. And as I've told Bobby Kennedy's team, the parents can handle the truth. The American people can handle the truth. But they deserve to hear the truth. And if a pediatrician is not telling them this information, then they're not following ethically and legally their responsibility according to the American Medical Association for informed consent. Informed consent is you tell all the risks and all the benefits.
Jodi Hadsell:
Exactly.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Tell all the benefits, but tell all the risks. And there's also the ingredients issue. We learned a lot during the Covid shots that there's a lot of ingredients that they were not forthright with, and that's why the Florida surgeon general says he cannot recommend the Covid shot for one person out of 30 million people in Florida. And that's at the Florida Department of Health website, still. It's been there for a long time now. And he lists the ingredients that nobody's been told, for the most part, about SV40, green monkey, cancer-causing protein called green monkey oncoprotein, like oncology, oncoprotein, onco meaning cancer. And this is green monkey genetic code added to the Covid shots on purpose. How many parents have been told that? But we have-
Jodi Hadsell:
And that's why there's so many turbo cancers from people who got the Covid shots?
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Well, the Covid shots were proven to cause frame-shifting because it's an RNA with pseudouridine in it, and that makes it not be read accurately. And when it's not read accurately, that's called frame-shifting, and it can lead to abnormal proteins that can't be predicted. And when those abnormal non-self proteins are made, if they attach to your liver and your immune system says, "That's not supposed to be here. That's an intruder," it'll have collateral damage of damaging your liver cells. That's why the Pfizer, the company Pfizer, listed autoimmune hepatitis as a risk, associated risk, with their product.
Jodi Hadsell:
Oh, wow.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
So that's one of about three dozen autoimmune disorders that Pfizer had listed as potential adverse events from the Pfizer Covid shot, meaning it jacks with your immune system. And that's why it also has AIDS cancer listed by Pfizer as a risk with the Covid shots. We received that information from the FDA by FOIA request only by court order because... We had to go to federal court because the FDA said, "We can't release this for 75 years to the American people." And so we went to federal court, and they told the federal judge, "We don't want to release this for 75 years to the American people," and the judge said, Judge Mark Pittman, the federal judge in Fort Worth said, "Baloney, you're going to release this," and that's where we got the list of 1200 adverse events of special interest. That's the Covid shots. But for measles, if parents want to give the vaccine to their children, they can, but they deserve to know that they have a risk listed on the package insert of encephalitis, the very thing you're trying to avoid with wild measles. It's a risk with the live measles in the vaccine per the FDA had to be added to the package insert because it can and does happen sometimes. It's rare with regular measles, it's rare with the vaccine. But things that are common with the vaccine virus are a rash, a fever, febrile seizures. These are things that can happen with the live measles or with the vaccine measles and idiopathic thrombotic purpura. I never heard a pediatrician tell us that, and I haven't heard that in a public service announcement during this or anytime in the past I wish I would've known.
Jodi Hadsell:
What do you think caused the outbreak? We haven't had an outbreak in a long time.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Definitely some of the cases are a result of the vaccine virus.
Jodi Hadsell:
That's what I thought.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
We don't know that all of them are, but the same test for measles is used for the wild virus and also for the vaccine virus. So the vaccine measles virus can will test positive and it'll be called measles and actually talking-
Jodi Hadsell:
So somebody who got a shot, a measles vaccine could have caused this outbreak. Is that what you're saying?
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
That is possible. That is an absolute possibility. Measles does not come from thin air. And historically in the United States, the CDC, I was CBS medical expert for West Texas for 23 years. And so about 15 years ago, I looked at the CDC website when it was much more useful and it listed the last eight measles outbreaks in the United States and where every one of them came from. Another country, from migrants from another country. And so number one, west Texas is on the border with Mexico. Has anyone heard that there's a border crisis? Has anyone heard that there's over 10 million illegal immigrants that have been allowed in the United States, catch and release, have been bused in, have been flown in. I think I saw a news story about former presidents actually being involved in the plane loads of people coming from South America and Central America into the United States. None of them are being required to get vaccines.
Jodi Hadsell:
Or to get tested, right? To get tested.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Or to get tested. And that's not even an issue. And so they're not checking. And measles, polio, tuberculosis are endemic in other countries. And so endemic means there's a regular threshold of the wild disease in their country, not in the United States. Has anyone talked about the fact that tuberculosis is up and there's no vaccine for tuberculosis? So you can't blame anti-vaxxers, you can't blame people who did not get vaccinated. You can't blame the parents because it's not something you can prevent with a vaccine.
So how does that happen? Absolutely. It happens from immigrants coming from another country, especially people who have not been vetted. And so when you have 10 million variables at least that came across the border and it's totally ignored in the mainstream news, that's called propaganda. When the mainstream news does not report that you can have the most serious complications of wild measles or the measles from the vaccine. The live measles virus from the vaccine is pneumonia or encephalitis, inflammation of the brain. And you have those same risks from the vaccine and from the wild virus. Nobody's saying that in the news.
But if you had a case... And I can tell you for sure there's illegal immigrants in West Texas. And I remember the health department official of New York City crying two years ago in the news that he had 70,000 illegal immigrants that were bused into his city and now they have double the rate of polio, tuberculosis. How does that happen? Well, he knew it happened because of the illegal immigrants. That was only 70,000. You know how many there are in Texas?
Jodi Hadsell:
I know.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Oh my goodness. In west Texas. I almost speak a second language here. I am a minority in the city that I own a house in. And these are very real science-based variables that are not being discussed or admitted, and I would say admitted, they're not being admitted. And so the number one probability for a wild virus in the United States is illegal immigration. That's a fact.
Annie Catterall:
Dr. Bartlett, talk to us if I can interrupt. Talk to us about the complications of contracting measles in the wild versus the contracting it from the-
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Same risk. The same list. The same list. You have twice the risk, twice the possibility according to one report of getting the idiopathic thrombotic purpura, which is an immune response that lowers... Actually you have a lowered immune system for a while, and you also have lowered platelet count. And so that can happen. In one report it says one in 20,000 by the wild virus, but with the vaccine it's one in 40,000. So it's still a risk.
And then encephalitis, inflammation of the brain is a risk with both. You can look at the package insert. And also listed as a risk in the package insert is transverse myelitis. I have treated that from Covid shot. A patient that got a Covid shot two hours before came into my ER and was paralyzed from the waist down. And that's where the spinal cord is damaged by the virus. And so we know there's risk with the live virus in the measles vaccine. We know that there's risk with the wild measles coming from illegal immigrants bringing it into the country. And so those are the two sources. And to blame people that didn't vaccinate their children when they didn't bring the measles is ridiculous. And not to acknowledge that there's over 10 million immigrants that have not been vetted, have not been vaccinated with the MMR2 before they got here is unconscionable.
Jodi Hadsell:
So you said before this, this measles is not the same as... I got the measles. When I was a kid, I didn't get a vaccine. I got the measles. It was no big deal. I was sick for a week or whatever and I was fine. I mean all the kids got it back then. So this measles is more dangerous. Is that correct?
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
So the measles that you got from wild measles gives you a more lasting immunity than the vaccine, first of all. Secondly, we're finding right now real-time front-line boots on the ground that patients that have measles, children that have measles are responding overwhelmingly like miraculously with the Budesonide nebulizer treatments at home.
Jodi Hadsell:
Imagine that.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
And so there's a common pathway with respiratory viruses of a cytokine storm. Who would've thought that something that was a life-saving during Covid, a respiratory virus would also be very effective against measles. And so that doesn't mean they don't have measles. It just means that the risk of the inflammatory cytokines, the interleukin 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 13, 15, Thromboxane, Cyclooxygenase, all those things are shut down every time you get a nebulizer treatment of Budesonide. And that's a common pathway. Those things cause inflammation, eventually permeability of the blood-brain barrier and then can lead to encephalitis. And so you're heading off the risk of encephalitis.
Now both the vaccine and the wild virus can cause febrile seizures and that's not good. But it's a risk with both. And I'm not sure parents are being told that. They deserve to know, but I'm recommending don't wait on someone else to tell you. There's a one-page package insert for the MMR2 on the internet. Look at it. If you're a parent, educate yourself. Because we've learned during Covid that it does pay and people have lost their lives when they didn't do their own research and they just blindly trusted someone in a white coat. That's not how it should be.
And then the second main complication, either with wild measles or with the measles in the vaccine is bacterial pneumonia, secondary bacterial pneumonia. The number one risk factor for bacterial pneumonia is a primary viral respiratory infection. That's what measles is. And so this is one of those times you give an impaired treatment with an antibiotic. This is the time you cover it. And so pediatricians that might not be real smart might say, "Well, you don't have a bacterial infection."
No, they have a respiratory viral illness that is predisposing them to a dangerous secondary bacterial pneumonia. And just like if someone's going to have a knee replacement, they're going to get a load of IV antibiotics empirically, not because they have an infection, but because they're going to be at increased risk because their skin is cut, and intact skin is the first layer of protection from a bacterial infection.
So we give antibiotics empirically for all kinds of conditions and situations in medicine because it's scientifically sound to do that, and this is one of those situations that you should use an antibiotic. I recommend clarithromycin if someone isn't allergic to it because it covers the atypical bacteria like mycoplasma, a walking pneumonia bacteria, and it also covers strep pneumonia, which is the encapsulated bacteria. So we've already been here before. We saw that there was a-
Jodi Hadsell:
It's the COVID protocol. It's your COVID protocol.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
It is. It's what worked for COVID. And who would've thought that another respiratory virus that, actually, they just published. How interesting, they just studied and published the incidence of shedding with the MMR virus vaccine in October of '24? Really? And-
Jodi Hadsell:
And now we have an outbreak?
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
And just four months later, that's very pertinent information. And so the bottom line is we don't need to be scared.
Jodi Hadsell:
No.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
You need to have a nebulizer at home, and budesonide nebulizer treatments are right now helping the family. Let's just say the family that had the baby that died, when the family was requesting nebulizer treatments in the hospital and denied, and then 12 hours later, they get a call that the baby has expired, that family had others that were sick in the family not doing well, and they turned around with one budesonide treatment at home.
Jodi Hadsell:
Oh my gosh. That's fantastic.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
So I'm telling you, cutting-edge, right-now information that has not been spoken in the news or any podcast. This is right now hot-
Jodi Hadsell:
That's why we had to get on with you immediately, because I'm like, "We have to tell people this." And thank God we have a website with physicians, a network of physicians, to help you out throughout the United States.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Yeah. So-
Jodi Hadsell:
They can help you with this protocol.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Yes. Parents need to ask. They need to be prepared. Don't be scared-
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah. I'll send an email out to all the doctors in the network with a link to this, just letting them know that they can treat. With this protocol, it's working, right?
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Yes, it is working. It is working right now. It's working right now in Gaines County, the epicenter of the outbreak. Working in the epicenter where they're doing a huge vaccine campaign.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yes.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
It's working right now where, to my shame, to Texas Tech's shame, they added Deborah Birx-
Jodi Hadsell:
What?
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
... to their faculty at Texas Tech. I went-
Jodi Hadsell:
What?
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
... to Texas Tech. So she actually arrived here-
Jodi Hadsell:
What?
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
... before the outbreak.
Jodi Hadsell:
Oh my goodness.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
But you got to say, that's-
Annie Catterall:
Too many coinkydinks, doc. Too many coinkydinks.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
... interesting trivia. Quite a coincidence that Deborah Birx ends up in West Texas right before we have a nationwide scare.
Jodi Hadsell:
Right. Oh, it's all over the news and X, and everybody's going crazy and they're saying, "Oh, it's because [inaudible 00:24:01] anti-vax, and that's what's blah, blah, blah." That's-
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Yeah, no. I can tell you, Bobby Kennedy is all about safe vaccines and informed consent. And I'll tell you, the people that are mocking him clearly are against informed consent. They want to keep information from the American people.
Exhibit A is that the FDA told public health and medical professionals for transparency, the nonprofit that I'm on the board of, that they didn't want to release the information on the COVID shot for 75 years to the doctors. And so doctors have a ethical, moral, and legal responsibility to give informed consent about vaccines, about surgeries, about every medicine, and we had the FDA and Pfizer not being cooperative on that.
Pfizer could have given that information, but it actually had to come from the FDA because a federal judge forced it by federal court order after we gave the FOIA request and they refused, and they said they wanted to keep it for 75 years.
So I'm saying right now, parents need to be the ones that are doing the research, and they can look on the internet, and they can read the package insert, and there's going to be a lot of pediatricians that are ticked off. "Oh, that's wrong. You're interfering with patient care." No, it's right to give informed consent.
And so there's a risk with the vaccine. Every possible problem you could have with wild measles is a possibility with the vaccine measles virus. And in this study that was published in October, the name of the journal, I want to look it up for you. I think it's the Journal of Virology or something like that. It's a mainstream journal. Let me see here. And it's just-
Annie Catterall:
And you find it, and I'll put it in the show notes.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Yeah. Journal of Clinical Virology, Volume 173, October 2024. Really? I mean, August 2024. That's an interesting coincidence that we got Deborah Birx out here in the middle of a measles outbreak. She gets here a year before.
And then we also have this study published three months before we have the outbreak: Shedding of Measles Vaccine RNA, it's an RNA virus, in Children After Receiving Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccines. So literally, this study is showing that a third of the children that got the vaccine were shedding.
Jodi Hadsell:
Wow. That's huge.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Let me say that again. A third of the children were shedding a live measles virus, which is an RNA virus. It's a single-strand RNA virus.
And so of course, you're going to see virus RNA because it's an RNA virus. And so the wording is very clever, but the reality is you have a risk with the vaccine, you have a risk with the wild virus, but we can treat it. And we have evidence-
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah. And the treatment is very low-risk.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Very low-risk.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yes.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Budesonide has been used on two-pound premature babies without batting an eye. It's been out for over 35 years. It's generic, it's inexpensive, we have long-term safety data, which is really important with any situation.
So the FDA is saying this vaccine, the MMR2, is indicated for 12 months and older? Okay. That's based on information given by the manufacturer. But the CDC is saying, "You can give it at six months, and we recommend it at six months." That's not lining up with even the package insert from the FDA. There's a-
Jodi Hadsell:
Wow.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
... major disconnect that nobody's calling out, and I'm calling it out.
Jodi Hadsell:
That's crazy.
Annie Catterall:
Thank you, Dr. Bartlett. This is very important information, and like you say, parents need to be empowered to go and find the information for themselves, because clearly, there's a disconnect, and centralized medicine won't tell you. There are too many who benefit from keeping this information from the public, so.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Yeah, right. Yeah. For years, apparently the FDA and CDC have been saying different things. The CDC is saying, "Give it at six months old." The FDA, which actually had the evidence of the studies of safe and effective said 12 months old. There's a difference there.
And neither one is talking about something that we're telling you right now is being proven in the field of the frontline of the pandemic right now in the epicenter is that budesonide nebulizer treatments are helping these kids no longer be short of breath, stopping their cough, is shutting down the cytokine storm release, which causes all the symptoms. It's a tumor necrosis factor. Interleukin-1 is what causes fever.
And so when their fever breaks, that is evidence that their tumor necrosis factor was shut down from being released from the respiratory lining, which is where the virus is attacking and causing the release of these cytokines. And so-
Jodi Hadsell:
Wow.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
... all of these things, even leukotriene, which is montelukast, is an anti-allergy medicine that just targets only one thing, that that's shut down with the budesonide nebulizer treatments. It-
Jodi Hadsell:
Wow.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
... shuts down cyclooxygenase. Cyclooxygenase is what ibuprofen and Motrin target, and you know how effective that is, and so it shuts down every one of these things.
Jodi Hadsell:
Wow.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
At the source.
Jodi Hadsell:
So, what about the nasal spray, would that help too, or is that not recommended for kids? That would help kids?
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
No, it would work.
Jodi Hadsell:
That's awesome.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
It would.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah, it would help.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Because it will interfere with the release of the cytokines, it'll stabilize the cell membrane, it'll make it harder for the virus to enter the cells and replicate, and so just over the counter, budesonide nose spray will be a good preventive strategy, but if someone has a cough, a fever, measles, whether it comes from the vaccine, which obviously is happening.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
So, I just had a mayor call me several days ago, from a larger city in this area, and he told me that his health department said, "Look, if we have three cases in our county, by definition, that's an outbreak.' Three cases.
Jodi Hadsell:
Oh my God.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
And they told him, "We have four, we have four cases of measles."
Jodi Hadsell:
Wow.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
And then they came back to him shortly after that and said, "We have three cases," he said, "Wait, you told me four," they said, "Well, yeah, we're not going to count one of them because it clearly came from the vaccine."
Jodi Hadsell:
Oh, wow. That's interesting.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
And so, that one couldn't even be denied, so they just wanted to remove that from the knowledge of the mayor, of the community, of the media, and they only want to acknowledge things that cannot be clearly tied to the vaccine. Now, they can do genome sequencing, and they can see if these outbreaks are from the vaccine or from a wild virus.
Jodi Hadsell:
Wow.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
I doubt we're going to ever hear that.
Jodi Hadsell:
I know.
Annie Catterall:
No.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Because-
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah, because they're not going to want to admit it that anything came from the vaccines, right?
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Well, obviously,. Because literally telling the mayor, 25% of the cases actually came just historically, we didn't even have to do genome sequencing, we knew that we could not deny that it came from a vaccine. So, we're not going to acknowledge that, please forget that we told you that, and we're not going to tell anybody else. That's 25%.
Jodi Hadsell:
Wow. That's crazy.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
That just kind of tells you how this is going to go-
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah, exactly.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
... with [inaudible 00:32:21] officials. But the good news is that budesonide nebulizer treatments are literally making a difference, and it's $3 a treatment. Big pharma is not going to make a dime off of it, and it'll be hard to get certain academic doctors to change their mind, but they're slow learners sometimes, and so we'll see how-
Jodi Hadsell:
So, have you contacted Bobby to tell him this?
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
I'm going to hold that information for a moment.
Jodi Hadsell:
Okay.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
But we know that people that care are aware of the information I'm sharing with you right now. And at the same time, for his sake, I'm not going to answer that, but I will say, for anyone watching this, if you're worried about measles, whether it comes from the vaccine or from a wild strain that came from an immigrant, then we have something that will help. And we have the evidence already. And no, it hasn't been published, no, we just had the outbreak a couple of weeks ago, and it takes time to publish things. But you've heard it now, prove me wrong.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah.
Annie Catterall:
Yeah. What have you got to lose?
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
It's safe-
Annie Catterall:
Everything to gain. Everything to gain.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
It's readily available, we got long-term safety data on both the antibiotic, clarithromycin, that's generic, and it's used for infants and children, the antibiotic, the budesonide has been used down to two-pound premature babies in the NICU, as delicate a human as there is, and it's been used on the fragile, elderly in nursing homes. And so, these are things that are safe and effective, the vaccine can cause encephalitis. Did you hear me?
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Budesonide does not cause encephalitis. The antibiotic clarithromycin doesn't cause encephalitis. So, you get to pick what you want to do, but you deserve to know as a parent that there's options of early treatment, of treatment even if someone has a disease like some of the kids that are in Gaines County, that are really sick, that are turning around after a first breathing treatment, that's really boring.
Jodi Hadsell:
That's amazing.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
It's boring, it's not sexy, it's not expensive, it doesn't sound dramatic, it's not going to scare everybody in the news to say that we got this nebulizer treatment that your kid's doing while they're watching cartoons on TV, on Cartoon Network, that doesn't sound nearly as interesting to mainstream media.
Jodi Hadsell:
No, it doesn't.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
But now you know.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah. And by the way, on Budesonide Works, we have links to, if you don't have a nebulizer, to go get them, they're available on Amazon, they used to be readily available in drug stores, now it's prescription only. But if you do work with the physician in our network, they can order one for you. But if you need it right away, I think Amazon has plenty. And then all the other things you can also get from Amazon, we have links on the website to everything.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
So, BudesonideWorks.com, you have providers listed there, but also you have a media tab, a studies tab, success stories tab, and the disease that killed 1.2 million Americans was COVID, that's a lot more than one with measles so far.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah, right.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
And we have evidence there that it works. It's been studied around the world. But there's also MyFreeDoctor.com-
Jodi Hadsell:
That's [inaudible 00:36:01].
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
... that was started by a doctor in Florida, that was a Nobel Prize, he didn't win it, but he was a nominee, Nobel Prize nominee, Ben Marble, [inaudible 00:36:18] there. So, you have that option, if you can't get through to those two places, Budesonide Works, network fast enough because they're overwhelmed with helping people, or Myfreedoctor.com is another telemedicine service, but-
Jodi Hadsell:
And we have links to all of those on our website.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Great. Yeah. So, this is a one-stop shop, you got information and information saves lives, really.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah, exactly.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
And a lot of people died for lack of knowledge during COVID, and we're not going to do that again.
Jodi Hadsell:
No, we're not. We're prepared not scared.
Annie Catterall:
Wonderful.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah. Well, thank you-
Annie Catterall:
Thank you Dr. Bartlett.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah, thanks Dr. Bartlett for jumping on here. I called you and I was like, let's get on it right now, let's tell people what's going on. And how they could get relief-
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
I'm literally working in the ER right now. I'm literally working in the ER here where the outbreak is right now. And you know what? I'm not scared. When someone comes in here and they have measles, no big deal.
Jodi Hadsell:
No big deal.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
We got solutions, we're not caught without tools in the toolbox.
Jodi Hadsell:
Right.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
And so, we're not hopeless or hopeless. And my message to everyone is we're not helpless or hopeless, don't fall into this fear that is really being promoted, if you'll pay attention, it sure does feel familiar, doesn't it? After the four years.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah. Yep.
Dr. Richard Bartlett:
Thank you ladies for getting this information out.
Jodi Hadsell:
Yeah, you're welcome.
Annie Catterall:
Thank you Dr. Bartlett.
Jodi Hadsell:
And thank you. Thanks so much. Have a good night.
Inhaled Budesonide Pharmacology and Drug Interactions
Budesonide (Pulmacort) is used to help prevent the symptoms of asthma. When used regularly every day, inhaled budesonide decreases the number and severity of asthma attacks. However, it will not relieve an asthma attack that has already started.
Budesonide is a corticosteroid or steroid (cortisone-like medicine). It works by preventing inflammation (swelling) in the lungs, which makes the asthma attack less severe. Inhaled budesonide may be used with other asthma medicines such as bronchodilators, which are also used to open up narrowed breathing passages in the lungs.
This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.
This product is available in the following dosage forms:
Suspension
Powder
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Allergies
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Pediatric
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated pediatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of Pulmicort Respules® in children 12 months to 8 years of age. However, safety and efficacy have not been established in children younger than 12 months of age.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated pediatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of Pulmicort Flexhaler™ in children 6 years of age and older. However, safety and efficacy have not been established in children younger than 6 years of age.
Geriatric
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of inhaled budesonide in the elderly. However, elderly patients are more likely to have age-related liver, kidney, or heart problems, which may require an adjustment in the dose for patients receiving inhaled budesonide.
Breastfeeding
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Drug Interactions
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may decide not to treat you with this medication or change some of the other medicines you take.
Desmopressin
Levoketoconazole
Rotavirus Vaccine, Live
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Adagrasib
Amiodarone
Amprenavir
Aprepitant
Aspirin
Atazanavir
Avacopan
Balofloxacin
Bemiparin
Berotralstat
Besifloxacin
Boceprevir
Bupropion
Carbamazepine
Ceritinib
Cilostazol
Cimetidine
Ciprofloxacin
Clarithromycin
Clofazimine
Cobicistat
Conivaptan
Cosyntropin
Cyclosporine
Dabrafenib
Darunavir
Delavirdine
Diltiazem
Dronedarone
Duvelisib
Encorafenib
Enoxacin
Ethinyl Estradiol
Fedratinib
Fexinidazole
Fleroxacin
Fluconazole
Flumequine
Fluvoxamine
Fosamprenavir
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines may cause an increased risk of certain side effects, but using both drugs may be the best treatment for you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Apalutamide
Auranofin
Erythromycin
Mavacamten
Other Interactions
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following is usually not recommended, but may be unavoidable in some cases. If used together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use this medicine, or give you special instructions about the use of food, alcohol, or tobacco.