A symptom of low body temperature
Infections, Recurrent
The body fights infection with the immune system. Low body temperature patterns resulting in MED can adversely affect the function of the immune system leading patients to have frequent upper respiratory tract infections as well as recurrent urinary tract infections. Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome sufferers can have recurrent ear infections, wound infections, fungal infections, and even yeast infections. Antibiotics are commonly required to treat these infections. Sometimes such infections respond less than optimally to antibiotics. Such a predicament might be more worrisome in more serious infections such as severe abdominal infections and bone infections (osteomyelitis) which are more difficult to treat.
When patients’ physical resources are already greatly impaired because of trauma or surgery, Multiple Enzyme Dysfunction (resulting in less immune system function) can make it more difficult to fight the infection. This can result in longer hospital stays and even less favorable outcomes.
Some Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome patients have been seen to have frequent vaginal yeast infections that have cleared up with normalization of body temperature patterns with the WT3 protocol. Some patients have been diagnosed with having a systemic (throughout the body) candida yeast infection. Their candida yeast titers (levels) measured in the blood have been seen to persist even after being treated with nystatin by their doctors. Nystatin is an antifungal medicine used in the treatment of candida yeast infections. In some cases, the candida yeast titers have been seen to drop to zero upon normalization of body temperature patterns with the WT3 protocol. It seems that candida yeast grows in the body more easily in patients who have low body temperature patterns. This may be due to decreased ability of the body to fight the yeast infection because of decreased immune system function, or it might be because the yeast organism finds low body temperatures to be more hospitable for growth than normal body temperature patterns. But, in any case, patients are quite happy when their recurrent yeast infections and urinary tract infections resolve, and they are quite happy when they are able to go through the winter months without having colds and sore throats.
From the book — how this is usually treated
Antibiotics
Given for the respiratory, urinary, skin, and yeast infections that are commonly associated with Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome. Recurring and difficult to treat infections such as acne, yeast infections, skin, and wound infections can frequently be eliminated with proper thyroid hormone treatment and normalization of body temperature patterns.
In their own words
“The increasing signs that my body wasn’t functioning well (increased infections, skin problems, neurological problems, mental problems) were evident.”
— Betty J. · read more stories
“I also suffered from dry itchy skin, brittle hair and nails, constipation, frequent respiratory infections, frequent and severe migraine type headaches, debilitating pain in my feet, ankles, and finger joints, and occasionally, a tender abdomen “in the upper right quadrant.” Frequently I found bruises on my extremities and could not relate them to any apparent injuries.”
— Elizabeth W. · read more stories
“Also they are not progressing to sinus and ear infections or bronchitis as they have for the past several years.”
— Joyce Carnefix · read more stories
Dr. Wilson on this symptom
Your Immune System
Do you catch “everything that comes around”? Most people don’t think of their thyroid gland as part of the immune system.
Thyroid hormones and DNA
How thyroid hormones, especially T3, affect DNA transcription in every cell of the body, and why iodine and selenium are essential minerals for thyroid health.
Why shellfish is the best food for your thyroid health
Shellfish is tops when it comes to the foods that support thyroid health.
Affordable Care Act and Health Insurance
Dr. Wilson's take on President Obama's Affordable Care Act... what does this mean for low body temperature and WTS?
Where this comes from. A 2015 interview with Dr. Wilson on low body temperature and thyroid hormone expression is indexed on PubMed Central (Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal). Wilson's Temperature Syndrome is not accepted by every medical body — read the disagreement in full.
From Dr. Denis Wilson's book on Wilson's Temperature Syndrome. See all symptoms →