[quote]lou21 wrote:
on edge wrote:
When my wife was pregnant with our first child we researched the issue in depth to make our decision. This was eight years ago, so my memory is faded on details, however, I do remember thinking that the pro-vaccine materials we read were quite pathetic. I could go through most of them point by point and tear them apart. I do remember one point, almost verbatim, and it was, something to the effect “when a problem is discovered with a vaccine it gets pulled from the market”.
Well, thats nice but they can’t pull it from a little babies body. Once it goes in there’s no going back. With further research I learned that statement is not entirely true. When they learned of the egg allergy problem with some vaccines, they changed the processing methods for future productions. They didn’t pull the old ones from the market - the ones that still contained the egg proteins. It turned out my son is allergic to eggs and they were (at the time) still using the old vaccine in our area.
In the end, my wife and I chose not to get any vaccines for our children. The one we were tempted to get is the one for Meningitis. That is one nasty bug and it’s prevalent enough to be a concern. An intelligent poster, earlier in this thread, said they would seriously consider the MMR vaccine. I don’t agree. I don’t see any of the those three as being much of a risk. Rubella is just a bad rash as far as I remember.
Some other points I remember not sitting well with me; By age 2 something like 32 vaccines are recommended by the AMA. That strikes me as such overkill (no pun intended, but I like it) as to indicate an industry that can’t be trusted. The Chicken Pox Vaccine is ludicrous. It’s not very strong so it needs to be repeated every 7 years, verses if you just get it, you have nearly a lifetime immunity. Those who get the vaccine are much, much more at risk of contracting shingles later in life. Shingles is a much bigger threat than chicken pox.
OK I have to write something here. This thread has been seriously raising my blood pressure. “Rubella is just a bad rash” Please please please do some more research on what the Rubella is and what it does to unborn children if the mother is infected. This used to be rather more common than it is now…
As for mumps (one of the other diseases covered by the MMR) is your child a boy or a girl? If it’s a boy I hope he thanks you if he contracts mumps whilst at university (rather a common occurence now in the UK since the herd immunity dropped due to the MMR fiasco). This can cause rather extreme consequences for a boy. Like you not having any grandchildren…
All in all I give you a fail for your research project and am sorry for your child.
(I will agree about chickenpox though- don’t parents usually try to make sure their children get that disease to prevent the risk of shingles later on?)
As for the guy saying he’ll get vacinated if the disease becomes resistant…
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Good post. Many of these diseases, while not fatal by themselves, can have very serious complications.
The chickenpox vaccine is very important for people who do not get chickenpox during childhood. In adults, chickenpox has been fatal. As far as its use in young children, that is a different story.