I do not get the shot. I am allergic to eggs so there is no question for me. A lot of my family do not get it either. Their choice for many reasons.
I found this article, from two year ago, about immunizations that I found interesting and will share now. I will also go in search for an article in favor of this practice and share it also. I really do want to keep this fair. I may not agree with everything that I share, but I do want to keep everything fair and interesting for the readers. This is definitely interesting.
Six Reasons To Say NO to Vaccination
by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
on May 25, 2010
Vaccination is an extremely
controversial topic these days. Whatever side of the aisle you
may fall with regard to your opinion about vaccination, one thing is for
certain. The choice to vaccinate or not to vaccinate is a decision
that has the potential to greatly impact the health of you and most
importantly, your children for the rest of their lives.
As a result, this decision should
not be taken lightly and it should not be made in a vacuum. In other
words, don’t just take your pediatrician’s word that shots are safe.
It is possible for doctors to be wrong. They are human,
after all. In reality, your doctor is simply parroting the standard line
about vaccination from the American Medical Association (AMA) playbook.
If you think you are getting their honest assessment, think again.
You should neither assume shots are
dangerous just because your friend down the street doesn’t vaccinate her kids.
The key here is education;
making an informed decision by investigating the facts with an open mind
and knowing exactly what you are getting yourself into before you commit to do
anything.
With that in mind, the list below
will briefly detail to you the reasons why I did not vaccinate my own children
and will never consider a shot for them for any reason even in the event of a
so called “pandemic.” Please remember that I come from a medical
family. My own Father (retired) is a MD as is my brother and my cousin
(who was a pediatrician, now deceased). My husband’s mother is a
nurse. There is no shortage of opinions on this subject in my
family, I can assure you.
So, don’t use family pressure as an
excuse to do what you need to do once you investigate the facts for yourself
and make an informed decision. There is no more foolish choice than to
do something because it is someone else’s wishes and not your own.
It is your body, after all and these are your children. There is
no one on earth who knows what is best for them except you and your spouse –
not even and most especially not your doctor! Make your decisions
feeling confident in this knowledge.
#1:
Pharmaceutical Companies Can’t Be Trusted
Let’s just
list a couple of the (many) times over the past 10 years where a drug or drug
regimen has been deemed unsafe and downright dangerous and yet the
pharmaceutical companies covered it up FOR YEARS in order to continue raking in
the profits for as long as possible. This should be an easy task.
How about
hormone replacement therapy for women?
The standard of care for a menopausal woman for over 40 years was
HRT. Even women with no complaints were
advised that this treatment was helpful as it reduced chances for a heart
attack and cancer and even helped them feel younger. Were any, I repeat ANY of these claims
true? Not a whit. Breast cancer risk is doubled for women on
HRT, 41% increased risk for stroke, 29%
increased risk of heart attack, and the list goes on and on.
How about
Vioxx? Before this dangerous drug that
caused thousands of deaths from heart attack and stroke was finally removed
from the market, evidence surfaced that Merck had withheld information and even
doctored reports on its dangers years before. As of November 2007, Merck had
agreed to pay $4.85 billion to settle approximately 27,000 cases from victims
claiming injury or death of a family member using Vioxx. While this is a huge
sum of money, in reality it represents less than one year’s profits for Merck.
Does it pay for a drug company to lie about a drug’s safety and efficacy? You betcha. The risk of payouts to victims
from getting sued is lower than the lure of huge and long lasting profits while
a drug’s patent protection remains in effect.
I could cite
other examples, but I’m trying to keep this post as pithy as possible. Please comment if you have other examples of
pharmaceutical company deceit. It will
help others reading this blog who might still be on the fence about this issue.
Remember the
old proverb, “Fool me once, shame on you;
Fool me twice, shame on me”?
These corporate behemoths have proven themselves to be completely
untrustworthy based on past behavior.
In a court of law, if such a company were an actual witness, an attorney
would never put them on the stand due to a serious lack of credibility. Are you really going to take these companies
at their word that these shots are safe when money and profits are impacted by
their answer?
#2:
ALL Vaccines are Loaded with Chemicals and other Poisons
Here is a list of some of the
damaging ingredients in the vaccines on the market today:
MSG,
antifreeze, phenol (used as a disinfectant), formaldehyde (cancer causing and
used to embalm), aluminum (associated with alzheimer’s disease and seizures),
glycerin (toxic to the kidney, liver, can cause lung damage, gastrointestinal
damage and death), lead, cadmium, sulfates, yeast proteins, antibiotics, acetone
(used in nail polish remover), neomycin and streptomycin. And the ingredient making the press is
thimerosol (more toxic than mercury, a preservative still used in many
vaccines, not easily eliminated, can cause severe neurological damage as well as
other life threatening autoimmune disease). These vaccines are grown and
strained through animal or human tissue, like monkey and dog kidney tissue,
chick embryo, calf serum, human diploid cells (the dissected organs of aborted
fetuses), pig blood, horse blood and rabbit brain.
Can you
imagine injecting this stuff directly into your child’s blood? At least if you ate these ingredients, your
body would have a chance to detoxify and eliminate them before any permanent
damage could be done. But, to inject
them right into the blood is the most damaging and lethal approach
imaginable. How could anyone possibly
think injection of such a cocktail of poison could in any way help preserve and
enhance your child’s health?
It sure
didn’t make any sense to me. And, here
I am 12 years later, still very happy with my decision NOT to vaccinate my
children.
Sadly, I
know many Moms with 20/20 hindsight who greatly regret their decision to
vaccinate. I don’t know ANYONE who has
not vaccinated and regrets their decision, however. Which group do you want to be a part of in
10 years?
#3:
Fully Vaccinated Children are the Unhealthiest, Most Chronically Ill
Children I Know
One thing
that completely confounds me is that there are no studies comparing the health
of unvaccinated children to the health of vaccinated children. This seems like such an obvious study and it
should have been conducted decades ago.
Why hasn’t it been done yet? My
guess is because the health of the nonvaccinated children would so totally blow
away the health of the vaccinated children that the discussion about the
dangers of vaccines could finally be put to bed and the case would be closed
emphatically in favor of those that accuse shots of causing chronic illness and
auto immune disease.
Take an
informal poll of the folks in your circle and see for yourself. Observation is a powerful tool, so put it to
use. The kids with the most problems –
allergies, asthma, ADHD, autism, coordination and other gross motor issues, etc
sure seem to be the ones that are right on track with their vaccination
schedule, don’t you think?
Even more
powerful, ask Moms with several children, some of whom are vaccinated and some
who are not. In my own circle, the Moms
I know who have one or two older kids who are fully vaccinated and the younger
kids who did not get any shots tell me that, hands down, that the unvaccinated
children are healthier and have less problems.
Someday
there will be a study that shows that unvaccinated children have many less
health problems than their vaccinated peers.
Don’t wait until this study is finally done because it will be too late
for your child.
#4:
Other Countries Are Waking Up to the Dangers of Vaccines
In 1975,
Japan raised its minimum vaccination age to 2 years old, The country’s infant mortality subsequently
plummeted to such low levels that Japan now enjoys one of the lowest level in
the Western world (#3 at last look).
In comparison, the United States’ infant mortality rate is #33.
In
Australia, the flu vaccine was recently suspended (April 2010) for children
under 5 because an alarming number of children were showing up in the emergency
rooms with febrile convulsions or other vaccine reactions within hours of getting
this shot.
Need I say
more?
#5:
A Number of Vaccines Have Already Had Problems/Been Removed from the
Market
Here is a
brief list of some of the vaccines that have caused serious injury in recent
years. Please comment with others that
you know of if they are not on this list:
- In Feb
2002, GlaxoSmithKline removed the Lyme Disease vaccine from the market citing
poor sales when in fact a number of folks who received the vaccine reported
symptoms worse than the disease itself such as incurable arthritis or
neurological impairment.
- The Rotavirus vaccine (Rotashield) was
removed from the market in 1999 due to an association between the vaccine and
life threatening bowel obstruction or twisting of the bowl! Interestingly, my pediatrician at the time
(who was a lifelong friend of our family) had highly recommended that this
vaccine be given to my newborn baby at the time. I trusted my instincts and said no to the
shot – am I glad I did! My
pediatrician (remember, lifelong family friend) subsequently dropped me as a
patient. Guess he wasn’t such a friend
after all!
A warning
was issued concerning the second Rotavirus vaccine (Rotateq) in 2007 as it caused the same twisting of the
bowel problem in 28 infants (16 of which required intestinal surgery). This second vaccine has not yet been
removed from the market as far as I know.
- Another
vaccine that has had a lot of problems but is not yet withdrawn is the Gardasil
vaccine for adolescent girls.
Fainting, paralysis, slurred speech are just a few of the reactions
reported and yet this vaccine continues to stay on the market. At least 1600 adverse events have been
reported since its approval in 2006, yet doctors are continuing to recommend
this shot to their patients. Why this
vaccine hasn’t already been removed from the market is astonishing.
If the
vaccines above have had serious problems, the others probably do too as vaccine
manufacturers follow the same basic formula when coming up with each new shot.
#6
You Can Always Get Vaccinated, But You Can Never Undo a Vaccination
Procrastination
is usually considered a character flaw, but in the case of vaccination,
delaying the decision for as long as possible plays to your advantage. The longer you wait to vaccinate your
child, the better. A child’s immune
system continues to develop for years after birth. The blood/brain barrier does
not fully develop until adolescence. The longer you wait, the more likely your
child’s immune system will be able to handle the onslaught with minimal damage.
If you don’t
know what to do, don’t do anything!
Conversely,
you can never undo a vaccination. There
are holistic therapies that can detox a child from the vaccine’s poison, but
the damage that is done can never be 100% repaired. And, I have NEVER met a fully vaccinated
child that is healthier and more robust than a well nourished, unvaccinated
child. Period.
While I
would like to convince you to never vaccinate your child, if I can simply
convince you to delay it for a few years that is certainly better than
vaccinating a baby. If you can simply
commit to waiting until your child is school age to vaccinate, so much the
better than if you vaccinate as a toddler and so on. Time is on your side and waiting is the best
policy when it comes to shots.
By the time
your child is older, more research will have been done, you will have an
opportunity to learn more and become more comfortable with your decision to
wait. Who knows? Your attitude of wait and see may turn out
to be permanent.
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist.com
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