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6 week imunisation - good or bad
Hi all
I am a regualar at misc.kids.breastfeding having graduated from misc.kids.pregnancy and I wondered if any of yu know any good sites that will help us make an informed decision about 6 week vaccinations. Currently we can find lots of negatives and not many positives. We are thinking of postponing the vaccinations until he is a bit older, possibly 4 months to get past the main risk of cot death. Any advice/opinions would be welcome. teapot mum to Toffee 8th June 03 |
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Try www.immunize.org.
teapot wrote: Hi all I am a regualar at misc.kids.breastfeding having graduated from misc.kids.pregnancy and I wondered if any of yu know any good sites that will help us make an informed decision about 6 week vaccinations. Currently we can find lots of negatives and not many positives. We are thinking of postponing the vaccinations until he is a bit older, possibly 4 months to get past the main risk of cot death. Any advice/opinions would be welcome. teapot mum to Toffee 8th June 03 |
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6 week imunisation - good or bad
teapot wrote:
Hi all I am a regualar at misc.kids.breastfeding having graduated from misc.kids.pregnancy and I wondered if any of yu know any good sites that will help us make an informed decision about 6 week vaccinations. Currently we can find lots of negatives and not many positives. We are thinking of postponing the vaccinations until he is a bit older, possibly 4 months to get past the main risk of cot death. Any advice/opinions would be welcome. Try the US CDC website and see what they have to say. Also check out what happens if you fail to vacciante. |
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:08:12 -0700, Bill Fischer
wrote: Try www.immunize.org. teapot wrote: Hi all I am a regualar at misc.kids.breastfeding having graduated from misc.kids.pregnancy and I wondered if any of yu know any good sites that will help us make an informed decision about 6 week vaccinations. Currently we can find lots of negatives and not many positives. The reason you don't find many "positives" is because not many people complain anymore about their children dying of pertussis, diphtheria, Haemophilus meningitis, etc. Instead, all they do is try to blame anything and everything that can go wrong and have gone wrong with children since the beginning of time on vaccinations. We have the luxury now, thanks to vaccines, of no longer expecting that at least some of our children will die of infectious diseases, so, as a victim of their own success, vaccines have become easy targets for groundless accusations. We are thinking of postponing the vaccinations until he is a bit older, possibly 4 months to get past the main risk of cot death. Vaccinations have absolutely nothing to do with SIDS. However, pertussis is more and more deadly the younger an infant is. You are running a higher risk of your child dying of pertussis before the age of 4 months by not immunizing him than you are of somehow causing SIDS before 4 months by immunizing him. PF |
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I have three kids, and we've had confirmed cases of whooping cough in
the neighbourhoods in recent years. Not too big a deal (although certainly unpleasant) for someone in good shape, but really dangerous for babies, old people, and those with other health problems. Since its out there, you can either live in a cave or have your baby immunized. Mary G. |
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"Wendy Marsden" wrote in message ... PF Riley wrote: The reason you don't find many "positives" is because not many people complain anymore about their children dying of pertussis, diphtheria, Haemophilus meningitis, etc. They complain about it around here. An unvaccinated child passed along a disease (I think it was rubella) to a pregnant woman at a school play and she lost the baby. Yup, someone ELSE's kid got killed because those parents chose not to vaccinate. Nice. So you see the flaw in the arguments about it being your own personal choice and no else's business. -- CBI, MD |
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CBI wrote:
And besides - waiting until 4 months will not get you past the risk of SIDS. And there-in lies the crux: there are risks to every decision. People who studied this issue decided it was too important - too great a benefit to pass up - so required vaccination for children in our society. Not because they didn't value children or didn't mind endangering them, but because they weighed the cumulative risks to those same children against the risks of the vaccines and decided the vaccines were the best bet. I'm not one that bows down to mass-mentality thinking all that often, but I do believe that people who honestly know more about a subject can be trusted to make decisions in that arena. I don't tend to substitute my judgment for my pediatricians lightly where medical issues are concerned. My advice is to ask your pediatrician. If you don't trust her answer then find another pediatrician. Wendy |
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Wendy Marsden wrote:
PF Riley wrote: While I agree with you that the benefit of vaccination outweighs the risk, which society are you talking about that "requires" such? I just had a conversation with my child's preschool he's starting in the Fall. A full vaccination record is the default with any other option not mentioned as even a possibility. I'm holding off on the chicken pox vaccine (with my ped's approval) and despair of him ever catching it normally if the school gets fussy about needing the vaccine to admit him. I'm not sure what religious grounds I have when he's had all his other vaccinations. Why woul dyou have any reservations about protecting him from such a dangerous disease? |
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"Wendy Marsden" wrote
I have evaluated the risks versus the rewards of my kid getting chicken pox and I feel that the risk of complications from chicken pox during childhood is less than the risk of complications from loss of immunity in him as an adult. ... That should be your right. The vaccination requirements make it difficult for parents like you. If your state and school accept religious or philosophical exemptions, then you could claim an exemption to vaccines generally, and not tell the school that your kid has actually had most of the vaccines. |
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