Vaccines

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Getting my daughter's correct number of vaccines is scary to me. At first I was semi ok with the whole scedule, but now knowing I am Aspie I continue to put off the boosters required. I may be homeschooling for a few years so the requirements would not be as stringent for us. She has only had a few to date and she is now a toddler.

I just feel like the governement is far from telling the truth about vaccines from the basic flu, devistating diseases to the meningitus shot. I heard a commercial just yesterday that one shouldn't have the vaccine if allergic to latex. Stupid question most likely, but what is latex doing in a vaccine?

Would someone please tell me what the crap is going on here?....

If you are that worried have your hild allergy tested. Otherwise, if there is an allergic reaction, and it is severe, you will be in a doctor's office, so they will have the knowledge to treat her for it immediatly, and it would be non life threatening.

If you have specific concerns about allergies and such, talk to your doctor about them.

Don't just not vaccinate her. Vaccines save lives.

http://biotech.about.com/b/2009/01/28/a ... t-link.htm

Latex is often contained in the syringes or vials used to store vaccines, and because a latex allergy can be quite severe, much like a peanut allergy, people with latex allergies are advised to seek a specially prepared vaccine, just like people with egg allergies need to watch out for vaccines prepared with that ingredient. But if you have a latex allergy, you know to look out for that anyway, because you have probably had to request that the doctor examining you wear latex-free gloves, as he might otherwise give you a rash or even anaphylactic shock.

Has your child ever had a bad reaction to a vaccine? If not, she is probably not at risk.

If you choose not to vaccinate, remember that she can not go to a daycare, a playgroup, a public playground, pre-school, school, a home-school group, a Sunday school, or any other location where she will interact with multiple children. The risk of spreading dangerous illness is too great. Many times, when an outbreak begins, it begins in unvaccinated children and spreads to immunocompromised people, like children who have had organ transplants or cancer treatment--and that's where the deaths occur.

i wish i was homeschooled

You like to play the "evolution game" with your daughter? Like in the old times, when more than 90% of children survived measles, mumps. etc. well, and some percent were kicked out for ever?

No I want to find the safest way to keep her healthy. I wanted to find answers to some of my honest questions. I did have a autism professional tell me that she noticed changes in children after one particuliar immunization.

I know people who had their child get the flu vaccination. I didn't want to do the playdate and she said I'm sure it's ok.
Days later he is home sick with a temperature. My point is I feel like there is not adequate info out there for laypeople. I didn't understand the latex warning until someone's post explained it to me.

Are there other parents and people out there that have these concerns about vaccinations? Or is it just me not trusting the CDC to speak the truth?...

The flu vaccine is the biggest load of crap in the medical field.

Go read the book Autism's False Prophets Bad Science, Risky Medicine and the Search for a Cure by Dr. Paul A. Offit this book will inform you where the vaccine myths came from, why the people who lied about them lied, why people believe them and so on.

I think there IS a lot of conflicting information out there, and I'm not sure the "proper" conclusions are as clear as we all would like them to be. You will find that the AS community by and large thinks any worry about vaccines is bunk, and has been discredited. Still ... it's not impossible that some children have had adverse reactions that make their spectrum symptoms appear worse, or mimic spectrum symptoms. I'm not convinced that all the anecdotal stories come completely from myth; someone did feel they experienced these things, and the question becomes why.

I trust the CDC more than the opposite flank, because at least those are people who really, truly understand the science and won't personally profit from the positions they take. A LOT of money has been made by the anti-vaccine camp. Big pharma isn't the only with a profit agenda.

What to do?

Rule out all the known risk indicators (allergies to ingredients, mitocondrial disorders, etc), then do the right thing by society and vaccinate. Go ahead and slow down the schedule if you feel that is appropriate (many countries go much slower than we do), but accept that the cost benefit analysis for society as a whole falls squarely into, "vaccinate." It isn't risk free, it never was, but the equation only works to protect everyone from horrid diseases if everyone takes part.

I agree with DW_a_mom. Slow down the schedule if you want, but please vaccinate.

I also agree!

Let us not forget nothing in this world is harmless anything in this would could kill us if the proper variables were present.

She will be vaccinated slowly, but it will done carefully. I did want to discuss the subject as there are many factors. Some insurance companies pressure parents with the number of office visits allowable on policies and some doctors don't believe parents can handle getting their child the correct number of shots.

Call me a bit daft, but does it make sense to keep injecting babies and toddlers with foreign materials like mercury (numerous vaccines per visit) when their immune system is so young? I don't know, but to me it seems so many parents don't begin to question some of these factors that all come together to create the vaccine schedule.

Does anyone know if the rate of diagnosed autism or any other disorders rose abruptly within the time frame of possibly rushed vaccines?

Has anyone here said that vaccinations were the begining of autism for them?