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See this poll on: http://www.momversation.com/blog/poll-did-you-vaccinate-your-…
As others have mentioned, this "poll" is weakly worded. In addition to the previously mentioned problems with vaccines, here's more: I don't have (much) of a problem with some of the well-studied vaccines, like MMR, HiB and dTaP. However, there seem to be some newer ones that are not well studied, and seem rushed to "market", particularly the Hepatitis one.
My basic concern is the revolving door between the CDC and the big pharma industry, particularly during these past 8 years. I just don't believe that the motivation has been the welfare of our children, instead it's been about developing a new market and cornering it. I mean, hepatitis for a 2 year old? I've never heard of children passing that around in big numbers. On top of that, my understanding is that it was never double-blind studied on a large population of under-five year olds, so there is no data to support any kind of efficacy. Furthermore, my understanding is that it wears off in ten years or so. I think this "vaccine" isn't about the health of children, but about making money - and risking our children unnecessarily.
And chicken pox. What gives? Are there complications for a tiny percentage of the population? I guess, but I'm not sure having never heard of real complications. There's the fear of later in life of shingles and the associated pain, but I've never heard of anyone having that problem, only in the marketing material to support chicken pox vaccination. I'm sure there are, but again, the risk/benefit seems way out of whack to support vaccinating all children against a mild disease.
There is a lot more to think about vaccination other than just the possible connection with autism. I think more transparency in the CDC/Pharmaceutical relationship is a great place to start. It wouldn't surprise me to learn of forged data to support a vaccine going to market - the stakes are so high (billions of $). After all, how hard was it for that one researcher to forge his results to support the connection between vaccines and autism in the first place?
I am a 28 year old single mother of an 18 month old son named Giovanni.
when i was 20 i had my first named Marcus. I had marcus vaccinated up until he was just about 2 then his father disappeared with him.
Now I have learned a lot about these vaccinations looking at various websites and all and I look back to when I had Marcus. I remember Marcus NEVER spoke.
1 year-year and a half-18 months 23 months never one word all he ever did was point and go ""HUH".
NOW my son Giovanni who just turned 18 months september 18 2009, has had all of his vaccines and does not speak much at all he does say a couple of words and is also doing some pretty strange things with his body.
He has had to have an EEG to make sure he isn't having any type of seizures.
and now I am afraid that if he continues to receive these vaccinations he is going to get worse.
I remember marcus use to be so full of life a very happy little boy always smiling and playing then when he hit around giovanni's age he stopped. he would not play he didn't even know how to stack blocks.
he stopped smiling and he started hitting me A LOT I understand that some of the hitting comes with the age but not the way he was acting..
I have reason to believe that is probably due to the vaccines.
Now Giovanni is hitting me he takes cans and big things and throws them at me he does this twitching of his head and sometimes shrugs his shoulders brings his shoulders up and shakes.
this is starting to scare me at nighttime when i'm trying to put him to bed he goes absolutely insane he kicks his legs around he bangs his head on the walls and still continues to do the shakes with his head and his shoulders.
The mercury that is in these vaccines are outragous. way to high of amounts for such a little body to handle and i believe that is what is contributing to all of these problems .
I"think"I have came to a decision to stop having my son vaccinated.
Whatever damage is done now I wish i can turn back time i would not have had him vaccinated at all. I do not want these problems worsening.
And i believe that i am making the best decision as a parent .
that is my opinion and i'm sticking to it.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to my story.
i don't think this poll is very comprehensive. I chose not to vaccinate my child, but not because I think they cause autism. That option was not available for me to choose. I think alot of parents are in my camp so I would recommend adding that option for a more accurate result.
I do not think that vaccinating is the sole cause of autism. I think that some children are more genetically susceptible to it and when exposed to certain conditions (contaminates readily found in small amounts in all vaccinations being ONE) it emerges. All children are different and react or don't react according to their genetic makeup. Just because vaccinations don't affect some children doesn't mean they won't affect others. Just like your child may be allergic to apples and mine may not be. Some children's bodies may reject the contaminates in the vaccinations and some may not, thus all of the adverse reactions occur when they do. It's as simple as that.
This is not a very well-written poll. Some choose not to vaccinate for reasons other than Autism, or for a combination of reasons.
I'm rather stunned by your presumption: "In general, you're a pretty evidence-based decision-making group, and so I'll wager that most of you support vaccination. Am I right?"
Just because one is intelligent and makes rational decisions, does not mean that one sees vaccination as a rational choice. There are facts and fact based theories to back up the decision not to vaccinate or to use an alternative vaccine schedule.
As other moms have expressed, it's not necessarily a fear of autism, but a fear of what is happening - what is being RECORDED as happening - facts, there, too. We're supposed to accept that every child will react the same, without complications, to a vaccine? What happens when it's 7 vaccines at the same time? Why can't we break down the shots, space out the more virulent ones for when our child achieves a particular weight or development stage?
The CDC made the current vaccine schedule for families that had little access to healthcare. It was never intended that a child had to have so many shots at once.
For people interested in learning more about vaccines, i recommend Dr. Sears' book, "The Vaccine Book". While backing vaccinations, he also proposed an alternative vaccine schedule.
Nope. Not vaxing. If there is a doubt about safety (which there is), I wil not take that risk with my child. Autism is not the only risk, many other chronic illnesses may result from vaxing too. Vaxing may prevent acute illness, but I don't want to do that if it means a lifetime of chronic problems.
That poll is very biased. I don't vaccinate my children, but it's not because of a fear of autism. I don't believe vaccines work as intended, I don't believe they have been studied exhaustively enough for me to risk shooting those diseases into my children. Scientists don't even know how the immune system works, they inject you with mercury and aluminum to cause an antibody build-up to immunize, but those antibodies are also what cause allergies. Has anyone done a study to see why anaphylactic allergies have risen so dramatically in the last 20 years? After studying the diseases and risks that there are vaccinations for, I'm more comfortable allowing my children to get the diseases and develop a natural immunity than have an artificial immunity that may or may not work.
My fiance and I thought that the amount of vaccinations given at one time was too much. During my daughter's first doctor visit, at 2 weeks with our pediatrician, we expressed our concerns with vaccinations. Instead of my doctor belittling me and pushing her views, we worked out a schedule on which to administer my daughter's vaccinations so that there was not a whole bunch of medication entering her system at one given time. We had scare the day of her first set of vaccinations (2 months old). Our regular pediatrician wasn't available so we saw a different doctor (in the same office). This doctor didn't care about what I thought and administered the vaccinations the way he wanted and not as our regular pediatrician had agreed to. Two hours later, I winded up rushing my daughter to the emergency room because she was very lethargic, running a fever, frothing at the mouth, and just not acting like herself. My fiance and I had to spend the next three nights in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. We never figured out what caused teh problems, but deep down, I know that it had to be due to the vaccinations. My daughter was fine before they were given to her. Ever since then, we only schedule our appointments with our regular pediatrician an NO ONE ELSE!!!! My daughter is now 16 months old and right on track with her vaccinations. No problems ever since. I am totally fo vaccinations but I prefer spacing them out.
I have vaccinated both of my children, however I don't think they need to have 5 or 6 shots at a time!
more perspectives...surprised this comes from an MD though..
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/mendelsohn.html
Yes! I definitely believe in vaccinations for my children and did so as per the schedule for both. However, I respect the decision of each parent on this issue. Two points, a boy in my daughter's class for 2 years running is a leukemia survivor (Go Gabe!) and chicken pox could be extremely harmful to him - so not only did I protect my child, but feel confident I ahve done my best to protect others. Secondly, if a reported statistic that autism occurs 4-5 times more in boys, how can vaccinations have anything to do with it if you assume that those who do vaccinate represent a population of about 50/50 boys to girls (more or less). :-)
I think that it's important to vaccine, but I have become very adamant about one at a time v. having the doctors or nurses pop 4 or 5 needles at a time in to my child. It's brutal and I think that at the very least, I can be an advocate for my child that way. If someone pumped 3 or 4 diseases in me at a time, I would probably react to that, also. This way, too, we know what is causing the reaction if there is one. I don't know if makes a difference in the long run or not, but it makes me feel a little better, anyway.
I do believe that it is at the discretion of each individual whether or not to have their child/children vaccinated. When I was a child all I knew was that it was time to go get a shot and that was it. So when I had my own two that's the same way I did it. I would take them in for their check up and their shots. I'm still going through that with my youngest, she's only 3, and I have to honestly say that since having my first 15 years ago I've had second thoughts. Ultimately, I decided, that if my first was fine then my second would be too and went ahead and had her vaccinated. Until there is concrete evidence that cannot be disputed or proven anything but true, I believe that parents should definitely get their children vaccinated.
As a parent, yes, it's hard to hear your child cry when they receive that vaccination. That cry is temporary and not anyone can say that they crying is ever going to stop if they contract the disease that vaccine is supposed to protect them against. Whose to say the parents will ever stop crying? We have to be responsible and know that because these children did not ask to come into the world, we owe it to them to make it as safe for them to grow up as possible.
So yes, I do believe in vaccinations for children.