I am aware that the following statement I write on Fb will quite possibly lose me friends, family and acquaintances but I feel far too strongly about what I am about to write to care. A lot of people who know me are aware that I am PRO-Vaccination, meaning I am truly 100% on board with vaccinating the world’s children, mine included!!! I am extremely happy to get on my soap box about this so feel free to not read on if I offend you……….. Today I read an article or four (there are numerous about parents rejecting one lifesaving vaccine or another) and I was deeply shocked and disgusted to find talk about the Vitamin K jab. This vaccine has been in regular use 1961 and as far as Im aware everyone I have ever known (born 1961 onwards) has had it. Parents are now objecting to the new-born jab. This jab for those who don’t know is an intramuscular injection given to new-born babies (babies are naturally deficient of Vit K) within the first 24 hours of life simply to replace what the mother cannot give enough of either invitro via the womb or through breast milk, to make the blood coagulate and clot and to prevent VKDB, Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding. VKDB is a potentially life threatening condition that causes internal bleeding and can lead to brain damage and death. Last year (2013), doctors at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., began diagnosing several infants with a rare bleeding disorder caused by a vitamin K deficiency. By May (2014), they had seen seven cases in eight months, as reported by The Tennessean. The relative spike in occurrences, they soon discovered, was related to the parents refusal of a simple shot given right after birth. As reported in the November 15, 2013, issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “Three of these babies potentially had life-threatening blood clots evacuated from their cranium and will likely suffer from some form of permanent neurological damage.” Infants who do not get the vitamin K shot at birth are at 81 times greater risk for developing VKDB than infants who do get the shot. VKDB is effectively prevented by the vitamin K shot — incidence of ‘late VKDB’, the most concerning type, falls to less than 1/100,000 infants when vitamin K is given at birth. Sounds simple, it is. However there are now people who are refusing this for numerous reasons, god, fear of increased leukaemia risk, a desire to minimize their infants exposure to toxins, the impression that the shot isnt effective and the sheer fact that there isnt a great deal of information coming from the midwives/doctors regarding Vit K and what it prevents so parents can’t make an informed decision. The fear of leukaemia was sparked by a study that proposed a link between vitamin K and the childhood cancer. The results proved there was absolutely no link to leukaemia but the results, as usual, didnt make the Internet rounds!! So what happens next, People rely on false information and their children suffer for it. I agree, doctors and midwives arent always giving out enough info but you can always ask, they always tell you about the jab at your antenatal appointments. Dont get me wrong I am very much aware that there are babies/children out there who CANNOT have any type of vaccine for risk of death, it is not their parents I am frustrated at…It is the parent who explicitly decides that they won’t save their children or anyone else’s for that matter from potentially life threatening conditions and diseases that could so easily be prevented and up to recently, were practically eradicated (measles, mumps, rubella and polio all now on the rise); and all due to their naivety and lack of information. Check what you are reading then check it again and again to make sure you get the truth, dont jump on the anti-vaccine bandwagon and don’t rely on hearsay or someone famous who says ‘Don’t have that jab, I know someone whose kid etc. etc. etc….’ The Vit K jab could save your baby’s life or quality of life. Dont put them at unnecessary risk. It’s our responsibility as parents to protect them.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 17:19:20 +0000
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