So Im watching a thing on the news and theyre talking about the mumps and measles outbreaks and how the number of parents who arent vaccinating their kids has gone up like 15% since last year. The doctors (and most people I hear who debate this subject) keep saying how most parents who dont vaccinate are well educated but Somehow think its not worth the risk, that theyre somehow protected. ....... I admit, its a gamble. It kills me because after doing lots of research when Ayla was born, I basically came to the decision that we were damned if we do, damned if we dont. It really comes down to which benefits outweigh the cons on each vaccine. There are some that are a given - Pertussis, Tetnis, HIB... Then there are others like the Hep B vaccine that is given at the hospital before the baby even goes home. Unless there is a direct risk in that childs life (like a caregiver who is infected) there is NO reason for that! Im getting a little sidetracked from my point here. What is starting to seriously piss me off in this dialog about vaccines between doctors and parents is that everyone keeps talking about forcing parents to vaccinate or theyre horrible people who dont care about their children or other children that they come in contact with. What NO ONE has talked about is the vaccines themselves. Im not talking about the link to autism - Ive heard both sides of the coin, and I tend to lead towards the evidence being suspicious, but I know there is no direct link. That is NOT my point here. My point is that when you learn about how the vaccines are made, its disgusting! I dont want to inject myself with the cocktails of crap, why would I put that in my children unless absolutely necessary?! And yes, I know that they took out the mercury (or at least all but a trace amount); that isnt the problem any more. The problem that I have now (well, one of them!) is that theyre full of aluminum which has been linked to Alzheimers. And people poo-poo that, thinking that kids get vaccinated, Alzheimers doesnt hit until youre at the end of your life... Everytime you drink a soda or energy drink out of a can, youre getting aluminum in your system. Every vaccine you get - yearly flu shot? - aluminum. It adds up over a lifetime. Am I saying Im never going to let my kids drink soda? No, just like as much as I loath the though of them eating McDonnalds, I know its going to happen and Im not going to loose sleep over it. What I am going to do is limit as much as I can. Its all a gamble and no one is going to get it right every time. We have done some of the vaccines and will do others as the girls get older, but why is it no one talks about making safer or cleaner vaccines? With such a trend towards cleaner energy and greener everything... Why cant we make the stuff that we inject into the bloodstreams of our most precious positions as clean and safe as possible instead of cutting corners everywhere we can? It seems like a no brainer to me!
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 13:56:02 +0000
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