Questioning Childhood Vaccinations

vaccinations-are vaccinations safe-vaccination schedule-autism and vaccinationsThe topic of vaccinations is often emotional for both sides of the camp. Some are quick to say it is highly irresponsible and foolish to avoid vaccinations.

Some say that not vaccinating your child is because the parent is not educated. However, this is quite the oxymoron because mothers with college educations and higher incomes are actually LESS likely to vaccinate their children than those with less education.

Of course, anyone, regardless of education level or income, is capable of making an educated decision about whether or not to vaccinate their children. But college-educated women are perhaps more likely to have read articles questioning vaccine safety — or at least to have heard about such controversies.

The trend toward not vaccinating has been growing for some time now. Close to 70 percent of physicians say that the number of concerns from parents have increased significantly in recent years.

I would like to spend some time in this blog post discussing why some parents are deciding not to vaccinate their children. In the end it is of course the parent’s decision to vaccinate or not to vaccinate. And I of course this is not to make people feel guilty either way. As parents we do what we think is best for our children. Some parents may decide to continue the recommended vaccines, others may decide to delay and modify the schedule and yet some of you may decide to not vaccinate. We will discuss modified schedules for vaccinations.

Questioning Childhood Vaccinations by Dr. Donald Miller,

M.D. Professor University of Washington Seattle

Vaccines given to newborns contain an array of potentially toxic chemicals including:

  • Formaldehyde
  • Aluminum phosphate (toxic and carcinogenic)
  • Antibiotics
  • Phenols (corrosive to skin and toxic)
  • Live viruses and various other components

As of 2008, the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that number has risen to 14 in the first 24 months, plus the meningococcal vaccine, which is to be administered between the age of two and six.
Infants and toddlers aged 0 to 6 years of age are now given vaccines to prevent the following diseases:

  • Hepatitis B
  • Rotavirus
  • Hepatitis A
  • Measles
  • Diphtheria
  • Mumps
  • Tetanus (lockjaw)
  • Rubella (German measles)
  • Pertussis (whooping cough)
  • Varicella (chickenpox)
  • Polio
  • Meningococcal
  • Pneumococcal infections
  • Influenza (yearly flu shot)

Why it May be Better for Your Child’s Brain if you Delay VaccinationsIf your child is vaccinated according to the CDC’s recommended schedule, by the time your child starts kindergarten he or she will have received 48 doses of 14 vaccines.  Of these, 36 doses will be given during the first 18 months of life.

And now consider this: one vaccine injected into
a 13-pound, two-month old infant is equivalent to 10 doses of the same in a 130-pound adult. Where is the common sense in these guidelines?
Would any adult concede to being injected with 360 doses of vaccines within a couple of years’ span; equal to one injection every other day for two years?

Public health officials have NEVER proven that it is indeed safe to inject this number and volume of vaccines into infants. What’s more, they cannot explain why, concurrent with an increasing number of vaccinations, there has been an explosion of neurological and immune system disorders in American children.

If you Decide to Vaccinate Why it May be Better to Defer your Schedule

The brain has its own specialized immune system, separate from that of the rest of the body. When a person is vaccinated, its specialized immune cells, the microglia, become activated (the blood-brain barrier notwithstanding). Multiple vaccinations spaced close together over-stimulate the microglia, causing them to release a variety of toxic elements — cytokines, chemokines, excitotoxins, proteases, complement, free radicals — that damage brain cells and their synaptic connections. Researchers call the damage caused by these toxic substances “bystander injury.”

(Pediatricians and other professional colleagues who question this should read these two reviews by the neurosurgeon Russell L. Blaylock: “Interaction of Cytokines, Excitotoxins, Reactive Nitrogen and Oxygen Species in Autism Spectrum Disorders,” in the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association [JANA 2003;6(4):21 — 35], with 167 references. And “Chronic Microglial Activation and Excitotoxicity Secondary to Excessive Immune Stimulation: Possible Factors in Gulf War Syndrome and Autism,” in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons [JAPS 2004;9(2):46 — 52], posted online, with 54 references.) In humans, the most rapid period of brain development begins in the third trimester and continues over the first two years of extra uterine life. (By then, brain development is 80 percent complete.) Until randomized controlled trials demonstrate the safety of giving vaccines during this time of life, it would be prudent not to give any vaccinations to children until they are 2-years-old.

From a risk-benefit perspective, there is growing evidence that the risk of neurologic and autoimmune diseases from vaccinations outweigh the benefits of avoiding the childhood infections that they prevent. An exception is hepatitis B vaccine for infants whose mothers test positive for this disease.

A Better Schedule

A user-friendly vaccination schedule prohibits any vaccines that contain thimerosal, which is 50 percent mercury. Flu vaccines contain thimerosal, which is reason enough to avoid them. Mercury is very toxic and especially to the brain.

Why You Should Avoid Vaccines with Live Viruses

One should also avoid vaccines that contain live viruses. This includes the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine; chickenpox (varicella) vaccine; and the live-virus polio (Sabin) vaccine. This stricture would not apply to the smallpox vaccine (also a live-virus one), if a terrorist-instigated outbreak of smallpox should occur.
Finally, a user-friendly vaccination schedule requires that vaccinations, after the age of two, be given no more than once every six months, one at a time, in order to allow the immune system sufficient time to recover and stabilize between shots.

Which vaccines should be put on this schedule (among those that do not contain live viruses or thimerosal) is not entirely clear. The top four would be:

Pertussis (acelluar — aP — not whole cell) vaccine.Diphtheria (D) vaccine.Tetanus (T) vaccine (the first three on this list are to be given separately, not together, as is usually the case).The Salk polio vaccine, with an inactivated (dead) virus, one that is cultured in human cells, not monkey kidney cells.

Perhaps, it should only contain these four vaccines. A good case can be made for avoiding the three other newer vaccines on the CDC’s schedule: The hepatitis B, pneumococcal conjugate (PCV7) and Hemophilus influenza type b (Hib) vaccines.

You Pediatrician May not Like this Schedule

They are taught in medical school and residency training that childhood immunizations are essential to public health. As one pediatrician puts it, “Achieving adequate and timely vaccination of young children is the single most valuable thing a doctor can do for a patient.” They do not question what their professors teach them, nor are they inclined to critically examine studies in Pediatrics and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that tell them vaccines are safe.
There were 482,000 cases of measles in the U.S in 1962, the year before a vaccine for this disease became available. Now, with all 50 states requiring that children be vaccinated against measles in order to attend school, there were only 56 cases of measles in a population of 290 million people in 2003.

These facts are well known and proudly cited by vaccine proponents.

What is less known, and doctors are not taught, is that the death rate for measles declined 97.7 percent during the first 60 years of the 20th century. The mortality rate was 133 deaths per million people in the U.S. in 1900, and had dropped to 0.3 deaths per million by 1960. Measles caused less than 100 deaths a year in the U.S. before there was a vaccine for this disease (in 1963).

The same thing happened with diphtheria and pertussis. Mortality rates dropped more than 90 percent in the early 20th century before vaccines for these diseases were introduced. This was due to better nutrition (with rapid delivery of fresh fruit and vegetables to cities and refrigeration), cleaner water and improved sanitation (removing trash from the streets and better sewage systems), not to vaccines.

The World Health Organization promotes mass vaccination. But states, “With knowing these facts, “The best protection against common infectious diseases would be an adequate diet. “fortified with Vitamins” (Editor’s note: An Excellent well balance Children’s Vitamin is Shaklee’s Incredibites with a nutrient found in mother’s milk for the immune system called Lactoferrin and for Infants and Toddlers they make Shaklee Baby that includes the important probiotics important for your baby’s immune system.
(read this blog post to see how important Probitics can be for your child’s immune system)

Again I want to say that we all want the best for our children.  I tried to make the best decision for my children at the time. Would I make a different decision now than I did when my children were small.

The answer is a resounding YES. However, we can’t beat ourselves up and go back. However,  we can move forward educating other families about the problems of vaccinations.

I would like you to take time to watch this video by Dr. Andrew Moulden from Canada.  He has taken pictures of people with vaccine damage. Some of these people are functioning but still have evidence of brain damage and some do not function well. Click on Dr. Moulden’s website www.BrainGuard.com (see link below)

New Message: Dr. Moulden’s website does not work any longer…so please go to this link to Watch Video to watch his video “Tolerance Lost” by Dr. Moulden.

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