babies vaccination schedule
How are you giving your LO vaccinations?
They just released the research retracting the MMR and autism study done in Brittan, saying there is no link.
There are so many groups and other studies that show it could be dangerous and on the other hand just as many if not more showing how safe it is. (All vaccinations really have the same)
My daughter is 16 months, we have her on a delayed vaccination schedule, she got a bad fever the first time she had shots. So, she is getting them just slowly. Her PED doesn’t give the MMR until the child is 2. I am still a little worried. I have had 1 or 2 people say that kids that have had 1 seizure as a baby have developed epilepsy after this shot..
Belle didn’t have a seizure but, in the past she had Sandifers syndrome, which can look like a seizure.. So I am still a little worried.
What are your thoughts on the vaccinations and the MMR?
Autism, a severe life-long disability, affects 1 in 110 kids. http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/index.html But only about 60 people in the entire U.S. get measles each year. During the “Great Measles Outbreak of 2008,” a whopping 131 people got measles, and nobody died or had any lasting effects. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5733a1.htm
I think it’s time parents became more worried about autism than measles.
My unvaccinated 2 year old was one of the very rare kids who got measles. He was just fine, and didn’t require any medical care.
Leslie K, that town you mentioned in Louisiana, with the higher autism rate, (which I haven’t verified), could easily be explained by higher than average pollution. Nobody educated on the subject says that it is only the vaccines. But most think that if kids were not exposed to vaccines, most would be able to handle the other environmental insults without descending into autism.
Compare the two vaccine schedules from 1983 and 2010, and notice how the number of vaccines and doses has exploded.
1983 http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/images/schedule1983s.jpg
2010 http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/downloads/child/2010/10_0-6yrs-schedule-pr.pdf
I’m also not sure what mean when you say delaying vaccines is not really an option in your state. Every state except Mississippi and West Virginia offer personal belief or religious exemptions to the vaccine requirements for school and daycare. http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=953402
Amelia, you will probably not be able to locate the single measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines. Merck discontinued production of them in December 2008. http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/clinical-care-research/20081224merckcombo.html In October 2009 they announced that they had no plans to resume production anytime in the future. http://www.pediatricsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=44823 And if you consider MMR to be a “new” vaccine, the only vaccines older are DTaP and polio. So do you plan on just giving those? If so, you can easily skip polio, since there hasn’t been a natural case of polio in the U.S. since 1979. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/polio/dis-faqs.htm
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