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Interesting article re: Vacines and risks in CA schools
It really makes you wonder what the stats will be like when our little ones start school.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-immunization29-2009mar29,0,3148179.story
eta: I just realized the title should have been "VACCINES and risks....." oops, fixed!
Re: Interesting article re: Vacines and risks in CA schools
Yeah... there is this thing (can't remember the name.... Heard something or other) where if more than a certain % of any population doesn't get the immunity the entire population is at risk.
Some people CAN'T get those shots due to allergies and auto-immune disorders, but having the rest of the popluation done, they are protected.
I have seen Autism (severe Autism) first hand and I have also seen what Polio can do... I will be giving this baby all the shots.
We are going with an alternate schedule because of DH's auto-immune flare up last year, but I refuse to not do it (personal decision).
I'm just scared that my kid won't have the ONE shot for something, that the little germ-monster at the plaground HAS and it will worry me.....
Now, it's like you have to keep your kid in a bubble, till all the shots are given, because people out there actually DO have MMR, Polio, ect.
I was thinking the same thing...Sharra - the article talks about certain areas that have the higher % of kids without vaccines and how it puts the entire area at risk. I was surprised that it was the more affluent areas...I guess I (wrongly) assumed that kids who weren't getting vaccinated couldn't because they weren't covered by any sort of medical insurance that would provide for that.
I've worried about Sarah with whooping cough. After her first vaccine for it at 2 months (if I remember correctly) she just "wasn't right". I couldn't put my finger on it but her pedi hasn't given her another one since and she's been fine with all of the other shots she's received.
With so much information out there about vaccines NOT causing autism and with alternate schedules available, I guess I don't understand those who still choose not to vaccinate their kids.
As a (sort of) side note. My mom had a good friend who had a child the same age as me when we were growing up. She purposely exposed her child to the Chicken Pox. She got it and then died from it. I know that it is rare for that to happen but it can (and did). My mom decided to NOT purposely expose my sister and me to it...I caught it when I was 24 (the vaccine came out 1 year later) from an adult customer that came into the pharmacy I was working at who had it. My sister never caught it but she got the vaccine when it came out the next year.
This article makes total sense. Very interesting.
I always felt that Chicken Pox was a childhood rite of passage. I got it when I was 4ish.... there are MANY embarassing pictures of me, naked with them all over my body!
DAMN they itched!!! I still have 5 scars from them on my forehead.
Adulthood contraction of these diseases is definetly WAY worse than when you are a kid.
I had to get the MMR shot about a year ago, because we were heading to the fertility Dr. and it was a requirement to have immunity to Rubella (German Measles) before they would treat you. It sounds good, because being pregnant and getting it is VERY scary!!