We thought hard about how to vaccinate Evan, our youngest. Vaccinating him was a definite. But did we want to follow the AAP (American Academy of Pediatric) guideline and recommendation? Or, did we want to follow Dr. Sears? OR, did we want to break up the combined shots, like MMR into 3 separate shots. In the end, after lots and lots and lots of talking with our pediatrician we decided to swallow our lack of faith in the CDC and follow the regular guidelines, after all our other boys are fine.
Well, my husband had an excellent thought during all of this pondering. I meant to tell you 4 months ago but mommy brain sucked that thought right out of my head. With Evan's 9 month well check coming up in a month it flashed back into my memory.
If you break the combo vaccinations into separate shots wouldn't you just be giving your child even more of the preservatives that most people are trying to avoid?
Instead of 1 shot with the preservatives, you're giving them 3 shots with preservatives. I honestly haven't researched into vaccines enough one way or the other. But, just wanted to throw that food for thought out for a snack.
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We follow Dr. Sears' schedule. In The Vaccine book he breaks it down very well! Me personally, I would rather Payton have the small amount of preservatives than any of these infectious diseases. Each vaccine contains a small amount, but when you give a child 6vaccines at one time, it's not small amymore, which is one reason we split it up. And the biggest bummer? Myerk no longer makes the separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. You have to get the combo MMR. Bad idea on many levels, in my opinion. I could go on and on... it's an interesting debate for sure!
I think it's a personal decision that each parent must make for their child. I err on the side of caution, and even though I do question the CDC's guidelines, I don't question so much that I wouldn't give my child the vaccines my pedi recommends on the schedule he recommends. I trust him completely. And really, if my kids are going to be in daycare and soon school with all sorts of kids from all walks of life then I want them to be as protected as they can be from the really ugly and heinous diseases just waiting to pounce.
I don't see the point to vaccinating for anything that's not like a plague. Measles- fine. Mumps- fine. But normal human ailments are a waste of resources to me.
Like the chicken pox of vaccine - the reasearch that says kids died from it is false. I read the report and the kids didn't die from the disease but they did die from improper care . And the testing on that bad is so vague that my doc told me they don't know how long it lasts - so kids could need a booster every do many years for the rest of their lives.
That and then there's the declining effectiveness. I'm still annoyed that my son had whooping cough 2 yrs ago despite being fully vacinated for it. About half the kids in our school district had it that year despite their vaccinations.
After what I've seen & read I think only truly life threatening pleague like diseases should be done. I think good care, hygeine and good sense ( like going to bed when you feel lousy) will go farther for more common not lethal diseases.
Sorry for the typoes - spell check seems to have changed " bug" into " bad".
The combo vaccine can be ordered separate through other manufacturers.You just have to tell your ped to order it in advance. But, what Hubby was saying is that in the combo vaccines, they only have to add the preservative amount they would normally add to a vaccine where if you got 3 shots each shot would have that same amount...exposing you to 3 times the levels. Our ped (who is no God, but I do trust) also said that the cdc only tests the vaccines administered in certain intervals so spacing them 2 weeks or whatever could potentially have MORE side effects. I don't know.... this all makes my brain hurt. ;)
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