People Who Don't Take Whooping Cough Shoot Before Baby
THE MEDICAL Time BOMB OF IMMUNIZATION Confronting Affliction
The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to foreclose them
by ROBERT Due south. MENDELSOHN, M.D.
East W Journal Nov 1984. (As well a chapter in How To Raise a Good for you Child In Spite of Your Dr.)
I know, as I write about the dangers of mass immunisation, that information technology is a concept that you lot may find difficult to have. Immunizations have been and then artfully and aggressively marketed that most parents believe them to be the "miracle" that has eliminated many once-feared diseases. Consequently, for anyone to oppose them borders on the foolhardy. For a paediatrician to attack what has get the "staff of life and butter" of paediatric practice is equivalent to a priest'southward denying the infallibility of the pope.
Knowing that, I tin can but hope that you will keep an open mind while I present my instance. Much of what you accept been led to believe nearly immunizations simply isn't true. I not only take grave misgivings about them; if I were to follow my deep convictions in writing this affiliate, I would urge you to reject all inoculations for your child. I won't do that, because parents in about half the states have lost the right to brand that choice. Doctors, not politicians, have successfully lobbied for laws that force parents to immunize their children equally a prerequisite for access to school.
Even in those states, though, you may be able to persuade your paediatrician to eliminate the pertussis (whooping cough) component from the DPT vaccine. This immunization, which appears to be the most threatening of them all, is the subject of then much controversy that many doctors are condign nervous about giving information technology, fearing malpractice suits. They should be nervous, considering in a recent Chicago case a child damaged by a pertussis inoculation received a $5.5 million settlement award. If your dr. is in that country of mind, exploit his fearfulness, be-crusade your kid'south health is at stake.
Although I administered them my-self during my early years of exercise, I have get a steadfast opponent of mass inoculation because of the myriad hazards they present. The subject is and so vast and complex that it deserves a volume of its ain. Consequently, I must be content hither with summarizing my objections to the fanatic zeal with which pediatricians blindly shoot foreign proteins into the body of your kid without knowing what eventual impairment they may cause.
Hither is the cadre of my concern:
I. There is no convincing scientific prove that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood affliction. While information technology is true that some once common childhood diseases accept diminished or disappeared since inoculations were introduced, no one actually knows why, although improved living conditions may exist the reason. If immunizations were responsible for the diminishing or disappearance of these diseases in the United states, 1 must enquire why they disappeared simultaneously in Europe, where mass immunizations did not take place.
2. It is unremarkably believed that the Salk vaccine was responsible for halting the polio epidemics that plagued American children in the 19405 and 1950s. If and then, why did the epidemics also end in Europe, where polio vaccine was non and then extensively used? Of greater current relevance, why is the Sabin virus vaccine yet beingness administered to children when Dr. Jonas Salk, who pioneered the first vaccine, points out that Sabin vaccine is now causing nearly of the polio cases that appear. Continuing to strength this vaccine on children is irrational medical behaviour that simply confirms my contention that doctors consistently repeat their mistakes. With the polio vaccine nosotros are witnessing a rerun of the medical reluctance to carelessness the smallpox vaccination, which remained every bit the just source of smallpox-related deaths for three decades after the disease had disappeared.
Think of it! For 30 years kids died from smallpox vaccinations fifty-fifty though no longer threatened by the affliction.
3. There are pregnant risks associated with every immunization and numerous contraindications that may make it unsafe for the Shots to be given to your kid. Yet doctors administer them routinely, unremarkably without alarm parents of the hazards and without determining whether the immunization is contraindicated for the child. No child should exist immunized without making that determination, nevertheless small armies of children are routinely lined upwardly in clinics to receive a shot in the arm with no questions asked by their parents!
4 While the myriad short-term hazards of almost immunizations are known (simply rarely explained), no one knows the long term consequences of injecting strange proteins into the body of your child. Fifty-fifty more shocking is the fact that no one is making whatever structured attempt to find out.
v. In that location is growing suspicion that immunization against relatively harm-less childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in machine-immune diseases since mass inoculations were introduced. These are fearful diseases such every bit cancer, leukemia. rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig'southward disease, lupus erythematosus, and the Guillain-Barre syndrome. An autoimmune disease tin be explained but every bit one in which the trunk's defense mechanisms cannot distinguish between foreign invaders and ordinary body tissues, with the consequence that the body begins to destroy itself. Have we traded mumps and measles for cancer and leukemia?
I have emphasized these concerns considering information technology is probable that your paediatrician volition not suggest you lot nigh them. At the 1982 Forum of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a resolution was proposed that would have helped insure that parents would be informed virtually the risks and benefits of immunizations. The resolution urged that the "ALA? make available in clear, concise language data which a reasonable parent would want to know about the benefits and risks of routine immunizations, the risks of vaccine preventable diseases and the management of common adverse reactions to immunizations." Plainly the doctors assembled did non believe that "reasonable parents" were entitled to this kind of in-formation because they rejected the resolution!
The bitter controversy over immunizations that is at present raging within the medical profession has not escaped the attention of the media. Increasing numbers of parents are rejecting immunizations for their children and facing the legal consequences of doing so. Parents whose children take been permanently damaged by vaccines are no longer accepting this every bit fate but are filing malpractice suits against the manufacturers and the doctors who administered the vaccine. Some manufacturers take actually stopped making vaccines, and the lists of contraindications to their use are being expanded by the remaining manufacturers, year by yr. Meanwhile, because routine immunizations that bring patients dorsum for repeated role calls, are the bread and butter of their specialty, paediatricians continue to defend them to the decease.
The question parents should be asking is: Whose death?
As a parent, only you can decide whether to reject immunizations or risk accepting them for your child. Let me urge y'all, though-earlier your kid is immunized-to arm yourself with the facts nearly the potential risks and benefits and demand that your paediatrician defend the immunizations that he recommends. If you determine that you don't desire to have your child immunized, but your state laws say you must, write to me, and I may exist able to offer suggestions on how you tin regain your freedom of selection.
MUMPS
Mumps is a relatively innocuous viral affliction, commonly experienced in childhood, which causes swelling of 1 or both salivary glands (parotids), located simply below and in front of the ears. Typical symptoms are a temperature of 100-l04 degrees, ambition loss, headache, and back hurting. The gland swelling usually begins to diminish subsequently two or three days and is gone by the sixth or 7th twenty-four hours. However, one gland may become affected first, and the second as much as 10-l2 days afterward. The infection of either side confers life-fourth dimension immunity.
Mumps does not require medical handling. If your kid contracts the disease, encourage him to stay in bed for two or three days, feed him a soft diet and a lot of fluids, and utilise water ice packs to reduce the swelling. If his headache is astringent, administer modest quantities of whiskey or acetaminophen. Requite ten drops of whiskey to a modest baby and upwards to one-half teaspoon to a larger 1. The dose can be repeated in one 60 minutes and again in another hour, if needed.
Virtually children are immunized against mumps forth with measles and rubella in the MMR shot that is administered at near fifteen months of age. Paediatricians defend this immunization with the argument that, although mumps is non a serious disease in children, if they do not gain immunity as children they may contract mumps as adults. In that result there is a possibility that adult males may contract orchitis, a condition in which the disease affects the testicles. In rare instances this tin produce sterility.
If total sterility every bit a consequence of orchitis were a pregnant threat, and if the mumps immunizations assured adult males that they would not contract it, I would be amidst those doctors who urge immunization. I'm not, because their argument makes no sense. Orchitis rarely causes sterility, and when it does, considering but one testicle is usually affected, the sperm product chapters of the unaffected testicle could repopulate the globe! And that'south not all. No one knows whether the mumps vaccination confers an immunity that lasts into the adult years. Consequently, at that place is an open up question whether, when your child is immunized against mumps at fifteen months arid escapes this disease in childhood, he may suffer more serious consequences when he contracts it as an adult.
Y'all won't find paediatricians advertising them, but the side effects of the mumps vaccine can be astringent. In some children it causes allergic reactions such as rash, itching, and bruising. It may also expose them to the effects of cardinal nervous system interest, including febrile seizures, unilateral nerve deafness, and encephalitis. These risks are minimal, true, just why should your child endure them at all to avoid an innocuous diseaze in babyhood at the run a risk of contracting a more than serious one as an adult?
MEASLES
Measles, besides called rubeola or 'English measles," is a contagious viral disease that can 'be contracted by touching an object used by an infected person. At the onset the victim feels tired, has a slight fever and pain in the head and dorsum. His eyes redden and he may exist sensitive to light. The fever rises until about the third or fourth solar day, when information technology reaches 103-104 degrees. Sometimes pocket-sized white spots can be seen inside the mouth, and a rash of minor pink spots appears beneath the hair line and backside the ears. This rash spreads downward to cover the trunk in about 36 hours. The pinkish spots may run together only fade away in about three or four days. Measles is contagious for 7 or eight days, commencement three or four days be-fore the rash appears. Consequently, if one of your children contracts the illness, the others probably volition have been exposed to it before you know the first I child is sick.
No handling is required for measles other than bed rest, fluids to combat possible dehydration from fever, and calamine lotion or cornstarch baths to salve the itching. If the child suffers from photophobia, the blinds in his sleeping room should be lowered to darken the room. However, contrary to the popular myth, there is no danger of permanent blindness from this disease.
A vaccine to prevent measles is an-other element of the MMR inoculation given in early childhood. Doctors maintain that the inoculation is necessary to forestall measles encephalitis, which they say occurs almost once in 1,000 cases. After decades of feel with measles, I question this statistic, and then do many other paediatricians. The incidence of one/1,000 may be accurate for children who alive in conditions of poverty and malnutrition, but in the heart-and upper-income brackets, if ane excludes simple sleepiness from the measles itself, the incidence of true encephalitis is probably more similar ane/10,000 or one/100,000.
Afterward frightening you with the unlikely possibility of measles encephalitis, your md can rarely be counted on to tell y'all of the dangers associated with the vaccine he uses to prevent information technology. The measles vaccine is associated with encephalopathy and with a series of other complications such every bit SSPE (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis), which causes hardening of the brain and is invariably fatal.
Other neurologic and sometimes fatal conditions associated with the measles vaccine include clutter (inability to coordinate muscle movements), mental retardation, hygienic meningitis, seizure disorders, and hemiparesis (paralysis affecting i side of the trunk). Secondary complications associated with the vaccine may be fifty-fifty more frightening. They include encephalitis, juvenile-onset diabetes, Reye's syndrome, and multiple sclerosis.
I would consider the risks associated with measles vaccination unacceptable fifty-fifty if there were convincing evidence that the vaccine works. At that place isn't. While there has been a reject in the incidence of the disease, information technology began long earlier the vaccine was introduced. In 1958 at that place were about 800,000 cases of measles in the United States, but by 1962-the twelvemonth earlier a vaccine appeared-the number of cases had dropped past 300,000. During the side by side four years, while children were beingness vaccinated with an ineffective and now abased "killed virus" vaccine, the number of cases dropped another 300,000. In 1900 there were xiii.3 measles deaths per 100,000 population. By 1955, earlier the showtime measles shot, the death rate had declined 97.7 percent to only 0.03 deaths per 100,000.
Those numbers alone are dramatic show that measles was disappearing earlier the vaccine was introduced. If y'all fail to detect them sufficiently convincing, consider this: in a 1978 survey of thirty states, more than half of the children who contracted measles had been fairly vaccinated. Moreover, according to the Globe Health System, the chances are about fifteen times greater that measles will exist contracted by those vaccinated for them than past those who are not.
"Why," y'all may inquire, "in the face up of these facts, do doctors proceed to give the shots?" The answer may lie in an episode that occurred in California fourteen years subsequently the measles vaccine was introduced. Los Angeles suffered a severe measles epidemic during that twelvemonth, and parents were urged to vaccinate all children six months of age and older-despite a Public Health Service warning that vaccinating children beneath the age of one year was useless and potentially harmful.
Although Los Angeles doctors responded by routinely shooting measles vaccine into very kid they could get their hands on, several local physicians familiar with the suspected issues of immunologic failure and "slow virus" dangers chose non to vaccinate their own infant children. Unlike their patients, who weren't told, they realized that "slow viruses" found in all alive vaccines, and especially in the measles vaccine, tin can hide in homo tissue for years. They may emerge later in the class of encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, and as potential seeds for the development and growth of cancer.
One Los Angeles doc who refused to vaccinate his own vii-month-sometime baby said: "I'm worried nigh what happens when the vaccine virus may non simply offer niggling protection against measles merely may also stay around in the body, working in a fashion we don't know much nigh." His concern about the possibility of these consequences for his own child, however, did not cause him to terminate vaccinating his baby patients. He rationalized this contradictory behaviour with the comment that "Equally a parent, I have the luxury of making a choice for my child. Every bit a physician... legally and professionally I have to have the recommendations of the profession, which is what we also had to practice with the whole Swine Flu business organisation."
Peradventure it is time that lay parents and their children are granted the aforementioned luxury that doctors and their children savor.
RUBELLA
Commonly known every bit "German measles," rubella is a non-threatening affliction in children that does non require medical treatment.
The initial symptoms are fever and a slight common cold, accompanied by a sore throat. You know it is something more when a rash appears on the face up and scalp and spreads to the arms and trunk. The spots practise not run together equally they do with measles, and they usually fade away after ii or iii days. The victim should exist encouraged to rest, and be given adequate fluids, only no other treatment is needed.
The threat posed by rubella is the possibility that it may cause damage to the fetus if a woman contracts the disease during the first trimester of her pregnancy. This fearfulness is used to justify the immunization of all children, boys and girls, every bit part of the MMR inoculation. The claim of this vaccine are questionable for essentially the same reasons that apply to mumps inoculations. There is no need to protect children from this harmless affliction, and so the agin reactions to the vaccine are unacceptable in terms of benefit to the child. They tin can include arthritis, arthralgia (painful joints), and polyneuritis, which produces pain, numbness, or tingling in the peripheral nerves. While these symptoms are usually temporary, they may last for several months and may not occur until every bit long equally two months later the vaccination. Considering of that fourth dimension lapse, parents may non identify the cause when these symptoms reappear in their vaccinated child.
The greater danger of rubella vaccination is the possibility that it may deny expectant mothers the protection of natural immunity from the disease. Past preventing rubella in childhood, immunization may really increase the threat that women will contract rubella during their childbearing years. My concern on this score is shared by many doctors. In Connecticut a group of doctors, led by 2 eminent epidemiologists, have actually succeeded in getting rubella stricken from the list of legally required immunizations.
Study later study has demonstrated that many women immunized against rubella as children lack show of immunity in blood tests given during their adolescent years. Other tests have shown a high vaccine failure rate in children given rubella, measles, and mumps shots, either separately or in combined form. Finally, the crucial question nevertheless to be answered is whether vaccine-induced immunity is as constructive and long lasting every bit immunity from the natural disease of rubella. A big proportion of children testify no evidence of immunity in blood tests given but four or v years after rubella vaccination.
The significance of this is both obvious and frightening. Rubella is a non threatening disease in childhood, and it confers natural immunity to those who contract it so they volition non get it over again as adults. Prior to the time that doctors began giving rubella vaccinations an estimated 85 percent of adults were naturally allowed to the disease.
Today, considering of immunization, the vast majority of women never acquire natural immunity. If their vaccine-induced immunity wears off, they may contract rubella while they are pregnant, with resulting damage to their unborn children.
Being a skeptical soul, I have ever believed that the most reliable manner to determine what people really believe is to find what they exercise, not what they say. If the greatest threat of rubella is non to children, but to the fetus nevertheless unborn, pregnant women should be protected against rubella by making certain that their obstetricians won't requite them the affliction. Yet, in a California survey reported in the Journal of the American Medical Clan, more than ninety percent of the obstetrician-gynecologists refused to be vaccinated. If doctors themselves are afraid of the vaccine, why on world should the constabulary crave that you and other parents allow them to administer it to your kids?
WHOOPING Cough
Whooping cough (pertussis) is an extremely contagious bacterial illness that is usually transmitted through the air past an infected person.
The incubation period is 7 to fourteen days. The initial symptoms are indistinguishable from those of a common cold: a runny nose, sneezing, listlessness and loss of ambition, some tearing in the eyes, and sometimes a mild fever.
Equally the disease progresses, the victim develops a severe coughing at night. Afterwards it appears during the day equally well. Within a week to x days later on the kickoff symptoms appear the coughing will become paroxysmal. The child may cough a dozen times with each breath, and his confront may darken to a bluish or imperial hue. Each coughing bout ends with a whopping intake of jiff, which accounts for the popular name for the illness. Vomiting is often an boosted symptom of the disease.
Whooping cough can strike within whatsoever age group, but more than half of all victims are below ii years of age. It can be serious and even life-threatening, particularly in infants. Infected persons can transmit the disease to others for well-nigh a month after the appearance of the initial symptoms, so it is important that they be isolated, especially from other children.
If your child contracts whooping cough, in that location is no specific treatment that your md can provide, nor is there any you tin apply at home, other than to encourage your child to rest and to provide condolement and consolation. Coughing suppressants are sometimes used, just they rarely help very much and I don't recommend them. Withal, if an infant contracts the illness, you should consult a doctor because hospital care may be required. The primary threats to babies are exhaustion from coughing and pneumonia. Very young infants have fifty-fifty been known to suffer croaky ribs from the severe coughing bouts.
Immunisation against pertussis is given along with vaccines for diphtheria and tetanus in the DPT inoculation. Although the vaccine has been used for decades, information technology is ane of the nigh controversial of immunizations. Doubts persist about its effectiveness, and many doctors share my concern that the potentially damaging side furnishings of the vaccine may outweigh the alleged benefits.
Dr. Gordon T. Stewart, caput of the department of community medicine at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, is ane of the most vigorous critics of the pertussis vaccine. He says he supported the inoculation before 1974 but then began to observe outbreaks of pertussis in children who had been vaccinated. "Now, in Glasgow," he says, "30 per-cent of our whooping cough cases are occurring in vaccinated patients. This leads me to believe that the vaccine is not alt that protective."
As is the case with other infectious diseases, mortality had begun to decline before the vaccine became bachelor. The vaccine was not introduced until about 1936, but bloodshed from the disease had already been declining steadily since 1900 or before. According to Stewart, "the decline in pertussis mortality was lxxx percent before the vaccine was ever used." He shares my view that the fundamental factor in controlling whooping coughing is probably not the vaccine only comeback in the living conditions of potential victims.
The common side effects of the pertussis vaccine, acknowledged by JAMA, are fever, crying bouts, a shock-like state, and local peel furnishings such every bit swelling, redness, and hurting. Less frequent just more serious side effects include convulsions and permanent encephalon impairment resulting in mental retardation. The vaccine has too been linked to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). In 1978-79, during an expansion of the Tennessee babyhood immunization program, eight cases of SIDS were reported immediately following routine DPT immunization.
Estimates of the number of those vaccinated with the pertussis vaccine who are protected from the disease range from fifty percent to 80 percent. Co-ordinate to JAMA. reported cases of whooping cough in the U.s.a. total an average of one,000--three,000 per year and deaths five to twenty per year.
DIPHTHERIA
Although information technology was i of the nearly feared of babyhood diseases in Grandma'south day, diphtheria has now almost disappeared. Only 5 cases were reported in the United States in 1980. Most doctors insist that the pass up is due to immunization with the DPT vaccine, but there is aplenty evidence that the incidence of diphtheria was already diminishing before a vaccine became available.
Diphtheria is a highly contagious bacterial disease that is spread by the coughing and sneezing of infected persons or by handling items that they have touched. The incubation catamenia f6r the disease is 2 to five days, and the first symptoms are a sore throat, headache, nausea, coughing, and a fever of l00-l04 degrees. As the disease progresses, dirty-white patches can be observed on the tonsils and in the throat. They cause swelling in the throat and larynx that makes swallowing difficult and, in severe cases, may obstruct breathing to the point that the victim chokes to decease. The disease requires medical attending and can exist treated with antibiotics such as penicillin or erythromycin.
Today your child has about every bit much adventure of contracting diphtheria as she does of being bitten by a cobra. However millions of children are immunized against it with repeated injections at two, 4, half-dozen, and xviii months then given a booster shot when they enter school. This despite evidence over more a dozen years from rare outbreaks of the illness that children who have been immunized fare no better than those who take non. During a 1969 outbreak of diphtheria in Chicago the city lath of health reported that 4 of the 16 victims had been fully immunized against the disease and 5 others had received one or more doses of the vaccine. Two of the latter showed bear witness of total immunity. A report on another outbreak in which 3 people died revealed that one of the fatal cases and fourteen of xx-three carriers had been fully immunized.
Episodes such as these shatter the argument that immunization can be credited with eliminating diphtheria or any of the other once common childhood diseases. If immunization deserved the credit, how do its defenders explain this? Simply about half usa have legal requirements for immunization confronting infectious diseases, and the percentage of children immunized varies from state to state. As a consequence, tens of thousands-perchance millions-of children in areas where medical services are express and paediatricians nearly nonexistent were never immunized against infectious diseases and therefore should be vulnerable to them. Yet the incidence of infectious diseases does not correlate in whatever respect with whether a state has legally mandated mass immunization or non.
In view of the rarity of the illness, the effective antibiotic treatment now available, the questionable effectiveness of the vaccine, the multimillion dollar almanac price of administering it, and the ever-nowadays potential for harmful, long-term effects from this or whatever other vaccine, I consider continued mass immunization against diphtheria indefensible. I grant that no significant harmful effects from the vaccine have been identified, but that doesn't mean they aren't in that location. In the one-half century that the vaccine has been used no research has always been undertaken to determine what the long-term effects of the vaccine may be!
Chicken POX
This is my favourite childhood disease, first because it is relatively innocuous and second considering it is 1 of the few for which no pharmaceutical manufacturer has however marketed a vaccine. That second reason may be short-lived, though, considering every bit this is written at that place are reports that a chicken pox vaccine shortly may appear.
Craven pox is a catching viral infection that is very common in children. The beginning signs of the affliction are usually a slight fever, headache, backache, and loss of appetite.
Later a day or two, small red spots appear, and within a few hours they enlarge and become blisters. Ultimately a scab forms that peels off, usually within a calendar week or two. This procedure is accompanied by astringent itching, and the child should be encouraged non to scratch the sores. Calamine lotion may be applied, or cornstarch baths given, to relieve the itching.
Information technology is not necessary to seek medical treatment for craven pox. The patient should be encouraged to rest and to beverage a lot of fluids to preclude aridity from the fever.
The incubation menstruation for craven pox is from ii to three weeks, and the disease is contagious for about two weeks, kickoff ii days after the rash appears. The kid should be isolated during this menstruation to avoid spreading the disease to others.
TUBERCULOSIS
Parents should have the right to assume, and most do assume, that the tests their doctor gives their child will I produce an accurate result.
The tuberculin skin exam is but ane example of a medical test process in which that is definitely not the example. Even the American Academy of Pediatrics, which rarely has anything negative to say about procedures that its members routinely employ, has issued a policy argument that is critical of this test. According to that statement,
Several contempo studies have cast dubiety on the sensitivity of some screening tests for tuberculosis. Indeed a panel assembled by the Bureau of Biologics has recommended to manufacturers that each lot exist tested in l known positive patients to assure that preparations that are marketed are stiff plenty to identify everyone with active tuberculosis. Notwithstanding, since many of these studies accept not been conducted in a randomized, double-bullheaded fashion and/or have included many simultaneously administered peel tests (thus the possibility of suppression of reactions), interpretation of the tests is difficult.
That statement concludes, "Screening tests for tuberculosis are not perfect, and physicians must be aware of the possibility that some false negative as well equally positive reactions may be obtained."
In curt, your child may have tuberculosis even though at that place is a negative reading on his tuberculin examination. Or he may non have it but display a positive peel test that says he does. With many doctors, this can lead to some devastating consequences. Near certainly, if this happens to your child, he will be exposed to needless hazardous radiation from one or more x-rays of his chest. The medico may then identify him on dangerous drugs such as isoniazid for months or years "to foreclose the development of tuberculosis." Even the AMA has recognized that doctors have indiscriminately over prescribed isoniazid. That'southward shameful, considering of the drug'due south long listing of side effects on the nervous system, gastrointestinal system, blood, bone marrow, skin, and endocrine glands. Also not to be overlooked is the danger that your child may get a pariah in your neighborhood considering of the lingering fear of this communicable diseases.
I am convinced that the potential consequences of a positive tuberculin pare test are more unsafe than the threat of the disease. I believe parents should pass up the examination unless they accept specific knowledge that their child has been in contact with someone who has the illness.
SUDDEN INFANT Decease SYNDROME (SIDS)
The dreadful possibility that they may awaken some morning to find their infant dead in his crib is a fright that lurks in the mind of many parents. Medical science has nevertheless to pinpoint the cause of SIDS, but the most popular explanation amidst researchers appears to exist that the central nervous system is afflicted and so that the involuntary act of breathing is suppressed.
That is a logical explanation, but it leaves unanswered the question: What caused the malfunction in the central nervous system? My suspicion, which is shared by others in my profession, is that the nearly 10,000 SIDS deaths that occur in the United States each year are related to ane or more of the vaccines that are routinely given children. The pertussis vaccine is the well-nigh probable villain, but it could also exist one or more of the others.
Dr. William Torch, of the University of Nevada School of Medicine at Reno, has issued a report suggesting that the DPT shot may be responsible for SIDS cases. He plant that two-thirds of 103 children who died of SIDS had been immunized with DPT vaccine in the three weeks earlier their deaths, many dying inside a day after getting the shot. He asserts that this was not mere coincidence, concluding that a "causal relationship is suggested" in at least some cases of DIPT vaccine and crib decease. Also on tape are the Tennessee deaths, referred to before. In that case the manufacturers of the vaccine, following intervention by the U.S. surgeon general, recalled all unused doses of this batch of vaccine.
Expectant mothers who are concerned about SIDS should behave in mind the importance of breastfeeding to avoid this and other serious ailments. There is evidence that breastfed babies are less susceptible to allergies, respiratory disease, gastroenteritis, hypocalcaemia, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and SIDS. 1 study of the scientific literature near SIDS concluded that "Chest-feeding tin can be seen as a mutual block to the myriad pathways to SIDS."
POLIOMYELITIS
No one who lived through the 1940s and saw photos of children in iron lungs, saw a 'President of the United States confined to his wheel-chair by this dread disease, and was for forbidden to employ public beaches for fear of catching polio can forget the fear that prevailed at the time. Polio is virtually nonexistent today, simply much of that fear persists, and there is a popular belief that immunization can be credited with eliminating the disease. That'due south non surprising, because the loftier-powered entrada that promoted the vaccine, just the fact is that no credible scientific evidence exists that the vaccine acquired polio to disappear. Equally noted earlier, it also disappeared in other parts of the world where the vaccine was not and then extensively used.
What is of import to parents of this generation is the evidence that points to mass inoculation confronting polio every bit the cause of most remaining cases of the disease. In September 1977 Jonas Salk, the developer of the killed polio virus vaccine, testified along with other scientists to that effect. He said that nearly of the handful of polio cases which had occurred in the US since the 197Os probably were the past-product of the live polio vaccine that is in standard utilise in the United states.
Meanwhile, there is an ongoing argue among the immunologists regarding the relative risks of killed virus vs. live virus vaccine. Supporters of the killed virus vaccine maintain that it is the presence of live virus organisms in the other product that is responsible for the polio cases that occasionally announced. Supporters of the live virus type fence that the killed virus vaccine offers inadequate protections and actually increases the susceptibility of those vaccinated.
This offers me a rare opportunity to be comfortably neutral. .I believe that both factions are correct and that apply of either of the vaccines will increase, not diminish, the possibility that your child volition contract the affliction.
In short, it appears that the virtually effective way to protect your child from polio is to brand sure that he doesn't get the vaccine!
[Vaccination] [Dr Mendelsohn]
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