Vaccines and Autism Part III: Vaccine Safety Studies
Thursday November 5th, 2009 // Written by Andrea
In Part One and Part Two of this series I looked at common issues with vaccine ingredients and the timing of vaccines, respectively. in this final post I will take a quick look about what I feel is a lack of good quality vaccine studies.
Here is a brief refresher on this series:
- Vaccine Ingredients (Part I)
- Timing of Vaccines (Part II)
- Vaccine Safety Studies (Part III)
My biggest issue with the chicken pox vaccine as well as the new H1N1 vaccine is that there haven’t been any long term studies done. With the chicken pox vaccine no studies have been undertaken to determine if it confers life long immunity. Sure it may protect you from the pox when you’re a kid but what happens when you’re an adult? You don’t get chicken pox as an adult; it becomes a much more serious illness called shingles. More studies need to be done.
Not all babies are created equal. When Tristan was born he was 7lbs 11oz, Maya was only 5lbs 14oz. Even now Maya is still a little peanut. Why should she get the same vaccine dose as a much bigger baby? She doesn’t get the same Tylenol dose. It just doesn’t make sense. Where are the studies looking into this?
What about babies who have a family history of immune problems? Should they be getting the same dosage at the same frequency? Where are the studies looking into this?
A really great site that delves much deeper into this question about vaccine safety studies is Fourteen Studies. It looks into vaccine safety studies that have been done but contends that the studies did not ask the right questions. Therefore the results are useless not one study has been done asking do vaccines cause autism. The biggest issue is there have been no studies comparing vaccinated kids with unvaccinated kids.
Our Vaccination Strategy
With Tristan we were new parents and had heard of some of the vaccine controversy but had done a little research, so we where pretty much ignorant about all the issues I’ve addressed in my posts. So we decided to vaccinate him on schedule, with a few exceptions. He didn’t get the chicken pox vaccine, flu shot or the second measles mumps and rubella vaccine. Tristan’s regression seems to have started between 12 and 15 months. He received his MMR at 12 months and he received his last vaccine at 15 months. Obviously we’ll never know if a vaccine caused Tristan to have autism but I believe it didn’t help. For this reason we delayed Maya’s shots by about a month, she will not get MMR, chicken pox, flu shot or the new HPV shot. I’m not sure when we will vaccinate the kids for MMR.
As you can see I’m definitely not anti-vaccine. I believe vaccines are extremely important. But I also think the medical community needs to be less cavalier with our children’s well being when it comes to immunizing. Vaccines can’t be one size fits all because every kid is different, different size, different immune response, and different detoxification systems. More studies need to be conducted on the preservatives and chemicals in vaccines. To find out what the safe concentration of chemicals is in our kids, if any.
I also think the medical community needs to take a look at alternative ways to protect people from vaccines. Natural remedies in the form of naturopathy and homeopathy have been around for centuries. For the most part they are cheaper and less burdensome to the body.
At the end of the day the issue is money. Who’s going to pay for studies that could possibly put big pharmaceutical companies out of business? And why partner with the alternative medicine field that endorses a way of medicine that doesn’t necessarily promote prescription drugs?
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I think the trouble is not all parents have the inclination to do the resurch and the medical profession have to make a one size fit all vaccination plan.
I agree that an ignorant blanket ban on vaccinating our children is NOT the way to go..but as you said, all kids are diffrent.
YOu give your child medicine by age and weight, but no one weighs your baby or takes other factors into consideration when vaccinating.
I’m not sure I know the answer here. I think as parents we can fight for the right of choice. We can vaccinate for the things that we feel are a threat and opt out of others if we argue long enough, but the medical profession also need to set their house in order and spend more time accumilating side effects from the people who do need vaccinating … I still don’t understand chicken pox vaccinations. As you say, mild in childhood sever in adulthood. A mother at school caught chickenpox/ shingles in her twenties and is now in a wheelchair… do you almost NEED to get it as a child to gaurd against shingles? Are we tampering with natures OWN vaccination?
Hmm.
Vaccines are the cause of most, if not all neurological and chronic disease. Read “Fear of the Invisible” by Janine Roberts to understand why. These vaccine contaminants are sexually transmitted and inherited by each subsequent generation. So, the medical community is telling you a half-truth when they say Autism and other disorders are “genetic”. The predisposition started with the very first generation vaccinated.